Friday, March 15, 2013

KEEPING ALIVE THE LEGACIES OF CAMEROON'S HISTORIC LEADERS

Ours is a country where the usurper leadership is doing everything possible to erase the memory of Cameroon's heroes who stood for the New Cameroon, Cameroon's heroes who were martyred in the struggle for a free, united, prosperous, progressive, democratic, liberal, advanced and united Cameroon.

By giving the impression that Cameroon's true heroes wasted their lives for a so-called "worthless struggle", the French mafia (Francafrique) and the puppets they have in Cameroon and other Francophone African countries give the impression that anybody who picks up the baton dropped by our historic heroes will suffer a similar fate---marginalization, ostracization, death and the erasure of their legacies.

Only by keeping alive the legacies of our historic martyrs and heroes, only by encouraging upcoming generations to emulate if not learn from their splendid dedication to the cause for a New Cameroon, only by upholding the National Ideal of Cameroonian Union-Nationalism that the "Enemies of the People" (The French-imposed system and those who are serving it) have been fighting against, shall we create the momentum that would bring down the six-decade old system in Cameroon.

  • For that to happen, we also need to identify the true "Friends of the People"---those who are not dividing the ranks  and who are not involved  in the struggle  for personal benefits--- we need to identify them from those who would even  sing praises about  the Cameroonian heroes but spit on their legacies and whose rhetoric divides the ranks of the advocates of change; 
  • For that to happen, we need to build a national force steeped in the idea of Cameroonian union-nationalism; 
  • For that to happen, we need to educate the Cameroonian people on their past, on  the suffocating nature of the French-imposed system that many are aware of  but that most people  have not fully internalized,  and on the promises that the New Cameroon based on Cameroonian Union-Nationalism holds  for the post-independence generations; 
  • For that to happen, we need to reject the system in its entirety, including those who are indirectly or directly sustaining it; for that to happen, we need to become "The New Cameroonians" who in their psycho-social  advancement, are self-critical enough to  emancipate themselves from the mental slavery that has kept most of us bogged down, from the mentality created by the evil suffocating French-imposed system that  makes us see our next-door neighbors as our worst enemies; 
  • For that to happen, we need to start seeing our fellow Cameroonians as potential allies who may only need to embrace Cameroonian union-nationalism or only need to be exposed to the genuine legacies of our historic figures who suffered in the hands of the system.

By embracing Martin Paul Samba, Rudolf Duala Manga Bell, Ruben Um Nyobe, Felix Moumie, Ossende Afana, Albert Kingue, Nde Ntumazah, John Ngu Foncha, Albert Mukong and the recent martyrs who dedicated their lives for the cause to found a New Cameroon, we ensure the continuity of Cameroon's historic struggle, we ensure that it would be realized by us, if not, then by our children or their descendants.

Janvier Tchouteu                                                                                              03/13/2013


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