Just before the last masquerade called the 2004 presidential elections, I
decided to profile the prominent so-called opposition leaders (Fru Ndi, Ndam
Njoya, Bello Bouba) in the best-unbiased manner possible. The befitting title I
came up with for their profiles was: "THE LAST GASP OF CAMEROON'S POLITICAL
MEGALOMANIACS. I decided not to publish those profiles.
The biggest mistake made during the last phase of the struggle was to invest
overwhelmingly in individuals rather than the ideal of the struggle. It was the
easiest route to power, but a disaster in waiting when those individuals become
powerful and lose their heads (by having delusional fantasies of wealth, power,
and/or omnipotence). That is what happened to the above figures while in the
opposition, a condition already suffered by Biya after he was given power and
survived coups.
Leaders for a cause are promoted, like products. And the image makers in the
early days of the SDF did a good job. Fru Ndi, Ndam Njoya, and Bello were not
the smartest in their parties, they did not confront danger more than
everybody, they did not pay the highest price (lives, property, family, etc.)
more than everybody, and they were not the major brains in the scheme for the
successful expansion of their parties or the biggest contributors to the
party’s ideologies. Dedicated people to the cause pushed their names to easily
sell the party and to win popular support in order to assume power.
Unfortunately, the populace buys the myth of the leader. It is however the
responsibility of the new leader to balance the myth built through expectations
and publicity, with reality.
But then, often in history, the leaders come to believe that the image
projected of them is the reality of their true selves. And it is worse when
they are made to see and think that way by those close to them who have a
vested interest in them being delusional. Nero, Caligula, Idi Amin, etc.
suffered those fates. Initially blessed with overwhelming public support that
arose from the situation at the time, they later fell into the
psychopathological condition characterized by delusional fantasies of wealth, power,
or omnipotence.
Those who contributed to these pathological egoists become targets to be rid
of because they spoke contrary to the leader's wishes. In the blind quest to
leave a legacy based on the myths, these political megalomaniacs end up
destroying the forces (party, country, army, organization)that gave them power,
wealth, and omnipotence. So, is there a future for CDU? No. there is no future.
It would die with Ndam Njoya. Is there a future for NUDP? No. It would die with
Bello Bouba. Is there a future for SDF? The best that can come out of it after
Fru Ndi is that it would be a pale shadow of its former self. And the CPDM? It
would be wrecked by havoc after Biya and die the day it ceases to be the
ruling party.
So, what is the future? Many will ask. The future is a new force built
around tested advocates of change who never folded under the last phase of the
struggle, and advanced representatives of the embracing ideology for the new Kameron
that embodies its union nationalism and revolutionary path.
Janvier Tchouteu, author of Revolutionary Notes on the
Liberal Ideal for Liberty, Democracy and Prosperity for the New Cameroon:
Union-Nationalism (Cameroonian Civic-Nationalism)
by Janvier T. Chando and Janvier Tchouteu | May 1, 2018
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Comment from
Re: In Response To The Yang Gang
https://www.postnewsline.com/2005/11/re_in_response_.html
Simonia wrote well until the end of Emergence Of The "Immortal Soul". Beyond that, he got lost from incomprehension, which is a common plague for those who haggle over the kamerunian problem with blinding emotions and a one-track mind over our history.
It is difficult to be a kamerunian union nationalist, someone who cherishes the kamerunian soul, the best component of the land, which is its people(their heart, hopes and dreams) and its physical beauty, without becoming despondent over the divisive actions and or utterances of the confused and one-sided who are the custodians of the anachronistic French-imposed system or who unconsciously act as agents for its survival through actions and utterances that divide the true exponents of change.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/3373255.stm
http://www.amazon.com/gp/reader/075411967X/ref=sib_dp_bod_ex/104-4447576-0005520?%5Fencoding=UTF8&p=S00A#reader-page
A union nationalist sees the inherent beauty of kamerun-its strengths, opportunities, hopes, dreams and uses those to confront its weaknesses and threats that are haunting the nation through the politics fostered by the outdated system.
http://www.icicemac.com/nouvelle/index.php3?nid=3350
http://www.postnewsline.com/2005/04/strongun_body_p_1.html
It is an insight into kamerun's inherent beauty that is going to save our potentially great nation and not excuses over its deplorable past and present. It is that insight which will liberate us and not the myths that only stand to suffocate and paralyze us each time the true exponents of change confront the system.
Simonia initially appeared as a union nationalist, but later posed as a politically confused and one-sided individual who basically sides with the system that has been in control since 1958.
http://www.postnewsline.com/2004/11/strongscyl_invi.html
In my extensive travel through kamerun, it is the kamerun soul that nourishes my aspirations for the land, the beauty of the entire land, the different people I met, the twinkles of the eyes even before the mentioning of politics. Still, understanding their fears, pains and anguish; hopes and dreams made a genuine soul to understand them further. The vast majority of our people cannot afford hating. Despite their plight from the consequences of this system, the vast majority musters anger and not hatred.
It is anger from a wrong that gives the zeal to make corrections and implement a right (the reflection of their hearts, hopes, dreams. That is the future for kamerun and that is how the leaders of the post-independence generations should start thinking if we want change for our potentially great land.
I decided to take a long break from the public, but it is difficult to do so when agonizing and grappling everyday with the task of the struggle for the future kamerun has been the major preoccupation of my mind for more than half of my life.
The comments of those who object to Simonia are equally not credible because they distort the kamerunian reality and nurture hatred instead of anger that we need, in order to change the system so that our people can have an optimally better tomorrow.