"Cameroon and France are entangled at the hips like two illegal lovers caught in the throes of passion". Mambo
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| "Independent" yet steadfastly walks to tune of whitemen in suits amidst protests(crushed tomatoes) |
Despite being freed from colonial rule over half a century ago; Cameroon and its citizens (myself a prime example) remain nothing but a by product of neocolonialism and Francofrog French policy of Assimilation. We need to be soaked in fresh spring waters of Afrocentrism and hung out to dry in pegs of Identity Awareness.
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| Mongo Beti 1932-2001 Political Writer |
Cameroonian writer- Mongo Beti: who heavily mocked the iron grip Croaking French Toads had over Cameroon alluded in his 1972 novel : Main basse sur le Cameroun, autopsie d'une décolonisation ('Cruel hand on Cameroon, autopsy of a decolonization') what we all know: Cameroon is still steadfastly tied to the apron strings of its former colonial master.What a right French twist that is! One only needs to take a look at how a French twist is achieved at the hairdressers to know what a baking hot mess Cameroon is entangled in.
We have been proud to associate ourselves with term Françafrique- a word coined by the French Puppet Houphouët-Boigny of Côte d'Ivoire to represent the friendship between France and her slaves African allies. However it is a vulgar, debasing term which signifies degradation and neocolonialism at its peak. Just as it is wrong to call a black man 'nigger', except for dumb tattooed tramps aka rappers: so to should it be wrong in using this term to talk about Afro-Franco relations. French Economist François Xavier Verschave couldn't have given a more apt description as to the meaning of Françafrique: "The secret criminality in the upper echelons of French politics and economy, where a kind of underground Republic is hidden from view" The word is dangerously close to sounding like France in Africa. Don't we all know France is in Africa anyway?Somehow Geographers continuously err in placing her in Europe.
The worst kept secret in the history of Cameroon's "fair" elections is the fact that everyone knows they are anything but "fair".A Cameroon election to be "fair" is like asking Chantal Biya to ditch the weave and adopt a more natural look- a far cry from her 1st Drag Queen of Africa status. It is like saying Polar bears have voted summer over winter. Blooming heck they did! The immoral harlot that is France has never questioned the fair election system of it's lover yet all monkeys were set loose to trash the banana plantation over Ivory Coast's election rigging. Gbabgo is not a string puppet like Houphouët-Boigny. He refuses to eat from your palms and the world including Super Nanny UN intervenes. The toothless bull dog OAU barks but has no teeth to bite.In fact it is so useless it's bark will not awaken a one week old sleeping infant.
The illicit love affair between France & Cameroon, borne during colonialism as far back as 1919 orchestrated under the auspices of the League of Nations needs to stop.The many illegitimate off springs from this affair have done nothing but deteriorate Cameroon's economy faster than a mudslide. Southern Cameroon acted like thoroughly doubly blindfolded mice on the 1st October 1961 as she voted away her last shred of freedom and dignity to join French Cameroon...willingly selling her soul to servitude as the FrancoToad's mistress. 'We politely referred to as “underdeveloped,” in truth are colonial,semi-colonial or dependent countries'. Che Guevara.
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I could not have said it better. I abho the french for everything they have done and are still doing in Africa. And that is why I couldnt help but get frustrated by all the fb statuses on Feb 11th talking about "Happy Youth Day". Th1 11th of February would be the day Southern Cameroons voted to join their frensh partners. I use the word 'voted' here rather loosely because, it is no secret that at least half of the men who signed that agreement were either too drunk or too full to comeprehend what was at stake. Enough of my rant though, I could go on and on. Great read as usual
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