FLASHBACK 2011 ELECTION OF AKYE NTONIFOR AS VICE PRESIDENT OF ASJUB

A FIELD DAY FOR THE VICE PRESIDENT 

(For Akye Ntonifor)

The election took place in July 2011 within the Association of Student Journalists of the University of Buea (ASJUB) and under the watchful supervision of Senior Lecturer Bisong Divine Epey. I wrote this poem straight after the exercise. Akye graduated from the Department of Journalism and Mass Communication and went on to enroll at the Institute of  International Relations, IRIC, in Yaounde)

By Tikum Mbah Azonga

You didn`t look everywhere
Did You?
Did you look among the daffodil beds?
Did you look under the enamel flower pot?
Did you look between the Tilly lanterns?
Did you look among the rejected ballot papers?
Did you even look on the honours list?
That of the newly elected ASJUB officials?

You have a future cut out like Chinaware
You have no fear of that which is new
If you like, I can spin you new threads
What I hate is leadership rot
That`s why our new team will always carry lanterns
We do not doubt the value of our peers
So when the time comes our names shall be on the scroll
That`s why the world, this world, needs presidents like us.