Re: A New All Anglophone Conference Every Two Years

Dr. Mofor succeeds very well in presenting his vision of the problem. He is instinctively Southern Cameroonian but errs in thinking that things could be changed  within the existing system despite the weight of occupation. I don't think his thesis merits the derogatory remark about his education. Godlove --- On Fri, 4/26/13, Sama Thomas Achoa <atsoah@gmail.com> wrote: From: Sama Thomas Achoa <atsoah@gmail.com> Subject: Re: A New All Anglophone Conference Every Two Years To: "ambasbay@googlegroups.com" <ambasbay@googlegroups.com> Date: Friday, April 26, 2013, 4:54 AM Dr Tse Mofor with all due respect sir a point of correction. Please you cannot secede from anything that you are not part of it, Sir the  Southern Cameroons has never been part of LRDC that you can say the Southern Cameroons now wants to secede from it. Please South Sudan seceded from Sudan because it was part and parcel of that country but for our case we have never been part of any damn country in this world what so ever. Mr Tse Mofor does colonialism makes the the colonized land part of the colonial power? If your answer to this question is yes why is it that the colonial powers that were in Africa some fifty years ago are no longer laying claims over the territory's they colonized as part of their various country's? Mr Tse Mofor it seems i am seeing a title behind your Name[Dr] is that title that of a traditional doctor or that of a well schooled person, if it is that of an educated person then my brother i will like to propose to you that you should get back to the classroom so as to get some basics there before contributing anything here as concern the Southern Cameroons Mr brother the task of educating the the unborn is on our soldiers are we sure we are ready to pass onto the young ones a true picture of who we are? For you can only offer what you have no more no less, the future of the Southern Cameroons is on a very shaky foundation, why on a shaky foundation those who have gotten the opportunity to go to school in the Southern Cameroons are the worst type of people that i can ever sit and think of, what is really wrong with us? My God My God why have you forsaken us? Please come to our aid amen. Sama Thomas Atsoah. On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 2:53 AM, Aleuh <baleng03@ymail.com> wrote: A New All Anglophone Conference Every Two Years Thursday, April 18, 2013 By Dr. A. Che Mofor   CameroonPostline.com --  The All Anglophone Conference that held in 1993 in Buea was a great idea that was successfully realised; however, it failed to seek long-term solutions to the Anglophone problem in Cameroon for three major reasons:   1.    It was a single event that never had a reliable long-term strategy: There was no follow-up of this conference. There were no long-term mile stones and no binding elements for profitable long-term sustainability of the struggle. So we are talking about the event AAC 20 years ago and not about achievements of the AAC 20 years later.   2.    The government of Cameroon did its best to frustrate any plans that resulted from the AAC: I do not think any reasonable Anglophone Cameroonian expected the government of Cameroon to succumb to the resolutions of the AAC and facilitate the demanded political and administrative changes. We must recon with this behaviour in future.   3.    Struggle for leadership amongst Anglophones. This led to division even within pressure groups like the SCNC. The "Zero Option" that led to the creation of SCNC did not outline a long-term and pragmatic strategy to improve the Anglophone situation through the SCNC. There were conflicts of ideas and of interests amongst the leaders which led to disillusioned followers as the Anglophone groups could not deliver what they promised. The SDF is not an Anglophone party but it is also facing a similar problem of disillusioned followers in my view. At the time the AAC was held in 1993, I was in Form 5 at the then Government Secondary School Buea (Bokwaongo). I can remember the remarkable movement of Anglophone dignitaries from all parts of Cameroon to Buea. We heard great names like Simon Munzu, Ekontang Elad, Carlson Anyangwe and many prominent Anglophone writers like George Ngwane and Bate Bisong. My teachers also participated at this historic conference at Mount Mary. They gave us feedback in the classrooms and we were so proud of the success in organising that conference to discuss and plan our future. We were confident that the future shall be more promising for us, but we were too young to understand things or contribute to the discussions.   When I look at the status quo twenty years later, I am so deeply saddened why that wonderful event failed to yield the fruits it anticipated even 20 years later. What lessons have we learnt for the past 20 years? Anglophone marginalisation has persisted in all possible forms. The Anglophone regions remain very underdeveloped with respect to the exploited and available resources; they have little or no say in the politics of the nation and even in the politics of their own region.   In my opinion, our French-speaking brothers and sisters have equally not experienced much development since independence. I attribute all this to the poor post-colonial leadership that serves its master and not its people. You can already see that I am not an advocate for secession of the English-speaking part of our beloved nation, but I strongly believe that the Anglophones have a true cause and reason to device an approach to develop their region and prepare a better future for their children. Our French-speaking brothers who are already learning and copying a lot from us shall still copy from us in future. The bottom line is that we need improvement in our lives; reliable medical system, social security and predictable future. I must point out that our fathers and mothers who spear-headed all these Anglophone movements in the life-threatening atmosphere in the 90's fought a good fight in our interest. It is time for younger generations to learn from whatever mistakes they made and continue the struggle. It is also high time for our parents and grandparents to make way for new dynamic ideas that will take the struggle to higher grounds, while significantly improving in the development of our region and the life our people. It is in this regard that I hereby suggest a regular All Anglophone Conference that will bring together torch-bearing English-speaking Cameroonians from all over the territory and the Diaspora to meet on regular basis (probably biannually) to discuss the Anglophone problem, create working groups for all possible domains, develop strategies, define milestones, follow-up their realisation, evaluate the results, and plan their improvements. By so doing, we will harmonise all our expertise at home and abroad in all domains of life and face the Anglophone problem at all fronts.   Considering that the AAC's focus was mainly political, the limitations of which we already know, the new (regular) AAC shall not only focus on politics, but shall also work towards facilitating political decisions through and alongside progress in our economic sector, medical sector, technology, research and education etc. Through all possible working groups that shall work hand-in-hand, one of which shall also be the politics working group.   As you know, this is not going to be easy because of the centralised administrative system that has been planted in Cameroon as all authorisations come from Yaounde. I wish to note here that the so-called decentralisation policy has failed because there is no decentralisation in Cameroon. However, I strongly believe that this approach shall work out strategies to realise significant progress in our region.   Please bear with me that I would not list any strategies here but be sure that we can face the challenges. The result will be that we shall plant good seeds in our region as we did with our educational system that is being copied by our French-speaking counterparts, because of the numerous advantages we have internationally. These seeds shall in the long-run grow to different parts of the country but we shall always be at the forefront. This suggestion goes to all Anglophones at home and in the Diaspora and their leaders. If we think that this idea can support our struggle, then we should be thinking on calling and organising the next All Anglophone Conference.   First published in The Post print edition no 01424   Source: http://www.cameroonpostline.com/Content.aspx?ModuleID=2&ItemID=9886   Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once.  William Shakespeare.  -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "ambasbay" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to ambasbay+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.     -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "ambasbay" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to ambasbay+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.

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