This memorial website was created in the memory of our loved one, Ndifon Nanga aka "NI ABOVE", born May 11th, 1975 and passed away on May 13th 2013. We will remember him forever.
No farewell words were spoken,
No time to say goodbye,
You were gone before we knew it,
And only God can tell us why.
A memorial fund has been set up to assist with the transportation of his body to Cameroon.
Donations can be made through paypal OR
Bank: Wells Fargo (Wachovia Bank)
Acct Name: Ndifon Memorial
Acct #: 7715950338
Routing # :
Domestic wire transfer:
International wire transfer:
FUNERAL PROGRAM
Friday June 7th
Departureof mortal remains from Brussel to Douala
Laying in State in Douala
Departure to Bamenda at Midnight
Saturday June 8th
Church service and burial at family compound in Atuakom
Useful Contacts:
UNITED STATES
Ma Alice Deffo - 310-309-1747 ( California )
Gustave Achu - 763-2917145 ( Minessota )
Michael Atia - 862-215-6791 ( Ohio )
Stanleybatcha@yahoo.com 571 330 2336 ( DC area )
Belgium / Europe
Helen Ndifon
Ndaya Isidore
Doris Ben:
Cameroon
Flavy Ndifon: menyiflav@yahoo.com
Emmanuel Ndifon: 99 91 83 47
Stanley Batcha: 75 04 73 88
Tributes
Leave a tributeIt is ten years today since you were called by your creator to be by his side. It is still
hard to come to terms that you are physically not around my childhood friend. We grew up together, shared incredible and wonderful moments in our transformation from boys to men. I still miss you bro and wishing you eternal rest. Peace and Love- Beaufils
Every day we miss you, we thank God for your life with us. You were a gift! an amazing one to our family. It was a privilege knowing you. Your sisters miss you so much, sometimes they pretend it doesn't hurt as much, but what order of things will have a baby dying before his seniors?
I love you, there have been so many new developments, ones you would have loved and even joked a lot about. there have been new members of the family, I am looking after your sisters and We are doing great.
You live in our hearts, our memories Forever!
love you
Its a now one year our son, brother, friend, father left us, and moved on.
On behalf of our humble family, I thank immensely everyone who in any way helped soften the terrible pain hard to bear.
without your prayers, your moral support, your material and financial support we would not have come this far. I particularly thank his friends and BOBANs in Bamenda. His friends in Belgium who facilitated the complicated process of sending his body home. Staying by our side during this period was so comforting. We may never stop morning NiAbove but we believe he is happier where he is presently.
May he live forever.
Dear Nanga,
I have the conviction you will read my letter...(.you thought me the power of conviction.) Tears still run down my eye like the amazon or the Zambezi or the Mississippi. Even though I cry, I am happy for you because your rather short life was well accomplished and exemplary. You Made it.
we did not have the chance to say goodbye, nor to sing a last song in lingala or douala, or the French blues.
You did not share your last humour with me, where is the latest poem you wrote, all those proverbs in the dialect that you used to interpret...where ever you got it from; how you used to reincarnate stories from our childhood days; how we used to laugh to the point of tears and our belly muscles will pain and we could laugh no more. What happens to that script you hoped to turn into a movie.
I could speak French well by mid secondary school because of your help. Remember we used to read the Onze football Magazine in french when we could bearly understand. Later in life, you will speak to me in Flemish while I respond in German and this took all around us aback, even our sieblings.
Sometimes too you were very naughty...hahahahahaha
With my conception you created the Digitaland Muiltimedia Company in Akwa Douala. You had the vision, together we saw the big picture, we saw the future. Thank you for being an Entrepreneur and Investor. I remember you saying how far this venture will benefit the community in terms of income generation, employment, knowledge transfer, and service provision. You never mentioned anything about profits nor dividends. Today, when I watch documentaries on TV, when I watch small Movies, slots of video clip, advertisement clips, I remember all the plans we had, (the big picture - as well called it) If you were around, these dreams would have been realized, I believe.
You believed in my ability, you believed in my wisdom...your believed in me entirely...like no one else will do. You were a source of inspiration to me. sometimes I did the right things just because I did not want to fail you. I doubled my efforts sometimes to not get you disappointed, because you trusted my judgement so much. You trusted my logic and rational. You were a real brother, a real partner, a real friend.
I try hard to understand that it is what it is....things will never be the same again. what an indescribable feeling when I listen to the Smokies, the Beetles to JB Mpiana, to Koffi Olomide, To Aurlus Mabele, to Richard Bona, Dina Bell etc. I better stop bro.
You will always remain in my heart. Rest In Peace Brother, Rest in Peace.
"if conviction is the Carmel and adversity the desert, I will love to see my heroe's journey" - Nanga Ndifon -
Que la tèrre de nos ancestres te soit legère.
A dream that would come true,
We would pray to God with all our hearts
For a yesterday and you.
A thousand words can’t bring you back,
We know, because we tried;
And neither will a million tears,
We know, because we cried.
You left behind our broken hearts
And happy memories too.
But we never wanted memories,
We only wanted you.
May the road rise up to meet you,
May the wind be ever at your back.
May the sun shine warm upon your face
and the rain fall softly on your fields.
And until we meet again,
May God hold you in the hollow of his hand.
From Del pipi .
Leave a Tribute
It is ten years today since you were called by your creator to be by his side. It is still
hard to come to terms that you are physically not around my childhood friend. We grew up together, shared incredible and wonderful moments in our transformation from boys to men. I still miss you bro and wishing you eternal rest. Peace and Love- Beaufils
Every day we miss you, we thank God for your life with us. You were a gift! an amazing one to our family. It was a privilege knowing you. Your sisters miss you so much, sometimes they pretend it doesn't hurt as much, but what order of things will have a baby dying before his seniors?
I love you, there have been so many new developments, ones you would have loved and even joked a lot about. there have been new members of the family, I am looking after your sisters and We are doing great.
You live in our hearts, our memories Forever!
love you
LIFE`S NEXT TURN!!!!!!
Today I dare to imagine what life will be without my friend, brother, comrade and confidant for the last 30years of my life.
Today I can only visualize in my realm of imagination where this sudden departure leads to as your mortal remains is being lowered to the earth from which she was created thirty eight years ago.
I stand joyfully humbled and sadly shrunken. Joyful because I was so lucky and privileged to have known and become your brother Nanga. Sad because like every mortal the shock and pain of such a loss pierces even deeper knowing that I was never alerted of your impending abrupt departure from me, us and the people who love you even more.
In times like this, when we need answers, when we call into question the decision of the Almighty, I pause to employ each of us to believe, think and act like my brother would have. Believe in the power of the supreme decision, Act in the best interest of a fellow brother /sister and remain to be rewarded by the Almighty.
Dear mourners, here lies a brother, teammate, playmate, friend and confidant; Here lies my “Ni Above”, my “Moreno Torricelli”, my “Above Pa”.
I am confident that we all here gathered have fond memories of our fallen kindred. Memories that have become fonder with each passing day.
It seems like yesterday when we would attend church at Azire; like a few days ago when we set foot on CPC Bali campus feeling like the first men on the moon; Like yesterday it feels when as ambitious teenagers we will seat back and dream of a tomorrow full of hope, promise and great accomplishments. Accomplishments destined to be fulfilled as a one united force Nanga. Where are you my brother?
Ni Above, I have the edited script of the stand up comedy show you so badly wanted to produce in your very own Abakwa Town. Ni Above, I already have my luggage packed to head to the world cup together as we had planned. Where are you? Now you are gone and I am left with a bucket full of tears and a well size vacuum in my heart.
“ Nini” you will forever be the one and only; The true and genuine; The loyal and unchanging; The kind and Loving; The honest and straightforward; The funny and entertaining; The “Ni Above “ of then, now, tomorrow and always .
Until we meet again Brother,
Gustav Achu (Jose Cobos)
Above PA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1
The name "ABOVE" might have been called here several times but some might be wondering why is this guy called "ABOVE". Simply because he saw man above any problem that can befall him and thought of himself as being above any obstacle in life. ABOVE you allowed nothing to worried you and your gentle style of talking, walking and even on the football pitch sort of of demonstrated your "ABOVENESS". The very hard to defend left footed ABOVE PA. Your days at Wembley football field at Abanghouh and the goals that use to make Pascal alias "Shimo-shimo" wonder why he was at the goals. For some time I knew you were in Belgium, but every time I have been in Brussels and other towns in Belgium, no body seems to have contact with you.
This is completely not true and i am still hoping at the end of this tribute, i will wake up from my dreams. A true gentle giant, one who stood tall ABOVE all his mates yet was as simple and down to earth every time. I look at your pictures and all I see ABOVE PA is that large smile you always had on. Costa just mention, you will keep us cracking our lungs narrating events of the past night at Njang night club or how you killed defenders at Wembley with you deadly left leg. Oh ABOVE, I am yet to come to terms with this news and the circumstances leading to it, but the one thing I know is that you will have a humble eternal place with the great one ABOVE and you will forever be ABOVE. May our good GOD, take you right into his humble sitting room and from ABOVE your will have an eternal resting place. You memories will live on for ever.
A true friend indeed
Ni Above:
I have not been able to stop the constant flow of tears since I learnt about your demise, especially because I have made numerous attempts in the last 3 years to contact you to no avail. I have left voice messages, emails and I trust and pray you read and listened to them.
Ohh what is life if only to be taken away so soon. Ni Ni, you pulled everyone close to you and brought smiles to the faces of all. From our Camprocoll days all the way to Abakwa our many saturday nights at ngang then sleeping over at my house, on to Soa were we lived in the same mini cite. You made me love petit Pays even more as you will explain to me every sentence sang in Douala language. We were present at all Petit Pays concerts in Yaounde together. I have been playing Petit Pays' songs since I received this unthinkable and shocking news just so I can have you close by and fool myself that it's not true. How could you be gone, just like that Ni Ni, Just like that? Nangah, you shared all you had with the people around you. You will do and go out of you way to help a friend in difficulty, you are a rare breed of a kindhearted person full of humor but yet being serious all at the same time.
I remember the last time we were together, the day I was travelling out of Cameroon. We spent all day in Dla together and you accompanied me to the airport. Ni Ni, when we last talked we had plans of looking for an opportunity for you to visit the United States once you stabilize your stay in Belgium. What happened to all these plans Nanga? Everyone of your friends Ni Above has a good story to share about you. We can not talk about our high school days with out talking about you. What an impact you made in our lives during your short stay on this earth. We wipe as you depart us but the heavens rejoice over the arrival of an angel. Ma broda waka fine, we go see small time.
Adieu Nanga. Adieu. Na ya man Sango Doc.