Royal Burial and Enthronement in Ambazonia

Peter Fossungu

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The contribution works toward achieving its mentality-changing goals by essentially providing Afrikentication lessons radiating principally around the theme: Making African education relevant to African liberation and progress. The linchpin of the book is that we Africans truly need to cease dangling uselessly and reclaim our authentic roots if we have to independently move forward. This is an objective we clearly cannot correctly achieve when our intellectuals and universities (among others) who are supposed to be furnishing our liberation movements with sane policy and thought-leadership do continue in the same old colonial way of sheepish ‘theorising’ that excessively indulges in obliterating genuine African perspectives. Indigenous African education is the way to go! An inevitable rethinking in education, culture, and religion in Africa is recommended, basing on innovation and critical thinking which are sure highlights of communalism, which is a defining feature of the African way of life. The book thus harps on the need to recentralise African values and philosophy in the freedom and governance of the continent, as well as stressing the dire need for unity and visionary, dedicated and patriotic leadership.

Sujets

• Ethnic Studies
• Social Science
• Sociologie, société et politique

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• Publié par: Mwanaka Media and Publishing Pvt Ltd
• Date de parution: 30 avril 2023
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781779314710
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 17 Mo

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Royal Burial and Enthronement in Ambazonia

Interrogating the Relevance of Postcolonial Education in Africa

PETER ATEHAFAC FOSSUNGU

Royal Burial and Enthronement in Ambazonia: Interrogating the Relevance of Postcolonial Education in Africa

PETER ATEH-AFAC FOSSUNGU

Mwanaka Media and Publishing Pvt Ltd, Chitungwiza Zimbabwe * Creativity, Wisdom and Beauty

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Publisher:Mmap Mwanaka Media and Publishing Pvt Ltd 24 Svosve Road, Zengeza 1 Chitungwiza Zimbabwe [e-mail] [e-mail] https://www.mmapublishing.org www.africanbookscollective.com/publishers/mwanaka-media- and-publishing https://facebook.com/MwanakaMediaAndPublishing/ Distributed in and outside N. America by African Books Collective [e-mail] www.africanbookscollective.com ISBN: 978-1-77931-472-7 EAN: 9781779314727 ©Peter Ateh-Afac Fossungu 2023

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Dedicated To The Memory Of Chief Formbuehndia Emmanuel Nguajong Fosungu And Of Mafor Regina Akiefac Fossungu And Of Fon David Foncha Fossungu And To All African Patriots (Past, Present, And Future)

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Table of Contents Introducing and Welcoming Ambazonia……………..….v Abreviations………………………………………………..x

Chapter 1: The Home of Peaceful Self-Disciplined Agriculturalists (Nwangong) Standing Tall for Africa: Afrikentication and the Clash of Intellectualism.................................................................................1

Chapter 2:New ‘Untraditional’ Blue Blood Civilizing African Studies: The Philosophical War on Witchcraft Crediting the African Development Bank and Punishing Love and Devotion?…................................................................53

Chapter 3: The Civilization in Community Benefit Theory and How Africans Know and Announce the Unknown: Getting into the Heads and Logic of Traitors with Royal Death Declaration, Rational Choice, and Onesidetakism............................................................................107

Chapter 4: Crediting Innovation and Fascinating Theories of Burying and Mourning the King: Communalism Operating in and Defining Africa.........................................202

Chapter 5:The Dancing Tradition of African Culture and the Philosophy of American Politics: Saying Welcome to the Departed King and Saying Goodbye to ‘African Overseas Culture’...……………………………...……......310 Chapter 6:Meaningful Meaninglessness in Africa: Postcolonial Education and Royal Succession Politics Under Question in Ambazonia..............................................370 Conclusion…..........................................…................................422 References………………………...................................…....426 Glossary.........................................................................................441 Mmap Nonfiction and Academic Books Series………..446

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INTRODUCING AND WELCOMING AMBAZONIA

We, this generation, will defeat Cameroun in battle. They said they could fight. They said they had trained BIRs; [that] they had United States provided tanks and war planes. We want them to fight. We invite them to fight. We invite them to fight.Where dem dey?Where dem dey? Wata na wata! Ambazoniansdon’t be fooled. They fooled us before, not this generation. This is the Never-Again- Generation that has decided to write the last chapter of its own history, to pen down the story of General Ivo [Mbah], the bravery of our patriots who fought in nd trenches with den guns (Ayaba, 2017: 2 paragraphs).

Ambazonians are a great and innovative people. Make no mistake about that. Only amazing and inventive people like us could be able to rise and never to fall again the way we have done after the international conspiracy and betrayal, coupled with the sixty-something years of brutal subjugation that we have been (and are still going) through. That is a full story for another day; but, in addition to the suggested innovation in Table 1 in Chapter 1 and our wonderful Anthem in Chapter 3, let me just give free Ambazonians a short Poem that must constantly act as Guard. TitledForever Ambazonia, I see it as a sort of ‘Prayer Before Meal for Ambazonians’ (substitute Africa when necessary): Ambazonia for Ambazonians Forever Ambazonia to protect Ambazonians Forever Ambazonia for the prosperity of Ambazonians Forever

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Ambazonia equals Responsible Government Forever Never, Never, Never again the abuses of the past sixty- something years Forever The Gods be on our side Forever Mawere and van Stam (2015: 199) kind of very helpfully introduce this book when they suggest that the “argument here is critical as far as African consciousness is concerned. It is a call for the indigenous African people to be conscious of themselves: their identities and roots, such that they learn to appreciate their own cultures before appreciating those of others.” The book plentifully and uniquely furnishes much on African tradition,providing precious instruction on Africa’s rich and diversely complex cultures. Royalty is unquestionably the backbone of African custom and the experts have rightly theorised that the best way to render a person useless is to temper with his or her backbone. This contribution brings that spine-tempering to the fore so that appropriate measures can be taken by Africans themselves toward rectification.“This book is banging as hard as would be necessary,” declares Fossungu (2015a: 227),“to awaken fast sleeping Africans and bring them to the realisation that unity is their only hope for survival in a neoliberal world order.”But his mission does not just end there since“The book, no doubt, is also putting stress on some of the positive cultural endowments that Africans must not compromise under any circumstance, while advising on the negative things that must be shunned in order for the community to strengthen itself against erosion” (Fossungu, 2015a: 227–28). An apt example of said negative things needing shunning can be found in the regressive comportment known as onesidetakism (which opposes reciprocity in relations), being

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part and parcel of ‘African Overseas Culture’ (see Fossungu, 2018: 114-119) that has been employed in the upside-downing of Africa. This volume explores the upside-downing or tempering trend in Africa by an intensified examination of royal burial-funeral rites, with accentuation on the declaration of death, the burial and crying, ‘the catching act’ and the enthronement proper, the politics of postcolonial education and royal succession. All of them are processes that highly exhibit the officially undeclared but ongoing war between cultural truth and falsehood– all these being the handiwork of traitors who are passing around as African patriots. These back-stabbers are behind the deplorable attitude tied to ‘African Overseas Culture’ that is also brought out in this contribution which predominantly handles the issues, using three principal royal death ceremonies in Nwangong Fondom in Ambazonia that combine to provide the most important swimming pool for‘the Philosophical-Cultural Olympic Games’. Said royal death events are (1) Chief Formbuehndia’s (aka Emmanuel Nguajong Fosungu’s) in October 2002 which is almost always in the driver seat, (2) Mafor Regina Akiefac Fossungu’s in July 2014, and (3) Fon David Foncha Fossungu’s in December 2007. The critical idea of the book is to awaken Africans to the reality of how Africa is being royally upsidedownised by the very people who steadfastly hold on to the very things they condemn in Africa as undemocratic or primitive. In other words, the book is aimed at what some experts see as “Decolonial[ising] Thinking in Africa” (Gwaravanda, 2018: 269-71) by “Decolonising Colonial Education” (Mhango, 2018).The book saliently highlights and punctuates some pertinent liberation and Afrikentication issues through theorisations on cultural education. The contribution aims at achieving its goals through essentially providing Afrikentication lessons radiating principally around the theme: Making African education relevant to African liberation and progress. The linchpin of the book is that

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we Africans truly need to cease dangling uselessly and reclaim our authentic roots if we have to independently move forward. This is something we clearly cannot correctly do when our intellectuals and universities (among others) who are supposed to be furnishing our liberation movements with sane policy and thought-leadership do continue in the same old colonial way of sheepish ‘theorising’that excessively indulges in obliterating genuine African perspectives. Indigenous African education is the way to go! Ambazonia Education Board (AEB) and DDC Capo Daniel are all surely Thumbs-Upping here! A list of some frequent abbreviations is furnished below while a short glossary of unfamiliar (Bangwa) terms is provided at the close of this book, which tells the story in six Chapters. The first Chapter introduces readers to Nwangong Fondom, justifying why the Fondom can competently represent African culture in the singular, and then exposes the intellectualism battle. Anchoring on the controversies surrounding the anatomy of witchcraft, the second Chapter suggests an inevitable rethinking in education, culture, and religion in Africa. The third Chapter explains the civilization in the community-benefit theory and how Africans know and announce the unknown by dutifully studying onesidetakism and giveantakism in the context of the declaration of the King’s death and the traitor mentality. The book is also largely devoted to a keen study of the traitor mentality; a significant exercise because the founders of the United Afrika that is being advocated for (just like the liberators of Ambazonia) must be aware of the habits of these back- stabbers if they have to succeed in the task. The fourth Chapter studies innovation and critical thinking in the context of royal burial and crying rites, highlighting communalism as a defining feature of the African way of life and directing attention to the need for Africans to retrace their authentic roots, if progress has to be made. The fifth Chapter examines some African features of American politics and the dancing tradition of African culture

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in the context of the coronation of the returning King and also contextualizes the interrupted coronation in Nwangong Fondom (Ambazonia), being palpable proof of the blatant disregard of African culture by so-called African administrators. It draws some attention to the current royal upside-downing of Africa, especially with the overdone fuss called modern protocol. The sixth Chapter stiffly questions the dominant role of postcolonial education in royal succession politics using the case of Nwangong Fondom to demonstrate how the issue of postcolonial education now dominates in Africa to the point of wiping out customs that the community’s survival rests on. There is a Conclusion that harps on the need to recentralize African values and philosophy in the freedom and governance of the continent, as well as stressing the dire need for unity and visionary, dedicated and patriotic leadership.

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