No Love Lost

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 NOTES 1 My friend, I am sure that with this kind of qualification you have, you will be a great person in this country. 2 Please, forget about his qualification, let’s go and dance makossa and eat at home. 3 Mr. Tewuh, remember us when you are rich. You know that when your brother is on top of a plum tree you would eat the sweetest plum. 4 Sister, you are right. 5 Obili junction. 6 Your mother’s vagina. 7 Carcass of a dog! Don’t touch me! 8 Prostitutes. 9 Alcoholic beer. 10 Good for nothing person; fool. 11 To be. 12 Do you want a woman for the night? 13 No, my sister. I am not looking for a woman. I’m looking for my tribesman who lives in this city. 14 What is the name of your tribesman? 15 He comes from Meka village. 16 Are you from Meka too? 17 Yes, I hail from Meka. 18 I think I know the Londu you are looking for. 19 Is that true? So you know my tribesman! 20 Yes. Is Londu not a taxi-driver? 21 I don’t know what he does for a living, sister. 22 My goodness! What kind of person are you? Are looking for some one you don’t even know? 23 My sister, I have just arrived from Bamenda. I am in search of a job here. My father says when I get here I should look for Londu. 24 My friend, give me a bottle of beer. I will find Londu for you. 25 What do you drink, sister? 26 I drink nothing but 33 Export beer. 27 I’ll be right back, my brother. 28 This is your tribesman. 29 Staple food made of corn flour. 30 Smoked tilapia 31 An unmarried man would starve to death if he couldn’t cook. 32 May God save us! 33 Give a bribe. 34 Foolish Bamenda man. 35 Anglophone, English-speaking person. 36 Metonym for Cameroon. 37 Son of a bitch! Are you sick? 38 Anglophone! Get lost, idiot! Go tell your mother to carry you there! 

 39Sir, I don’t understand the dialect you’re speaking. 40Here is Yaoundé. You have to speak French, do you hear me? Here we speak only French. 41 What? 42 He is a Biafran. 43 Yaoundé General Hospital. 44 Are you sane? 45An ideophone in the Bamunka language expressing great surprise. 46 These are words of wisdom. 47 Hat made of multicolored fabric won by men of title in the grassfields region of the Republic of Cameroon. It is painstakingly embroidered. 48 We agree. 49 Propitiation song intended to appease the ancestors. 50 Traditional cup made out of the horn of a buffalo. 51 Mother. 52 Traditional outfit. 53 A local deity. 54Witches. 55 Amulet. 56 Lorry in a dilapidated state. 57 Brothers and sisters. I greet you in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ. 58 What sort of ill-luck is this? Who is Jesus, madam? 59 You evil-doers, repent for the kingdom of God is at hand. 60 There are all sorts of insane people on this earth. 61 Madam, what do you smoke? 62 She smokes marijuana. 63 Spacious outfit worn by men. 64 There is no problem. 65 Abbreviation for brother. 66 We are going to have it tough with them. All they do is steal money. 67 They will all die one day. We are all mortal. 68 They say a goat eats where it is tethered. 69 It’s you people who have been to big schools. You should write a letter to those people in Yaoundé. 70 Trouble 71 My mother! And we call this our country? 72 Madam, human beings talk endlessly. This is not a Bible matter. 73 My brothers, God’s time is the best. Don’t worry; we are all children of our Father in heaven. 74 Don’t worry. God is kind. 75 Show the documents of your vehicle, driver. 76 Here they are, chief. 77 Where is the vehicle registration certificate? 78 It’s inside, chief. Here it is. 79 Ha! Ha! Ha! It’s expired. Its life has come to an end. 

 80 I did not understand the mixed language you spoke, chief. 81I said your vehicle registration certificate has expired. 82 Which paper is called PeriMary, chief? 83 I said the life of your...