February 15, 2014 IT IS EASIER SAID BY AYAH P ABINE Since the President of Camerounese announced that he and his wife will visit Buea on February 20, 2014, several Camerounese journalists have been proclaiming from the crests of hills, crushingly dwarfed by Buea Mountain, that the visit will showcase Buea as the epitome of development; Cameroun as united and indivisible, and, above all, that Cameroun is not for partition, and that no-one ever shall so do. As those are audio-assertions, one is at sea as to which one of four countries they are talking about. For their “information and culture”, Kamerun died with the defeat of the Germans in the First World War. Cameroun was born on January 1, 1960, and christened la Republique du Cameroun. Cameroon is a 1961 invention that does not correspond to any geographical expression known in international law. Cameroons for our purpose is the country flanked by Cameroun and Nigeria. The country is called Southern Cameroons in full, even as some international gansters have struggled over the years (unsuccessfully, thank God) to rob it of its name and identity. It comprises territories previously known as the Bamenda Province to the North and the Cameroon Province to the South. It is not clear whether the journalists in question are apprehensive of the designs on their country of Seleka to the East; or Boko Harah to the North. If however they have the illusion that Buea is in their country, they surely are in dire need of lessons of geography from Sasse, Okoyong, or Sacred Heart. They may wish to learn that Buea is the capital of Southern Cameroons. Even if by the wildest stretch of imagination they should hold that Cameroun and Southern Cameroons are one country ( probably called Cameroun-Cameroons), one would still only have compassion for those journalists for their blissful ignorance and presumptuous brutum fulmen. They may never ever have heard, or they could well have forgotten that Ian Smith once bosted that there would be no majority rule in Southern Rhodesia (Zimbabwe) for a thousand years. Majority rule came within three years. Only empty vessels!
Posted on: Sat, 15 Feb 2014 23:02:30 +0000
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