THE LAST FRONTIER & LINGOCRACY
This developmental thriller – The Last Frontier and Lingocracy – and its prequel – Eclipse of the Last Frontier – 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 final part of this two-volume developmental thriller, NnicK’s cousin, Njor, returns to Nublanuistan with two graduate degrees from top-ranked universities in the United States of America.
When Njor got introduced to his little nephews and niece, NnicK’s children, who were born when he was away in the USA, they inadvertently made fun of him because he mistook the ASSA – Africa Strategic Star Agenda, a Communiqué issued by the Association of Concerned Africans Movement (ACAM), for a football match between Arsenal Football Club and AC Milan. The ASSA Communiqué went viral on social media and the internet following its release, proposing a new Vision for the transformation of Africa
In the discussions that ensued between NnicK and Njor regarding the reactions of his little nephews and niece, Njor found himself submerged at the deepest end of his cousin’s life’s struggles, impregnated with marital challenges and his preoccupation with the socioeconomic, technological, and cultural transformation of Nublanuistan and the entire African Continent.
While Njor least expected that he was going to be unemployed for a long time upon arriving home and was considering going back to the USA, he gradually got infected by the sheer contagious nature with which NnicK discussed and elaborated on the socioeconomic challenges confronting Nublanuistan and the African Continent. When Njor embraced a fantastic concept that his cousin stumbled across during his visit to the other side of life, the spiritual realm in his dream, he became the chief advocate for the concept.
When NnicK and Njor realized that ACAM had disappeared after their new vision for Africa went viral, the cousins joined forces in the search for strategic actions and programs to translate this new vision for Africa into reality, especially as this new vision resonated so well with even NnicK’s little children.
