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USA Class of 2010: Cameroonian Makes History

    By Joyce Ashuntantang, Ph.D.

At 13, Martha Endum Teke became the youngest student to graduate from Saker Baptist College, Limbe Cameroon.  Now, at 17,  she joins Danielle McBurnett as the youngest graduate from a university nursing program in the USA.  Endum received her degree, Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN) from Texas A &M University. She graduated Magna Cum Laude on May 21^st  2010 and was equally inducted into the Nursing Honors Society. However, while McBurnett graduated from Arizona State University in 2009, she was homeschooled till the age of 12. Endum, on the other hand, took a route that began in an elementary school,  in the USA to Saker Baptist College in Cameroon, West Africa.  Born on September 4 1992 in Erie, Pennsylvania, Endum is the daughter of Martha and Mathias Teke who are originally from Cameroon and reside in Dallas, Texas.  The young Endum’s success has been a combination of intelligence and discipline on her part and foresight on the part of her parents.

  Endum receiving her prestigious Nursing pin.

English 110 Draft

For Victor Pungong, April 11^th 1967- May 9^th 2007

 By Joyce Ashuntantang, Ph.D.

What you have heard is true. She stepped into my office cradling her folder in her bosom. Her pink boots oppressed the blue carpet on my office floor. My gaze caught her eyes off guard. “Yes Miss Sanchez, what can I do for you?”  “Professor, this paper is difficult for me. You know I struggle with English. I speak Spanish.” “Who are you writing on?” I ask  “That’s my problem. Don’t know who to choose. I look at the topic “The individual in history: Actions and legacies”. Then I get confuse. I want to write on Bill Clinton but it is too common. I try Mandela, but my friend say she is doing Mandela. I don’t want to do the same with her.  I want to do the other one you give but I don’t know him.”  “Which other one?” I ask  She hesitates, and uses her right foot to draw a pattern on the floor.  “The last one in the list, Victor Pugog.”  Oh. Ok, but let us start with the pronunciation of the name. The name is Victor P-U-NG-O-NG. The letters dropped one after the other into the space between us. The “ng”  clusters  made a summersault trapping her doubts before landing on her pink boots.

 Dr. Victor Pungong, Graduation from Cambridge University, UK 

Tongues For Nigeria

Nigeria’s senate Minority Whip and  former Governor of Zamfara State, Senator Ahmed Yerima, who introduced sharia law in Nigeria, has recently married a  13 year old Egyptian girl as his 4^th wife.  This has led to public outrage and many groups in Nigeria are protesting the marriage including women in the Nigerian senate, Medical Women Association of Nigeria (MWAN), Women Rights Advancement and Pro-tection Alternative (WRAPA) and the Global Association of Women Attorneys (GAFA). As an African woman and mother, I join my voice in this protest. This is just one of the many reasons I say “Amen” to Pius Adesami’s serious but equally hilarious prayer here below!

Tongues for Nigeria By Pius Adesanmi

Oh shantara ma ma ma ma ma ma! Oh shantara ma ma ma ma ma ma! Oh shantara ma ma ma ma ma! Daddy Jehovah Jireh in heaven! Oh yantana ma ma ma ma ma! Daddy we bless you and magnify your holy name for you are God. Daddy we glorify you for you are worthy to be praised. Daddy we worship you for this is the day that you have made and you have anointed us to rejoice and be glad in it. Daddy we thank you for making us the power and the force of your word. For you promised us that whatsoever we bind here in this sinful world, even that shall ye bind in heaven.

Oh shantara ma ma ma ma ma ma! Father we bind the spirit of pedophilia in our land. Father we come against the demons of pedophilia. Father we call on your authority and we know that you will answer by fire. For it was you who came against the demons of the Gerasene demoniacs and cast them into pigs. Father we ask you to come against the demons of pedophilia in our errant son, Sani Ahmed Yerima, and cast them into donkeys for there are no pigs in his sharia land in Zamfara. Father we call upon thee to burn his demons and render his loins weak even before he goes into the 13 year-old girl he has just bought from the land of the Pharaohs.

Oh yantana ma ma ma ma ma ma ma! Oh shantara ma ma ma ma ma ma! He is God/He is God amen/He has risen from the dead/ He is God/ every knee shall bow/ every tongue confess/ that Jesus Christ is God! Oh shantara ma ma ma ma ma ma! Father we come against the principalities and powers of impotence and unmanliness in our land. For it was given unto us to make a man of Goodluck Jonathan O Lord! But he lives in fear of a ghost and the wife of the ghost O Lord. He is unable to sanctify the house of power against the presence of the ghost O lord. And the wife of the ghost is made man over him.

Oh yantana ma ma ma ma ma ma ma! Father we call upon you to rain energy into Goodluck Jonathan’s loins, courage into his heart, and spine into his back so that he can become a man. Father you led by example. For it was you who assumed power, flogged, arrested, and drove those corrupt moneychangers out of thine temple in Jerusalem. Father,

Goodluck Jonathan hath eyes but cannot see thine example; though he hath ears, he doth not hear of thine leadership by example. Hence a rogue moneychanger called James Ibori has been defiling the temple called Nigeria under Jonathan’s watch. The cavalry of Ibori has successfully defied Jonathan and his centurion, Ogbonaya Onovo, just because Jonathan is not yet a man. Father render unto him the strength of a lion for you are the lion of the tribe of Judah. We remove and bind the dominion of effeminacy in Jonathan’s life in the m-i-g-h-t-y name of J-e-s-u-s! Oooooooooooh! Ooooooooooooo! Oh yantana ma ma ma ma ma ma ma! Oh shantara ma ma ma ma ma ma! I feel it now! I feel the spirit in me now! It has descended. It is raining/all around me/I can feel it/all around me.

Thank you Lord. You are able/abundantly able/to deliver to deliver/you are able/abundantly able/to deliver those who trust in thee. Oh shantara ma ma ma ma ma ma! Father the Nigerian nation trusts in thee. They call on thee more than any other nation on earth. Some of them call on thee before they loot. Some call on thee before they give or accept bribe. Armed robbers commit their goings and comings unto thine hands. Hired assassins call on thee before stepping out. Nigerians pray in their offices and preach your word in secular Internet forums. Father in heaven we ask you to look with favour on the prayers and ministrations of this religious people and make a Saul of them.

Oooooooooooh! Ooooooooooooo! Oh yantana ma ma ma ma ma ma ma! Oh shantara ma ma ma ma ma ma! Father Nigerians need to become Saul for an Amalekite called Ibrahim Babangida wants to come upon them a second time. Father Lord you know the story of the first coming of this Amalekite in the lives of this people. For the eight years that he ruled them, birds did not chirp like birds, rats did not brux like rats, and men did not speak like men. He brought pestilence upon the land O Lord. And even unto this day his heart is hardened like the heart of Pharaoh for he has refused to wear sackcloth and apologise for his sins. Oh Lord, we pray that the Saul of Nigeria brings the abomination of desolation to bear on the ambition of this mad Amalekite.

Father we thank you for you have listened to our prayers.

Father we thank you for you have answered our prayers in the mighty name of Jesus!! A-m-e-n!!!! Hello somebody! Hello Pastor Pius! Turn to your neighbor and say: “your prayer has been answered”!

Originally published at : http://234next.com/csp/cms/sites/Next/Opinion/Columns/PiusAdesanmi/5560733-176/little_ends_tongues_for_nigeria.csp