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Socrates in Cameroon - The Life and Works of Bernard Nsokika Fonlon (Paperback)
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Socrates in Cameroon - The Life and Works of Bernard Nsokika Fonlon (Paperback)
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Bernard Nsokika Fonlon, 1924-1986, rose from humble origins to
become one of Cameroon's most famous sons. He was a scholar, a
poet, a politician, a philosopher, a man of action and a man of
courage. He was never too busy to see someone who was troubled,
never too tired to take up the case of the oppressed or the
downtrodden. He was a man who could communicate, with style, in
half a dozen world languages but who could also use Pidgin English
if it meant putting his listeners at ease. He was a man who moved
in opulent circles but who collected for himself not money but the
hearts of those who got to know him. It is easy to use superlatives
of someone like Bernard Fonlon, easy to make him sound like a sage
or a saint; it is less easy to describe the humour and the courtesy
and the gentleness that irradiated all that he said and did. This
book describes briefly the life and times of a man whose story
incorporates the history of a young nation and whose autobiography,
The Pathfinder, has all the excitement of an adventure novel. We
could use a lot of words and still not get to the heart of the
matter because ordinary words are for ordinary men and Bernard
Fonlon was unique. To those who knew him, no introduction is
necessary; to those who did not know him, no short introduction is
enough. Bernard Fonlon did not leave a worldly legacy to his family
and friends and country. He left much more. He left ideas that can
never be buried and ideals that will challenge new generations.
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