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Cameroon is “ONE” united and indivisible.  However, in every aspect of our daily lives the divisions are clear! Most apparent is the distribution of key government positions.  The majority of Ministerial positions are occupied by people of a certain “Tribe” and if you are an English speaking Cameroonian you are required to learn to speak French if you plan to make any progress. Alternatively, you can travel abroad and obtain a different nationality… Oh I almost forgot! The problem is Cameroon does not recognize dual nationality.  That aside, I would like to place my focus this time on the Church and how being a Bilingual country has affected it. All of this will be based on my experience in parishes in Cameroon and abroad.  I joined the St Louise Parish Bonaberi when I was in form five in the year 1996 and we would attend the second mass at 11am. Most often, mass was fine and the church was full as that was the only mass offered in English for those ...

In the continuous attempts to find a lasting solution to the crisis in Cameroon, most Francophones and a few La Republique du Cameroun Anglophone stooges are pointing toward the effective implementation of the decentralization law of 1996 as the panacea to the Anglophone problem and the socio-political malaise in the whole country by extension. Some who have chosen to ignore the historical context of this problem have even gone as far as to suggest that the impasse in the English speaking parts of the country is a direct consequence of the slow implementation of the decentralization law. I have always wondered what are the prescriptions of the 1996 decentralization law and suspicious of why it has not been implemented after 21 years of its promulgation. And I am sure most Cameroonians have the same doubts and suspicions. That is why I diligently followed the press conference last week by the minister of propaganda, Issa Tchiroma and an expert from the Ministry of Territorial A...

I got up this morning and read with keen interest, comrade Tapang´s piece:  “Tapang wades into UN debate: The UN cannot interfere on Federalism. Neither can they interfere with independence”  on Bareta press.  Though a very well written piece as we have come to expect from the writer, it wasn’t hard to picture Mr. Tapang speaking from both sides of his mouth all through his write up. I therefore, though reluctantly, could not help the urge to expose the inconsistencies loaded in his arguments for federalism and the cynical side jabs carelessly thrown at the independentists: For a start, let´s look at the small semantics of give-and-take. Comrade Tapang started off his piece by declaring categorically that “the UN cannot interfere on federalism or independence” and that “we have to seize our destinies and not wait for international or domestic regimes to give us”. Now, let me state for the record that I agree completely with both aspects of that declaration. H...