Free Cameroon Now

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...

That our countries fare so badly since independence is not worse!  Worse is this dangerous path down which we so gleefully tread  By a pandemonium of petit nègres, emboldened by massive neutrality, lead  Since the 90s, the desert preachers decry,  Yet the pogrom of Yaounde just increase their appetite  With each raise in the preacher's voice, Whilst the lotus eaters look on, or eat the lotuses of choral music and feigned miracles, Or the lotuses of immoral lyrics and bacchus's nectar, Or bury their head in the sand and look on, Or sit on the fence of academia and look on. But nurses and doctors save lives, Teachers, preachers and lawyers save souls, All hail to these unsong heroes. And shame to the fence-sitters,  And those who wear a mask to criticise, Accomplices cannot tell the wrongdoer their wrong to his face, If you cannot risk your sinecure and vested interests to better the lot of all Then be ready to partake in your master's fall. And courage t...

This post was originally written in November 2014 but recent events have made it more relevant than ever.  The goings-on in Ferguson, where the wanton murder by a White policeman of an unarmed Black youth and the establishment’s refusal to indict the White policeman sparked riots in the USA; coupled with the feeling of wonder expressed by the White community there, had me drawing parallels with Cameroon and the cold shoulder our Francophone partners turn to us when massive arbitrary arrests, event disruptions, murders and other human rights abuses go on in Cameroon against “SCNC militants” and we expect them to take up our defence against an oppressive regime. In Ferguson for example, we see some Whites supporting the cause of the Blacks, helping to remind authorities that Black lives matter too, perhaps out of intellectual honesty. But when Anglophones receive such shabby treatment, can we expect any liberty loving Francophone voices to take up their defence? Never, if what we...

How can Paxman's ideas inform language policy in Cameroon? Does language policy influence development in our country? How? Your opinion counts. http://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/paxman-french-is-a-useless-language-and-their-achievements-are-long-past-a3220776.html News UK Jeremy Paxman: French is a useless language and their achievements are 'long past' PETER ALLEN IN PARIS   Friday 8 April 2016 43 comments 6K Paxman: Not keen on French  (David Hartle/Rex) Jeremy Paxman has launched a savage attack on the French – describing their language as “useless” and saying that all their achievements are “long past”.  The BBC broadcaster instead describes English as “the language of science, technology, travel, entertainment and sport” and the “only language that you must have”. His words caused shock and anger in France, especially as Paris is currently celebrating the 400th anniversary of William Shakespeare’s death...