THE END OF THE UNSUCCESSFUL THIRD PHASE OF THE STRUGGLE FOR THE NEW CAMEROON

The October 09, 2011 masquerade called presidential elections signaled the end of the third phase of the Cameroonian struggle with the total defeat of the vast majority of freedom hungry Cameroonians by the anachronistic French-imposed system under the puppet regime of Paul Biya. The open and hidden enemies of change which included the artificial opposition parties and opposition parties that lacked a sense of direction and purpose(the so-called opposition of Cameroon—SDF, NUDP, CDU etc) have no more cards to pull to convince Cameroonians that they are relevant in the Fourth phase of the struggle that would be led by the post-independence generations.

And so begins the fourth phase of the struggle for the New Cameroon. The system's goal now is for Biya to groom and hand over power to a successor who within the term of the new mandate will consolidate power and prevent the adherents of the vision of a New Cameroon (the union nationalists, revolutionaries, democrats, patriots and even disillusioned believers of the New Cameroon) from ever coming to power. That way, it would ensure the continuation of the anachronistic evil-mafia-French-imposed-system. Out there would be nations and business groups whose attachment to self-interest over values, would direct them to recognize Biya’s masquerade because it is profitable to do so. But we should not be disillusioned or blinded by that.  Instead, we should learn from it.

The Biya regime is just the face of the system, or the tip of the iceberg. Yesterday, the Ahidjo regime was just the face of the system put in place by De Gaulle and stirred by Jacques Foccart. There will be another face tomorrow when Biya is gone. He could be another Beti, another Fulani (Peul), a Bamileke, a Ngemba, a Bakwerian, a Bayang, a Maka, a Kotoko,  a Toupouri, a Bamoun, a Bali, a  Bakossi, a Bassa, a Musgum, a Muturwa,a Gbaya, A Fali, A Gidar, a Chamba, a Dii, a Vute, a Baka or Tikar, a Banen or even  a Bata. But whoever it is, would be serving the system put in place by France against the interest of the vast majority of Cameroonians; and even against the interest of his ethnic group. Any patriotic or humane soul should never accept a continuation of the deception.

Cameroon is not a country that can not be freed. I believe the New Cameroon that has been the battle cry of the people for the past six decades will be realised before the end of this decade.  But it would be a lot easier and inclusive of all Cameroonians if we set aside our unwarranted sense of division (Anglophilism, Francophilism, anti-Bamilekeism, anti-Betism, anti-Fulanism, anti-Bassaism, anti-Bamendrousim, cam-no-goism, anti-Sawaism etc), embrace the nobleness of the Cameroonian soul and dissociate ourselves from the evils in our midst that could be our own siblings, relatives, tribes men, or speakers of the official language we identify with.

In the future, most of our children would hardly even identify with the ethnic groups of their ancestral origins.  Most of them would be born out of their ancestral homelands and would identify themselves as Cameroonians.  And most of them would be born in the cities and towns from inter-ethnic marriages or relationships. It is the task of our generation to create the New Cameroon that the social evolution of Cameroon is already doing, in order to prevent the alienation of our children from our beautiful fatherland.  In about half a century from now, tribal affiliation would be through a conscious effort by our grandchildren.

If we look at the major contestants in this charade, we notice that they were born and grew up in their ethnic homelands. They still think local and delude themselves that their parochial outlook to life and to the destiny of Cameroon is a reflection of the Cameroonian reality.  True the Cameroonian reality has been hijacked politically, but the country’s social evolution can not be stopped.

It is our place as advocates of the New Cameroon to set aside our unwarranted biases, judge those who made this masquerade possible, dissociate ourselves from their deceptive ways, and then join hands in building the conflagration of forces that would realize the New Cameroon. The scientific nature of things shows that the system is not sustainable, but we can not allow it to linger towards its death while drowning us and the country in the process.

How quickly we dismantle this system depends on how soon Cameroonians get over their political lethargy, socials biases, mindsets infected by the system  and their irrational associations; and then embrace the all-inclusive ideal of Cameroonian Union Nationalism  that has never  betrayed over the past 100 years; and that the system has fought mercilessly because it stands to make Cameroon a  just, united, bilingual, progressive, democratic, liberal, free and advanced nation that would  be an epitome  of humanism for a politically integrated and economically unified Africa.

October 10, 2011                                                          Janvier Tchouteu