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Even the friends of Engamba want to use that privilege to get favours. Finally all the villages leave and Nkolo is left with Engamba. We are told that Nkolo is a polygamist. He has five wives and is soon going to take the sixth. He enjoyed the pleasure of being polygamous because the completion of his wives worked in his favour.
Things began to change when the missionaries started teaching about Christian marriage and some of his wives demanded their liberty to be baptized.
Engamba was the first of the pagans to be converted and married Amalia officially in church. The preparation for the 14 th of July had changed the atmosphere at Doum just as Nkolo said. The place was very busy preparing for the event under the supervision of M.
Fouconi, the Chief Administrator. Because the soldiers were moving here and there in lorries and practicing in the streets, the Africans were in terror thinking that the war is back. After supervising the preparations M. Fouconi goes to his residence. Some Africans bring the crates of the drinks that will be used on the celebration day.
He orders them to take the crates direct to the African Community Center where the reception party will take place. We are told that this Centre was a corrugated iron hut. It was whitewashed all over to hide the color it had been before. Meka had gone to see the tailor — Ela who was sewing his jacket and was worried whether it would be ready by the following day.
Ela assures Meka that he will make it ready and Meka will love it. Meka pays francs and they depart. Engamba and his wife Amalia were still on their way to Doum. They proceeded like this until night fell over the bush. Engamba complained that Amalia was going too fast since he was pulling his goat. Amalia got ten offers of marriage. Among them was the wealthy Engamba of Zourian. Amalia preferred this man though he had many wives.
That was how Amalia married Engamba. They continued with their journey but it was getting dark and came to Nkango hamlet. Someone welcomed them to have a meal with them because the night has many mysteries he said. The man recognized Amalia as he entered the hut while Engamba was tying his goat outside. The man was Binama. When the eating is over Engamba raises to leave. Binama and Agatha escorts them to the river.
Binama tells Engamba to tell Meka that he should tell the Chief of the whites that they need a road to their village. They passed through several villages at night and there was only one village left.
They entered the forest of Boton. Meka comes back from taking his jacket and finds a number of people at his place all who came to celebrate with him. He greets them all in a normal traditional way while joking and bursting into laughter. There were Engambas and Essombas, all his cousins male and female were there, with their children. Everyone connected intimately or distantly with Kelara was also there. There was Nua, Nti, Mvondo, Evina. The cousins of Meka and his wife and their brothers-in-law who had come there before also postponed their departure.
There were also all the villagers who had come to honour their fellow countryman. Meka welcomes them all and they start the normal chatting. Kelara brings them the food but for men it was not enough as they finished it before other had managed to reach the plate. After that Kelara arranges the beddings for everybody and announces the arrangement. Others slept on beds, others on sleeping mats and others on banana leaves.
Before the sleep they remember to tell Meka to try on his jacket. All the other praise it except Kelara who says it is oversize and not good. Kelara brings the leather shoes Meka had bought at Madam Pipiniakis. Meka had gone barefooted until when he married Kelara. So his feet were disfigured and that was also complicated by the two little toes which hung on each side of his feet. So when he bought canvas shoes he had to cut two little windows for the little toes. At the shop he did not try them on despite the insistence of the white woman since he did not want to display his suffering in front of a stranger.
Engamba suggests that they should fill in the sand and moisten the leather a bit to make them more supple. Finally they say their prayers and go to sleep. While others are asleep Meka has a sleepless night as a lot of thoughts and imaginations of the next day cross in his mind but eventually he fell asleep.. Meka is placed inside a whitewashed circle waiting for the Chief of the Whites to come and give him a medal.
He waits for so long but the chief is nowhere to be seen. It was very hot and Make was feeling uncomfortable because of his shoes. He comforts himself by saying that he is a real man who was circumcised and did not cry.
Meka asks himself whether he should go away or not, but later he begins to pray for God to take away his trouble. It was now a. The white men began to cross before Meka and he thought they were lucky not to suffer with their shoes. Meka could not tell what hurt the most, his feet, his belly, the heat or his teeth.
Finally the Chief arrives after the usual reception they go where Meka is. Meka becomes nervous after a handshake they go to sit with other whites at the veranda of M. Meka wondered how in the world they could leave a man of his age standing there for an hour. He thought maybe they had forgotten to bring the medal or maybe they lost it. After sometimes they came where Meka was and pinned a medal on his jacket.
Meka was so happy that he no longer felt the pain. Meka is invited by the Chief of the Whites to attend a reception party to be held at the African Community Centre. That would have been a bit more like it. Kelara weeps bitterly. After feeling in control again she looks at Meka and sees him as a betrayer.
She thanks the boy who said so and says it is the Holy Spirit who spoke through his mouth. On the veranda outside M. He felt proud because no one among the whites was wearing a medal like his. Finally the Whites got into their cars and started off.
Father Vandermayer invited Meka to get into the Back of his car although there was no one with him in the cabin. Meka took off his shoes. Kelara was sitting in the dust of the courtyard weeping. As Engamba tried to calm her down she wept even further rolling down like a log.
She came back home crying and lamenting that she is a wretched woman. My Children, my poor children — sold like the Lord who was sold by Judas… He at least did it for money.
The man who lay with me so that I should bear you did not get a good price for the drop of his seed. Both of you together, my little ones, priced at one medal… so Kelara was not satisfied with only one medal that her husband received at the expense of the life of her Children.
He was a native Dutch before he migrated to South Africa to help in establishing the racial system that so thoroughly blighted the face of that beautiful country. He will wine and dine with Queen Beatrix who, has a leading member of the Bilderberg group, is among the shapers of obnoxious Western policies that are devastating our continent and mother earth. It was in Holland that the Catholic Council of Elders met in the year to sanction the enslavement of Africans as chattel property.
In the years that followed, both athletes were excluded from Olympic activities. Racism is commonly assumed to be as old as society itself. I also have my doubt whether the motley ass-licking, sycophantic quangoes who are busy singing his praises read much either. JavaScript is disabled for your browser. Some features of this site may not work without it.
The old men; Nua and Nti have no employment and they work for Meka. David Ondua, the Catechist has also attended. The Meka tells his fellow old men how he got this news.
You have given your lands to the missionaries, you have given your two sons in the war when they found a glorious death. The Medal that we are going to give you means you are more than our friend. Email: kacheleonline gmail.
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