Eclipse Of The Last Frontier
ECLIPSE OF THE LAST FRONTIER
This developmental thriller – Eclipse of the Last Frontier – and its sequel – The Last Frontier and Lingocracy – present a captivating story involving a young man, NnicK, whose trajectory through Europe and North America in pursuit of knowledge, intercepted love, and the residual effects of Linguistic Fragmentation, prompting him to look deeper. The more NnicK scrutinized, the deeper he got submerged in the ramifications and the linkages between Linguistic Fragmentation and stagnation, poverty, and desperation among the citizenry of Nublanuistan – a mythical country in Africa under the prevailing system of government. With Africa’s unique situation as the most linguistically fragmented continent in the world, exemplified by over 2000 languages across countries on the continent, NnicK got his cousin, Njor, convinced about the extent to which even the roots of governance challenges in many countries in Africa, have been deeply embedded in and entangled with Linguistic Fragmentation. NnicK and Njor joined forces to passionately deliberate on factors that have eclipsed the true developmental potential of the African Continent for centuries to decipher possible solutions.
As many believed that Linguistic Fragmentation has a supernatural origin, NnicK did not hesitate to explore the derivatives of a fantastic concept he stumbled across during his visit to the other side of life – the spiritual realm – in his dream. With that, Lingocracy emerged as a kind of governance architecture and promised to provide the leverage for Africa to embark on its unique trajectory of accelerated socioeconomic transformation.
In the first part of this two-volume developmental thriller, NnicK returns from Canada to Nublanuistan, a mythical country in Africa, after his PhD, leaving behind his beautiful German girlfriend, Sofia, who wanted them to get married and settle in Canada or Germany.
Subsequently, NnicK gets married to the stunningly beautiful Ese. The couple had two boys, and Ese was pregnant with a third child when NnicK escaped several poisoning attempts that left him questioning his decision to return home to Nublanuistan in the first place. The multiple failed attempts on NnicK’s life accentuated his preoccupation with the fact that he had even failed in his original purpose for returning to Nublanuistan, to contribute his quota to the socioeconomic development of his country and his continent, code-named ‘The Last Frontier’ by his former girlfriend.
When it gradually dawned on NnicK that Linguistic Fragmentation, especially under the rudder of Multi-Party Democracy, probably constitutes the greatest obstacle to the social, economic, cultural, and technological transformation of Nublanuistan and the entire African Continent, he found sufficient statistics to support this supposition.
To the extent that Linguistic Fragmentation has a divine origin, designed by God to eclipse the true potential of humans in the process of its misapplication by man, NnicK was of the perspective that the exploration of the derivatives of a fantastic concept he stumbled upon during his visit to the other side of life, the spiritual realm in his dream, could generate strategic actions and programs for Nublanuistan and Africa to circumvent the hurdles associated with Linguistic Fragmentation and ultimately gravitate the entire African Continent and Nublanuistan towards accelerated social, economic, cultural and technological transformation.
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About author
R. B. DZAH-ABIGII is the pen-name of Raymond Babanawo, a highly motivated person passionate about sustainable development.
Before venturing into writing stories to promote the socioeconomic development of Africa, Raymond had served in various governmental and non-governmental positions, including the Chief of Party (CoP) of a USAID-funded project, Ghana’s Operational Focal Point for the Global Environment Facility (GEF), and Ghana’s Focal Point for the Climate and Clean Air Coalition (CCAC).
On the international front, Raymond served on the Technical Expert Group for Integrating Human Rights into the Curricula for Business Schools under the auspices of the International Labor Organization (ILO). He was also a member of the Expert Group on Financing Options for Methane Abatement under the auspices of the World Bank.
He holds a PhD in Environmental Resource Management from the Brandenburg University of Technology (BTU), Cottbus, Germany, a Master of Business Administration (MBA) from Purdue University, USA, Krannert School of Management – GISMA Business School, Hanover, Germany, and a B.Sc. in Natural Resources Management from the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), Kumasi, Ghana.
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