Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung: Delusions of Care

The Delusions of Care is a culmination of three long essays that ruminate on notions of care in our lives, contemporarilly and historically. It is concerned with the appropriation of care by the capitalist establishment as much as supremacists of all kinds. What can we consider as care and who gives care for what reasons. Stuck in the cul de sac of a pandemic that has brought most of the world to its knees, these questions seem of some pertinence. The reflections in this book span a critique of care from the regimes of birth control through police brutality to the storming of the Reichstag in the summer of 2020, which set precedence to the storming of the Capitol Hill by Trumpists and White supremacists. The book points out not only the pitfalls of a corrupted notion of care, but tries to offer paths for rehabilitation, restoration, restitution through a non-selfish spirit of care.

The book includes a postlude by Cameroonian novelist Hemley Boum.