7/08/2015
The Board Chairman and Director and Staff of ANUCAM,
Buea, Cameroon,
MESSAGE OF CONDOLENCE
Dear Sirs,
I received with profound sadness the passing on of the founder of ANUCAM. Please accept my profound condolence, that of my family and that of Taku Chambers.
The passage to eternal glory of this great man of vision and action has deprived us of the inspiration that our interaction with him brought in time of need. Through our business relationship we are among the many beneficiaries of his business acumen, visionary leadership and inspiring steadfastness in attaining positive results in all he did. Although the shoes he has left are too big for anyone fill, I am so sure that with God guiding, you will uphold the legacy he admirably crafted and left behind.
Be assured of my continuous cooperation as you continue to uplift and sustain the legacy of this great achiever for our collective good and that of posterity.
Sincerely yours,
(Original signed)
Chief Charles A. Taku ( Fuatabong Achaleke)
I
I saw a slowly-stepping train --
Lined on the brows, scoop-eyed and bent and hoar --
Following in files across a twilit plain
A strange and mystic form the foremost bore.
II
And by contagious throbs of thought
Or latent knowledge that within me lay
And had already stirred me, I was wrought
To consciousness of sorrow even as they.
III
The fore-borne shape, to my blurred eyes,
At first seemed man-like, and anon to change
To an amorphous cloud of marvellous size,
At times endowed with wings of glorious range.
IV
And this phantasmal variousness
Ever possessed it as they drew along:
Yet throughout all it symboled none the less
Potency vast and loving-kindness strong.
V
Almost before I knew I bent
Towards the moving columns without a word;
They, growing in bulk and numbers as they went,
Struck out sick thoughts that could be overheard: --
VI
'O man-projected Figure, of late
Imaged as we, thy knell who shall survive?
Whence came it we were tempted to create
One whom we can no longer keep alive?
VII
'Framing him jealous, fierce, at first,
We gave him justice as the ages rolled,
Will to bless those by circumstance accurst,
And longsuffering, and mercies manifold.
VIII
'And, tricked by our own early dream
And need of solace, we grew self-deceived,
Our making soon our maker did we deem,
And what we had imagined we believed,
IX
'Till, in Time's stayless stealthy swing,
Uncompromising rude reality
Mangled the Monarch of our fashioning,
Who quavered, sank; and now has ceased to be.
X
'So, toward our myth's oblivion,
Darkling, and languid-lipped, we creep and grope
Sadlier than those who wept in Babylon,
Whose Zion was a still abiding hope.
XI
'How sweet it was in years far hied
To start the wheels of day with trustful prayer,
To lie down liegely at the eventide
And feel a blest assurance he was there!
XII
'And who or what shall fill his place?
Whither will wanderers turn distracted eyes
For some fixed star to stimulate their pace
Towards the goal of their enterprise?'...
XIII
Some in the background then I saw,
Sweet women, youths, men, all incredulous,
Who chimed as one: 'This is figure is of straw,
This requiem mockery! Still he lives to us!'
XIV
I could not prop their faith: and yet
Many I had known: with all I sympathized;
And though struck speechless, I did not forget
That what was mourned for, I, too, once had prized.
XV
Still, how to bear such loss I deemed
The insistent question for each animate mind,
And gazing, to my growing sight there seemed
A pale yet positive gleam low down behind,
XVI
Whereof, to lift the general night,
A certain few who stood aloof had said,
'See you upon the horizon that small light --
Swelling somewhat?' Each mourner shook his head.
XVII
And they composed a crowd of whom
Some were right good, and many nigh the best....
Thus dazed and puzzled 'twixt the gleam and gloom
Mechanically I followed with the rest.
Author: Thomas Hardy
Family, friends, and schoolmates of Anucam announce with sorrow the passing onto eternity of Mr. Martin Nguasong aka ANUCAM. He transitioned peacefully into his everlasting home on July 30th 2015 after a protracted illness at the Bamenda General Hospital. Burial will take place in Fontem on August 14, 2015.
Because of the short notice, a wake in his honor has been scheduled for August 7th 2015 starting at 7pm in the residence of Ms. Awung Mirble. The address for the wake is 7614 Green Willow Ct, Hyattsville MD 20785. Call 404-822-2004 for more information.
Anucam was preceded in death by his father Pa Mathias Anu, a long time catechist at Catholic Mission Belleuh. Mr. Nguasong is survived by his mother Mami Lucia, spouse Evelyn, brother Vincent, and many uncles, aunts, nephews, nieces and cousins, from Letia and Njentse family.
