
Yunhouse: Assorted London Tales About The Africa
In the year 1884, in the German City of Berlin, representatives of European nations gathered around a giant map of Africa for the biggest imperialistic banquet in the history of mankind. Slices of the Dark Continent were served out to satisfy imperial hunger for territories: The Scramble For Africa! Africans got to know about the carve-up of their continent when Europeans turned up on their homelands to claim the territorial possessions as apportioned in Berlin. The process was called The Pacification Of The Natives. Yunhouse is founded by Africans whose personal experience of The Pacification Of The Natives is the Europeanisation of their minds through European education. Foundation inhabitants of Yunhouse identify themselves as a generation of Africans born within blood-letting distance of The Great Berlin Carve-up. They are all students in London where they feel united by the experience of insider perspective of the machinations of The Pacification Of The Natives: the conception, the design and the execution of colonial subjugation of their continent and its peoples. They form themselves into The Berliner Cult. Their motto: We shall never be pacified! Initial meetings of the Berliner Cult in a basement flat in Camden Town, north London, are characteristically noisy as the Berliners revel in crying their eyes out or laughing their bellies off over issues pertaining to their beloved continent. The founder member, in whose flat the meetings hold, is given quit notice by his English landlady who could no longer stand the volume of the noise from her basement. Luckily one Berliner happens to be a young African who has been adopted from an African colony by an English aristocrat of the full-blooded variety. The English Lord utters \"fuck\" when he hears the news of what happened to the African tenant in Camden Town, he then wills his estate in Hampstead to his son and fellow Berliners as a place where everyone would be free to laugh and cry about Africa, regardless of race or colour. Tension in the story is sustained by the persistent conflict between Yunhouse and The Africa Adventurers Club, an alternate Africa establishment set up by Englishmen and Englishwomen who, while being keen on Africa, could not go all the Yunhouse way to the point of We shall never be pacified. Founders of The Adventurers insist that Africa is an integral part of the British Empire and therefore deserves a venue for liberal discussion on the continent that we all love. The differing perceptions of the Dark Continent split the vision of independent Africa into two: radicalism versus conservativism. Yunhouse is a weave in which the threads are the characters, who - themselves - are really the tales in The Assorted London Tales About The Africa. Scene by scene, the narration zooms in and out on the characters as they live, express, and display their synergy with the charged environment of the novel. All readers are challenged to note the human condition implied in colonialism (following shortly after the Trans-Atlantic Holocaust of the Slave Trade) as a destiny altering transformation of the continent that cradled humanity. African readers are challenged to recognise that colonialism has impacted on what they know and understand about who they really are, today, tomorrow, and for a long time to come.
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