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    Innocence And Survival
    Innocence And Survival
    Innocence And Survival
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    Innocence And Survival

    By Tracy Booker

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    Survival Instincts

    As students leave their parents to live independent lives in the university, they engage themselves in good, bad, and ugly activities.
    Wajuku Ihimbru is the main character who leaves his parents in the grass field to study in the University of Buea. While in Buea, he manages to get a room in the crazy neighborhood of Dirty South which has been nick named ''Sodom and Gomorra'' because of the promiscuous lives of students.
    Wajuku is very industrious and enterprising but suffers complexity problems. Though he is very handsome ,he finds a lot of faults in himself. He is so use to the type of life that he gets up every morning and his mom looks food for at all cost for him to eat but life tends out to be very different in the university. His mother was unable to send him food talk less of money. Because of this, Wajuku devised all sorts of methods to survive which he calls Survival Instincts. He was so use to the university restaurant where food is sold very cheap to the extent that other students called him the ''moving menu''.
    Brenda is also new in the university. She has gone through a lot of emotional problems. She explains to Wajuku that the biggest problem of any beautiful lady is to make the best choice of the many men coming and going in her life. Some guys come very handsome but with no money, others come with much money but are very ugly while some are not even handsome and not rich but yet show lot of love. Thus, she's always in a dilemma.
    Also get to discover in the thrilling story how Wajuku and some of his educated friends came back from school and break the myth and mysticism that characterized the village. The village had a river called the forbidden river and villagers were prohibited from swimming in the river since it was regarded as the home of the gods. It was also belief that the river at its lower end disappeared into thin air in the evil forest but the new generation of youths had to prove this wrong.

    The Innocent Ones

    The early 1970’s was characterized by respect for tradition and one’s parents. According to the tradition of the Mandy people, it was unthinkable to ignore the orders of a parent or an elderly person. A strong bond existed between parents and children. This provoked the burning desire to protect these children, which sometimes led to grief, hatred and pain in the society. A society characterized by evil thoughts, anxiety and the desire to destroy.
    According to the tradition of the people, a child was considered a dependent person, who could not take any sound decision. A child’s age did not matter much when it came to decisions on matters affecting things like marriage.
    By the late 1970’s, life had taken a different turn, respect for tradition and decision making on a child’s behalf became a nightmare. This story gives a clue of the 1970’s Mandy society.
    The Innocent Ones is the story of a mother who caused her only daughter so much pain in a bid to protect her from what she considered bad families. She practically prevents her daughter from being close to her loved ones with the intention of protecting her. This left her daughter with two illegitimate kids. Musa is a herbalist with two wives, Agi (his first wife) and Nina (his second wife). He is inhumane to the kids. He tends to show them love and care only on rare occasions when he is happy. Agi, Musa’s first wife, is kind to the kids. Her love for the kids is so strong that in the event of a conflict of interest between the kids and her husband, the kids’ interest would take precedent.
    Nina, Musa’s second wife is a victim of these new changes. But she is indifferent to these new developments. All she wants is to see peace reign in the family. She observes a distant relationship with the kids as a strategy to please her husband and secure the kids’ freedom from her wicked husband.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDoroClem Publishing
    Release dateJul 15, 2012
    ISBN9781476111636
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      Innocence And Survival - Tracy Booker

      Innocence And Survival

      By Tracy Booker

      Copyright 2012 by Tracy Booker

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      Table Of Contents

      Survival Instincts

      The Innocent Ones

      Innocence And Survival

      Survival Instincts

      Introduction

      As students leave their parents to live independent lives in the university, they engage themselves into good, bad, and ugly activities.

      Wajuku Ihimbru is the main character who leaves his parents in the grass field to study in the University of Buea. While in Buea, he manages to get a room in the crazy neighborhood of Dirty South which has been nick named ''Sodom and Gomorra'' because of the promiscuous lives of students.

      Wajuku is very industrious and enterprising but suffers complexity problems. Though he is very handsome ,he finds a lot of faults in himself. He is so use to the type of life that he gets up every morning and his mom looks food for at all cost for him to eat but life tends out to be very different in the university. His mother was unable to send him food talk less of money. Because of this, Wajuku devised all sorts of methods to survive which he calls Survival Instincts. He was so use to the university restaurant where food is sold very cheap to the extent that other students called him the ''moving menu''.

      Brenda is also new in the university. She has gone through a lot of emotional problems. She explains to Wajuku that the biggest problem of any beautiful lady is to make the best choice of the many men coming and going in her life. Some guys come very handsome but with no money, others come with much money but are very ugly while some are not even handsome and not rich but yet show lot of love. Thus, she's always in a dilemma.

      Also get to discover in the thrilling story how Wajuku and some of his educated friends came back from school and break the myth and mysticism that characterized the village. The village had a river called the forbidden river and villagers were prohibited from swimming in the river since it was regarded as the home of the gods. It was also belief that the river at its lower end disappeared into thin air in the evil forest but the new generation of youths had to prove this wrong.

      CHAPTER 1

      It was a bright morning in the rainy warm month of September in Benade village when Wajuku received information that he had been admitted in the University of Buea to read Journalism and Mass Communication. The news brought a lot of joy to their poor family. To Wajuku, first it reminded him of his late father. Wajuku just wished his father was still alive to assist him enter the university. Tears began to run down his cheek but his poor mom told him, my son I know your heart is fill with grief but I will do everything possible to ensure that you further your studies in the university.

      One of Wajuku's cousins who just graduated from the university surrendered her room to Wajuku in the crazy neighborhood call Dirty South. The neighborhood was over crowded with students who were all living independently.

      Before Wajuku entered Buea, he had read much about the history of the town and expected to see a vast industrious and commercial town but to his greatest dismay, he saw a small town that was over crowded with students living just the type of life he hated most. Most of the girls dressed half naked and the boys were always with their trousers below their buttocks and some even put on ear rings to school.

      Three weeks in the university, Wajuku received a call from one of his former school mate who pleaded to come and live with him in the mean time before looking for his own room. The friend by name Frederick was a scammer. He explained to Wajuku that his aunty had opted to sponsor him on the condition that he stops scamming. He explained to Wajuku that not only had he stopped scamming but has also repented. Frederick's aunt gave him the sum of FCFA70 000 to pay his fees and take care of himself in Buea but the money was not enough for his feeding, fees and transportation given that he had a big luggage comprising of his electronics, wool carpet and other house hold equipment.

      Wajuku heartily welcome his friend Frederick to his room in Buea but the two of them had one common problem which was that they loved arguing a lot. Whenever they started arguing, neighbors got alarmed.

      Wajuku's best friend Nelson started distancing himself from Wajuku when Frederick came to Buea. He hated Frederick because he was so full of himself and also was a womanizer. Nelson also complained that Wajuku paid more attention to Frederick than to him. This was not true, just that Nelson felt like a visitor each time he visited and the camaraderie that existed before was going down because of the third party.

      Nelson was an orphan who lost his parents when he was barely one year old. He was brought up by his uncle who was a shoe mender in Bamenda and his wife a hair dresser. He was admitted into UB the same year with Wajuku. In Buea, he lived with his aunt who was a seamstress. They lived in an apartment with just two rooms and a sitting room. The aunt used one of the rooms alone while her seven children including Nelson managed the other room and part of the sitting room was used as tailoring workshop. This was very uncomfortable to Nelson.

      Nelson’s aunt gave him a lot of work. He will wash the plates, mob the floor and cook while the other girls sat doing nothing. Worst still, after cooking his aunt will order him not to share the food until she was through with work and this was usually late in the night. In effect, Nelson ate once in a day.

      He explained his situation to Wajuku and pleaded to live with him. Wajuku could not deny his best friend and so took him but there was one thing bordering him and he ask Nelson, how

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