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Did Dr. Konde just insult Cameroonians as being illiterate and uneducated?
Cameroon’s New Senate: An (Anti)Democratic Anachronism
By Dibussi Tande "The new Senate has no power to impeach the president, to approve or reject presidential appointees to the executive and judicial branch... and no power to conduct investigations of malfeasance in the executive branch. In short... the Cameroonian Senate has no power of restraint...
You state: "I strongly believe the SCNC-SCAPO complaint would have had a better outcome if it was argued on the grounds of cultural differentiation, like Tibet, Taiwan and Hongkong, are doing against the Chinese".
Response: If by cultural differentiation you are referring to the remnants of British culture such as the Common Law, or the Anglo-saxon method of doing things, then fine. This is being accomplished. It is because of the arguments made concerning our history with the British culture that the African Commission of Human Rights declared that we are a "people" and so have rights to fight for our self-determination. See ACHPR Decision.
However, if by cultural differentiation you mean culture like our African culture, that will not help the cause in any way. Because as noted, we have similar tribes in Southern Cameroons as in French Cameroon.
Anglophone Cameroon and Cultural Imperialism
Julius Nyamkimah Fondong In one of my previous write-ups on this blog entitled “The Anglophone Character: Myth or Reality” I bemoaned the steady erosion of the Anglophone identity and called for both a re-affirmation of our anglophoness and a reconstruction of the Anglophone character as the on...
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