Ilongo Fritz

Book Review: The Four Pillars of Time by Ilongo Fritz Ngale

Reviewed by Athanasius Ako Ayuk, PhD - Lecturer, ENS, University of Yaounde 1

Mr. Ilongo's novel, The Four Pillars of Time, has come as a welcome addition to the burgeoning Anglophone Cameroonian writing landscape. Anglophone Cameroon writing has grown significantly over the past two decades. Over this time, it has developed in its vision of human experience in general and the state of Cameroon in particular. In its attempt to capture and render socio-political convulsions of the state, it has shown its capacity to develop in technique and grow in theme. It is precisely in this regard that Ilongo's novel is a significant addition to this growing literary tradition.

Fritz Ilongo's “The Four Pillars of Time” Launched in Buea

By Solomon Amabo (In EDEN, Wednesday 31-Monday 05,June 2006 pg.5)

The Four Pillars of Time, a novel by the Cameroonian born IIongo Fritz Ngale was on May 19, launched at the Sullivan Hall , OIC, Buea.

The literary critic, poet and playwright, Dr Bate Besong, BB, praised the author for “constructing an intellectual arsenal for the liberation of the country and the decolonization of the mind ”. He pointed out that IIongo Fritz Ngale’s “anti-hero King Lak is a pastmaster at the art of discovering the most ingenious methods of torture and brutality ,unleashing a reign of terror and suffering on the innocent people of Suna”.

Official Launching of "The Four Pillars of Time" in Pictures

Ilongo Fritz's The Four Pillars of Time was officially launched in Yaounde, at the in the amphitheatre of the Higher Teachers' Training College on 5 May 2006.

Sitted from left to right: Ilongo Fritz, Dr Athanasius Ako (book reviewer),Prof.Mbua Ngeve, Dr Njikong Stephen (Representative of the book's chief launcher,Mola Meoto Paul Njie), and Prof. Nkwi (book reviewer)

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