Anybody who is not aggrieved by the traumas that the Cameroonian people have experienced in their one-hundred-and-twenty five-year history(German colonization and pacification, Anglo-French partition and pacification, disproportionate contribution of man power and resources to the Free French Forces in liberating Francophone Africa and France, the decimation of the population for standing up to French duplicity over the cause of reunification and independence---UPC-failed liberation, the betrayal of the people in their reunification dream, the half a century French-imposed anachronistic system, the dictatorships of Ahidjo and Biya, and the subjugation and dehumanization of the Cameroonian people) is heartless; but that person who strives to return the land to any of its past states is brainless.
Despite our traumas, our future rests in a New Cameroon that rehabilitates itself from all the ills of its past and harnesses its enormous potentials to build a great producing nation where the powers emanating from its levers of government would ensure peace, prosperity, liberty, development, justice, freedom and security for all Cameroonians irrespective of their creed, religion, ethnicity, and social and economic status.
Only when the dignity of the Cameroonian people has been given back to them, only after the nation becomes organized to the point where it guarantees a promising future for its children, then and only then would the advanced Cameroonian nation guided by its all-embracing ideal of Union Nationalism, take its special place in Africa and play its destined role in the realization of Africa ’s economic union and political integration.
Janvier Tchouteu February 2009
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