Bernard Nsokika Fonlon: Twenty Years Passed Already!
By Paul Verdzekov - Archbishop Emeritus of Bamenda
1. Twenty years ago, on 26th August 1986, Bernard Nsokika Fonlon died in Canada. He had gone there in the month of May of that year in order to receive a doctorate degree in Literature (D. Litt.) from the University of Guelph, and it was his intention to spend the 1986/1987 academic year in the United States of America, within the framework of a Fulbright programme. But the Lord, the Giver of Life, decided otherwise. Bernard died in Canada at the age of sixty-one years, and nine months and six days. He would have been sixty-two years of age on 19th November 1986.
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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.
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