
Mabu Nfinyo holding up the dead Cobra
Photo credit : Mabu Nfinyo
MY 3 DAY ODYSSEY: 4 FUNERALS, AN ATTACK BY MANY HEAVILY ARMED HIGHWAY ROBBERS, A TYRE PUNCTURE, AND THE COBRA.
(This is long, crazy and very interesting. Sorry I can’t make it any shorter).
Thursday 19th March 2015 at 22:42, a Whatsapp message hits my phone from my Aunty Ms. Goodness Kinyang who is in the UK: ‘Cover yourself with the blood of Jesus wherever you go, even to Nigeria and stay blessed’. I was already in Bamenda, from Yaounde and now on my way to the village for the funeral of my young Aunt Marie Noelle Machu Memba Kinyang who died at the age of 28, and just 1 year 3 months after her wedding to my uncle Barrister Kinyang George.
Friday 20th March 2015 at about 12:30 while in the car on my way from Bamenda to my village; Lassin-Noni, in Bui Division - North West Region of Cameroon , I receive a strange call from Pastor Terence Kanjo which I paraphrase: “President(in french)…, where are you? I have just received a strange phone call from one of my daughters in Dschang, and I am presently in Ebolowa. You don’t