What is the Objective of Pope Leo XIV’s Coming to Cameroon?
JUST ABOVE CAMEROON WAITING FOR GODOT:
There is a Theological anomaly or a heresy of an advent in Lent. Yet in a country that prides itself on the impossibility of the impossible, it seems normal to wait for Godot and for the Pope at the same time during Holy Week. Yet the idea of waiting for someone who did not make a rendezvous with you breaks the bounds of reason. Everybody is waiting and hoping for something to descend on Cameroon at any time. Be it the first rain, be it the Pope. Be it a reenactment or madurean-like tragicomic melodrama at Etoudi. Be it a Tchirimean storm from Yaguoa to Yaounde. Be it the dance of thirteen seagulls riding on the tide of an amber wave in the azure world of Manawa Bay. The fact is that there is something just above Cameroon hanging like the sword of Uthman Dan Fodio, threatening to dip the Qur’an in the Atlantic Ocean. There is something in the air waiting for Godot just above Cameroon. Defining chance as when a string of coincidences gathers significance, anything can happen from now on. I hear a noontide owl of ill omens has summoned their nocturnal council. There is a deputy presidential selection-cooking pot waiting for a Marabout from India. Around the pot sit vampires from the Mungo West, hoping to ascend onto a sinking throne. Their Koki is sour, so the orphans and their slaves will be given double bundles. Abakwa waits for Godot in a tense peace, hoping for the best while expecting the worst from someone sitting just above Cameroon. Well see whether they can unite what Godot had put asunder, since impossibility is not a stock in their trading of power.
Bawe Louis
