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Many years after independence and more than fifty years after reunification, a steadfast national unity is still a farfetched asset for Cameroon. The Cameroonian writer John Nkemngong Nkengasong is bent on the issue since 2004 in his work Across The Mongolo. He portrays concepts that spur the destruction of national integration and instigate sociopolitical perturbations. Many have read this work and considered it as the oppression and victimization of Anglophones by Francophones, thereby inciting the former to revolution via resistance and violence. This paper analyses this novel as a prophecy according to which obstacles to nation building such as subalternism, exclusion, discrimination, otherness and nepotism could be eradicated in advance, so as to avoid crisis, conflicts or separation. In this process, the paper adopts textual analysis of the literary text under study as method. Postcolonial and new historicism theories are mirrors through which the study is conducted. The author exposes societal ills endured by all Cameroonians in the bit to create awareness and avoid instability or crisis. This is a call onto the government to build from ruins, before conceiving an effective national integration.