The Africa Forum symposium on Cameroon: new wine in old skins?
In characteristic “African Union” fashion, the African Symposium treats their business with such woeful lack of conviction that once again, pan-Africanists can only look away in disgust. In fact, the Swiss have done a better job observing the potent actors and factors driving the colonizing war waged by Biya on Ambazonia. Examples from Africa’s history, South Sudan and Eritrea, are lessons these Africa Forum peace makers ignore. It is of little wonder therefore, that Ambazonians do not afford second thoughts to the much hyped initiative. A gathering of African presidents without Cameroon's Biya, of course If you offer a loaf of bread to a toddler crying of thirst, it will shake its head to the risk of severance off its neck. Why, because even a 2 year old knows, a misdiagnosis leads to a wrong solution. John Minang made this folk rhetoric question popular: “How you go do get malaria, di take na treatment for highblood?” In English, how can you be taking treatment for...