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AMBAZONIA belongs in WEST AFRICA!

By Wanaku Verdzekov · · The Cameroons

Tags: west-africa, ecowas, waec, planning

Literacy is actually a SECURITY issue, if you think about it.

If Switzerland, or any other "nation of smarter people", provides a document stating that its role in the CAMEROONS Crisis is "FACILITATOR", what does anyone have to complain about? Unless you are writing the cheque for the "facilitation".

Here is the 411: the Swiss Federation, or anyone else, WILL PLAN before ENGAGING with any party on serious matters. The question for AMBAZONIA is: before engaging with any party (Switzerland, Canada, the US, China, Nigeria, etc.), is (or was) there a plan? What is it?

If there is NO PLAN, then the PLAN is to FAIL.

From experience, people who plan keep those who do not plan as far away from planned work as possible. Do not be surprised when your phone call, email or text message gets zero response.

The global community can help Ambazonia if we help ourselves (organize and plan), and create an interface the global community can interact with, transparently.

That is actually something Ambazonia has experience with. British Southern Cameroons, aka AMBAZONIA, went successfully through a democratic election process during decolonization (1954–1972). Ambazonia refuses to take lessons from a Franco-Cameroun that has NEVER EXPERIENCED A DEMOCRATIC ELECTION process from 1960 to date. The only two presidents of Franco-Cameroun WERE NEVER ELECTED, BUT APPOINTED. And anyone who wants AMBAZONIA to take lessons from Franco-Cameroun or France is stirring a pot of trouble in the Gulf of Guinea.

Ambazonia should seek, and get, help from the global community. While doing so, it also needs to pay attention to Nigeria. Nigeria's role is vital for Ambazonia, not just now but in the future. How?

Example: once Ambazonia is officially and legally FREE from "Franco-bondage", it will officially belong to WEST AFRICA and ECOWAS, and Ambazonian children will prepare to sit the West African Examinations Council (WAEC) exams to qualify for higher institutions of learning. The problems Ambazonian children have faced in their education since 1961 have been compounded by Franco-Camerounese and French intransigence, and a refusal to understand the education and common-law culture of British Southern Cameroons, aka AMBAZONIA.

Taking its rightful place in the West African community of states is the beginning of a peaceful transition to what should have been Ambazonia's place since 1961.

France and Franco-Cameroun have been a real WASTE OF HUMAN TIME for the citizens of British Southern Cameroons, aka AMBAZONIA.

Here is where AMBAZONIA stops the clock: a RETURN to West Africa. No matter how anyone cuts, slices or dices the situation, AMBAZONIA belongs in WEST AFRICA!

The opinions are mine; the historical and geographical facts are obvious to anyone interested.

TM

— Wanaku Verdzekov

Reading & grammar

Reading level: Gr 9–11

Understand

  1. Why does the author call literacy a security issue?
  2. What does "If there is NO PLAN, then the PLAN is to FAIL" mean?
  3. Why does the author think Ambazonia belongs in ECOWAS?

Grammar focus: chiasmus in a slogan. "If there is no plan, then the plan is to fail" repeats plan and reverses its role. Slogans often use this to stick in the mind.

Try it: Write a two-part slogan for your school club that repeats a key word in reverse.

Discuss: Should regional groups like ECOWAS be based on geography, language or history? Argue.