Only the Truth …

The children are watching.

This might sound like beating a dead horse, but our problems will only be compounded if we deliberately shove the truth under the mat and pretend that the lie we are all witnessing is the truth.

Even as the children watch, they can feel the awkwardness of our situation, and they can sense our inability (or disability) to stand on the side of truth.

Just as Christians believe in salvation through Christ, I believe that our people, the true citizens of former British Southern Cameroons, will only know peace and prosperity when the process of decolonization started by the UN is completed.

Why is the UN not coming to our villages and towns to complete this process? Well, the one thing that must happen is for our people to believe in their true freedom, which is something that happens in the heart and mind of a citizen.

Watch out for people who are ignorant of your history telling you what the right thing to do is. If they do not care about your past (enough to learn it), why would they care about your future? In other words, only someone fully apprised of the political history of former British Southern Cameroons can offer knowledgeable advice on how to complete the decolonization process.

The brain-lazy people who rush to conclusions about our political history with an n'importe quoi attitude are only willing to drag you down into the stink of ignorance, which only begets itself. So the simple truth is that you cannot give useful advice to someone if you are completely ignorant of their biography. If you want to advise the citizens of former British Southern Cameroons, learn their history: an inconclusive decolonization process, plus annexation and occupation by (for lack of a name) the Ahidjo/Biya fascist-communist, France-backed regime since the early 1960s.

Even in prison, your heart and mind can be free. Your belief in your true political history is what provides the foundation for your true freedom in the global community of truly free people.

Until we each feel and believe in this true political history (instead of the lies we have been living), we will be helping to build a house of cards, a house on shifting sand, that sooner or later will come crashing down.

The confusion that seems apparent in current discussions among citizens is intentional: throw a bone to the dogs and watch them fight over it. The problem is that our citizens really do not need to be distracted by this dogfight over bones. We need to be educating our people, galvanizing support for our decolonization and, most importantly, training professionals to manage our homeland once this process is formally finalized.

Some have told me, "Dream on…", and I respond: "Keep on living the lie…". I prefer to dream than to live a lie. So…

The Ahidjo/Biya government goes from one illegitimate action to the next as far as former British Southern Cameroons is concerned. And it has the audacity to call the bluff of all its citizens, as in: "Yes, we did. And what can you do about it?" Several thousand citizens of former British Southern Cameroons are in self-exile, and many more cannot study at a high, world-class level at home and have to make do with going to Nigeria next door, or anywhere else but La République du Cameroun.

There are not many words to describe this situation. It is basically annexation and occupation by a foreign entity. This should absolutely not be the case. Why do our citizens feel a little out of place (like second-class citizens) in La République du Cameroun? Because they do not belong there in the first place, and they have been told so several times, officially and unofficially.

The truth has a way of always coming back to the top. So if you know the truth, and you are told the truth in several ways, but you keep trying to avoid it, run away from it, hide your face from it… how long can you play that role?

The children are watching, as you play or refuse to play on the side of truth.

~wv

— Wanaku Verdzekov