Title: World Peace: World Peace Celebration
Author: Salomon Alain Mpouma
Publisher: Toplink Publishing, LLC
ISBN: 194855657X
Pages: 238
Genre: Philosophy; Religion & Spirituality
Reviewed by: Liz Konkel
Pacific Book Review
“Happiness is transcending all opposition and obstacles, while continuing to grow” so says author Salomon Mpouma as he uses personal experiences to explore the principles and concepts of life in World Peace: World Peace Celebration. The memoir style gives the story a reflective feeling as Mpouma reveals honest details of his life and his personal journey through faith. Mpouma includes the ten factors which make up every phenomenon behind everything we know that exists. Through an intellectual approach, World Peace: World Peace Celebration takes on a motivational guise which aims to empower and inspire others to discover their own infinite potential.
Mpouma has a genuine voice and style which feels personal – as if he’s sharing his life story directly to you. He reveals his journey through childhood to present, opening up his personal experiences to allow for a chance to get to know him and understand what motivates him. His writing style speaks on an intellectual level, yet keeps the language easy to understand. Mpouma weaves together elements of his personal life with his personal messages of world peace. He allows for a chance to form an emotional connection to him by setting up the book with his family’s background and facts behind the country of Cameroon. Mpouma is honest in his approach regarding the state of society and his personal thoughts for how to make it better.
Many of the explanations are derived from a familial root with several of his relationships impacting his journey. Through these reflections are on specific people in his life, Mpouma creates an interesting commentary on social dependency and individualism. He begins with the death of his father who was an influential person and seems to be the first spark of his journey. This reflection opens up the mind and allows for a chance to think over our own lives; specifically our own relationships and how we view the world around us. Mpouma weaves through the story, progressing from his childhood to his adulthood and into his faith which is first sparked by his mother after she becomes a Jehovah witness. He explores how people shape our lives and how people change their view through a variety of factors including personal relationships. He shares compelling details about his first marriage, people’s characteristics and how his friends always seemed happy to see him which changed once he got divorced. Then people began treating him a different way. Mpouma has a gift for taking his daily life, the emotional and intellectual details and use them as a way for others to explore their own lives. There is a deeply spiritual connection that Mpouma uses to view the world, as he breaks down a series of factors to look at the phenomenon which makes up life.
World Peace: World Peace Celebration aims to inspire peace, but it is the inner personal peace which is the true goal of the book; the beginning stem of actual world peace. It’s a unique approach, but it’s also an inspiring one which could initiate discussion and thoughts in a way to look at the world differently and perhaps to see ourselves as both the cause and the solution. This concept is aimed at an individual level, but it’s clear Mpouma has a bigger goal. Mpouma succeeds in creating an inspiring read through World Peace: World Peace Celebration. Whether you’re reading for inspiration, or seeking out ways to understand peace, Mpouma’s story has something in it which everyone can connect to.
