How Nguelemedouga, the sub district officer of Couseri became known as Lenin

Boakov wanted to teach his students a special course on the political history of the former Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR). He was convinced that, none of his students knew the full and real names of Lenin or that of any other Soviet leader. But to his greatest surprise and also to that of students, when Mr Boakov asked to know the real names of Lenin, Nguelemedouga raised his right hand up, and Boakov told him: “yes, you can try?” And shocking, Nguelemedouga gave the correct answer. He said: the full names of the head of a section of the Working Class party of Russia or USSR, known as the Bolsheviks, is or was: Lenin Vladimir IIyich Ulyanov. And he added that, he became head of the Working Class Party during the congress of the party’s majority Bolshevik wing, held in London in 1903. And he continued: the suggestions/proposals of Lenin Vladimir IIyich Ulyanov made during the 1903 congress were rejected by the minority Conservative Bourgeois Class, within the Working Class Party, known as the Mensheviks. Mr Boakov was joyful and impressed, and the classmates of Nguelemedouga gave him a standing ovation and since then, he earned the nickname: Lenin. But Nguelemedouga was not like Lenin, who lived and died for a course. Nguelemedouga may have been charismatic and perhaps shrewd as Lenin was but he (Nguelemedouga) was no Marxist.

Nguelemedouga believed in three things: his career, money and his family. Politically no one can really tell whether he was a Socialo-Marxist or a Liberal or Conservative. He was just an opportunist and this last trade mark, might be the only one, which was akin to that of his namesake. However, since he became known as Lenin, because of his capacity of reading too much and being ahead of his mates, he became famous in the campus and fame, is exactly what some girls wanted and admires in some boys or men. Jeanne Marie Nkong immediately fell to the charm of Nguelemedouga. But Nguelemedouga aka Lenin, who also had the capacity of transforming delicate cases into easy ones and expected easy cases, into difficult ones, had already sighted Miss Nkong and was like a feline waiting just for the opportune time to strike. But while Nguelemedouga was still calculating, his teacher who was also the Dean of studies had already gone an extra mile in his intention to date Miss Jeanne Marie Nkong. And as the schooling year was approaching to it end, Boakov became in the mind of Nguelemedouga as a rival. And it was Nguelemedouga’s rival who was preparing for the appropriate moment to meet Miss Nkong.