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CAMEROONS – Commendable efforts to "solve a problem"?
By Wanaku Verdzekov · · The Cameroons
Date note: Undated Facebook post, estimated to about 2020.
Tags: diaspora, citizenship, time
What is the problem? Is it Biya? France? Franco-Cameroun? OR is it the citizens of AMBAZONIA?
Some frustrated citizen wrote: "Enough is enough with the diaspora!"
- Question 1: who is the "diaspora"? Citizens of Ambazonia?
- Question 2: can one cut off one's own nose… just to spite one's face?
Note: no one needs to be forcibly convinced of their citizenship. You are born, and you know it in your bones. All the "Naija-style" acting by Franco-Camerounese poor actors is transparently fake, unbelievable, and will not hold any water, even in 1,000 years.
The mind is a terrible thing to waste. And right now, what is mostly happening is the DYSFUNCTIONAL Franco-Cameroun government helping citizens waste time, and so waste their minds' potential. It is really a sad movie we are all watching.
Ija'iku fɨlasi!
An IRRESPONSIBLE government? It is one that is UNABLE to ACCOUNT for, and REPORT on, what happens within its jurisdiction.
TM
— Wanaku Verdzekov
Reading & grammar
Reading level: Gr 9–11
Understand
- What question does the author ask about the "diaspora"?
- What does "cut off one's nose to spite one's face" mean?
- How does the author define an irresponsible government?
Grammar focus: the idiom cut off your nose to spite your face. It means harming yourself in trying to hurt someone else. The author uses it to question attacks on the diaspora.
Try it: Use the idiom in a sentence about a team, a family or a class.
Discuss: Should people living abroad have a say in their home country's politics? Argue.