Bernard Fonlon

Bernard Nsokika Fonlon: Glowing Memories of the Master

By Martin Jumbam

Revised and reproduced from Cameroon Life, Vol. II, N° 7, October 1992, pp.41-43 where it was originally published under the title "Bernard Nsokika Fonlon: Six Years After"

It's a rainy and soggy morning in the city of Douala. The day is the 26th; the month is August; the year is 1992. For several days now, endless garlands of words have been winding their way through my mind as I reflect on a fitting tribute to pay my Master, the Yaounde University Professor Emeritus, Doctor Bernard Nsokika Fonlon, of glorious memory. But, somehow those words have failed to deflower the virgin sheet of paper before me.

Welcome Address: CAMYOSFOP Fonlon Forum

By NGALIM Eugine Nyuydine

Your Excellency Kibuh Tumi Henry Excellencies Invited GuestsGood evening and welcome to this event, the celebration of the legacies and the Launching of a Manual on the Legacies of Professor Bernard Nsokika Fonlon. On behalf of the Cameroon Youths and students Forum for Peace (CAMYOSFOP) and the other collaborators of this project, I wish to extend my sincere gratitude to His Excellency Kibuh Tumi Henry, Minister of Mines, Water, and Energy, who despite his tide schedule accepted to support us by personally presiding over this exercise. I equally wish to extend my sincere thanks to the members of the Bernard Fonlon Society who collaborated with us and accepted to actively participate by providing the necessary publication for exhibition and testimonies for the eminent Professor Fonlon, during this event.Click here to print or download complete welcome address in PDF format

Why a Manual on the Legacies of Prof. Bernard Fonlon?

By AKARA Ticha (ed). Manual on the Legacies of Prof. Bernard Fonlon (Forthcoming)

The other day I was listening to one of the world’s most venerated radio stations – The BBC - and it was a lengthy interview with Kenya’s best known man of letters – NGUGI WA THIONG’O! NGUGI received so much attention from around the globe for such a long time following the attack on his Nairobi apartment, where his wife was raped some weeks back. I felt jealous of the attention Kenya was receiving thanks to Mwalimu WA THIONG’O and imagined what kind of tribute he would have received if the worst befell him during that attack.

In Memory of the Christian Intellectual: The Relevance of Fonlon’s Legacy to Us Today? (Parts I & II)

By Fr. Tatah H. Mbuy

Africans celebrate life. In fact, someone has said that Africans have a cultural instinct for celebration; and this is true to experience and fact. When a child is born, we celebrate his coming into the world; when he is initiated, we celebrate his new status; when he marries we celebrate his maturity and when he dies we celebrate his transition into the sublime world of the Ancestors. If we fondly remember Bernard Nso’kika Fonlon, it is partly due to the fact that he has gone before us marked with the faith of our ancestors.