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26 Tribute Is it true there is la’mbor,1 and our ancestors welcome you with your meagre thirty-nine? If you must leave us behind, then rest dear sister, but let your light lead us on that tomorrow - as they say we may meet to part no more, and by your celestial fireside at dusk, remember, you shall tell us the truth of your slim and beautiful thirty-nine. Kamah You, you grandmother - vague! Eyes of four saw you sitting by a bag of groundnuts mixed with the paste of grassland pears which the toiling engines down the slope had made ready prematurely, as you rolled down to see your children at the coast. Tall, slim, friendly face; giving me groundnuts. I did not know then, that you were the source of my source. Now you are beyond the clouds. From Marcus I can tell what the wife was like - Kamah! 1 In lamnso’, a language spoken by the Kumbo people of the North West Province of Cameroon, La’mbor can be translated to mean heaven. ...

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