Thank You Elon University!

Dear Brian,

You have been very determined and resolute in the pursuit of the goals of Elon University, North Carolina. Your humanity shone in your attempt to seek an intellectual haven for a most embattled scholar, and writer in the jungle of a sub-saharan Darfur.

You believed that if African Literature is to be continously used as a weapon for collective struggle and as an instrument of demolishing the squalid institutions that exploit and degrade humanity, as a scholar -historian, Elon University epitomised, in your advocacy, found in me, one whose entire career was the metonymy of the African Experience in Literature.

You have long been in the university sytsem to appreciate the fact that all over the African continent, unless the rot is halted now, the continent vaunted prioprity in education will be like a cancerous growth on everyone's face.

You have therefore held on to the hem of John F. Kennedy's Profiles in Courage, again, dear Brian, through diligence, working, in the vineyard of the American tradition of individualism, democracy and unfettered discourse. (David, with a sling and a stone, proved stronger than the Philistine)

You were the promethean crusader, the supreme avatar; to one whose intellectual efforts prod the Cameroonian Conscience; one who stands quite clearly on the side of the African scholar and writer using his talents to call things by their names.

I have paid the supreme price: I have kept my faith.

I salute Elon University through you, Brian Digre.

Fraternal Greetings from,

Bate Besong

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[Chrys Fusi]

This site is a treasure. Thank You Dr. Bate Besong. This is your student. Thank you for the great inspiration. Through the rough waters and victimisation of the Ahidjo's, Biya's, Ekwa's, Njeuma's you are still the lion and Obasinjom warrior. I am so elated. The Pen is the lethal Excalibur. I will share this web site with my international friends. Remember your Flag stands on the pedestal here in Tampa Bay, Florida. I say again loud and Clear I am a product and student of Dr. Bate Besong and it is a previledge. Peace and Love. Chrys Fusi. Tampa, Florida U.S.A