By Evelyn Joe
Outro:
If the following “gratuitous provocation” does not goad the Southern Cameroons separatists to scamper out of casting virtual vitriol, aspersion and audacity in cyberspace and show some “swagger, balls, testosterone and action,” in the real battlefield field, nothing ever would. As the lady (Ms Evelyn Joe) says in the epilogue to this stimulating insight “Nobody should take anything personal. I write and defend my positions as civic and public convictions.” She warns the AngloNetters to address the issues raised herein rather than seek “refuge in reverse psychology with advice for my creative writing skills, my talent as a double edge sword, cheap exhibitionism, etc.” Because, as she says, reverence for irrelevance demonstrates the typical AngloNetter phenomenon of blatant digression from the public issues within the context they were raised to personalized effrontery.” However, she weighs in “in the realm of the AngloNetter, vapor terrorism, tomfoolery is expected.” Did I hear somebody say lynch mob? Why not infect this woman with the HIV virus as one militant SCNC hand, incandescent with rage, threatens. Welcome to The Barrel of a Pen only on Postwatch magazine….Next Stop: The Terrifying Bate Besong
Our forefathers were German invaders according to the Partition of Africa in 1884, saving all "colo-mentalists" the need to trace it to Portuguese ancestry in the 15th century. The last time I checked, Africa's civilization predated the Whiteman's, and we had rich and dynamic systems when Europeans were barbarians and America was yet to be discovered. But if, in your mind, your current ancestors descended from the League of Nation treaties and your esteemed Anglo culture was codified by United Nations in the 20th century, please accept my profuse apologies for improper salutation. Yes Sir, from the menu: The Baron Afofo; The Marque of Kwacha; Our Count of CowFoot; His Footman of Her Queen's Constable of Horses; First Duke of Nothing-sham; Eminent Enforcer of Bantu Docility, and Empire Minister At-Large in the Ministry of Monkey See, Monkey Do - are in order.
I coined the descriptor "AngloNetter" to depict an English speaking Cameroon separatist of highly developed English senses, sensibilities and sensitivities who spends an inordinate amount of time writing in virtual space, with a dire focus on uploading and downloading emotions, transferring person axes to grind to the Internet, posting redundancy, seeing anything to the contrary as an enemy, fostering polemics between French and English speaking Cameroonians, and ascribing useless and exclusionary prefixes to English speaking Cameroonians whose tribal origins are traced to sectors colonized by French invaders. The AngloNetter is a political neophyte and avid practitioner of conspiratorial and polarizing gymnastics.
At the inception of the Cameroon Anglophone Movement, there were fine minds, rational and critical thinkers. Apparently, these persons are reclining and resigning to fatigue or fractures, and bellicose AngloNetters are filling the waves.
Arguments from AngloNetters negating bilingualism in Cameroon and in favor of not contaminating and preserving the Queen's culture for native English speakers are at best spurious. Sincerely speaking, Cameroon notwithstanding and civilization duly considered, I have never heard of a research indicating multiple language acquisition is detrimental to any kind of development. Even some Banso people who call window "windu" and some Nigerians who call thirty - "thaati" cannot testify to the defects of bi-literacy, neither are they less educated or confused by phonetics to bite their tongues in learning language - as you alluded.
Research shows that bilingual students demonstrate higher cognitive developments in areas such as mental flexibility, tolerance for ambiguity, critical thinking skills than their monolingual peers.
Besides, it is a wonder how AngloNetters can believe the socioeconomic opportunities for bi-literate individuals in the global economy can be particularly harmful to Anglophones in Cameroon.
Another mind-boggling argument is that bilingualism will not be equally enforced in French speaking Cameroon. This is idiocy to the Nth degree if the contention is changed from the merit of bilingual education to its equitable application on the other side as if it is some sort of retribution and oppression to acquire knowledge. Proponents - on both sides - of this superstitiousness are more interested in playing political football; not shedding light on anything useful.
But unfortunately, the scores would be at the expense of students who are missing a valid educational opportunity, which is considered a luxury in other parts of the world. For example, in the Washington, DC area, the few bilingual schools are considered "magnate schools," with parents camping on school doors to have their children registered. There is an endless waiting list and most use lottery for admissions.
Alphabet Soup Liberators and the Escapee Brigade
Whether or not I think the Alphabet Soup Liberators - CAM, SCNC, SCAPO, APEM, BSC, SCYL, etc., are wasting their time, is essentially a rhetorical question. Are these consonants and vowels for police, armies, navy, bag pipers, marines, mobile wings, food tasters, intellectuals, water carriers, town criers, the elites vs. the downtroddens in one movement, or shades of Kamikazes? If not, the varied acronyms exude fragmented inspirations / aspirations where there is no marked difference in independence methods to necessitate these mushroom groupings.
The Separatists have two options: Get in the bush and start fighting for an independent country or, as a pressure group or whatever evolution, realize the limitations and cooperate with sympathetic allies for equitable representations in the Republic of Cameroon (La Republique) and hope for decentralization system of governance. Anything else is academic. There is no third choice of negotiating for independence or bringing back the colonial inspired West and East Cameroon Federation. Have you ever heard of something in a cage negotiating its terms of freedom?
Another caveat, it is doubtful separatists can get a majority vote from Southwest (one of the two English speaking provinces) in a referendum. To think otherwise is to say your ears are not on the ground. As far as indigenous African norms and values are concerned, Southwest is more compatitibe with Francophone Littoral province. The Mandigoes with identical language and culture in Sierra Leone, Liberia, Guinea, Senegal, Gambia, Mali, and other parts of West Africa, all Hausa and Fulani peoples in African nations, and the Yorubas of Nigeria and Benin would have more authentic claims and legitimacy to unite for Independent countries than the disparate band of colonially driven natives in Southern Cameroons whose only common cause amounts to arguments that English Tea is more invigorating than French Wine.
Besides, it makes scant sense for Southwest to leave a minority status in La Republique to become another numerical inferiority in a new country, rather than advocate for provincial autonomy in a decentralized federal system based on the current 10 provinces. This has less to do with schisms and more in line with realpolitik - best interests based on affinities, resources and potentials. In a one man, one vote, if we follow the tribal mentality advocated by AngloNetters, a Southwesterner can never be President in Paradise AKA the new independent country. Now, if we have to fight against tribalism and nepotism in public life, which are cofactors to underdevelopment in Africa, why run from a fight to fight another day?
Further, there is no reliable data to indicate that the majority of uppity mobile, progressive Northwesterners (people in the other English speaking province) are interested in liberation stuff. In a survey taken during a forum organized in February 2002 in Silver Spring Md. by Mr. Ebini & co,. who pronounced himself (at that time) a separatist, participants were less inclined to support Anglophone vs. Francophone vs. 11 province divisive agendas. Today, Mr. Ebini is a Uniter of Dancers across colonial language lines and Projector of Cultural Oneness for Advancement and Progress. The AngloNetters have not and cannot comand the attention that an inclusive entity will attract. Where is the mandate? They can't say Biya will send forces to arrest them in America.
From all spectrums, people are equally distrustful (just as they distrust government) of self-styled leaders - power mongering agitators who will be opportunistic, intolerant, dictatorial, cunning, corrupt and incompetent, judging from the short history of the Cameroon Anglophone Movement - the ship jumpers, the subsequent fractious parts, and assaults on the civil liberties of people who disagree with their agenda or methods.
Those in Cameroon are supposed to give impetus to the cause and articulate consistent Anglophone vision, mission and leadership. But, as in the case of the tail wagging the dog, the front-line, escapee brigade in the Diaspora sounds like a "discordant harmony," with each sect more convinced than the next of having the right rally to reach Paradise as the Paramount Chief of the Indian tribes. At the Gate of Heaven, God may be amused than understanding of the differentiated head boys of the herds.
In Defense of Bilingualism
1. Language in Context
English or French is not a curriculum; it is a vehicle of instruction; not the contents of instruction. A curriculum consists of content standards (knowledge and skills that the learner is expected to acquire at a given level) and performance standards (an empirical demonstration of knowledge and skills -- benchmarks -- at certain points). A curriculum also entails pedagogical approaches (instructional methods to deliver lessons). Any person who has dealt with educational models will understand that the news article you posted promotes an educational philosophy that underlines culturally relevant curricula. An educational philosophy does not prescribe an educational system i.e., whether French, Greek or English educational structure is superior or inferior. Rather, an educational philosophy can be applied in all or any of the systems regardless of the language of instruction - except in a brainwashing academy for robots and dunces.
For example, the Montessori Educational Model promotes a philosophy that incorporates the learner's overall development in any language or system. Naturally, teachers will use instructional methodologies that are centrifugal (learning beginning with self and indigenous values) and learner-centered (integrating relevant components -- the intellectual, emotional, social, cultural attributes, including all environments in which formal as well as informal learning takes place).
Let us assume you are going to use Inquiry-based teaching and learning. Inquiry involves active engagement of the student with his/her environment in an effort to make sense of the world, and consequent reflection on the connections between the experiences encountered and the information gathered. Students synthesize, analyze and manipulate of knowledge, whether through play for younger children or through more formally structured learning.
The formation of the learning environment, the home, the classroom, the school, the community, and the behaviors exemplified by others in these environments, particularly the parent and the teacher, constitute the knowledge base that will nurture meaningful participation and inquiry on the part of the students. In this active learning, the role of the teacher departs from the traditional bearer of knowledge and the students as passive recipients, to that of a coach and mentor engaged in the same quest as his/her young scholars, ending the paradigm of “talking-to-teach.”
My question to Anglophone Synthesizers: How does the language of instruction and bilingualism interfere with the curriculum: content and performance standards, teaching methods or educational system? Calculation of one plus one, the conduct of a laboratory experiment with rat, narration of the Queen's coronation or the Storming of Bastille?
Folks, the salient questions facing all Cameroonians of good faith are:
(a) Can bilingualism coexist with two different educational systems? The answer is Yes. An effective bilingual education (language immersion program), addresses skills and processes that students need to achieve bi-literate proficiency by reading, writing and speaking at their grade/class levels in two languages and using the language to learn in other core content areas. The challenge and reform is to align standards and testing to ensure students in either system meet/or exceed proficiency levels that are comparable to competitive world standards.
b) Can the same content and performance standards be offered in French and English? The answer is Yes. For example, the universally acclaimed International Baccalaureate (IB) Primary Years, Middle Years and Diploma programs are offered in English, French and Spanish, with emphasis on second language acquisition from primary to high school. The IB can be modified to meet requirements in any educational system. High school graduates gain advanced standings in the best and most competitive universities around the world - Sorbonne, Harvard, Oxford, etc.
c) Is Bilingualism a panacea -- cure all -- in terms of equitable redress? The answer is No. However, it removes the ruse of "authenticity" that hysteria maniacs on both sides exploit to confuse the issues and create polemics. Once language is being addressed, honest and committed citizens can rise above the fray and confront the multidimensional challenge. Some of the internal obstacles are incompetence; corruption; unaccountability; lack of honest, committed visionary leadership; and a centralized governing system that stifles socioeconomic and political empowerment, development and stake-holdership.
The Cameroonian Reality
This task is not a Francophone or Anglophone problem. There is no study to show that ordinary French speaking residents in Ebolowa enjoy a higher standard of living and political power than ordinary people in English speaking Bamenda. The small business woman in English Muea needs micro loans just like her counterpart in French Kribi. The appointment of proportionate Anglophones and Francophones to marketing - cocoa, coffee, banana boards; ministerial posts; ambassadorial posts, etc. does not help the ordinary citizen -- as Condi and Powell do not uplift the economic index in the African American community. These are good symbolic gestures, depending on the pleasure of the ruling party and partisan allegiances. The onus is for Francophones and Anglophones not to be distracted by artificial boundaries and focus on core issues of development in a spirit of parity and justice for all, and responsibility and accountability from all.
2. Culture in Context.
The claim of English cultures/values to negate bilingualism in Cameroon is a tragic misinterpretation of cultural relevance in education. Ironically, the culturally relevant curricula lobby eschews standardized curriculum that is skewed by Western biases in favor of Eurocentric perspectives, colonial-oriented texts, distorted histories, and consequently culturally biased testing at the expense of other valid contexts. Notable African American scholars have championed Afrocentric infusion in the curriculum.
Developing an understanding of the nature and value of one's own culture is a fundamental starting point in advancing understanding and considering educational implications of human unity and human diversity. Encouraging students to examine their own and others’ customs and traditions enables them to discern what is of value, the basis of values held, and what ought to be cherished and retained. Within this paradigm, learning is a continuous, dynamic process of self-construction within a social context. But the AngloNetter will submit a worldview that exposure to French (other points of references) is erosion of values, hence the need to think inside the Anglo box.
Learning, speaking and functioning in a language does not necessarily confer cultural traits. But if you follow the AngloNetter's explanation and claim to Anglo-Saxoniam, language is a telegraph of self-containing culture. Whatever, in the case for cultural relevant education, the African Native-cum-English Petitioner is a contradiction in terms and oxymoron. Pardon, how would the Anglophone describe the origin of, and taste for, Afternoon Tea?- never mind that he/she may not have tea in the morning. This child is better off knowing it is okay to eat cassava in the morning, which consists of carbohydrates found in bread. The study of Tea in England is intercultural awareness; not the student's cultural values by any stretch of the AngloNetter's vivid imaginations.
How comical? It would be the height of stupidities and preposterous to think a child in Tiko, Cameroon ought to be equipped with the norms and values of Lancaster, Britain; or same for a student in Douala to be versed in the ways of Nice, France in order to affirm their cultural validity, and demonstrate how this foolishness contributes to their understanding of self in relation to the larger world - the whole point of cultural relevance. Proponents of French or English cultural identification (in curriculum) need to have their heads properly examined before sentencing to appropriate 12 steps detoxification programs.
Take it a step nearer to every day living and interpersonal interaction, do you, believe there is a way to love your woman in French or English language? That will depend more on your level of emotional maturity, social sophistication, personal values, or lack of same thereof, regardless of the language you are thinking in. Chances are that you will not understand the nuances of Barbara Cartltand and prefer to buy beer to roses. Will you, ol' boy?
So, which part of English virtues is inherent and what is affectation? The court system? Would it matter what colonial law protects the banana thief or corporate miscreant or the emphasis should be on a functional and independent judiciary system? Colonial model of English law and order is immune from bribery and corruption? If language colonialism is a genetic marker for good or bad stewardship, Cameroon and Nigeria would not have competed for top honors on Transparency International's shit list. Or you want English Constitution of Lords and Commons? Then, Francophone Benin and Mali would not be among the better democracies in Africa, when Sierra Leone went belly up.
Real Revolt For Freedom?
America, a former colony of Britain, went to great lengths to differentiate its systems, even banning class titles and constitutionalizing the separation of church and state. Here, we have our very Bantu brethrens talking tautology about ancestral rights to colonial cultural inheritance. Here we go: Phase B of the plebiscite that was supposed to be enforced in Foumban Accords by virtue UN Resolution 1608 (XV) as envisioned in UN General Assembly Resolution 1352 (XIV) - So help them God? Wonderful!
People, there is no morality to be deduced from an immoral passage of colonial history. You cannot capture a people and hold their truths in treaties to be self-evident that colonial trappings shall forever identify all former natives.
At the dawn of the so-called Independence, there were two distinct schools of thoughts in colonial Africa. The progressive block resisted the yokes of oppressions dispensed by colonialism. It sought intellectual and cultural authenticity. On the other hand, colonial apologists shared the mentality of their colonizers on the necessity to accept the paths beaten, and systems influenced, by colonial tutelage. That is why you have some lamenting over the British not being present to coax the Southern side during the Foumban Accords for pure and equal Federation, or the presence of French handlers guiding Ahidjo in the manipulation of non-understandings. Who has heard of people prime for real independence needing to be schooled by their colonial captors in the ways of independence negotiations?
In Cameroon, Reuben Um Nyobe from the French speaking region, who founded the UPC on April 14, 1948, typified the progressives. A French missionary called Jean Paul Aujoulat and representative in the "Palais Bourbon" resisted independent nationalists and urged assimilation or acculturalizaton based on colonial bequeath. Thus emerged the Rebeunists and Aujoulatists. Nyobe was assassinated in 1958 for his unbridle drive towards authentic and legitimate self-determination. His name is an unavoidable reference if we speak of liberation. But because this acknowledgment would debunk the AngloNetters' deception of inherent Anglophone versus Francophone dichotomy, they skipped to 1960s United Nations as the "Era of Self Determination."
For all practical intents and purposes these men - Hon. Ahmadou Ahidjo, Hon. S. T. Muna, Hon. Foncha, Hon Endeley, Chief Manga Williams of Bimbia and Fon Galega II of Bali who were Southern Cameroon representatives in the Enugu in the 1940s -- were honorables of questionable spines and unquestionably Aujoulatists. They would not have been leaders if they were not colonial stooges. No veritable independent African leader could survive neocolonial tests and coup d'etats.
Granted, in 1953, in a "Declaration of Benevolent Neutrality" Southern Cameroons Representatives walked out from the Eastern House of Assembly in Enugu. This was a protest against socioeconomic and political dominance under the same colonial tutelage -- a shift in the master's vineyard; not exactly a courageous move to dis-invest themselves from colonial bondage and mentality. That was the opportune time to stage any kind of restoration movement.
Or why didn't they walk out when Cameroon's Federal system was dissolved in 1972? Instead, Anglophone leaders certified or ratified the dissolution by their effective move from Buea, the regional capital, to Yaounde, the united capital. Chickens. In law, if you give the impression that something is, and people act based on that assumption, you cannot expect immunity from culpability. Whether an Act of Federation or Union exists in paper document or not, that is mute. Statue of limitation does not even arise.
Question: So what real tears are to be shed if Francophone lackey Ahidjo outfoxed the other Anglophone lackeys - Muna and Foncha in "birds of the same feathers in a theater of the miscued, colonial apologists" and the sum game is still net neocolonialism? Let us not forget that the Anglophone lackeys were equally comfortable and represented all Cameroonians as ministers, ambassadors, etc., in their lofty and exalted positions in the name of United Cameroon. They did not cry foul. Not until they were replaced by newer Anglo lackeys, lost their positions, access and influence did they change from Saul to Paul in repentance and all things liberating. Confession is good and healthy but it does not redefine the sin.
Prayerfully, the Hail Mary snowball chance in hell chiming from the sanctuary of the colonial hopefuls is that Britain can/should throw its weight behind them in a battle of liberation for having colonized them in the first place. Amen. Wake up from the slumber party - Britain and France are more concerned with common European citizenship and integration. Somebody must be smoking the wrong pipe, while reading more into fringe sympathetic sentiments to think Britain can intervene to influence geographical dispensation in Cameroon. Neither would the UN revisit territorial sanctity on what is an internal brouhaha and whahala.
People, the challenge of the day is for those with the guts and intestinal fortitude to stand up to the colonial lackeys of either side - English or French - and avenge the honor of our forefathers. We shall never go back to boundaries that demarcate Cameroonians in two colonial camps. Reason and tide are on our side.
People, think for yourself and posterity. A colonial option is a choice between a rock and a hard place; not liberation. It would be embalming Cameroon in perpetual colonial divide. Where is the ingenuity, the indigenous institutions, the self-mastery that authenticate liberation? When we begin to identify them, we shall be liberated! Craft one that reflects indigenous structures, you will be on your way to true liberation and become a model for African Renaissance.
* The Title and Subs are by Postwatchmagazine.
After trampling through the rights of self-determination and dignity of the people of Ambazonia {formerly called, the United Nations Trust territory of the Southern Cameroons under United Kingdom Administration} you finally arrived at the point where you defined the problem by these words "The CAMEROONIAN REALITY"!
--quote
The Cameroonian Reality
This task is not a Francophone or Anglophone problem. There is no study to show that ordinary French speaking residents in Ebolowa enjoy a higher standard of living and political power than ordinary people in English speaking Bamenda. The small business woman in English Muea needs micro loans just like her counterpart in French Kribi. The appointment of proportionate Anglophones and Francophones to marketing - cocoa, coffee, banana boards; ministerial posts; ambassadorial posts, etc. does not help the ordinary citizen -- as Condi and Powell do not uplift the economic index in the African American community. These are good symbolic gestures, depending on the pleasure of the ruling party and partisan allegiances. The onus is for Francophones and Anglophones not to be distracted by artificial boundaries and focus on core issues of development in a spirit of parity and justice for all, and responsibility and accountability from all.
--unquote
So what is so valuable about this CAMEROONIAN reality, which based on that evil ideology of pan-cameroon pre-determinism, has already sanctioned that to be "forcibly frenchified" by the dominant Cameronian assimilationist system is normal for the anglophone 'minority'?
Is this the CAMEROONIAN REALITY the people of Ambazonia should simply meekly sit down and accept? And to make a claim that the linguistic monolithic "HAOUSAS SPEAKING" people of West Africa Sahel region stand a better chance for invoking a right of their nationality than the people of Ambazonia is certainly an abuse of the logic of relative analogy!
The people of AMBAZONIA, regardless of their multiple ethnicities and disparate approach to their independence quest still must be recognized as the sovereign state which they were before being annexed by the Republic of Cameroon. The facts are irrefutable that the "Southern Cameroons Government" was a sovereign state as soon as they elected their own Government by 1959, and add to that, the irreversible termination of the Trusteeship of this territory in September 30 1960. These are facts which no stretch of the ethno-LINGUISTIC rationale for the creation of a HOAUSA STATE OF SAHEL can ever match! Maybe you need to present us an argument how the Republic Niger and the Northern Nigerian ethnically related states can make a case for an independent state. However, it is a known trick in the logic of argument to invoke but the sterile logic of the relativity of TRUTH by presenting false analogies, which is what your article essentially has done, than to make a concrete case based on the absoluteness of the TRUTH.
But thanks to the resilience of the Ambazonian people, we will continue to build the momentum towards accumulating POWER to our people. Power is what we know we lack, and what we know we must have and what we know Cameroon entirely depends on for its occupation our Ambazonia. The formation of the AMBAZONIA LIBERATION PARTY {ALIP} has been created to permanently solve this weakness. ALIP is for every Ambazonia and is there to integrate as one people and one nation as one state, the mosaic of linguistic and ethnic realities which is the make up AMBAZONIA. This is in no way impossibility since this is also the REALITY in Cameroon as well as the rest of the other African states.
Let peace and prosperity reign for all peoples in our world by making sure that JUSTICE reigns for all of them and not only for some of them. This is the way to go, not what is taking place in Ambazonia, with the colonization of our people by the Republic of Cameroon.
Posted by: Edwin Ngang | July 24, 2004 at 12:46 PM
After trampling through the rights of self-determination and dignity of the people of Ambazonia {formerly called, the United Nations Trust territory of the Southern Cameroons under United Kingdom Administration} you finally arrived at the point where you defined the problem by these words "The CAMEROONIAN REALITY"!
--quote
The Cameroonian Reality
This task is not a Francophone or Anglophone problem. There is no study to show that ordinary French speaking residents in Ebolowa enjoy a higher standard of living and political power than ordinary people in English speaking Bamenda. The small business woman in English Muea needs micro loans just like her counterpart in French Kribi. The appointment of proportionate Anglophones and Francophones to marketing - cocoa, coffee, banana boards; ministerial posts; ambassadorial posts, etc. does not help the ordinary citizen -- as Condi and Powell do not uplift the economic index in the African American community. These are good symbolic gestures, depending on the pleasure of the ruling party and partisan allegiances. The onus is for Francophones and Anglophones not to be distracted by artificial boundaries and focus on core issues of development in a spirit of parity and justice for all, and responsibility and accountability from all.
--unquote
So what is so valuable about this CAMEROONIAN reality, which based on that evil ideology of pan-cameroon pre-determinism, has already sanctioned that to be "forcibly frenchified" by the dominant Cameronian assimilationist system is normal for the anglophone 'minority'?
Is this the CAMEROONIAN REALITY the people of Ambazonia should simply meekly sit down and accept? And to make a claim that the linguistic monolithic "HAOUSAS SPEAKING" people of West Africa Sahel region stand a better chance for invoking a right of their nationality than the people of Ambazonia is certainly an abuse of the logic of relative analogy!
The people of AMBAZONIA, regardless of their multiple ethnicities and disparate approach to their independence quest still must be recognized as the sovereign state which they were before being annexed by the Republic of Cameroon. The facts are irrefutable that the "Southern Cameroons Government" was a sovereign state as soon as they elected their own Government by 1959, and add to that, the irreversible termination of the Trusteeship of this territory in September 30 1960. These are facts which no stretch of the ethno-LINGUISTIC rationale for the creation of a HOAUSA STATE OF SAHEL can ever match! Maybe you need to present us an argument how the Republic Niger and the Northern Nigerian ethnically related states can make a case for an independent state. However, it is a known trick in the logic of argument to invoke but the sterile logic of the relativity of TRUTH by presenting false analogies, which is what your article essentially has done, than to make a concrete case based on the absoluteness of the TRUTH.
But thanks to the resilience of the Ambazonian people, we will continue to build the momentum towards accumulating POWER to our people. Power is what we know we lack, and what we know we must have and what we know Cameroon entirely depends on for its occupation our Ambazonia. The formation of the AMBAZONIA LIBERATION PARTY {ALIP} has been created to permanently solve this weakness. ALIP is for every Ambazonia and is there to integrate as one people and one nation as one state, the mosaic of linguistic and ethnic realities which is the make up AMBAZONIA. This is in no way impossibility since this is also the REALITY in Cameroon as well as the rest of the other African states.
Let peace and prosperity reign for all peoples in our world by making sure that JUSTICE reigns for all of them and not only for some of them. This is the way to go, not what is taking place in Ambazonia, with the colonization of our people by the Republic of Cameroon.
Posted by: Edwin Ngang | July 24, 2004 at 12:48 PM
Enjoyed Evelyne Joe's piece. If only she could resist the temptation to use invectives when describing those she is criticizing. From her piece, I now understand why the NW and SW provinces will not act in unison. Strange that it was a Nigerian who directed me to this site!
Good job ladies and gentlemen. Looking forward to your next pieces.
Edwin
Posted by: Edwin Tatah | October 04, 2005 at 11:54 AM