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Title: Warrior At Heart
Author: Tata Thaddeus Agwo
ISBN: 158982363X
Publisher & Size: American Book Publishing, 196 pages, 5x8 inches
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"A question precedes all inquiry and an observation precedes each question, so my alertness, that very alertness that so agitated my mother, for it meant few finished or well-executed tasks, also meant that I witnessed the nuances of the natural world, the conundrums so common in nature and so overlooked. And like all scientists, I wondered why the birds and the insects and the clouds and the storms operated as they did. I was taken with the mechanics of creation."
—Tata Thaddeus Agwo

"As a teacher I tried to shape young minds so that they may grow up to be successful and useful citizens within the society. As a politician I tried to build a just and fair society in which citizens could live in harmony and in happiness."
—His Excellency S. T. Muna, former Vice President of the Republic of Cameroon

Winston Churchill stated, "Russia is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma."
And Edgar Allen Poe asked, "Is all that we see or seem but a dream within a dream?"
How do I consider Cameroon, my home? And how do I contemplate Africa? Should I construct my own pithy, vague pronouncement? I could assert that "Africa is a tangle of paradoxes." Such a declaration hints at the truth, for the soils of Africa seem to nurture warlords and warrior children, as well as people quick to smile and laugh and rejoice.
Warrior at Heart is not a pithy pronouncement that seeks to encapsulate a country or a continent. And it is not a scholarly undertaking, an attempt to comprehend through quantification.
It is the story of my boyhood and my seminal manhood, and it is a story that tells of my journey into life, and to America, of trying to negotiate Boston and of trying to renegotiate the sensibilities I acquired in Cameroon—so that I could thrive in "this brave, new world that has such people in it."
It is a story that tells of the smoky, mad chaos of civil war, of the unadulterated pleasures of boyhood, of the wisdom of the elders, and of the inevitable embarrassments of the passage to manhood. It doesn't pretend to be more than one person's story, but in each person's story is every person's story.

                                              

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