Cameroon’s Recent Economic Perfomance and the Inevitability of the “NEW CAMEROON”

 

	Real GDP Growth Rate (%) 2013	Real GDP Growth Rate (%) 2014	Real GDP Growth Rate (%) 2015	Real GDP Growth Rate (%) 2016	Real GDP Growth Rate (%) 2017	Real GDP Growth Rate (%) 2018	Real GDP Growth Rate (%) 2013-2018	Real GDP Growth Rate (%) 2019
Cameroon	5.40	5.88	5.65	4.45	3.18	3.70	4.71	3.7

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_real_GDP_growth_rate

The comprador Biya regime and its retinue of looting mercenaries that is managing the anachronistic French-imposed system have been undermining the social cohesion and economic dynamism of Cameroon and the Cameroonian people. Though the economy is experiencing a moribund growth due to the selling off and wanton exploitation of the material resources of the land, growth that might be considered impressive by some, Cameroon is achieving less than 30% of its potential and has what it takes to experience double-digit growth (10% and above), doubling the income of the average Cameroonian at least every seven years.

Our potentially great country would be able to live up to its potential only in a “NEW CAMEROON” where the French-imposed system would have been dismantled, where the harmonious cooperation of all the land’s progressive forces would be the rule, where all the different Cameroonian groups would feel they have a stake in the glory of the land, and where the anti-Cameroonian forces that failed to embrace the altruism, social-solidarity, progress, harmony and all-embracing nature of the “NEW CAMEROON” would render themselves irrelevant as they continue to undermine their existence through their anti-people actions.

By Janvier Tchouteu is the author of Triple Agent, Double Cross