The Last Hanover |
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Author:
| Anthony (M.I. Tony), Ihekweme Mbazike |
ISBN: | 978-1-4349-7253-8 |
Publication Date: | Sep 2013 |
Publisher: | Dorrance Publishing Company, Incorporated
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Imprint: | RoseDog Books |
Book Format: | Paperback |
List Price: | USD $21.00 |
Book Description:
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When the 1945 Allied invasion took its toll on Hanover Germany, no one had imagined a backlash traced to Africa. No one had imagined St Judkin¿s College a sequestered Secondary School overlooking a tea plantation where many Cameroonians under the German and British colonialists, had cut their teeth on forced labour. No one had imagined a Hanover in Saint Judkin¿s College. No one imagined it a Teutonic colonial relic. No one imagined it a sacred cow; a reprehensible tradition of campus...
More DescriptionWhen the 1945 Allied invasion took its toll on Hanover Germany, no one had imagined a backlash traced to Africa. No one had imagined St Judkin¿s College a sequestered Secondary School overlooking a tea plantation where many Cameroonians under the German and British colonialists, had cut their teeth on forced labour. No one had imagined a Hanover in Saint Judkin¿s College. No one imagined it a Teutonic colonial relic. No one imagined it a sacred cow; a reprehensible tradition of campus brutality.
The Hanover, a time-honoured, tinderbox jinx, would break suddenly on the crossroad of a little boy¿s destiny. Chinagorom¿s death is a living stone to kill two evil birds. In the light of the moment¿s tragedy, the school, for the very first time, was awakened to the shocker of an age-old chink in the ark of the nation¿s prestigious first Secondary School.