Anglophone-Cameroon Literature by Doh Emmanuel Fru;Ambanasom Shadrach A.;

Author:Doh, Emmanuel Fru;Ambanasom, Shadrach A.;
Language: eng
Format: epub
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Publisher: Lexington Books
Published: 2012-08-15T00:00:00+00:00

We are pilgrims from a cradle

In our ancestor’s land

With shoulders laden with palm-wine calabashes,

palm-oil, palm-bags of groundnuts,

palm-kernels and baskets of towering cocks . . . (12)

These heralds, it begins to dawn on one, are offering an alternative and new religion to the villagers on whom they are calling in vain as the villagers tell them why they must cling to their traditional religion, their roots:

Heralds all!

We cling to the shrine

Of our Védó’ó’s father’s father’s. . .father.

For,

On this stone lay the first victim

From this stone ran the first trickle

To this stone we return

Around this stone we flirt with the gods. (emphasis mine12-13)

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