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Cameroon: Partnership to Revive Powerful Newspaper Chain

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       BUSINESS PROFILE

UMI publishing department is an adaptation of the modus operandi of most newspaper structures in the United States (Gannett Co (USA-today), Knight-Ridder (Philadelphia Inquirer), Times Mirror (Newsday), Dow Jones (Wall Street Journal-Daily news), etc). Our vision is to set up a newspaper chain that has great dominance and presence in the local market but adapted in mission and vision to our reality especially in programs, the manner of generating income and executing expenditure.

Whereas operating in a rich and highly industrialized milieu, newspapers in the USA would count on support from viable local industries through grants, adverts, messages etc, our newspapers must count on sales first before adverts and other commercial functions.  

Our argument is that those we target are so poor and readership so low that all newspapers must first invest in creating its own readership.  Eventually we intend to count heavily on local enterprises to take up advertisement slots in our newspapers for their messages.

From desk and field market research carried out on 10 existing newspapers, we believe that there is a considerable business potential in the newspaper business. In particular one important segment of that market, the business, development partnership and informal sector that have clear needs to present and promote their businesses have not been properly targeted by existing newspapers.

 

Cameroon: Partnership Opportunity to Set up Christian Broadcasting and Business Radio-tv Network

United Media Incorporated-CIG also has as mission to set up, own and manage the City Business Network, CBN Radio with stations in Bamenda, Douala, Limbe, Maroua, Yaounde, etc. and eventually a TV Station. We believe that investing in broadcasting can create an additional training outlet for individual and group (female) empowerment in the communications industry. Eventually our broadcast media will best tackle the issues that create poverty in Cameroon – a weak and unfair almost failed state, marginalisation and unequal access to resources, unfair accumulation and distribution of wealth, unequal access to training, jobs and finance, exploitative social relations, incompetent male political representation, etc.

UMI-CIG communication structures and infrastructure must be committed to combating poverty, HIV-AIDS, protecting the environment, preaching the word, sustainable management of natural resources, gender issues, human and child rights, good governance and democracy, in short, development.

Contact for Partnership

United Media Incorporated-Common Initiative Group

Reg. No NW/GP/27/04/8691

Ghana Street, Nkwen Bamenda

P.O. Box 2154, Bamenda

Mobile Phone: (237) 77 861200

unitedmediaincorporated.cig@gmail.com,umi1994@yahoo.com,umidouala@yahoo.fr, unitedmedia@walla.com

 CONTACT PERSON:

NTEMFAC ALOYSIUS NKONG OFEGE.

P.O. Box 2154, Bamenda.Cameroon.

ntemfacofege@yahoo.com, ntemfacnchwete@walla.com, ntemfac@gmail.com

(237) 77 86 12 00.

www.postwatchmagazine.com. 

Cameroon: Partnership Opportunity In Media Development - Douala, Bamenda

Mission Statement 

                                                 

United Media Incorporated-Common Interest Group was created in 1994 by a group of journalists, bankers, sociologists, and communications and rural development experts, lawyers, etc.

The CIG was formally recognised in 2000, per Cameroon Law, by the Ministry of Agriculture, Department of Cooperatives and Common Interest Groups.  

The objective to invent a veritable independent, plural, bilingual, non-partisan, non-sectarian, Christian, community-based, development-oriented and very dynamic communications industry in Cameroon.

Our idea is to start with training and then deploy into viable bilingual newspapers, radio, film production, TV and other communications infrastructure in Cameroon.

Consequently, UMI-CIG is sourcing for partners worldwide to set up a communications heavy training institute - the Community Development Polytechnic.

This professional school be open to all (especially the girl child) and shall offer Certificate, Diploma and Higher Diploma courses in the following:

PAT        PATHWAYS

The Department of Communications.  offering: Journalism (Newspaper, Radio and Television journalism), Corporate Communications and Information and Communication Technology.

The Department of Telecommunications, Information and Communication Technology offering: New Information Technologies, Emailing, Web mastering, Software, Hardware  maintenance, programming, Bureautics, Secretarial Duties.

The Department of Corporate Communications offering: Advertising, Public Relations, Marketing, Management, Business Administration

The Department of Mass Communications offering: Mass Communications, Health, Rights and Human Rights, Science and Technology, Politics with Media Studies, Arts and Culture, Environment, Sports, Education, Economy and Finance, reporting

The Department of Film production and Media Technology offering: Film and Media Studies, Performance language, Script writing, Directing, Acting, Special Effects, Camera, Sound and Sound Effects. 

UMI-CIG communications structures and infrastructure must be committed to combating poverty, HIV-AIDS, protecting the environment, sustainable management of natural resources, gender issues, human and child rights, good governance and democracy, in short, development.

Contacts for Greater Details

United Media Incorporated-Common Initiative Group

Reg. No NW/GP/27/04/8691

Ghana Street, Nkwen Bamenda

P.O. Box 2154, Bamenda

Mobile Phone: (237) 77 861200

unitedmediaincorporated.cig@gmail.com,umi1994@yahoo.com,umidouala@yahoo.fr, unitedmedia@walla.com

United Media Incorporated-Common Initiative Group

Reg. No NW/GP/27/04/8691

Ghana Street, Nkwen Bamenda

P.O. Box 2154, Bamenda

Mobile Phone: (237) 77 861200

unitedmediaincorporated.cig@gmail.com,umi1994@yahoo.com,umidouala@yahoo.fr, unitedmedia@walla.com

 CONTACT PERSON:

NTEMFAC ALOYSIUS NKONG OFEGE

P.O. Box 2154, Bamenda. Cameroon.

ntemfacofege@yahoo.com, ntemfacnchwete@walla.com, ntemfac@gmail.com

(237) 77 86 12 00

www.postwatchmagazine.com

Moving United Media Incorporated Common Interest Group Forward

 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

UMI-CIG sincerely gives special thanks to all those who have participated in one way or the other in the realisation of its activities aimed at building a civil and just society. We pay tribute to UMI-CIG staff and all its volunteers who have been working under very difficult conditions and with little motivation to ensure that we keep to our strategic goals.

We expressed our sincere gratitude to the following for their assistance: MASHAV, the Embassy of Israel in Cameroon and the Weitz Centerfor Development Studies for helping us with the feasibility plans of the Community Development Polytechnic, the City Business Network radio and  the City-tv as wee as the micro-finance house. We are also grateful to MASHAV for their assistance in proposal writing.

We are grateful to the African Investment Corporation, Dla an affiliate of the Hoffmann Foundation, for their help and assistance, Jimbimedia in the United Statesfor setting up the website on www.postwatchmagazine.com.  These people have been a veritable source of inspiration to UMI.

We equally thank them for constantly advising and giving practical suggestions on how we can better work with them and achieve our aims.

The time has now come to move UMI-CIG Forward. Our priority projects for the next 09 months are the following:

1. The installation of the Community Development Polytechnic;

2. The installation of CBN and City-tv;

3. The start-up of the micro-finance house.

Interested investors can contact us at unitedmediaincorporated.cig@gmail.com

Humbly Submitted

Ntemfac A.N. Ofege

Delegate

Interview with Cameroon Movies Marketing Corporation on Film, To Kill a Killer

Ntemfac Ofege's interview

Mr. Ntemfac Ofege, journalist and film maker talks to CMMC's Denis A must read interview!  CMMC: Hello Sir, this is CMMC, Camer Movies Marketing Corporation. We are a young private owned company promoting Cameroon’s film industry. It’s a great honor for us to interview you. Please kindly introduce yourself to our readers.   Ntemfac Ofege: My name is Ntemfac Aloysius Nkong Nchwete Ofege. Long names run in my family.  I was born on June 26th 1962 at the Bamenda General Hospital. My father came from Dschang in the Western province of Cameroon to settle in West Cameroon. My mother is Jukun. Her family came from the Takum-Wukari-Sunkuru area of Northern Nigeria to create the Ndaka-Gidajukun chieftaincy in the Ako-Misaje area of today’s Donga and Mantung Division. The current Kru or Chief of Naka is my uncle. I guess you can say that I am a child of different worlds. I attended primary school at the All Saints School, Bayelle, Nkwen in Bamenda; secondary school at Sacred Heart College, Mankon; high school at the Cameroon College of Arts, Sciences and Technology, CCAST-Bambili, where, believe it or not, I majored in Biology, Chemistry and Geology.   CMMC: Sorry for cutting in Sir, just to mention I am an ex-student of CCAST Bambili too. Ride on with your introduction Sir.    N.O: The opportunities opened to English-speaking Geology students after high school have always been limited. Geology majors from CCAST have always faced the dilemma of braving the hostile cursus of the university system in Cameroon which, across the board, was never conceived to accommodate the critical aspects of the education system that obtains in the English speaking provinces. That is why most graduates from the high school system in the English-speaking parts of Cameroon have either had to change course or flee abroad to continue their education.

Book Review: Hot Water for the Famous Seven by Ntemfac Ofege. Reviewed by Kini Nsom

ISBN 9789956558391 | 180 pages | 229 x 152 mm | 2008 | Langaa RPCIG, Cameroon | Paperback. Illustrated.  $18.95.

Available from Amazon.com, African Book Collective, Langaa.com, Alibris, etc.

C heery boarding school stories, like hot furnace love tales, are often hilarious, similar and hearty. In fact, tales about renegade schoolboys, in potent fictional boarding schools, threatening college procedures and giving long-suffering discipline masters, headmasters and principals migraines, are totemic to all cultures, colour and creed. The difference, however, may just be in style. While the daredevil schoolboy in an imaginary school in Kent would set up some rocket propulsion device under the chair of the meddlesome discipline master and then stand back to watch the master become take off to the moon, the African creature in some ramshakled school in outback Mungong (no roads, no bridges) in Cameroon would conceal some sharp bamboo objects inside the discipline master’s seat. The result, I bet, is the same.

Hot Water for the Famous Seven

is a galvanic attempt by a Cameroonian writer to recount the drama and hair-raising moments in an existing Cameroonian all-boys boarding school. Picture the situation. A bunch of mischievous renegades in Form 1A, foxes all of them, with outrageously bushy tails to boot, have the radioactive cheek to gallivant about Sacred Heart College calling themselves the Famous Seven. As if that is not mortifying enough, these arrogant little confederates have the tendency of threatening and even bringing down time-tested and firmly established college rules, regulations and procedures with reckless abandon. The little rascals—Mozarts in football and streaks of lightning all of them—even have the effrontery to provoke retribution by belting their seniors—the semi-foxes of Form 2, in a rousing football encounter. But, when the Famous Seven break bounds and sneak out of campus, going after the most eloquent of all infernos, Bamanga Njuma of the Fifth, conveniently decked in his father’s army garb—spivishly borrowed—the principal of the college, Brother Hugh McGregor Jones, blows his top. “Enough is enough,” the principal bellows with stentorian alacrity.

 

(Book Review) Hot Water for the Famous Seven by Ntemfac Ofege

Ntemfac Ofege. Hot Water for the Famous Seven. Langaa publishers, 2008. 180 pages. Available from African Books Collective and Amazon.com

  A bunch of mischievous renegades in Form 1A, foxes all of them, with outrageously bushy tails to boot, have the radioactive cheek to gallivant about Sacred Heart College calling themselves the Famous Seven. As if that is not mortifying enough, these arrogant little confederates have the tendency of threatening and even bringing down time-tested and firmly established college rules, regulations and procedures with reckless abandon. The little rascals—Mozarts in football and streaks of lightning all of them—even have the effrontery to provoke retribution by belting their seniors—the semi-foxes of Form 2, in a rousing football encounter.

But, when the Famous Seven break bounds and sneak out of campus, going after the most eloquent of all infernos, Bamanga Njuma of the Fifth, conveniently decked in his father’s army garb—spivishly borrowed—the principal of the college, Brother Hugh McGregor Jones, blows his top. “Enough is enough,” the principal bellows with stentorian alacrity.

Book Review II: Namondo (Child of the Water Spirits) by Ntemfac Ofege

Originally Published in Summit Magazine no. 006

Ntemfac A.N. Ofege. Namondo (Child of the Water Spirits). Langaa Publishers. November, 2007. 360 pages (Paperback). Available from Amazon.com ($24.95) and African Books Collective (£19.95)

Ntemfac A.N. Ofege forays into the customs and traditions of the Bakweri people, the often unfathomable dwellers of the lands below the Fako Mountain (Mount Cameroon), to put together a story that is beautiful in content, flowing in style, enthralling in meanders, fetching in intrigue and ethereal in plot. The plot of this book is bustling, fascinating and lingering. This page-turner keeps the reader wondering what next.

Namondo (Child of the Water Spirit) is the story of an exquisite, yet lethal, water spirit or mermaid. This preternatural creature takes on human form and comes to the land to do battle against an equally lethal cult – the Nyongo. Namondo uses her singular power – the magic ring of the water spirits to prevail. The maiden is, however, killed in the process. The ring of the liengu-la-mwanja must return to her son.

The Time is Now Speech by Carlson Anyangwe, president BSCRG

Herewith a powerful discours by Prof. Carlson Anyangwe. President British Southern Cameroons

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Book Review: Namondo Child of the Water Spirits) by Ntemfac Ofege

Originally Published in The Post Newspaper

Every one hundred years, or so, a book bursts unto the global readership and stays there for the next one thousand years and more. Ntemfac A.N. Ofege's Namondo (Child of the Water Spirits) is just that kind of book.

Ripe with transfigurations and transformations, this novel promises to be a spirited and lingering read for all those who navigate multiple cultures, languages, times and geographies.

How the immortal gods meddle in the affairs of men has always provided ambrosial reading.

Authors like Homer, who recounted such stories acquired immortality in their own right. It all starts in the beginning: "Chaos reigned in the firmament, until the ageless spirit Ovase Lova breathed and created dawn. Stars from his fingertips jeweled the heavens and newborn planets radiated throughout the vast universe."

Ntemfac A.N. Ofege’s “To Kill a Killer”: Now Proposed to National and International Audiences

Yaounde – The reviews after a few sneak previews of Ntemfac A.N. Ofege’s "To Kill a Killer" are rave, almost delirious.

"I personally liked the intrigue of the film, its sound and picture quality and the directing," says Mr. Amadou Vamoulke, the General Manager of the Cameroon Radio and Television Corporation, CRTV.

"To Kill a Killer"

"To Kill a Killer,"

The Inner Circle is a vile occultic society, which circles dines on flesh and blood.

Beware of Paul Biya the Consommate Manipulator

Beware of Paul Biya - the Consummate Manipulator

Ntemfac A.N. Ofege

The Contentious Article 6:2

Article 6 of Cameroon’s 1996 Constitution states:

(1) The President of the Republic shall be elected by a majority of the votes cast through direct, equal and secret universal suffrage.

(2) The President of the Republic shall be elected for a term of office of 7 (seven) years. He shall be eligible for re-election once.

Ntemfac A. N Ofege's New Book: Namondo (Child of the Water Spirits)

Ntemfac A.N. Ofege. Namondo. Child of the Water Spirits. Bamenda, Langaa publishers. November 2007. Available from Michigan State University Press and Amazon.com

The river gods dispatch Namondo, a liengu-la-mwanja or water spirit, to the land.  Mission : waste a deadly cult. The twin uses her magic ring to accomplish her task, but tragedy strikes at the last minute. The fearsome ring of the river must return to her son.

Namondo (Child of the Water Spirits) is a refreshingly different take of the perpetual battle between the good, the bad and the ugly.

Namondo’s story races, twists, turns and jumps from one emotion to another until the chilling conflagration on a bewitched train. This is mythology so vivid that it hums with life: powerfully descriptive, awesome, frightening, compelling, delightful, imaginative, penetrating and lingering.

The magic about Ntemfac A.N. Ofege’s impressive narration is this confident ability to weave such a sprightly tale, one combining yesterday and today; the dead and the living; tradition and modernity; scoundrel and righteous deities. Throughout the story, the reader will taste that uproarious extravaganza of Africa- vicious serpents and elephant-doubles.  Namond0 (Child of the Water Spirits) is simply a beautiful story well told.

Move over Things Fall Apart. Here comes the next generation of African writing.

Namondo (Child of the Water Spirits) can be ordered online.

Forty-three (43) Southern Cameroonians take UN Compound in Abuja Hostage

National Times update. Tuesday November 6, 2007.

Southern CamerooniansForty-three (43) Southern Cameroonians, some of them parents with children, today took the United Nations compound in Abuja, Nigeria hostage demanding that the UN look into the situation of Southern Cameroon. The Southern Cameroonians marched into the UN Compound early today and kept thge UN officials busy with their demands.

The Southern Cameroonians said that the United Nations illegally handed over their country to Frenbch Cameroun. They also complained about a wave of harassment and intimidation by the Nigerian police.

October 1: SCNC Hands Demonstrate in Belgium

France in Africa By Ben Awah

Earlier on in January 2003, France had significantly escalated its 2002 intervention in Côte d’Ivorie, to the west, by reinforcing its overall troops’ deployment to about 4000 and expanding the so-called sandwich territory between it and the forces of the Ivorian state and north-based insurgents. Given the frequency and the tally of its military interventions in Africa since 1960, France has, contrary to prevailing international
perception, the worst record of Northern World power state military intervention in the Southern World.

The Tsar (Buffoon) of Ntarikon: Heading for the African Court in Banjul By Tazaocha Asonganyi

Some people are smart, successful and gifted; these can get to any station in life, in any capacity.
Others are driven by their ego, by egomaniacal impulses; such are dangerous for any station where the daily life of many depends on their will. One may put up with an excellent doctor that is good at treating exotic ailments, without wishing to see the doctor at the helm of a large hospital. Better for the specialist to stay in his specialty and allow steadier hands to manage the large hospital

Southern Cameroons: Stopping A War before it Starts.By Prof. Tatah Mentan.Ph.D. Visiting Professor of Political Science (2005-06) Laurentian University, Sudbury, Ontario, Canada.)

La République du Cameroun is “a sleeping volcano.” This description has its meaning rooted in the history of what has come to be called the “Anglophone problem” in Cameroun. This “problem” can be traced back as far as the partitioning after the First World War of the erstwhile German Kamerun Protectorate (1884-1916) between the French and English victors, first as mandates under the League of Nations and later as trusts under the United Nations. The French-and English-speaking Cameroons formed an illegal “federal union” in 1961 which is now exploding. 

Why preventive diplomacy? Anglophone-Francophone animosities in  Cameroun have been raging intermittently since 1961, the year  La République du Cameroun (French-speaking) simply annexed the Southern Cameroons (English-speaking). These animosities, as they run riot, threaten the peace of Cameroun frequently. The essence of preventive diplomacy is therefore early warning and timely intervention where this peace is menaced by a typical problem of paternalism. The frequent slaughter of protesting Southern Cameroons students and protesters by La République du Cameroun forces of annexation is eloquent testimony.

       Preventive diplomacy in this case, to be successful, compels some diplomatic intercession. This intercession requires understanding the sources of an impending conflict and addressing them in time to prevent violent confrontation. Once a conflict has broken out, the immediate need is to address its humanitarian consequences, while seeking an end to the hostilities by addressing the issues that led to the conflict in the first place. Success means restoring peace and creating conditions that are capable of sustaining the achieved peace. The process is therefore circular in that ensuring a lasting solution becomes a preventive measure that should ideally address the sources or causes of the conflict. In Cameroon, preventive diplomacy entails the resolution of the conflict created by the annexation of the British Southern Cameroons by La République du Cameroun.

The Bakassi Story.BY Nowa Omoigui

The Bakassi Story –Part 1- 1884-1949

by Nowa Omoigui

1. When the Obong of Calabar signed a "Treaty of Protection" with

Britain on September 10, 1884 Britain agreed to "extend its protection" to the Obong and his Chiefs. The Obong agreed and promised to refrain from entering into any agreements or treaties with foreign nations or Powers without the prior approval of the British Government. That is, he signed away his Kingdom as a British protectorate. This type of subterfuge was carried out with many of our ancestors. All of this was before "Nigeria" was created. Note too that unlike agreements between metropolitan powers these so called protectorate agreements with African Kingdoms did not have precise definitions of boundaries. On November 15, 1893, Britain and Germany defined their boundaries in Africa , supplemented by another agreement on March 19, 1906. These covered British and German Territories from Yola to Lake Chad.

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Lake Nyos:Myths and Realities. By Ntemfac A.N. Ofege

In 1989, when he moved into the Carrefour Bastos neighbourhood in Yaounde, friend and colleague, Charlie Ndichia suddenly discovered that his neighbour was none other than Mr. Jean-Marcel Mengueme, a former minister of Territorial Administration of the Republic of Cameroun. From that minute, we constituted ourselves into Mr. Mengueme’s tormentors. We (Charlie Ndichia and Ntemfac Ofege) would stand up the tiny hill that leads to Mr. Mengueme’s villa and shout, “Mengueme, Lake  Nyos! Mengueme, Lake Nyos!”

Our enterprise toned down one hilarious evening when Mr. Mengueme emerged with a pistol and shot in our direction. We were lucky. The man was either a lousy shot or we were going too fast. We had very good reason to torment Mr. Mengueme Jean-Marcel.

Rigging Three Elections in One by Ntemfac AN Ofege

The forgotten factor about the July 22 heavily rigged elections in Cameroun was that Mr. Biya’s party, the Cameroun Peoples Democratic Movement, achieved the groundbreaking feat of rigging three (03) elections in one. By Cameroon’s current “to be put in place progressively” constitution, the future elections into the projected Regional Councils and the Senate will be “indirect” elections. What this means concretely is that current councilors and parliamentarians will elect some of the members of the Senate and the regional councils. The constitution says that the president of La Republique will appoint 30% of the members of the Senate. By giving itself an insolent majority through election fraud, the CPDM is setting itself for a totalitarian control of Senate, National Assembly and Regional Councils. Look forward to 95 plus CPDM Senators, 90% plus CPDM Regional Councillors to add to the 140 plus CPDM parliamentarians. That the names of 70% of those agitating in the CPDM (including Biya Paul, Atanga Nji, etc) also feature in the list of those who owe the banks. inc

The Uncompleted De-colonization Process of the former Trust Territory of the Southern Cameroons by Mola Njoh Litumbe

The territory known up to 1961 as British Cameroons lies to the East of Nigeria and covers a surface area greater than at least 20 independent states that are members of the United Nations.  It boasts a population currently estimated at between 5 to 6 million inhabitants.  It was first administered by Britain under the Mandate system of the League of Nations, but on 13 December 1946 it became a UN Trust Territory with Great Britain as administering Trustee.  To the east of British Cameroons was another UN Trust Territory known as French Cameroun, both territories having been previously part of German Kamerun over which Germany renounced all territorial claims at the Treaty of Versailles in 1919.

2.  Great Britain and France respectively were designated trustees of these two territories that were excised from German Kamerun.  The UN defined the territorial boundaries of each, over which it executed separate but identical Trust Agreements, pursuant to Art. 76b of the UN Charter. The Trust territory of French Cameroun attained independence on 1 January, 1960.

The Emergent SCNC By Vincent Feko

One of the most popular and powerful political parties in Nigeria in the` 50s was the NCNC, National Council of Nigeria and the Cameroons, the British Cameroons to be precise. The British Cameroons was an internationally recognized geographical circumscription, with a surface area of 86214sq km, sandwiched, as it were, between Nigeria and the former French Cameroun.

When Nigeria attained independence on October 1, 1960, the Cameroons component was dropped and NCNC was renamed the National Council of Nigerian Citizens. Acknowledging, this was in keeping with the international Law maxim of uti possedetis juris that ordains that: the international boundaries or borders of a country   become fixed, unchangeable or frozen with effect from its declaration of independence.
The principle was reaffirmed by resolution AGH/ Res16 (1) of the OAU (AU) heads of state Cairo Summit of July1964. The Resolution states that colonial boundaries inherited at independence remain “tangible immutable and inviolable.” uti possedetis juris and Res. AGH/ Res.16 (1) did not apply to La Republique du Cameroun any less than they applied to Nigeria when the French Cameroun acceded to independence as La Republique du Cameroun, earlier on 1st January 1960.
Both Nigeria and La Republique du Cameroun, as accredited members of the AU have pledged to uphold the Charter of the AU in which is enshrined, like in the charter of the United Nations, the right to self-determination of a people under foreign occupation and domination. Besides, Nigeria could not have let go the British Cameroons that, in the first place was never an integral part of Nigeria, only to turn around 8 months later to acquire part of the territory. That would be like overturning the uti possedetis juris it had law-abidingly respected at independence. It would be comparable to the unwitting acquisition of a Trojan horse. That historical snapshot is intended to prepare the reader’s mind for a better understanding and appreciation of the paper’s title: The Emergent SCNC, and the analysis that follow.
Picture: EML  Endeley, First PM of Southern  Cameroons

Now Declassified: The Inside History of the Southern Cameroons Liberation Movements

“We are thus faced with a situation in which Third World States, themselves the pre-beneficiaries of resolution 1514 (XV) guaranteeing the principle of self-determination of all peoples, become modern colonizers of less fortunate peoples within their area.” [Judge TO Elias, President of the International Court of Justice (as he then was), in ‘The Role of the ICJ in Africa’, 1 RADIC, 1989, p.8)]

The actualization of the Independence and Sovereignty of Southern Cameroons Independence, a Must By Justice (Mr.) Frederick Alobwede Ebong.

The quest for self-determination and independence of the peoples and territory of the Southern Cameroons is an incontrovertible issue. At the 896th General Assembly meeting in October 6, 1959, speaking for the USA, the UN Ambassador Clement J. Zabloiski said: “The USA had voted for resolution 1350 (XIII) and still finds its provisions satisfactorily. The USA congratulates the people of the Southern Cameroons for their accession to auto determination as it constitutes the will of the population who wants to run its affairs democratically. The government and the opposition parties of the Southern Cameroons unfortunately have not come to an agreement, however, there is no reason to deny the population of the Southern Cameroons a brief; the results of a hurried choice imposed on the population of the Trust Territory would be catastrophic for their political future.”