Takwe À Taamba E-Book

Labah Nformi

• Herausgeber: BooxAi
• Kategorie: Fantasy und Science-Fiction
• Sprache: Englisch

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2022

Beschreibung

Takwe A Taamba are no longer animal characters with human features who play tricks distort rules', make the abnormal normal as found in Wimbum trickster tales and in other folktales. Derogatorily Takwe is any person (character) who is cunning, trickish, anyone envious, anyone who uses his wisdom for selfish and egoistic purposes. anyone who works against the communal interest, anyone who wants to succeed alone or reap from where he has not sown. While Taamba in the folktales is not clever, gullible and easily manipulated. The Takwe and Taamba have moved from the fireside stories to our global village today, where our leaders and those in authority (Takwe) can distort and change the rules and manipulate the gullible masses (Taamba) for their selfish and egoistic reasons thus the eternal duel between the unpatriotic, corrupted leaders and the masses, the Wise Vs the Idiots.Though the 'Wise' claim monopoly over wisdom but the 'Idiots' may not be fooled all the time.

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Takwe À Taamba

Labah Nformi

Takwe À Taamba

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ISBN: 978-965-578-004-8

DISCLAIMER

The stories in this book are a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents either are a product of the author-s imagination or are used fictitiously.

Takwe À Taamba

The Wise vs. The Idiots

Labah Nformi

Contents

FOREWORD

1. Excreta spoiled Taamba's marriage

2. Taamba, the first thief in a village

3. Takwe and Taamba killed their mothers

4. Takwe, the greatest groundnut farmer

5. Taamba dies in a wildfire contest

FOREWORD

Takwe and Taamba are the main characters in trickster tales of Wimbum people. The Wimbum people are in Nkambe Central and Ndu Sub Divisions of the Donga-Mantung Division of the North West Region of Cameroon in West Africa. The language spoken by the Wimbum people is Limbum.

I have just tried to retell the folktales as they were told to us. I am simply a translator of the oral tales into English. I owe everything to my mother, Ancella Mutab Kijah Ndop, who narrated these stories and more to us over and over again, at the fireside for warm, cohesion, family communion.These used to be key moments of entertainment, fun and jokes from our parents and any elder gifted in the art of storytelling. The oral rendition was more lively, dynamic and so much improvisation on the part of the narrator and, especially with a participatory audience, listeners humming or singing the chorus, handclapping, foot stamping. Our imaginations were expanded and stretched beyond the realm of the real and surreal and our curiosity to learn and know more was unbridled,

The first audience for my own folktales were my own children: Cheche, Tamfu, Nyugab, Nyufersii, Webchu and Ntunyu away from home wanted these stories written. I tried to satisfy them by narrating these folktales in (Limbum) our mother tongue and did translations into English a few years ago with much difficulty and much improvisation, missing the authenticity and flavor of the songs. I decided to publish them this time to enable them and many others who didn't have the opportunity to learn these stories at the fireside like children like us who grew up in a typical Wimbum village and also to pay homage to my (our storyteller) mother who passed away last year August 15, 2021.

Presently many stories about Takwe and Taamba can be found in literary journals in schools and students' magazines, pamphlets in English, Limbum and other Languages. Takwe and Taamba are no longer animal characters with human features who play tricks, and distort the rules as we knew them as kids. In a derogatory sense, in the Limbum language, Takwe stands for any person (character) who is cunning, trickish, anyone envious, or anyone who uses his wisdom for selfish and egoistic purposes. In a typical rural setting, anyone who works against the communal interest, anyone who wants to succeed alone or reap where he has not sown. Taamba, on the other hand, literally is a person (character) who is not clever, gullible, or easily manipulated. It is for this reason that I captioned this collection; Takwe and Taamba -The Wise Vs the Idiots. Though the "Wise'' claim a monopoly over wisdom, they can still learn from the Idiots"