Mayor Ekema (RIP) told me he lived to die

Patrick Ekema Esunge did not fear death. Those were not his words, though. “Where I come from and how far I’ve come, should the ship wreck anywhere, I’d have come a long way. I won’t regret it,” Ekema told me one day in 2016 at the balcony of his office. His ship wrecked on Sunday, October 27 in Douala. He was 49. I had been received by the Mayor at my request. About a week earlier, I had requested to meet him. I wanted to express my sympathies for the tribulations he suffered at the hands of past, present and…