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Linus Azong dead? Incredible!
Wednesday 18 July 2012
Dear Friends,
Got the news about the death of Prof. Azong Linus yesterday evening and spontaneously wrote down these reactions. We are indeed saddened by his death. I last met him 4 years ago but I still have fond memories of the lively discussions with him. Azong was never short of what to say at any moment even if taken unaware.
LINUS AZONG DEAD? INCREDIBLE!
When that Marc Antonio heard of Caesar’s death,
His speech at the Forum mocked at Brutus’
Insinuations that Caesar was overtly ambitious.
The eloquence of Antonio superseded emotions for his dead friend.
But when that Virgil mourned the sack of Troy,
And Shakespeare piqued the suicide of Antonio with Cleopatra,
Even the beauty of the mausoleum at Actium was forgotten.
So, we have lost Azong and our emotions beat eloquence. Wish I could summon the rhetoric of Euripides: I’ld write a new Andromache with Azong as protagonist.
Wish I could mimic the skill of Aeschylus:
The Agamemnon would relate Azong’s sacrifice
To win a Crown of Thorns and beat the path for the Anglophone Writer
Lost in a Triangle where contradictions relate harmoniously.
Linus Azong dies an intellectual hero, leaving a legacy for posterity, Azong dies an academic colosus, the pride of education and learning, Not the Iago that would orchestrate domestic death for profit.
Azong, perhaps no moral angel was; but neither a toddling Bacchus - Being just human as we all are, struggling to remember his rehearsed lines.
Azong enters the temple where Sophocles, Seneca and Diderot Form an academic triumvirate. May his soul rest in peace.
Tatah Mbuy, London, 17 July 2012, 9.46pm.
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