Akwi Nji
speaker
146 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2026
last heard 14 Jul
Akwi Nji’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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There were the twinkling eyes of my childhood, that compassionate and warm smile.
This was the man that everyone loved.
Word quickly spread that all of Jaga NG's children had arrived, and so guests streamed in from all over the country to offer their condolences in person, and they brought with them huge thermoses of food.
The home was filled with warmth and the aroma of fried plantains, groundnut soup, cocoa yams, fufu, and chinchin.
It was also filled with laughter.
It was a strange combination of grief and joyful reunion.
In the weeks that followed, I spent my days working with my siblings to plan for dad's many celebrations of life and the funeral and burial that would eventually take place in a little tiny village called Tugi.
And Tugi is where dad was born.
For Cameroonians, it's important that you're buried where you're born.
It's a matter of being connected to your ancestry, your lineage, the earth, and most importantly,
It's a matter of eternal peace.
It's your best chance at eternal peace.
And during the nights, I spent my time bonding with my siblings over board games and movies and karaoke to, of all things, the sound of music.
Yeah, yeah.
There is video evidence of us doe-a-deering our way into the night.
And then some nights, I chose to just walk around through my dad's massive property alone, room to room, trying to better understand who this man was through the things that he had left behind.
One night, I locked myself into his office.
That's where he spent most of his time, and it was a huge office.
On one of the walls in the office, it was just nothing but photos, family photos from when I was a kid, and one of the photos was of him and my mom on their wedding day, and she's in her light yellow dress, and he's in his Cameroonian attire, and they're smiling, and they're happy.
And then all of the other photos were from our first family portrait session together.
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