RE: CAMEROON HAS SERIOUS PROBLEMSp

Mishe Fon, I don't know who you are but your writeups have always been scintillating. Your ability to blend pidgin, French, English and any other lingo of your making into the mix of serious issues has always been fascinating to read. On the other hand, when the situation calls for seriousness, you still deliver in the most effective way as you have done in this piece. You are right on the money.  The two major obstacles to true unity you have identified are facts that many of us have pondered over in silence for many years.  In the first case, many anglophones have become self-serving in terms of what they can get for themselves by kissing as many rear ends as possible. In this venture, we have lost any representative bargaining chips for all our people. As a result, the other side has been quick to use such weakness to their advantage. I still lament to this day over those solid anglophone corporations that have all crumbled under mismanagement in the hands our francophone brothers: PMO, Marketing Board, in now Limbe, to name just a few. Needless to say that we have lost a lot more than we may ever stand to gain in this so called union. The second problem you raise is what fires up the first, except that this latter is an equal opportunity offender. It seems to know or have no boundaries.  I was totally scandalized when a Bayangi buddy of mine described her perception of those individuals who are designated as slaves amongst this ethnic group.  I never knew such practices even exist in our times. To make matters worse, she maintained in a rather light hearted tone that once a slave, always a slave, in response to my question about how to free oneself from this 'bondage'. With this kind of mentality, how do we even begin to think of any solutions? I have thought of this long and hard. Can we achieve anything through fighting? I don't think so. Years of protesting have resulted in nothing.  In fact, I think these protests and destruction have only increased the disdain of our francophone colleagues towards us. That is why even in this global environment where the English language prevails, the powers that be don't see it necessary that the country as a whole stands to benefit if people who are already well versed in the medium of communication represent the country on essential matters. How does one even begin to work on changing this kind of mentality in this current dog eat dog environment? Mass education perhaps? All may not be lost yet. I'll try to remain optimistic. What's your projected solution/s?

Dr. B. Njeuma

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