Akwi Nji
speaker
146 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2026
last heard 14 Jul
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And as I was packing them, my memory was jogged.
I realized that I purchased those boots the exact year that Dad and I had stopped talking to each other.
And I bought them because they reminded me of a pair of boots Dad had owned when I lived with him in Cameroon.
His were the vintage suede brown hiking boots with the red shoelaces.
I bought mine because even though he and I had stopped talking to each other, I wanted something that would be
Make me feel close to him.
Remind me that he was still in my life.
So I put those in the suitcase, I zipped it up, and then I flew Cedar Rapids, Chicago, D.C., Brussels, Yaoundé, Douala.
I arrived in the airport in Douala, and my oldest brother Gert was there to welcome me there.
and we stacked my suitcases into the back of a 1980s Toyota Highlander.
Now, it seems like everybody in Cameroon has some sort of beat up vintage SUV because the terrain in Cameroon is really rugged and it's even mountainous in some regions.
Everybody in Cameroon also knows that at that time, it was really dangerous to travel throughout the country due to political unrest and rebel groups that had emerged throughout the country.
But despite all of that, Gert and I had no problems getting from the airport to the family home in Chang.
It was a six-hour drive.
When we arrived in Chang, I was ushered through the gates that were my father's, through the kitchen that was my father's, and into the living room.
that was my father's.
They'd set up an altar for him.
There were candles.
There was a Bible.
And above all of that, there was a framed portrait of Dad, larger than life, just as he would have wanted.
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