Wewe

Bantu Diary

By Boniface Ndemping Wewe (Ngonyama Ka Brooklyn)

What a difference modern technology and the media make! Michela Wrong, author of “on the Brink of Disaster in Mobutu’s Congo” opines that African life is marked by social realities. One of them is tribalism by which politicians reward their tribesmen for loyalty and another is black magic/witchcraft. I would add in mitigation of Ms. Wrong’s judgment that traditional medicine as practiced by genuine African healers that some mislabel ‘witchdoctor’ relies on plants and the spirit of the ancestors, and the psychology/mental health of their patients. The fake ones have given all traditional healers a bad name all over Africa (see excerpts from newspaper articles further on).

African Democracy - A satirical kaleidoscope of political power and mentality in sub-Saharan Africa.

African documentary filmmaker-Boniface Ndemping Wewe from CAMEROON who named himself-The Ngonyama (lion/king) of Brooklyn embarks on a satirical kaleidoscope of political power and mentality in sub-Saharan Africa. Featuring a guest appreance by one time Minster of Home affairs in South Africa -Prince Dr. Mnagosuthu Buthelezi and high school students,Wewe advances a definition of African democracy given the mosaic of tribes, cultures, religions etc in black Africa!

Witchdoctors, A Day in the Other Africa

Witchdoctors, A Day in the Other Africa. Directed by Boniface Wewe & Anthony Peartin-Thomas Running Time: 60 Min (ISBN: 0-9671238-6-0) 

From Brooklyn, New York, Cameroon (West Central Africa), to Kwazulu-Natal (South Africa), African documentary filmmaker –Boniface Ndemping Wewe and his co-narrator- Barbara Temfack Wewe peruse some of the ills and stereotypes about contemporary Africa. The Other Africa features highlights indigenous professions from Palm Wine Tapping in Cameroon, Zulu Singing (Isicamiya) by the Hlahlindlela High School choir to the witchdoctor (Sangoma) profession.

Witchdoctors: A Day in the Other Africa (A Review)

Reviewed by Jay C (Originally posted on The Documentary Blog)

A Mother goes to the airport to meet her daughter. The daughter steps off the plane with an eight foot tall Zulu warrior, with a bone through his nose. The Mother screams ‘You fool! I said a RITCH doctor!’. That joke pretty much sums up my collective knowledge of African witchdoctors. Luckily, Director Boniface Wewe has put together a great little film that gives idiots like myself a look at ‘The Other Africa’ and its many indigenous professions, including the aforementioned witchdoctor.

Documentary "Witchdoctors: A Day in the Other Africa" Examines Witchdoctors

From Brooklyn, New York, Cameroon (West Central Africa), to Kwazulu-Natal (South Africa), African documentary filmmaker, Boniface Ndemping Wewe, aka The Ngonyama "Lion" of Brooklyn, and his co-narrator Barbara Temfack Wewe peruse some of the ills (ritual murders and body part extraction for different macabre purposes, rape of little girls as an erroneous cure for AIDS) and stereotypes about contemporary Africa.

Presenting Boniface Wewe's "The Joys of African Sex..."

Boniface Ndemping Wewe (2004). The Joys of African Sex, Jokes, Courtesies and Idiosyncracies. (Paperback). New York: African Artistic Ventures. 65 Pages. ISBN 0-9671238-5-2, Price: $9.99

"A beguiling little collection of bon mots, chidings, lampoonery and entertainment related to sub-Saharan Africa... a Guinness Book of World Records of Wewe's fixations and bête noires from the absurd hedonistic pursuits of Swazi's King Mswati to the venality of a Bokassa,  Abacha, Moi, Mobutu..."

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Reader Reviews

An exhilarating ,thought-provoking and amusing cultural romp through Sub-Saharan Africa.
(Brenda George,South African writer,editor)

An insightful rendering of the variegated African cultures, at times with witty anecdotes, amazing satire, lampoon and caricature.
(Dr. John Nkemngong Nkemasong-University of Yaounde 1, Cameroon)

Book Review: "The Joys of African Sex, Jokes, Courtesies and Idiosyncracies"

A Review by Kirkus Discoveries

A beguiling little collection of bon mots, chidings, lampoonery and entertainments related to sub-Saharan Africa. Right from start. With the title, a comical salute to The Joys of Sex. One of the most popular books in public libraries in the USA.

Wewe, a Cameroonian now working as a librarian in Brooklyn, has a high time poking fun, paying respect and excoriating various elements of the contemporary African scene.

Wewe Boniface at a Glance

Boniface Ndemping Wewe (The Ngonyama Ka Brooklyn) was born in Cameroon, West Central Africa. He was educated in Bamenda, Mamfe, Molyko -Buea and the University of Yaounde (Cameroon) and the University of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) where he obtained his master’s degree in Library Sciences, on a Fulbright scholarship, in 1991. When he graduated in 1991, he moved back to Cameroon where he headed the Yaounde University Law Library. In 1993, he returned to America.

Contact Information

African Artistic Ventures
1920 Pacific Street #3
Brooklyn, NY 11233

Phone: (718)953-6811
Fax: (718)604-7483

Email: wewendemping@yahoo.com

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