Mrs Angel

By Tchinda Fabrice Mbuna

Returning from their honeymoon Mr. Tchinda and Mrs. Angel are enmeshed or entangled in a relentless and never-ending effort to bring an end to racial injustice, police brutality, and killings of blacks and Asians following the rise of the "Black Lives Matter-I Can't Breathe" street protest in which police officers shoot and kill Black-Boy.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Stratton Press
• Release date: Feb 28, 2022
• ISBN: 9781648957451

Tchinda Fabrice Mbuna

Born on March 07, 1984, Tchinda F. Mbuna is a Cameroonian poet, playwright, public speaker, and cybersecurity instructor. He speaks both English and French. In 2002-2004, he attended PCHS Mankon-Bamenda with specialized studies in African and Western Literature. He wrote and performed many stage plays and won many poetry and oral literature awards at the Franco-Cameroonian Alliance Mankon-Bamenda. In 2004-2005, he went to Dschang State University to study English literature and linguistics, where he obtained a Bachelor of Arts in 2007, focused on poetry and African orature. In 2010-12, he graduated from divinity studies in New York City, Manhattan, and later obtained a second master's degree in political science from American Public University, West Virginia, in 2017. He has taught cyber and information security courses in community colleges and holds many industry certifications such as; CompTIA Security+, CompTIA Advanced Security Practitioner (CASP+), Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH), Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA).

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ACKNOWLEDGMENT

I stand on the shoulders of many literary and long-lasting scholars of all ages, genres, and caliber. They are the inspiration for my aspiration and creativity. Some of them today are called Emeritus, such as Professor Kashim Ibrahim Tala, (Doyen or Dean of Oral Literature Studies in Cameroon), Professor of Literature and Ecoculture at the University of Buea, visiting Professor at the University of Yaoundé 1, the University of Dschang, and the University of Bamenda. 

Enongene Sone, Ph. D,  Professor of African and English Literary Studies, Walter Sisulu University NRF, C Rated Researcher, (African Literature, folklore, and cultural studies; Kenneth Usongo, Ph.D., Professor of English Literature, African,  American Literature and Commonwealth Literature; Dr. Vivian Nkongmenec, lecturer of African Literature, (Gender and post-feminist colonial studies) the University of Douala; Awah Oliver Nde (film and scriptwriter, movie producer, director, and playwright); Pastor Francis Ajebe Nanje, etc. They have been and still are the pivot and the walking stick of many literary writers and scholars from Cameroon, of which I am one. 

Also, I offer praise and gratitude to my fathers and mentors asleep who have gone ahead without seeing the fruits of their labor. Protus Tawang Tah, The Immortal Seed, a single tree in the forest that supports other trees, may your soul rest in perfect peace and harmony. Your footprints can’t be washed away by many rivers…

Linus T. Asong, a martyr of Cameroonian and African literature. You have fought a good fight with a crown of thorns, but you will be remembered forever without thorns as your crown and reward. Shadrach Ambanasom, the true son of the soil, Son of the Native Soil, whose literary voice still echoes across cultures, boundaries, and beyond.

I am grateful to all!

BOOK REVIEWS

In Miss Angel: The Evil Behind The Law Vol. 2 by author Tchinda Fabrice Mbuna, readers are once again taken down the tragically familiar path faced by so many around the world, especially in the United States, as racial injustice and police brutality are put on trial through the journey of newlyweds Mr. Tchinda and Mrs. Angel. In this philosophical, emotional, and thought-provoking story, readers are treated to a moving and gut-wrenching examination of the fears, anger, and hope that runs in the fight for equality for all, and the breathtaking creativity the writer has taken through this book of verse form and dramatic playwriting.

Returning home, the new couple discovers a nation in upheaval after several instances of police brutality and murder against people in the Black and Asian communities. Desperate to find a solution to end racial discrimination and injustice in the United States, the couple takes a trip to the underworld to speak with social activists and leaders like Martin Luther King Jr., Rosa Parks, George W. Gandhi, and more. Meanwhile, Mrs. Angel receives a prophecy of her rise as the country’s first female President of the United States. Still, she must face her ruthless political rival, Jim Crow, all while trying to overturn the political establishment on its head and end racial injustice once and for all.

This is a truly in-depth, masterful, and heartfelt narrative. The author did such an incredible job of finding a way to creatively explore some of the deep-seated issues our world faces in our modern age, that have taken centuries to fester and grow to the firestorm of hatred that we are seeing today. Examining the impact racism and violence has had on people of color, in particular in this story of immigrants who are witness to the violence running rampant in our nation, this narrative expertly navigates the murky waters politicians and protestors have used to fuel their inherent racism and hatred. What was so incredible to see was the author’s use of historical figures that have had such an impact on this subject over the centuries and incorporate them into the narrative so seamlessly to help elevate the original narrative the author was telling.

Gripping, shocking, and narratively and thematically so engaging, Miss Angel: The Evil Behind The Law Vol. 2 by author Tchinda Fabrice Mbuna is a tour de force in examining racial injustice and violence running rampant in the United States. The perfect read for those who enjoy books with a political and philosophical context and written in a poetic and play-style narrative, the author’s incredible insight and moving words will keep the reader invested in this story, and readers will be hard-pressed to put this book down until that powerful final page. Be sure to read this incredible book when it comes out and take this truly important message to heart: bring hatred to an end and let equality and love for our fellow man ring true. (Pacific Book Review, 2021)

Reading Mrs. Angel: The Evil Behind The Law Vol 2 was a unique and exciting literary experience. The flow of the storyline is so enthralling and will have the readers engrossed in the narrative from the very start to the end. Characters in Mrs. Angel: The Evil Behind The Law Vol. 2 is fascinating and will have the readers fall in love with the story. Asserting that author Tchinda Fabrice Mbuna is an excellent or exceptional writer would be an understatement. The man can write, and he writes so well, using the choices of words and artistic diction that can hypnotize every heart in the plot, acts, or scenes of the story. His style of writing, poetry, expression, phrases, and word coinage is distinctive and endearing. Beyond this story’s intriguing and enticing plot, readers get to learn new vocabulary or diction and get a higher taste of literary appreciation and aesthetics.

In Mrs. Angel: The Evil Behind The Law Vol 2, we follow the story of Mr. Tchinda, a Cameroonian immigrant whose story is inspiring and brave. Mr. Tchinda, like any other immigrant, works hard to live the American dream. He is a poet and playwright. When Mr. Tchinda came to America, he went to live with his friend Beatrice. Life in America was different from Cameroon. Having honed through the civil rights movement and the feminist movement, Mr. Tchinda could tell that the American society was way different from his society at home. He, however, blended well with other Americans and apart from his old friend Miss Beatrice, Mr. Tchinda made new friends with whom he worked and socialized.

Miss Beatrice is a good friend, but she has her personal and hidden agenda regarding Mr. Tchinda’s personal life. She has an ostentatious friend, Miss Asunder, whom she thinks is fit to be Mr. Tchinda’s lover, something Mr. Tchinda disapproves of. Mr. Tchinda later falls in love with a fellow Cameroonian, Miss Angel - a woman who is not only hardworking but also focused and determined. Tchinda’s love story with Miss Angel is an epic romance story for ages, besides these romantic acrobats; I like their selfless and relentless dedication to serving their community. Not only is the book entertaining, but its structure, images, local color, acts, and scenes compel readers to keep reading indefinitely.

Mrs. Angel: The Evil Behind The Law Vol 2 contains several major themes, including romance and friendship, racism, and police brutality, where readers will not only enjoy following the main characters on their journey but will also sympathize and emphasize with them.

The author’s allegorical writing about the issues besetting modern-day American society while telling his own story in dramatic verse makes this work exceptional and extraordinary. At its core, racism, a modern American vice, is discussed extensively, in an outrageous manner, and lampooned without mercy throughout the book. Readers are brought into consciousness and awareness about social injustice, the collapse of social and moral order, law, politics, betrayal, minority issues, and human rights abuse.

Though the book is set in today’s modern American society, the book is excellent learning material for readers who want to understand what happens in America and other countries worldwide. Furthermore, readers are exposed to cultural diversity through the author’s astute use of idioms, colloquialisms, local color, and images, making Mrs. Angel Vol 2 an actual diaspora literature of all ages.

Mrs. Angel: The Evil Behind The Law Vol 2 is a book you want to read as the author’s conversations with characters, lessons, and brilliant language are excellent. (Aron Washington, Hollywood Book Reviews, 2021)

FOREWORD

The Evil Behind The Law, is a detailed exposition, exploration, and examination of the fiendish and hellish syndrome of racism that is pregnant in many countries, especially in the United States of America.

The Author, Tchinda Fabrice Mbuna, though an Immigrant from Cameroon, digs deep into the history of the black struggle in America, civil rights movements, police brutality, rage, racial discrimination, and like Shakespeare in Othello and Macbeth, presents the whole history in poetic lines, in a very blunt, forthright, or unflinching manner.

Gathering his motivation and inspiration from the George Floyd incident, who received a cruel knee-to-neck public execution, spurs a satiric, blunt, sadistic, and flowery diction which gives a deep painting of the theme for at least two centuries.

The text is a mobile library of the findings of two Centuries with a rich deployment of allegorical characters like Jim Crow, the Martin Luther Kings, Frederick II, George Washington, Emperor Charles V, Pastor Black, Pretty, Mrs. Angel, to name a few, whose presence develops the historical and the literature in the play.

"We were all made in your image,

But others have re-made us in their image,

When we speak for our freedom or rights.

The blood of the black community

Is the seed for redemption —"

If you’ve been struggling to get an in-depth study of the Black struggle in America, this play is a complete catalog of it. Thou shalt speak the truth, And the truth shalt set thee free. If you’re looking for the truth, this is the source with excellent references to investigated and documented realities.

We don’t need kneels on our necks!

We deserve our rights, not what one begs.

Kneels are same as neck chains of servitude,

We denounce this heinous police habitude!

We’ve seen racism, open and so crude

We’ve long endured, we’ve long been subdued,

To animals, criminals, and a state of desuetude.

These hard facts are juxtaposed with a strong struggle for love and survival in a foreign land and its challenges, as Miss Asunder becomes a major roadblock to the sound love relationship developing between Tchinda and Mrs. Angel. Will love conquer or survive?

Awah Oliver Nde

(Editor)

ABOUT THIS PLAY

Let me clear my throat, then speak of this play.

It was divine, not a product of my gray hairs wit.

I began writing the book some times in May,

I spent days and night; I must say and admit,

That it took me less than three months for this blueprint.

This book was written in three months, divine speed,

Just as heavens willed, or divine inspiration could permit.

It came from above, not from abroad,

To lampoon racism, not worth an applaud.

I only speak like a poet, a dramatist, or playwright,

As one born free, advocating for other’s right.

We all know of racial injustice, a common plight,

Where the black man lives in fear or fright.

I am not a politician, nor a political knight,

I am not of any movement, party, by day or night.

I am just a voice sent to cry for other’s delight,

As you can hear me cry through what I write.

We’re all guilty, not being one another’s keeper,

We’ve embraced hate rather than being a love seeker.

Of late memories, I write to honor and greet them all,

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr; Rosa Park, who did fall,

In an attempt to fight, live a selfless life for us all.

Many civil rights leaders, feminists are also asleep,

Though they still hear us, console us while they sleep.

They went to sleep with joy, others sad and weeping,

They were killed, detained, beaten with heavy bleeding,

They muzzled; no one cared of their bleating pleadings.

Accused of uprising, or in their civil rights fights leadings.

Some arrested, like our hero Dr. Martin Luther,

Though resting and rusting in Alabama City Jail,

Still wrote to us all, The Negro is Your Brother.

An epistolary of consciousness from a heart of travail.

The dead are never dead; they live on…

The dead are never dead; they have moved on…

I write to celebrate them all, may they live forever!

I write to hail them all; this bond will never severe.

I write to say we’re still fighting and moving on…

Farewell, George Floyd, you live in our hearts forever,

Farewell, Michael Brown, Eric Garner, Tamir Rice…

Death is not the end; it is the beginning for the wise,

We shall not relent, to speak against racism, a vice,

A vicious vice, so demonic, chronic, so precise.

One love from your brothers of the same color!

We shall continue to fight to keep this honor.

One love from your sisters of the same battle

One love from your brother, Mbuna!

Any words, quotes, idioms, expressions used in this work that are not the author’s