RAMBLE in the JUNGLE

The Cameroons

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• "ANGLOPHONE CRISIS"?

  Wanaku Verdzekov · approx. 7 Jan 2020 · The Cameroons

  It should be called the "Franco-Cameroun government DYSFUNCTION crisis".

  Tags: naming, dysfunction, lrc

• Of Mindsets & Worldviews

  Wanaku Verdzekov · approx. 6 Jan 2020 · The Cameroons

  How and where do you start "debriefing" a whole kommunity after a century of untold trauma?

  Tags: worldview, divide-and-rule, trauma

• Self-Rulers don't wait for "leaders"

  Wanaku Verdzekov · approx. 5 Jan 2020 · The Cameroons

  Self-propelling entities can SELF-RULE, making the issue of "leaders" moot.

  Tags: self-rule, leadership, citizenship

• CAMEROONS Crisis: The real "Power of the People"

  Wanaku Verdzekov · approx. 4 Jan 2020 · The Cameroons

  The real power of the people is the ability of citizens, individually, to analyse their living situation and fix the issues.

  Tags: citizens, analysis, njangi

• AMBA: The Bind on the Cameroons

  Wanaku Verdzekov · approx. 1 Jan 2020 · The Cameroons

  Every Ambazonian in the diaspora sending money through the existing financial institutions is watering the FCFA tree.

  Tags: fcfa, diaspora, financial-policy

• Trouble in the Armpit of Africa – Cameroons Puzzle? A little history (so we don't repeat the mistakes)

  Wanaku Verdzekov · approx. 1 Dec 2016 · The Cameroons

  A timeline from 1884 to 2016, and the question behind it: why so much killing over oil we cannot eat or drink?

  Tags: timeline, history, oil, biafra, france

• Set up to Fail

  Wanaku Verdzekov · 8 Jan 2015 · The Cameroons

  We have been set up for failure. Answer with dignity, a plan for how it ends, and sharpened skills.

  Tags: dignity, skills, nyamfɨkah, youth

• Youth Question – What to do?

  Wanaku Verdzekov · 7 Jan 2015 · The Cameroons

  Know our history, sharpen one skill, build entities of trust, and hold meetings with purpose.

  Tags: youth, organising, skills, restoration

• Truth Commission in the Cameroons?

  Wanaku Verdzekov · approx. 12 Dec 2014 · The Cameroons

  You cannot tell the truth about now without knowing how "now" came to be.

  Tags: truth-commission, corruption, national-conference, language

• Telling our story

  Wanaku Verdzekov · 25 Oct 2014 · The Cameroons

  The hardest thing to do is to tell a story so well that everyone is willing to listen.

  Tags: storytelling, narrative

• Culture?

  Wanaku Verdzekov · 23 Oct 2014 · The Cameroons

  What kind of microorganisms is the "system in place" growing in the Cameroons?

  Tags: culture, systems, biology-metaphor

• The System, Not the People

  Wanaku Verdzekov · 2 Oct 2014 · The Cameroons

  Ordinary citizens do not really have issues with each other over systemic issues. The system in the Cameroons is broken, and everyone is running away from fixing it.

  Tags: assimilation, anglophone, francophone

• We have been scammed!

  Wanaku Verdzekov · 2 Oct 2014 · The Cameroons

  We did not become independent until 1961, October 1st. Oh! My mistake: we never became independent.

  Tags: statehood, decolonization

• Self Rule

  Wanaku Verdzekov · 17 Sep 2014 · The Cameroons

  The thing that WILL make our people independent is a set of common IDEALS that the majority believe in and can work towards.

  Tags: self-rule, ideals

• The Deliberate Dismantling of the Neo-Culture of a Nascent West African Modern Anglophone State

  Wanaku Verdzekov · 17 Sep 2014 · The Cameroons

  We are 30+ years late in kick-starting the rebuilding of our communities.

  Tags: restoration, camfranglais, community

• Land Tenure Question in the Cameroons

  Wanaku Verdzekov · 25 Aug 2014 · The Cameroons

  Has adding British common law and the French Napoleonic Code made land tenure easier for our people to understand, or not?

  Tags: land-law, customary-law, common-law

• Wanaku Quotes

  Wanaku Verdzekov · approx. 13 Jul 2014 · The Cameroons

  Standing for what we believe is important. What is more important is whether what we believe is true.

  Tags: camfranglais, record-keeping, restoration, aphorisms

• It's a jungle out there

  Wanaku Verdzekov · approx. 1 Jun 2014 · The Cameroons

  If you have something and you do not take care of it, it WILL be taken away from you.

  Tags: biya-effigy, brainwashing, literacy

• Decades of Powerlessness

  Wanaku Verdzekov · approx. 1 Jan 2014 · The Cameroons

  The people have vocal power. But they will not sing. So the man kept all power. Until…

  Tags: poem, power, voice, people-power

• Après moi le Déluge

  Wanaku Verdzekov · 12 Sep 2013 · The Cameroons

  If the House of Biya is thinking like Louis XV, the youth of the Cameroons should make sure his dream does NOT come true.

  Tags: gerontocracy, french-history, youth