Thanks Mr. Mentan for this brief but complete reply to Mr. Tchucham. I will only venture to add that Mr. Tchucham does not seem to understand the whole issue of Anglophones in Cameroon. Once he understands that it is not simply a question of language. It is a question of national institutions like the education and legal system. Let him understand for example that the common law system that is supposed to be practiced in the NW & SW and the French civil law system that applies in Francophone Cameroon (though colonially inherited) have come to stay.
The Francophones as a political bloc in Cameroon are the same, an extension of the Ahidjo/Biya rule that will not alter the status quo. All these issues are more that bad governance that Tchucham is pontificating in his write up.
Mbeseha
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Sent: Wednesday, November 28, 2012 12:11 PM
Subject: Re: [cameroon_politics] Open Letter to FRANCOPHONE Cameroonians (Need for Translation)
My Dear Mr. Bonaventure Tchucham,
I wish to thank you for this confession:
"It is when our "Anglophone" fellow Countrymen joined a movement that it really turned bitter for the gendarms or the militaries! Becoz the guys were just too fearless and incredibly resolved, girls and boys all alike!!!!! You should have seen that!!!!"Questions:
So you want the socalled "too fearless and incredibly resolved, girls and boys all alike" Anglophones to continue fighting for you?
When the perpetrators of evil embark on cancelling the GCE in favor of the internationally doomed "BAC", do you socalled Francophones join the socalled Anglophones in fighting for the survival of the internationally recognized GCE?
When you talk of unity, ask yourself: unting what and for what purpose?
When others condemn rule-by-decree,the others claim that "nous voulons un état fort, un état capable de prendre les décisions souvereignement". Do you ever ask: to protect who? and against who?
How many Francophones have demonstrated against the rape of Victoria (socalled Limbe) by the SONARA while paying taxes to Douala City Council?
How many Francophones have protested against the destruction of the natural seaport in Victoria to waste away 6 billions frs. in draining the Wouri port every year?
Have you asked why one should leave Bamenda for Buea and pass through Bafoussam-Douala instead of through Mamfe and Kumba?
My dear Tchucham, many of us have lived this political hooliganism and we understand the lows and highs of it all. Examples are not in limted supply.
Let the others sit down and ask: "on va faire comment?" so that their jackasses will fight and be killed so that they can survive and "enjoy".
Thanks kindly,
Tatah Mentan
Human Community=Human Communication=Human Productivity
I was led to understand the value of my anger and my desire to speak out, through these words from Mary Catherine Hilkert, a Dominican theologian. She wrote in Speaking with Authority: Catherine of Siena and the Voices of Women Today:
"Sometimes the words of protest are the only words we can speak clearly in the face of complex forces of evil woven into the fabric of our lives and world. We cannot always see or name the way forward. Further, no liberation front or political or social program can be identified with the reign of God. But even the cry of protest is a word of grace that moves us to resistance and to searching for another way. The beginning of finding a new path is speaking the truth of what clearly is not God's will for human life …."
"Sometimes the words of protest are the only words we can speak clearly in the face of complex forces of evil woven into the fabric of our lives and world. We cannot always see or name the way forward. Further, no liberation front or political or social program can be identified with the reign of God. But even the cry of protest is a word of grace that moves us to resistance and to searching for another way. The beginning of finding a new path is speaking the truth of what clearly is not God's will for human life …."
From: Bonaventure Tchucham <tchucham@yahoo.fr>
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Sent: Wednesday, November 28, 2012 10:10 AM
Subject: Re: [cameroon_politics] Open Letter to FRANCOPHONE Cameroonians (Need for Translation)
Errata!!!
Please read:
- "(...) but why dont they quit?" and not "what"
- Also: "In this regards, are they any different from their colleagues of the other "francophone" areas?Thx!Bonaventure Tchucham
Chercheur AssociéInstitut für Berufs- und WeiterbildungUniversité Duisburg-EssenAllemagnehttp://www.uni-due.de/biwi/bawb/tchuchamLes deux clefs principales de la Science:"Il n'y a qu'une seule Loi, et Celui qui travaille est Un.Rien n'est petit, rien n'est grand dans l'économie divine.""Les hommes sont des dieux mortels
Et les dieux sont des hommes immortels."
Leçon du parcours initiatique de l'adepte dans l'Egypte antique.
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Envoyé le : Mercredi 28 novembre 2012 16h48
Objet : Re: [cameroon_politics] Open Letter to FRANCOPHONE Cameroonians (Need for Translation)
My dear felow countryman Mishe,are you serious? Is there - comparatively speaking - any people of Cameroon who would not make the claim of being victim of the government of Collaborators who have accepted to serve foreign interests in the place of the interests of their People?The only real issue is: How can we all join forces and throw out that bunch of criminals who have taken our country in hostage?By the way, aren't you making it too easy for those Anglophone elites who have accepted flap seats in the system that according to you exploits the "Anglophones"? Aren't they too just as collaborators as their "Francophone" accomplices? You state that they control "nothing"! It might be true, but what don't they quit? Do they have an "anglophone" Consciounsness and are they willing to defend "anglophone" interests? In this regards, are they any different from their other "francophone" areas? Insn't their collaboration in the government of Cameroon affecting the common fate of Camerooninas as a whole?!Dear Mishe, I do not even want to raise the issue of the identity of the People of Cameroons, that you arbitrarily categorize into "Anglophones" and "Francophones", although they do not speak english or french in majority and despite the fact that they have their own native culture which show very similar patterns in many regards according to the area in which they are located. It is not because a lazy government has chosen the easiest solution by adopting french and english as official languages that the People of our Country should be doomed "Anglophones" or "Francophones"!! It is very inappropriate and unfortunate to read that under the pen of a sound Gentleman!! And if "Anglophones" set out from their native craddle to go and leave in the "Francophone" areas, it is just because it is their COUNTRY! So do ALL other Cameroonians!!! There's no other reason!But just answer these small questions, that I have already asked my Pa'a Aaron in the past on this same issue:- What do you think of the rise of a Cameroon that would grant equal chances and same opportunities to all its Children irrespective their tribal or area of origin?- Do you believe a Country like that one is worth fighting for?- Do you think that OUR GENERATION should take that struggle, or should we remain prisoners of the division strategy that traces its roots back to the colonial era?- Do you think that an Abazonian Republic will make that much difference in the fate of the Cameroonians living in the NW/SW region of OUR Country, that is, that Ambazonia will be the promise land where milk and hony flow in abundance and where there's no mourn, no tears and no trouble anymore?- Do you believe Cameroonians from the eastern part of Our Country to be so wicked and so bent on cruelty that there's no chance whatsoever for a common, brotherly and peaceful future with their Fellow Countrymen from the western part?- Don't you see that there's a New GENERATION OF ALL CAMEROONIANS FROM ANY SIDE that is aware of the injusticies generated by the old generation and that is willing to break ALL the barriers put between them by the evil system that continues to imped OUR COMMON prosperity?"- Is it not so that the majority of Cameroonians, notwithanding their area of birth, long for a Country that recognizes them as Citizen with equal rights and duties?In the nineties, we were at the Yaounde University fighting side-by-side, "Anglophones" and "Francophones" together, longing for such a country!!!! And let me confess something to you: It is when our "Anglophone" fellow Countrymen joined a movement that it really turned bitter for the gendarms or the militaries! Becoz the guys were just too fearless and incredibly resolved, girls and boys all alike!!!!! You should have seen that!!!!So when considering the "Anglophone" issue in Cameroon, I cannot refrain myself from comparing it to the miserable condition of the youth in Cameroon, who are so desperate that they live to Europe for a hopefully better future; of the farmers, who in old age must face misery and hunger although they have worked hard their lifelong and brought up children, caring for their education just to see them end as jobless; of the women, whose condition in Our Country still need to be seriously cared of; of the former civil servants, who after retirement must fight hard to deserve the pension they're entitled to; all those who experience that same feeling of being "mercilessly SCREWED" and considered "Second Class Cameroonians"!!!!!!!!The "Anglophone" issue is therefore not a singularity in the Cameroon landscape of misery!!!!!!!For this reason, shoudn't WE ALL advocate a Union of ALL facing the same INJUSTICIES so as to join our forces to fight the same common ennemy. Just like the Cameroonian opposion who regularly fails to unseat the system in Yaounde because they can never comme out as a united body and speak with one voice, the Cameroonian People will fail in their effort to conquer their liberties and their right of self determination if they go asunder instead of uniting! The freedoms that Cameroonians enjoy today have been fought for by "Anglophones" and "francophones" together!!!The Call of Kwame Nkrumah in the sixties to his other african peers still resons in the air today "WE MUST UNITE OR PERISH"!!!!In times where the survival of People everywhere in the world resides in the formation of powerful continental blocks, it is quite a strange thing to call for division where unity should be the rule. The aspiration of Africans and their chance to escape recolonization reside in the formation of the United States of Africa without which we are doomed to slavery! Is there any place for divisions in that vision?I suggest to think about it!Patriotically,Bonaventure Tchucham
Chercheur AssociéInstitut für Berufs- und WeiterbildungUniversité Duisburg-EssenAllemagnehttp://www.uni-due.de/biwi/bawb/tchuchamLes deux clefs principales de la Science:"Il n'y a qu'une seule Loi, et Celui qui travaille est Un.Rien n'est petit, rien n'est grand dans l'économie divine.""Les hommes sont des dieux mortels
Et les dieux sont des hommes immortels."
Leçon du parcours initiatique de l'adepte dans l'Egypte antique.From: Mishe Fon <mishefon@yahoo.com>
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Sent: Tuesday, November 27, 2012 11:35 PM
Subject: [cameroon_politics] Open Letter to FRANCOPHONE Cameroonians
To My Francophone Cameroonian Brothers and Sisters: I AM VERY ANGRYNot so fast. You may be the only ones who do not realize or accept that there are two distinct Cameroons: Francophone and Anglophone. Whether this is a historical error by those who colonized us or not is totally immaterial in this discussion. Decree or no Decree, Anglophones make up what is now known as the NW and SW Regions while the Francophones constitute the rest. It becomes a matter of stylistics when you delve into irrelevant epistles like; Anglophones are in Yaounde, Douala and other major Cameroon cities. Where did you want them to be? To Die "Hungry" in their impoverished (by the diktats of Francophone controlled Government unproductive policies) Provinces? Even in the Yaounde and Douala that you claim Anglophones are resident...Are they still not considered as "Second Class Cameroonians"? Because Francophones take one Figure Head and put as Prime Minister, Anglophones should now jump up and claim effective reunification? For Whia?Are you crazy? What powers does Yang Philemon really control? Can he appoint even a Chief of Service? Can he decide on anything without the usual "One Party Mentality Slogan"..."By Orders of the Head Of State, the supreme Commander of the Armed Forces, Distinguished Leader of our Party, the Father of Cameroon Nation, Founder of Advanced Democracy, publisher of Pour le Liberalisme Communautaire, Chief of Chiefs, Doctor Honoris Causa, his Excellency President"..Bla Bla Bla . You tell me, Mr POKAM Pat10 and other Francophones who think like you (I know you are a Francophone and may see that as normal but); who starts and ends every sentence like the one above and still has any INDEPENDENT THINKING available in his cerebellum.The Francophones started putting Anglophones as Prime Minister after ODONTOL (SARDOU HAYATOU) organized the Tripartite SCAM in Yaounde and was already projecting himself as "Presidential Material". Remember before him was AYANG LUC (who has been forgotten there at one useless office some where around Ngoa Ekelle called Conseil Economic et Social); then BELLO BOUBA MY-GARRI (who also wanted to be president so badly that he suspected himself of having participated in the Toupouri Military Coup Plot to oust Biya and ran away to Nigeria before metamorphing into a UNDP/CPDM clone). His predecessor PM actually was tonton BIYA himself. Bello Bouba is actually one of the reasons why Anglophones will and should never trust Francophones.Anyways; so the Francophones decided that due to the "Passive nature" of Anglophones "Who Should Never contemplate being President of Cameroon"...Let us Give them the Post of Prime Minister. PERIOD.After serious debates, they capitulated to Biya's idea and Pa ACHIDI ACHU was born. In the process, the small Powers that hitherto PM,s wield was completely removed and to further control the poor Baforchu man, he was slammed TWO Vice Prime Ministers; a certain Bangangte man called NIAT NJIPENDI (who never relinquished his lucrative job as DeGe of SONEL) and I think the other guy was AHMADOU ALI. So "vat to do?" Our broda sensing that "wata don pass garri" transformed the Prime Ministers Residence into circus of Cultural Displays and artifacts. Every Saturday at the Lake Side Residence, we were "Partying" like nonsense. To crown the Circus, Paul Biya appointed him as Campaign Manager for the rigged Presidential Elections of that era to knock off his Santa brother and rival NI JOHN FRU NDI of the SDF who was very popular in Bamenda circles at that time. That is how names like Forjindam, John B Ndeh, Atanga, Abety Peter, Nico Halle(and other CPDM hawks) came into the limelight.Enter PM Ngia Mola PETER MAFANY MUSONGE (and the rivalry and hatred between the two sister Provinces of NW & SW goes public and nuclear...the NW angry that dem dom move garri 4 we mop and the SW happy that "make dem kommot, dem own kam no go don too much"). Meanwhile Pa is still DeGe of CDC until he himself suggested his replacement by his smol broad, Band-Boy Njalla Kwan.Enter Mola Chief INONI EPHRAIM (self proclaimed Bakingili Chief) confirmed technocrat and someone who had actually meandered the Francophone Civil structure...could not do JACK because he had subordinates who were more powerful than he was. He could not even chair nor call a Cabinet meeting without approval from his Francophone bosses.Enter PHILEMON YANG (the "moumou=discret Diplomat from Kumbo" poor guy had been hiding/forgotten as an Ambassador quietly there in Canada for about twenty something years, doing his small deals and chopping his life awaiting retirement and BOOM...You are the PM of Cameroon). Go and ask him; He will tell you the truth. The man has no Powers to do anything. The Francophones are in charge. Anglophones are eternal second fiddles.Adjoints de ceci, Adjoints de cela. WHY? Some man na Ngrung Beep?In conclusion, the Francophones have mercilessly SCREWED Anglophones for far too long and I can assure you, this will have to stop...VERY SOON. We call that in Political Science (which I never studied) Humanistic Existential Political Conundrum (HEPC). It is either you accept this as a fact and we sit down and TALK AS EQUALS and come to reasonable mature conclusions or face the eventual consequences. Enough is Enough. We are not your slaves. The ball is in the camp of all Francophones who are playing a game of the Ostrich here. For those Anglophones who feel there is nothing wrong with the status quo because they are "Chopping with the Big Guys; I have one word for you also: SHUT THE FUCK UP.Remember, we have not even started to discuss the plundering of our Natural resources (SONARA, CDC etc).Mishe Fon
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