By Fu-uh Edwin Fang*
SPEAK, ZEKEGHEM SPEAK!
The streets are empty with homes, farms and market squares devoid of live, love and celebration!
Walls fallen down beaten by the heavy rains of artillery washed into the blood and flesh of loud screams of those gone ...even Esu screams louder!
Speak, Zekeghem,Speak!
Farmlands overgrown
and the silent chills of the night can no longer hear the call of Nlom Nnam!
Speak, Zekeghem, speak!
Our ears have been left resounding with clatters and heavy thuds of guns upon our shambas, breaking through the silence of the day, the night, an our unpeaceful sleep!
Speak, Zekeghem, speak!
While our young men have all fled away leaving our homes empty.
Leaving our farm lands overgrown.
While the ghost in uniform continue to resound his heavy weapons even upon the ears of defenseless mothers.
Speak, Zekeghem, speak!
Never was it ever heard of that women now bury men, as young men flee into the constipating bowels of the night!
Women sit to watch their innocent babies shattered by the merciless ghosts that have infiltrated Zonghongang, Dzemakuw, Ngouh, Ukpwa, Kalakala, ketsa .
Speak, Zekeghem speak!
And here we go, fleeing across the Mungo speaking a language strange to our ears
in the name of...fleeing our homes for unsafety.
How then can the enemy chase us from us into his own territories while pulling the trigger?
Speak,Zekeghem, speak!
Should we wait for Zekeghem to declare once more as of old that at River Menchum, any heart of harm never ever makes it across the river gods that our ancestors have bestowed upon the river Menchum?
Cleanse the land and keep the waters of Menchum clean enough.
Drink up and quench the thirst of boiling tempers...!
Speak, Zekeghem, speak!
Our ancestors listen and hear you, Oh the rising Sun of Aghem!
Speak once more, speak!
That at River Menchum, no evil crosses into Aghem soil
But perishes while the Aghem clan continues to spring forth, like the kənâŋ that springs forth and spreads out, feeding your children fresh , nourishment!
May our ancestors Protect our people, Amen!
*Fu-uh Edwin Fang is a young man in his late twenty, who hails from the Kesughu Fondom, one of the Villages that make up the Aghem clan. He did his primary Education in Cameroon Baptist Convention(CBC) Kesu-Wum where got his FSLC and then proceeded to Government High school Wum where he got his Ordinary and Advanced level Certificates. He then got into the Teaching Profession where he served in various capacities from librarian, History and language teacher, gate keeper, Discipline Master in various day and Evening schools including GHS WUM, MBA Wum, GTC Waindo.
He wrote the competitive exam into GTTC WUM IN 2015 and got enrolled therein where he graduated with a Teachers' Grade One Certificate(2016 session). He again continued teaching until the Teachers' strike of November 2016 which grounded everything forcing him to take refuge as an IDP in Yaounde. Since April 2017, he's been teaching History and English language in various schools in Yaounde including American school Nkolbisson, International Bilingual Academy Yaounde, BLAINA BILINGUAL INSTITUTE. With support from stipends earned in the aforementioned schools, he furthered his Education in 2018 at HERITAGE HIGHER INSTITUTE OF PEACE AND DEVELOPMENT STUDIES BISCUITERIE BIYEMASSI YAOUNDE WHERE HE ACQUIRED A HIGHER NATIONAL DIPLOMA IN EDUCATION(2020) SESSION. HE IS CURRENTLY PURSUING UNDERGRADUATE STUDIES THIS YEAR 2020-2021 AND HE HOPES TO GRADUATE WITH A BACHELOR OF ARTS IN SCIENCE OF EDUCATION.
Edwin Fangfuuh is married with three kids all females and he's a very comic person whom everyone would like to be with.
As concerns his Motherland Aghem, he's been an Aghem language teacher since 2007 and is currently teaching Aghem online on WhatsApp fora(Read,write and Speak Aghem, Sɛ̀ sa' shwa' ū Aghə̀m) he created under the auspices of ALDEC, the Aghem language Development Association.
He also runs other WhatsApp forums where he gathers Aghem youths to think positive and build their clan Aghem. Edwin loves Music and he's one of the brains behind the birth of REK AUDIOVISUAL PRODUCTION STUDIO(RAPS) currently working and producing good music for Wum and the world. He is equally an untrained or crude Linguist, Historian and Anthropologist trying to study the Culture, language and History of Aghem and neighbouring tribes and villages.
He runs one of the most popular Aghem Groups on Facebook Aghem my beautiful homeland with over 10,000 Aghems following. He has written a plethora of unpublished works including poems, Cultural essays and historical narratives about Aghem
Dedicated to family an friends and the entire Aghem community , those who have lost family and loved ones throughout this crisis, etc, let our lands be at peace again!
Wandong Fanghanduukwalla
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