Peter Eta

On Patriotic Impulse (eBook, ePUB)

(Monitoring This Cradle of Our Fathers)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The reader must exercise Pentecostal patience in reading this collection of essays spiced with poems of the heart especially as both poetry and prose follow the same political thought and trajectory, the same democratic vision and tapestry and the same conclusion that Cameroon may be condemned but not beyond redemption. From his holistic interpretation of our endemic political cannibalism (democratic deficit and the vexing Anglophone problem), our perennial economic malaise (hydra-headed corruption octopus), our systemic social misdemeanor (football dilemma) our propensity to environmental degradation (waste disposal culture) our religious asymmetry (spiritual and secular coexistence) and our bloated personal ego systems (politics by patronage and patricide),the author's consistency and persistence in taking a swipe at the different strokes of leadership is as compelling as it is nauseating. It is his emphasis on deconstructing the empire of a clientelist cabal of politicians across the divide and replacing it with a regime that means well for its people and his critique of an institutionalized prebendal governance complete with a sordid metaphorical nexus between the fact that if Paul is the problem, John is not the solution that leaves the reader with the mind-boggling question of where do we go from here? As would be expected it is the Opposition parties often regarded arguably as `governments in waiting that take the larger dose of the author's adrenalin thus keeping the author in the dual position of a gatekeeper and gatecrasher of our political history. Fortunately any writer in politics striving to write for the gallery ends up as a doormat for both the ruling party carrotocracy and the opposition party kleptocracy. The role of any credible writer in politics is to transform the lullaby of political slumber to the yells of democratic renewal. For a country that excels in confusing unity with unanimity, constitutional respect with the personification of power, creative contradictions with imposed consensus, servile sycophancy with unbridled patriotism and positive peace with negative calm, the author's message is clear: it is time for all Cameroonians to take an oath of patriotism not by holding the holy book but by holding the constitution in the right hand and the penal code in the left.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Xlibris US
• Seitenzahl: 132
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Februar 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781514456200
• Artikelnr.: 52565086

Autorenporträt

As one who identifies with non-fiction political literature, the author departs from regular essayists by his abrasive, confrontational and sarcastic style which makes this work a fusion of fiction and fact (faction). Using both the instinct of a housefly wont to settle on the wounds of human frailty and the impulse of a gadfly pricking the conscience of human endeavor, the author brings into our contemporary corpus of essays a fresh insight as seen in his non-partisan critical faculty, his eagle-eye vigilance and his rhetorical and epistolary stream of consciousness. As one who identifies with pedagogic and didactic literature, the author transcends the boundaries of a passive chronicler of events to assert himself as a votary of truth and a drum major for genuine democratic entitlement in Cameroon. Indeed it is not the game of politics that is inherently bad; it is the politician who is pathologically confused hence the author's challenge of the Europocentric pretensions of a one-size-fits-all democratic model and his consent to the "school of thought that favors benevolent and patriotic dictatorship". Mr. Peter Eta, Sr., is arguably Cameroon's most important essayist. Born in Buea in the South West Province of the Federal Republic of Cameroon, he was educated at the popular Government Practicing School Kumba Town, the prestigious Bilingual Grammar School Molyko-Buea, The University of Yaoundé, Cameroon; L'Université de Franche-Compté in Besançon - France and the University of Calabar in Nigeria. His fearless, incisive and brutally honest political commentary is food for thought for a country adrift of its moral moorings. Mr. Eta holds a Master's Degree in Public Administration.