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AMBAZONIA – Fighting for …?

By Wanaku Verdzekov · · The Cameroons

Tags: self-rule, two-part-fight, interface

Apart from self-rule (autonomy of governance), I wonder what else any informed citizen of AMBAZONIA would be fighting for, or about.

AMBAZONIA's main obstacle to that objective is the presence of Franco-Camerounese agents in our "trust territory", actively preventing our people from doing the work needed for a FUNCTIONAL self-rule system. Replacing the dysfunctional Franco-Cameroun dictatorship in AMBAZONIA is not rocket science.

The task is to make the Franco-Cameroun agents, acting as a proxy for French neo-colonization, go away. Simple? Not so fast.

Question: once Franco-Cameroun is out of the picture, what will citizens be "fighting" for? Do you know?

There are two parts to the fight:

  • first, face the real enemy: make Franco-Cameroun move its dysfunctional agents and institutions out of AMBAZONIA;
  • then, face ourselves: Ambazonian citizens defining and implementing self-rule.

At this point, it looks like both parts of the fight are in session at once. Synchronizing them is tightrope-walking that requires real-world practice time.

Meanwhile, the "global community" will stay quiet until it has access to an authentic INTERFACE with AMBAZONIA, one that guarantees any RISKS it may take to engage in the sub-region, in any way, shape or form.

TM

— Wanaku Verdzekov

Reading & grammar

Reading level: Gr 9–11

Understand

  1. What does the author say informed citizens are fighting for?
  2. What are the two parts of the fight?
  3. Why is the global community staying quiet, according to the author?

Grammar focus: first… then…. "First, face the real enemy… then, face ourselves" sets out steps in time order.

Try it: Write a two-step plan for a school project using first and then.

Discuss: Is it harder to remove an outside power or to agree among ourselves? Argue.