Politically, there are four types of Anglophone Cameroonians (indigenous and native-born), or what are the people West of the Mungo in the regions of the Northwest and Southwest in Cameroon:
- Separatists (which some erroneously call secessionists)---those who want an independent country called Ambazonia from the lands of the former British Southern Cameroons;
- Unionists, as the French-imposed system under the Biya regime prefers to call its supporters meant as a ruse against Cameroon's genuine nationalism. Unionists are for a unitary or decentralized state;
- Federalists (restorationists---those demanding a return to or the restoration of the two-state federation of 1961-1972, and others demanding multiple forms of a federation);
- and finally, the Kamerunists who are the heirs of Cameroonian civic-nationalism (union-nationalism), the country's advanced patriotism, a genuine and all-inclusive nationalism which advocates the idea of a "New Cameroon" that is a federation, devoid of neocolonialist entanglements, that is pan-Africanist, that is democratic, governed by the rule of law and that is steep in progressive Cameroonian/African values. The union-nationalists adhere to the goals of reunification/independence and honor those who fought/died/voted for it---thereby making them the heirs of the historic UPC of 1948-1970, OK, the historic KNDP of 1954-1961 and the historic SDF of 1990-1997. Union-nationalists consider the foundation of the state of Cameroon to be defective, meaning even the 1961-1972 Cameroon federation, whose crafting excluded the majority ideas and political/civil forces of the land.
A salient understanding has always existed between the Federalists and union-nationalists in the Northwest and Southwest regions of Cameroon.
Janvier Tchouteu is the author of " The Mistakes To Be Avoided in Building The New Cameroon"
Cameroon: France’s Dysfunctional Puppet System in Africa
by Janvier Tchouteu,
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