Why was Bernard Fonlon ousted from Bigard Memorial Seminary, Enugu? Part 1

By Nchumbonga George Lekelefac Between 1951 and 1953, Bernard Fonlon studied Sacred Theology at Bigard Memorial Seminary, Enugu, Nigeria in preparation for the Catholic priesthood. For seven years, he had limited himself merely to recording passing events that struck, or shook him, like the tragic death of his intimate friend of long years, Chrysantus Yankees, who was murdered between Mbalmayo and Ebolowa, in the August of 1948. Before that brutal murder, Bernard had left Sasse and had arrived at St. Paul’s Senior Seminary at Okpuala, 1948, to continue his studies in Philosophy and Theology for the Catholic Priesthood for the…