Born to Rule

Tah Asongwed

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Born to Rule is the autobiography of an African-president monarch who does not want to pass away without leaving anything in writing to future generations. The book is more than just the autobiography of a president in that it has responded to all the key issues that most people have been asking about the development and underdevelopment of Africa. It is a seminal contribution to the world's collective knowledge of African and world history. At times it is compellingly incisive, satiric, and tongue-in-cheek and, in some places, trenchantly hard-hitting and humorous in its brutal portrayal of the way Mandzah and, by extension, the African continent, is managed and mismanaged.

Sujets

• Autobiography
• Biography

Informations

• Publié par: Langaa RPCIG
• Date de parution: 15 mai 2009
• Nombre de lectures: 1
• EAN13: 9789956715138
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

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Born to Rule Tah Asongwed
Born to Rule is the autobiography of an African-president monarch who does not
want to pass away without leaving anything in writing to future generations. T e
book is more than just the autobiography of a president in that it has responded
to all the key issues that most people have been asking about the development and
underdevelopment of Africa. It is a seminal contribution to the world’s collective
knowledge of African and world history. At times it is compellingly incisive,
satiric, and tongue-in-cheek and, in some places, trenchantly hard-hitting and
humorous in its brutal portrayal of the way Mandzah and, by extension, the
African continent, is managed and mismanaged.
“Born to Rule...makes an interesting contribution to the debate on
development by raising and exposing, through the self-narration of an African
president-monarch the questions, issues, imponderables, and contradictions of
development, democracy and governance. It is must reading for anybody in
the development business...”
- ADB Today
“T is book satirizes the absurdities of leadership in Africa and deals centrally
with the ripples of … intellectual aridity and vacuosness of the people who
occupy important positions in the African continent.”
- T e African Economy
“… a masterful exhibition of creative and imaginative thinking and role
playing.”
- Africana Bulletin
Tah Asongwed was born in Baforchu (Mbu), Bamenda, Cameroon. After completing
secondary school in Sacred Heart College, Bamenda, he attended the Cameroon College
of Arts, Science and Technology in Bambili. He subsequently attended the Universities of
Ottawa, Toronto, Massachusetts and Paris 111. Tah Asongwed worked briefl y for Radio
Cameroon. He was a lecturer in Laurentian University, Canada, a translator-interpreter
with the West Africa Rice Development Association, and a principal interpreter with the
African Development Bank where he was elected the chairman of the Staff Council. Tah
Asongwed has published scholarly articles in linguistics journals. He is also a musical
artist, composer, arranger and producer.
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Tah Asongwed
Born to Rule: Autobiography of a life PresidentBorn to Rule
Autobiography
of a Life President
Tah Asongwed
Langaa Research & Publishing CIG
Mankon,BamendaPublisher:
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Distributed outside N. America by African Books Collective
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ISBN: 9956-558-42-7
© Tah Asongwed 2009
First published 1993
No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system,
or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical,
photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the prior permission of
the publisher.
DISCLAIMER
The names, characters, places and incidents in this book are either the product
of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Accordingly, any resemblance
to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely one of incredible
coincidence.With love and affection
To Rosemary and the entire family
and
With reverence and deference
To those the African people put first
But foreign interests put lastContents
Foreword .................................................................................. ix
Preface xxix
Acknowledgements ..........................................................xxxiii
1. Early Childhood ................................................................1
2. Education ...........................................................................5
3. Initiation into Politics.......................................................7
4. Party Leadership ............................................................ 15
5. Party Convention and my Investiture......................... 25
6. From Pluralism to Single Party .................................... 27
7. Appointments in Government..................................... 33
8. Policies in Some Key Sectors....................................... 41
9. The Debt Problem ......................................................... 95
10. Taxation......................................................................... 103
11. Internal Security.......................................................... 105
12. Plots ............................................................................... 106
13. Indoctrination ............................................................... 133
14. Disinformation............................................................. 135
15. Favouritism and Nepotism ........................................ 139
16. Tribalism........................................................................ 149
17. Political Prisoners and Human Rights...................... 151
18. Democratization .......................................................... 155
19. Mandzah and Africa in the World ............................. 163
20. My Legacy ..................................................................... 167
21. Post Scriptum ............................................................... 169Born to Rule: Autobiography of a Life President
Foreword
When President Wan Nei contacted me to write the foreword
for this book, Born to Rule, I took it as a singular honour, and