Culled from the Southern Cameroons Yahoo Forum
When I moved from Victoria (Limbe) to Buea, seat of Southern Cameroons and West Cameroon government, I was deeply shocked and saddened at the state of the Government Residential Area, GRA. This neighbourhood was reserved, in those golden days of West Cameroon, for the cream of the public service. If you were blindfolded in those days and brought to this part, and suddenly your eyes were opened, you would have imagined yourself transported to Europe . Neatly mowed lawns and manicured hedges were the characteristic features of GRA. Clean alleys and houses with disciplined occupants made this area a special one in Buea like many other towns in West Cameroon . The PWD, Public Works Department, did a formidable job in maintaining the houses on a regular basis.
By Christopher Fon Achobang*
Cameroon has been steadily invaded and infested by human rats since 1982. Some visionaries, described and condemned as coup plotters, took up arms in 1984 to flush out what they described as the Beti ethnic oligarchs laying siege to the country’s wealth. These individuals captured Bate Besong’s imagination in the play “Beast of no Nation”, whom he saw as enemies of the Cameroonian nation ferrying plane-loads of CFA (money) out of the country. His vitriolic and acerbic discourse earned him detention and the cruelest death of his premonitory talkative zombie, himself.

