Opinion

PAUL BIYA, PRESIDENT and HEAD OF STATE of Cameroon clocks 90 years of age today February 13,…

Embolo is the symbol of all that is wrong and bad about our country. It also shows…

If we, as Anglophone intellectuals, can’t even speak up against such political and social injustices for the uneducated in our society, not to talk of ourselves, what then is the use of our high-level educational attainment?

If there’s anybody within the Cameroon stakeholdership today who understands President Biya’s September 22, 2017 speech at the UN General Assembly that he is a ‘beggar of peace’, it is PM Dion Ngute, who since taking over office understands that one cannot be a beggar of peace by sitting in the cosy confines of offices in Yaounde, but rather, that such a person needs to be down field, communioning with market women as he did during his first visit to Bamenda in 2019.

Immediately after the accident, just beside the entrance into the market at Banga Bakundu, the population started shouting: “Call Doctors Without Borders! Call Doctors Without Borders!”
I did not hear anyone calling on the Muyuka District Hospital or Kumba District Hospital or the military to come and take the injured persons to the hospital.
These hospitals are just kilometres away from the scene of the incident. Even the military control post was just metres away.

National dialogues have recently gained traction as vital instruments for peace transformations in Africa. National dialogues are usually initiated to deal with a wide range of issues, including political reforms, constitution making and peacebuilding. They can also be seen as political processes aiming to reach a new social contract between interest groups and community in a country.

As flowers in bloom always attract bees in search of nectar, so do prominent and powerful people attract praise-singers scheming for opportunities. But the buzz and the flutter of wings soon drift away once the bloom fades. Posthumous praise as a fashionable expression of our generosity is an exercise in futility. It is often too little, sometimes too much, certainly too late to be useful to the departed.

Angered by the cruel manner in which children were slaughtered on the altar of education, many Cameroonians failed to ask the basic questions about what really happened at the Mother Francisca International Bilingual Academy Fiango- Kumba, on October 24.

One year after the Grand National Dialogue, it is difficult to blame those who believe that the glass that was half-full is now emptying. It is worth recalling, so that no one ignores it, that the organisation of the GDN was dictated by the crisis in the two regions of the North-West and the South-West and that it was about putting together a series of recommendations that could bring peace to these parts of our national territory. One year later, can we say that the goal has been achieved?

The last thing anyone wants, as we finally come out of this crisis, is extreme “stagflation” –…