Beads Of Memory
In the wake of General Franco’s demise, a Cameroonian student, Leinteng Basha, arrives in Madrid. He soon befriends two other African students, Bassey Okoro from Nigeria, and a drifter from Equatorial Guinea, Jesus Ndongo. Together, they navigate as best as they can through the challenges of loneliness, homesickness and especially the indifference, if not outright hostility of their host country. Leinteng keeps a diary in which he details in simple, straightforward but captivating prose, the travails and joys of his days in the Spanish capital. Through the diarist’s sharp eye for detail, the reader is irresistibly drawn into the labyrinth of life as lived by an African student in post-Franco Spain.
Martin Jumbam holds a bilingual (English/French) degree from the University of Yaoundé in Cameroon, a diploma in Spanish studies from La Universidad Complùtense in Madrid in Spain, a Maîtrise en littérature comparée from La Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris 3; a diploma in translation/interpretation from Georgetown University in Washington DC, and a Master’s Degree in Comparative Lit-erature from the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Canada. He worked for over 20 years for an American oil company, Pecten Cameroon, in the port city of Douala, Cameroon, before serving for four years as the general manager of La Maison Catholique de la Communication Sociale (MACA-COS), the Catholic Media House of the Archdiocese of Douala. He is the author of My Conversion Journey with Christian Cardinal Tumi (Langaa Publishing, 2014). He lives in Douala and works as a freelance translator, conference interpreter, journalist and motivational speaker.
Pages: 85
Year: 2020
ISBN: ISBN: 9781942876670
