Open Letter to Mr Edwin Ngang: 53 Years Later: Recreating a Community Spirit and an Identity Re: [cameroon_politics] Re: To not have a SUSTAINABLE "people's based emancipation" agenda (( not the...

53 Years Later: Recreating a Community Spirit and an Identity
Dear Mr Edwin Ngang
I write in reaction to your post of yesterday wherein you used words
like Pan-Cameroon (an escalation from your usual Pan-Kamerun) and then
you bemoaned something I had stated before that our people no longer
have a community and an identity: Reason why they cannot express
their right to self-determination fully.
In fact, I agree with you totally on the above.
But I believe that a committed person and an activist like you can
show leadership by recreating that sense of community and preserving
that identity.
One of my Pastors, Dr. Myles Monroe defines leadership as follows:
"Leadership is the capacity to influence others through inspiration
motivated by passion, generated by vision, produced by a conviction,
ignited by a purpose."
Yes, you can and I will show you how.
I take the calculated risk of making this public because I believe
that every Southern Cameroonian at home and abroad should get involved
in this. Compatriots, wherever you are, show leadership in this and
you would have struck a blow for us all.
Let us start doing this yesterday.
Groups do not matter.
Start this wherever you are and wherever you belong.
Once more: "Leadership is the capacity to influence others through
inspiration motivated by passion, generated by vision, produced by a
conviction, ignited by a purpose."
Inventing Southern Cameroons Incorporated.
Start now, start today.
Look around you.
Create a Precinct of Southern Cameroonians.
Every precinct must have 20 members only. And, in the Wide USA you can
create as many Precincts as a Mighty One like you can. Initially just
get together once a Week to talk, share and discuss as a People.
Discuss you country, its future, its problems and its future.
Then do this very essential thing: Elect a Precinct Chairman, a
Permanent Secretary a Treasurer and a Financial Secretary.
Start a Microfinance scheme going.
Save $10 per head every week for both the men and women and $5 per
head for every child, even the yet-to-be born.
What if you are - and I think you are - this Might One who can create
2000 Precincts in the USA? I repeat every precinct must have only 20
members and hence the saving round can only last 20 weeks.
Move the 21st member into a New Precinct even if Precinct 02 meets in
the same place.
This is not a Njangi.
This is buying shares into an Eternal, Undying company called Southern
Cameroons Incorporated.
And shares are not to be mismanaged.
80% of the shares belong to the precinct while 20% belong to the
state: Call it taxes but these taxes will be managed by the Secretary
for the Treasury and the Head of Government Business. We will
eventually see if these shares can be bought and sold.
Precincts will eventually be transformed into Local Government Areas
and then Counties but we would have started a form of economic
emancipation at grassroots. That sense of independence will flow
naturally.
We will be shooting many birds with one stone especially capturing
hearts. See the principle of capturing hearts: Mt 6:21 For where your
treasure is, there will your heart be also. Lu 12:34 For where your
treasure is, there will your heart be also.
I know this for fact. We will have invented for ourselves a strong
community, an identity and a sense of A PEOPLE once we have the
possible 350.000 precincts available up and working. Mr. Ngang, have
you considered how much money we can raise if we have 350.000
precincts at home and in the Diaspora saving maximum $ 10 a week?
That is weekly savings of $3.500.000!
Then we can take care of our business easily.
The State can easily come to the rescue of those in need.
But more importantly, the Head of Government Business can provide very
important services to the people.
This is self-government, despite and in spite of the colonizer.
The One Recruit One Formula
Mr. Ngang, the ONE-RECRUIT ONE Formula in Missionary work has been
known to evangelize 2.000.000 people in 20 Days. We can pass a message
to the population of Southern Cameroons and more in 23 days!
Power Politics, Structural and Cultural Violence, Economic Cleansing
Mr. Ngang, I believe that you are unfair to our people when you bemoan
and rather blame them for the effects of a Pan-Kamerun (Cameroun)
syndrome rather that understanding how it comes about. The colonizer
is now indulging in what I term Power Politics and the subjugation of
the Southern Cameroons. Power politics is a form of structural
violence. The coloniser also indulges in a form of structural violence
called cultural violence.
Structural violence is a term commonly ascribed to Johan Galtung,
which he introduced in the article "Violence, Peace, and Peace
Research" in 1969.[1] It refers to a form of violence where some
social structure or social institution may harm people by preventing
them from meeting their basic needs. 'Cultural violence' refers to
aspects of culture that can be used to justify or legitimize direct or
structural violence, and may be exemplified by religion and ideology,
language and art, empirical science and formal science.[3]
Cultural violence makes direct and structural violence look or feel
"right," or at least not wrong, according to Galtung.[4]
Wikepedia defines power politics as a state of international relations
in which states protect their own interests by threatening potential
rivals and insurgents with military, economic, or political
aggression.
Power politics is essentially a way of understanding the world of
international relations: nations compete for the resources and it is
to a nation's advantage to be manifestly able to harm others. It
prioritizes national self-interest over the interest of other nations
or the international community.
Techniques of power politics include, but are not limited to, outright
deployment of troops, appointment of proconsuls, conspicuous nuclear
development, pre-emptive strike, blackmail, the massing of military
units on a border, the imposition of tariffs or economic sanctions,
bait and bleed and bloodletting, hard and soft balancing, buck
passing, covert operations, shock and awe, asymmetric warfare.
Extreme power politics can lead to a phenomenon which this study would
want to characterize as economic cleansing. Economic cleansing and
genocide are articulate warfarist strategies. Their exclusionist and
'starve-them-to-death-like rats' modus operandi are common in the
theatre where the 'we versus them' groundswells in individual and
group interactions are never managed through free and fair democratic
competition, the respect of social justice, and the general
live-and-let-live but rather through a modern form of Social Darwinism
- the survival of the fittest. The fittest herein is defined as the
group or aggregate, which through subterfuge, unbelievable luck or by
sheer force, is able to hijack a state and hence control all
resources, events, outcomes and influence.
The Francophonizing Agenda
Every time the colonizer creates a new law affecting Southern
Cameroonians, his intention is not to provide services but to colonize
and dismantle that sense of identity and community extant in the
Southern Cameroons since 1922.
Take an example. When you scrap the Southern Cameroons Parliament in
Buea you are actually saying that henceforth look up to the National
Assembly in Yaounde. When you scrap Powercam, you cause our children
most of whom were born after 1961 to start talking about SONEL. When
they sneak francophonie values into our education system, they cause
our children to be frogs.
There is nothing stealthy about the motives and mores of the
Francophonie. The Francophonie is an overt warfariest agenda. The
Francophonie was invented to expand the influence of France and French
worldwide. At the expense of English and Anglo-Saxon values.
In Cameroun, the main agenda of the Francophonie is to francophonize
Southern Cameroonians. Listen to this, chutzpah from a francophone
minister, a certain Hamadou Moustapha, former Vice -Prime Minister In
charge of Housing and Town Planning, in Jeune Afrique Economie, 207,
20 Nov 1995 page 3:

'A un moment donné' effectivement, on a commencé à oublier que les
anglophones étaient la, on a eu l'impression que les anglophones
s'étaient déjà francophonisés"
Or for a spell we almost forgot that the anglophones were here, we had
the impression that they had been francophonized.
Mr. Ngang, it is today so bad that you cannot create an All-Southern
Cameroonian business. The will move in an either insist that you make
a francophone a shareholder or they tax you out of existence. This has
forced our people to bend over backwards to be snookered in the rear
by francophones.
Hannah Arendt's observation that: "The aim of totalitarian education
has never been to instill convictions, but to destroy the capacity to
form any," can be applied here to mean that the agenda of the
Francophonie has never been to foster English and Anglo-Saxon values
but to efface even the little available.
A people without a state in quest of a state
Mr. Ngang, we can beat the system.
We must recreate the idea of a community, an identity and a nation.
Pastor Chris Oyakhilome says 'the purpose of a nation - every nation -
is the realization of human aspirations. It is in pursuance of man's
dreams and desires for happiness, prosperity, self-expression,
ecological development, self-fulfillment; his unsearchable and
unending desire for self-discovery and the maximization of man's
intellectual, physical and spiritual abilities,' that agglomerates of
people - yesterday, today and tomorrow established nations among
themselves. Man cannot achieve all his aspirations in isolation but in
his relationship with like-minded creatures.'
Like-minded creatures.
The Southern Cameroonian like-mindedness is conferred upon us by what
Ernst Renan argued to be the most important element in a modern
nation: a communal imagined past. Ernst Renan - a Frenchman, for
God's sake - was the also the first to relate the continuum between
nations, their history, nationalism and the will to live together.
Renan's anchor on nationhood as being based on the 'will to live
together' as delivered in the Sorbonne in 1882 remains unchallenged to
date.
The anglophone-francophone experiment in nation-building has failed.
It was a non-starter: dead at inception.
Because there is no likemindedness.
Because there is no will to live together.
Because the other side remains dubious and hell-bent on annexation,
subjugation, assimilation and colonization.
Per Pastor Oyakilome, the purpose of a state - any state - 'is to
provide and establish justice, domestic tranquility, and common
defense; promote general welfare and secure postulated ethnicity. The
state is to enact laws and provide force to ensure that defined limits
that are not exceeded.'
The neo-colonial governing contraption existing in Cameroun since 1960
vindicates all the paradigms of Bertrand de Jouvenel and Oppenheimer's
codification of a state as "a sociological concept." The state,
completely in its genesis . . . is a social institution, forced by a
victorious group of men on a defeated group, with the sole purpose of
regulating the dominion of the victorious group and securing itself
against revolt from within and attacks from abroad. As a result the
new states are forced to organize on military principles. The life of
the state is regimented allegiance. The military by nature is
competitive; hence the state thrives on competition. Teleological,
this competition and ensuing dominion had no other purpose than the
economic exploitation of the vanquished by the victors.
Historically speaking therefore there is not the slightest difficulty
in proving that all contemporary political communities (states etc)
owe their existence to successful warfare.
And de Jouvenel continues, "The state is in essence the result of the
successes achieved by a band of brigands who superimpose themselves on
small, distinct societies." The brigands, by necessity invent for
themselves a head brigand (the Chef or Patron) and exercise power at
the central government because they have the elements of constraint
(army, navy, gendarmerie, airforce, police, secret service, DGRE,
etc.) to do their bidding. Political power grows from the barrel of a
gun said Mao Tse Tung.
We are a people without a state in search of a state and we must find
that state while preserving whatsoever remains of our community, our
identity and our peopleness.
Why must we do this thing?
Because we are like-minded creatures.
Because we are Men of Honour.
Men of Honour do not fail.
Men of Honour do not hand down to their children a small matter that
they can resolve themselves.
Let's do this.
Prophet Ntemfac Ofege
Chair - SCAPO-WAM


On 2/3/14, emmanuelallotey@aol.com <emmanuelallotey@aol.com> wrote:
> Great write-up, Mr. Edwin Ngang.
>
> Sango
>
>
> In a message dated 2/3/2014 11:52:51 A.M. Eastern Standard Time,
> ednngang@yahoo.com writes:
>
>
>
> To not have a SUSTAINABLE "people's based emancipation" agenda (( not the
> ones engineered and managed by the elites )) is to be prone to REACTING
>
> but to the agenda of others. The problem is that we don't even recognize
> that WE HAVE NO CONTROL OVER THEIR AGENDA NOT TO MENTION ANY OUTCOME. One
> reason why we like a drowning man will clink to about anything ... like the
>
> UN granting us independence.
>
>
> SOLUTION: we need a new paradigm shift. A totally new emancipation model
> that taps unto the latent powers we already have -- Our powers of self-
> determination-- so as to be able to being back SANITY, LOGIC, & BEST
> PRACTICE-BASED advocacy into the independence struggle.
>
>
> Right now the emancipation quest is like a rudderless ship running adrift
> in the seas of PAN CAMEROONIA. At best some of us have betted our entire
> fortunes on "legalism" whose outcome we cant control! At worse, there is
> this
> palpable resignation which has open our polity yo be so vulnerable to the
> manipulation of pan-Cameroonism.
>
>
> RECALL: The later is the very problem that made us failed to recognize
> that termination of UN trusteeship tantamount to independence. THEREFORE IT
>
> CAN BE CONCLUDED THAT WE STILL EITHER DO NOT KNOW WHY WE DID GAIN
> INDEPENDENCE WHEN TRUSTEESHIP WAS ENDED, or we do not even care to
> investigate why we
> are today second class citizens inside a country that claims us as Its
> citizens!!!
>
>
> Would we for once be realistic about our demise inside pan-Cameroonia
> today to just admit that the SOUTHERN CAMEROONS got re-colonized by
> Cameroon?
>
>
> This is why! BECAUSE WE OPERATED SOVEREIGNTY POLITICS AS MERE INDIVIDUALS
> DEVOID OF THE SELF-PROPAGATING PROPERTIES OF identity & its accompanying
> nationalism, we for sold the CAMEROONIAN IDENTITY.
>
>
> If you are reading this right now and think the emancipation quest has
> resolved this problem, afterall, isn't coming knowledge that INDEPENDENCE
> is
> the end goal you better think again!!
>
>
> THIS TIME THINK AS THAT INDIVIDUAL WHO IS CONCERNED THAT 53 years and
> counting since missing to recognize that TRUSTEESHIP TERMINATION equals
> INDEPENDENCE for that TRUST TERRITORY, nothing has changed!
>
>
> Ask WHY?
>
> ^**WHY DID THE ENTIRE POLITY OF THE UN TRUSTEESHIP OF THE SOUTHERN
> CAMEROONS MISSED THE TERMINAL INTENT OF UN ARTICLE 76(b)...
> "Self-government and
> independence clause.."?
>
>
> -- Was it because as some said THE United Nations FAILED TO GRANT US
> INDEPENDENCE ?
> -- Was it because as some said THE United Kingdom FAILED TO GRANT US
> INDEPENDENCE ?
>
>
> --THIS KIND OF THINKINGS ONLY GOES TO HIGHLIGHT THAT WE DO NOT KNOW
> "self-interest"!
> (1) Why did the UN through its administering Authority, the UK grant in
> 1956 what technically was "self-rule" through the auspices of HEAD OF
> GOVERNMENT which our own Endelley was in charge?
> (2) Do people know that in 1959, the UK reported to the UN Trusteeship
> managing authority ( THE FOURTH COMMITTEE), paraphrased .. "The Southern
> Cameroons is in no way any different from Nigeria in its progressive
> development
> towards independence.."!
>
>
> (3) Which was why the UK in its preparation to granting independence to
> Nigeria the next year (10/01/1960), by way of developing its base
> constitution, has one similarly developed for the soon-to-be independent
> Southerb
> Cameroons, called CONSTITUTION ORDER-in-COUNCIL!
>
>
> Ok.. So why then did "termination of trusteeship" not lead to
> "independence for the Southern Cameroons"?
>
>
> WELCOME TO THE SINGLE REASON THEORY. It goes that we, the SOUTHEN
> CAMEROONS people failed to recognize the benefit of existing as a unique
> sovereign
> state because we did not have the CONSCIOUSNESS OF BEING A SOVEREIGN
> STATE! Our politicians operated this very important matter of the sovereign
>
> state as mere individuals and making matters worse, as individuals
> obliviously
> to the POLITICAL HAZARDS of their environment.
>
>
> This was an environment where by shear contact with the FRENCH CAMEROONIAN
>
> emigrants and savy ultra- nationalists, came the NEGATIVE double forces of
>
> ASSIMILATION & INTEGRATION.
>
>
> This force is what defines and operates PAN CAMEROONISM and to date, we
> the people who insist on calling our country SOUTHERN CANROONS STILL DON'T
>
> HAVE AN ANSWER TO it. If we can not be curious to find an answer to the
> SINGLE REASON THEORY, Which is the key way we can appreciate the fact that
> PAN
> CAMEROONISM IS OUR NUMBER ONE ENEMY and not the Paul Biya, and not
> francophones people, then what can be said to be the STRATEGY for restoring
> our
> independence ?
>
>
> Edwin Ngang
> Community organizer ALIM. - (Ambazonia liberation movement North America)
>
> Sent from my iPhone
> =
>


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