Ngog Lituba Fell From The Sky

In the heart of the Bassa territory in Cameroon rises Ngog Lituba, a sacred mountain whose story has been doubly violated : first by the colonial episode that attempted to erase its memory through the imposition of a Christian cross at its summit in 1960, then by the ecclesiastical determination to maintain this symbol despite local protests. In response to this symbolic violence, this project proposes an emancipatory counter-narrative that reinterprets the founding myth at the intersection of geological knowledge and ancestral narratives. The geological formation of Ngog Lituba, scientifically attributed to the impact of a celestial body, is here transmuted into a cosmic encounter: the arrival of an archive-vessel inhabited by an extraterrestrial entity that traditional stories have likened to a spider. This reinterpretation reveals the true nature of the imposition of the Christian cross: not simply an addition to the landscape, but an attempt at override – a forced hacking of the mountain’s symbolic system aimed at reprogramming its essence.