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Soldiers embarking at Egbekaw River in Mamfe on the perilous trip to Akwaya via Agborkem German to go and kill Manyu people.  It is indeed a shame that these are the kinds of boats the regime is using to send its soldiers to their death in a place they don't even know. After 56 years of failed unification, the only way to get to Akwaya by road is through Nigeria, which cannot allow foreign soldiers into its territory as this amounts to a declaration of war; so they have to travel by boat....Let them come; we are waiting...the resistance just began. 

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Ekinneh Agbaw-Ebai

19.Dec.2017

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The Cameroon's joined the Commonwealth Association of Nations in 1995 thanks to the historical trajectory of the Southern Cameroon's once being a British Trustee territory and thus the French speaking Cameroonians benefited enormously from this connection.
Today the billion dollar question that begs for an answer is " Why has the Commonwealth of Nations not dismissed LA Republique Du Cameroun from being a member of the Association despite the fact that she has rubbished all the tenets of the Association like good governance, equity and justice, tolerance, independence of the judiciary as well as a strong rejection of torture of every form. 

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Rita Akana

17.Dec.2017

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I was born in the French-speaking part of this country[Cameroon] with terrible hate for English(a mere second language like Spanish, German). There were also these guys from Muyuka and Kumba who dressed strangely. Then came life at university with the “make quick, the restaurant is open”. That era when Ngoa-Ekelle[Unversity of YaoundeI] was a real thorn in the flesh of our brothers from the North West and South West. But for us [Francophones], everything was okay. There was absolutely no need to speak English. Summarily, even programmes in English on Radio Cameroun were boring. There wasn’t any TV channel in Cameroon by then. In fact, “I do so swear” during the swearing in of the head of state was a luxury. I was born on the good side of the Mungo[French Cameroon].

 

 

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Rita Akana

24.Sep.2017

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oday George Ewane the crooked CRTV correspondent who analyzed the empty speech that Biya read or presented to an empty Hall during the 72nd General Assembly, added and spiced that empty speech with lies telling and falsehood.
Everyone listened to that empty speech and it does not need any analysis as such.
Biya talked on Climate change and terrorism especially BoKo Haram.
For Ewane to have qualified the Anglophone crisis or better still the Southern Cameroon's case as Boko Haram is madness and sheer dishonesty on his part and lack of professional ethics.
The speech was void of the usual lie of Cameroon being one and indivisible. This lie can't hold water and can't survive the scan of truth but sheepishly George Ewane who has sacrificed truth for gastrointestinal journalism can't draw a clear line between falsehood and truth.
His like are plentiful in CRTV who have lied until the people now shun them.
George Ewane lied that President Paul Biya of LA Republique Du Cameroun attended the launch that President Donald Trump of the United States of America offered to African dignitaries and Head of states.
Today he addressed an empty Hall and hopefully CRTV will announce that it was a full Hall.

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Rita Akana

23.Sep.2017

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Upon taking over from Amadou Ahidjo in 1982, hopes of Cameroonians for a new era of social justice, fight against corruption, tribalism and the plethora of ills that beset 25 years of Ahidjo's reign of terror with Jean Forchive as commander were raised. Paul Biya then was believed for two reasons basically. He had climbed through the rungs of government to the premiership so he knew what needed fixing. His mantra of rigor and moralization sounded therefore believable. Talk is cheap. Little did Cameroonians know the apocalypse which was ahead today crystalized with the carnage reported from various towns and villages across Southern Cameroons.

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Divine Nchamukong

22.Sep.2017

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I can audaciously say this: President Biya in 1982 was more popular in the two English-speaking provinces than in his native Mvomeka. I was in Bamenda when he came on his maiden visit and watched women and men shed tears of joy when the young successor to Amadou Ahidjo uttered the first words of his speech in English. People had been tired of his predecessor's quarter-of-a-century rule.

I can also say without any fear of contradiction that in 1992 that same person who in 1982 made a triumphal entry to the city of Bamenda became an anathema to the same population in its immense majority. So why the 360 degree turn? How does someone so loved become so despised a few years after and to the point that some go as far as calling for outright cessation?

In 1992 when Fru Ndi was said to be cheated of a presidential election victory, there hostilities began in earnest. A firestorm of ghost towns was launched. Buildings and roads were set on fire and the aim since all actions have goals was to cripple the economy and hopefully dethrone Mr Biya. All actions have consequences and the consequences were dire. Infrastructural degradation aside, armed banditry surged and the economy of the town/province tanked. The town was near ungovernable.The objective to get the economy tailspin, render the towns lawless achieved but Paul Biya is still in power and apparently waxing strong. Logic therefore dictates the question : were we drinking poison hoping that the person popular anger targeted died first?

Anglophones are incontestably very smart Cameroonians but we must not again be the smart people that do dumb things. Rightly frustrated by today's happenings: people unjustifiably arrested and locked up for months for only questioning institutional injustice and some losing their lives in the process the drumbeat by some for military confrontation is understandable. I did not say winable. For one thing to win in a battle field assumes that you have not only the better army, you have better equipment. Anything short of this is suicidal. In fact choosing to fight a lion with bare hands isn't bravery.

Let's look a endless ghost towns as a strategy since much has been said about school boycott. Precedence provides instruction hence the question what did the 1992 bone-dry ghost towns achieve except the road degradation we are left with and complaining about today? Do we want a repeat of the surge in widespread unemployment and armed banditry of the early 1990s as a a result of rendering the towns ungovernable? Like then, today most of those calling for social chaos as a strategy don't live in the chaos, they are comfortable in their homes drinking wine, their children going to school and many driving luxury cars. Who then takes the heat? The common man who can barely afford a plate of beans and puff-puff.

I am by no means asking for the marginalized to do nothing. I am saying there is a wrong way to do even the right thing.We must think and act smart. Decisions taken in anger almost certainly backfires since they are driven more by emotions than reason.

That is why we must look, think before we leap.

Divine Nchamukong

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Rita Akana

21.Sep.2017

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