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"ANGLOPHONE CRISIS"?
By Wanaku Verdzekov · · The Cameroons
Date note: Undated Facebook post, estimated to about 2020.
Tags: naming, dysfunction, lrc
LRC declares and prosecutes a "war" against the citizens of former British Southern Cameroons, or AMBAZONIA. And when LRC's DYSFUNCTION results in the BUTCHERING of CHILDREN, they now call it the "ANGLOPHONE CRISIS"?
It should be called the "Franco-Cameroun government DYSFUNCTION crisis".
Note: the citizens of AMBAZONIA, or British Southern Cameroons, CANNOT solve that problem for Franco-Cameroun. If they cannot carry their own weight, it is not the citizens of AMBAZONIA who will carry that weight for them.
LRC is learning and practising "Naija movie" acting tricks to pass the time. Their "acting" is NOT BELIEVABLE, even to the most gullible "international" partners.
The poor acting by Franco-Camerounese government agents as they prosecute what I call GENOCIDE in former British Southern Cameroons is a testament to all reasonable humans. The Franco-Camerounese citizens in this context have either let themselves be led by the nose, or their noses have been clamped to an 80+-year-old tractor that is trying to climb Mount Fako in reverse gear.
Ija'iku fɨlasi!
AMBA: The choice between TRUTH and FOOD is the journey of a lifetime.
TM
— Wanaku Verdzekov
Reading & grammar
Reading level: Gr 10–12
Understand
- What does the author think the crisis should be called?
- Why does the author say Ambazonians cannot solve Franco-Cameroun's problem?
- What is the tractor-in-reverse image meant to show?
Grammar focus: naming as argument. Choosing a name ("Anglophone crisis" vs "government dysfunction crisis") frames who is responsible. Writers and journalists argue through names.
Try it: Find a news event that has two names. Explain how each name frames the event.
Discuss: Does the name of a conflict matter? Argue.