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Nigel Barley: Cameroon youth on what happens when you die

23 September 2022
Cameroon-guys
“What happens to a man’s powers/soul/spirit after he dies?” I tried querulously, like a vicar hoping to get a current affairs discussion going at a youth club. They ignored me. Then one young man turned round and snapped, “How should I know? Am I God?”
 
—Nigel Barley in The Innocent Anthropologist, describing a conversation with locals in Cameroon
Cited by Stephen Jones
 
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Photo by Bill Adams
 

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