station, Radio Alternance, to promote creativity and freedom of expres? sion. Furthermore, he had promised to donate to this project the honoraria he was to receive from Boston University, Harvard, Tufts, and Massachusetts Institute of Technology during his engagements there from 20 October through 4 November 2001. Since his retirement from public service in France in 1994, Mongo Beti had settled back in Cameroon and put all his energies into several activities there. He had joined the ranks of John Fru Ndi's Social Democratic Front (SDF) and had campaigned for him. He had created and headed up the Committee for the Liberation of Citizen Edzoa (Colicite), a former official of Biya's regime who had been the victim ofa parody of justice. He had worked for the protection of the environment and against the Chad-Cameroon Pipeline. We remember that on the occa? sion of the visit of French President Jacques Chirac to Cameroon at the time of the France-Africa Summit in January 2001 in Yaounde, his bookstore had served as the scene of a melee with police because he had hung on the bookstore's facade a banner reading "Chirac=foresters=corruption=deforestation."