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“No pompous military parade or dances, but a symposium. Symposiums to which I’ll invite the representatives of all the African countries that obtained their independence in 1960, so that we can reflect on this past half century and on the fifty years to come.”
Ivorian president, Laurent Gbagbo, on how he’ll commemorate the 50th anniversary of his country’s independence.

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The ACHPR has said that the right to self-determination can be exercised in other ways than through the creation of an independent state. But that is only their opinion. They cannot tell the Southern Cameroons how to exercise this right. They cannot tell the people of the Southern Cameroons to go and form political parties in République du Cameroun. When the Southern Cameroons gets to Banjul, my hope and expectation is that it will be to tell the ACHPR and République du Cameroun how the people want to exercise that right to self-determination which has been acknowledged by the Commission. This promises to be very dramatic.

By Dr. Nfor Susungi

The idea of forming political parties under the jurisdiction of LRC is jumping the gun and most certainly suicidal. Many people were grossly mistaken when they said that the Banjul Verdict was not favorable to the Plaintives. Although the African Commission of Human and Peoples Rights (ACHPR) could not come out and declare that the Southern Cameroons has the right to self-determination, the key element of the Banjul ruling which we should grab and hang on to for now for now, like a good running back, is where it says:

“Southern Cameroonians are a People recognized as such in international law.”

This is a very important finding because it automatically entitles the Southern Cameroons to those other rights which are built into the African Charter of Human and Peoples Rights such as Article 20 (1) which states that:

All Peoples shall have the right to existence. They shall have the unquestionable and inalienable right to self- determination. They shall freely determine their political status and shall pursue their economic and social development according to the policy they have freely chosen.”

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Southern Cameroons has defeated la République du Cameroun in Banjul. The African commission on Human and Peoples Right has laid to rest the questionable version of the occupiers’ definition of a people. Does this mean we are independent? Far from it. This means we should double our effort in our struggle to regain our homeland. This will take more than rhetorical commitment.

By Dr. Lawrence Ayamba

In less than 9 weeks, the year 2009 will come to an end. We will welcome 2010, ten years after the new millennium, ten years of extra-ordinary progress in the field of science and a more constricted world in which we are struggling to keep pace with the rapidity of events. 2010 will also be almost 60 years since most countries in Africa evolved from a pure colonial form of rule into neo-colonial outposts where foreign interest and designs have been predominant. Within this period of struggle, Africa’s finest patriots have lost their lives. Those who clamored for complete independence were termed communist and liquidated. Their spirit and the unquestionable loyalty they showed for their compatriots and country is inspiring enough for us to evoke. They laid their lives for Africa, its future and its pride. We must walk in their footsteps. Patrice Lumumba wrote [to his wife]:

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Britain was once in the same situation like the Southern Cameroons as a colony of the Roman Empire; that the United States was once a colony of Great Britain and had to use the argument of force to have her independence; that the Queen of England peddled our territory to France as a “small gift from the Queen” - when in fact the Southern Cameroons was a Trust Territory of the United Nations, and Britain’s task was to prepare her for full independence and not to trade her with France; that Britain could grant independence to small Gambia with less than 5% the resources, size and population of the Southern Cameroons …

By Chief Fuatabong Achaleke Taku and Martin Fon Yembe

Your Excellency, our interests have been greatly aroused by your recent declarations in The Post newspaper especially as concerns the Southern Cameroons. In your posturing, you categorically declare that “Britain recognises the Government of the Republic of Cameroon as the sole authority in Cameroon. That hasn’t changed since 1972…”

Of course, Excellency, we, Southern Cameroonians have always known the position of Britain ever since she began playing games with an entire people from 1960 till date. May we remind your Excellency that Southern Cameroonians have never disputed the authority of the Government of the Republic of Cameroon as the sole authority in their Cameroun? Of course, that should not even arise for we have not raised any counter to that.

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JOINT COMMUNIQUE

We, the Representatives of the Southern Cameroons National Council (SCNC); Southern Cameroons Peoples’ Organisation (SCAPO); the British Southern Cameroons Restoration Government (in Exile) RG, held a synergic meeting in Buea on the 9th of August 2009 and arrived at the following resolutions which we hereby communicate to all Southern Cameroonians and the world at large:

1. That we commit ourselves and our organisations to a renewed and strengthened Unity of Purpose regarding all endeavours geared towards the restoration of the statehood and independence of British Southern Cameroons.

2. That we shall henceforth and on a regular basis concert on all projects and methods of executing them as a means of moving forward with the struggle for the restoration of our beloved fatherland.

3. We call on all other groups in the liberation struggle to close rungs and join the Unity train for the fast and definitive restoration of British Southern Cameroons.

DONE IN BUEA THIS 9th DAY OF AUGUST 2009.

Signed:

Chief Ayamba Ette Otun ( Nationl Chairman,SCNC)
Augustine F. Ndangam (Vice Chairman, SCAPO)
Mola Njoh Litumbe (On behalf of the British Southern Cameroons Restoration Government)
Fidelis Chinkwo S(ecretary General, SCNC)
Martin F. Yembe (Secretary General, SCAPO)
Barrister Harmony Bobga Mbuton, Counsel.

Others Present in the meeting:
Nfor N. Nfor( Vice Chair, SCNC); Ngiewih Asunkwain (Communication Sec., SCNC); Besong M. Arrey ( SCNC); Taku Sylvester (SCNC Zonal Chair, Southern Zone); Madam Francisca Keffie (SCNC); James Sabum (SCNC); Njonhuo Vincent (Financial Secretary, SCNC); Barrister Ajong Stanislau( Lawyer/ Counsel).

Most African Heads of State are afraid of political alternation because of the oppressive situations they themselves put in place. They are no longer sure how to extract justice from their own follies and dread becoming its victims.

By Christopher Fon Achobang*
Initially Published: Southern Cameroons Forum

At Barack Obama’s inaugural on 20 January 2009 as President of the United States of America, he sent a clear warning to the oppressors of the world that their end had come. Most Africans started jubilating, that perhaps their time had come when one ‘wretched of the earth’ had emerged to liberate all the oppressed. This message of liberation was crystallized in Accra Ghana, six months after, when Obama called on the young people of Africa to take over their destiny.

Obama’s call came at a ripe moment in Africa’s quest for liberation from its ‘sit-tight’ presidents or life presidents. In fact, Obama arrived Africa when Africa was still mourning one of its longest serving presidents, Omar Bongo Odimba. Africa was at a point of resigning itself to its fate that it was God himself who had placed such leaders at the helm of power in their countries, when God decided to free Gabon.

It has been a full 45 years since Paulo Freire started his education to end the ‘culture of silence’, crowned by his seminal work titled “Pedagogy of the Oppressed”. Paulo Freire was born and experienced the great economic recession of 1929, concluding that man’s state of mind was probably responsible for his predicament. The peasants were kept illiterate so as to oppress them in ways unbeknown to them.

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Continuing, Yembe observed that as a journalist and writer himself, he has never known of an occasion when a book launch is done in the absence of the author or even his representative to be presented and to autograph the bought copies! He wondered why the entire Government bench composed only of Southern Cameroonians have to leave their demanding tasks in Yaoundé to join the entire North West ‘Etat Major’ to launch the book of an obscure French writer. Was the Cameroon government mandated by this French boy to promote and launch the book for him, Yembe wondered aloud.

By Martin Yembe as Observer and Participant in Bamenda

Biya’s latest agenda to crush the Southern Cameroons’ struggle and completely implant his “Mr. Clean” image on the citizens of this territory has been made public. The event took the Bamenda people like a storm, when the state-owned CRTV began broadcasting a special news bulletin from NW Governor, on a very high profile delegation from Yaoundé to launch a very important book in Bamenda. The invitees to the book launch were all North West Fons; All CPDM Section Presidents; All members of the Civil Society; all sons and daughters of the North West.

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There is an edge to Kagame’s independence. He is dismissive of international advice, pointing out that Western experts told him his reconciliation plans were flawed and that his country was “unviable” economically. He has fueled the conflict in neighboring Congo by supporting local warlords and militias, and he accuses United Nations peacekeepers of exacerbating the problems there. He is not a supporter of the International Criminal Court, even though it indicted Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir for actions that resemble, in smaller degree, the genocide in Rwanda. “International justice is a fraud,” Kagame said to me, arguing that French officials, for instance, should be tried for helping to train and arm the Hutu–dominated military that carried out the Rwandan genocide. “Why does it appear strange that justice would apply to somebody in Europe who has a responsibility? They can never do wrong, therefore justice does not apply.”

Source: Newsweek
By Fareed Zakaria

President Obama was right to give his recent address in Ghana, highlighting an African success story rather than casting his speech against the backdrop of poverty and pity. One of the great underreported stories of the last decade has been the rise of this new Africa. In 2007, before the economic crisis hit, 37 countries on the continent were growing at 4 percent a year or more, and 34 countries there are classified by Freedom House as “free” or “partly free.” The OECD reports that, in a first, Africa gets more money from investors than from foreign aid. The continent remains poor, disease-stricken, and often poorly governed. But for the first time in a long time, there is forward momentum.

Nowhere is this more true than in Rwanda. If ever a nation seemed destined to fail, it was Rwanda. A little more than 15 years ago, the country suffered the most brutal genocide since the Holocaust. In 100 days, Hutu mobs slaughtered more than 800,000 Tutsis, one tenth of the population, a literal decimation. Many thought Rwanda would plunge into a death spiral like other “postconflict” countries, such as Somalia.

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Cher Philemon:

I am putting you at the head of the Government in spite of the numerous stinking social reports I have of you and your brother Francis Fai. I have decided to take this momentous decision in view of the stakes ahead. So, you must take these assignments scrupulously and effect them in a timely and discrete manner.

First, Philemon, you are the first of those who had come out of ENAM (our French Secret Agent School) to be appointed in this position of Prime Minister. You have the doctrine of the Champs D’Élysées and so you are well Frenchified to carry out a task we will be facing in a few weeks’ time … that of crushing any uprisings in the Bamenda, Kumbo, Nkambe, Mutengene, Kumba, Mamfe areas. You must be aware of the fact that the African Summit of AU has not accorded the awaited independence the SCNC/SCAPO people were envisaging and expecting. I am well informed that there are two squads ready to strike on very strategic targets. I trust you and will want you to seek them out and crush their filaments and satellites ruthlessly “a la Oku”!

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