RAMBLE in the JUNGLE

Ramble in the Jungle

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• 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

• Nigeria

  Wanaku Verdzekov · 3 Jun 2014 · Africa & the Gulf of Guinea

  A country of more than 100,000,000 humans without a water-tight system of accounting for each of them is bound to face problems.

  Tags: nigeria, accountability, identification

• 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

• The Kom Chicken Story: Kaatɨ Kaatɨ

  Wanaku Verdzekov · approx. 1 Jun 2014 · Kom & Indigenous

  Here's news for the human: the human stomach does not have teeth.

  Tags: food, indigenous-diet, humour

• kom culture + religion

  Wanaku Verdzekov · approx. 15 May 2014 · Kom & Indigenous

  Education without incorporating the Kom Circle of Life is meaningless in a Kom context.

  Tags: kom, religion, education, debt

• 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

• Kom is NOT for Sale

  Wanaku Verdzekov · approx. 1 Jan 2014 · Kom & Indigenous

  If we cannot manage our own backyard, then whose backyard are we managing?

  Tags: kom, land, self-management, skills

• 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

• Understanding Self-Esteem

  Wanaku Verdzekov · 13 Aug 2013 · Kom & Indigenous

  Self-esteem is realizing that you are worth far more than anything money can buy.

  Tags: self-esteem, identity, itangikom

• mideast

  Wanaku Verdzekov · approx. 1 Jun 2013 · Global

  The problems of the Mideast are not solvable by any one individual. Everyone is posturing.

  Tags: middle-east, us-policy, politics

• Resolution 1608 (XV)

  Wanaku Verdzekov · approx. 1 Jun 2013 · The Cameroons

  Take the State of former British Southern Cameroons out of the République du Cameroun algebra, and the equation solves itself.

  Tags: un-resolution, bilingual-tv, sdf-cpdm

• Camerounese Senate?

  Wanaku Verdzekov · 17 Mar 2013 · The Cameroons

  Dismantling our House of Chiefs in 1972 was a deliberate move to destabilise the very foundation of our families and communities.

  Tags: house-of-chiefs, institutions, 1972

• One No Kamerun?

  Wanaku Verdzekov · 16 Mar 2013 · The Cameroons

  You can totally have a One Kamerun dream, but you cannot force a supposedly free people into a dream just because you can.

  Tags: one-kamerun, self-rule, bad-faith

• Best leg forward

  Wanaku Verdzekov · 15 Mar 2013 · The Cameroons

  The best leg forward for Cameroun is a reset: two states, with two different systems, living side by side.

  Tags: restoration, common-law, indirect-rule, two-states

• Only the Truth …

  Wanaku Verdzekov · 12 Mar 2013 · The Cameroons

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

  Tags: decolonization, un, truth, youth

• Musings in the Key of Life

  Wanaku Verdzekov · approx. 28 Jan 2013 · Global

  Everything is perception. From then on, all else is mystery.

  Tags: philosophy, language, poetry

• African Preachers

  Wanaku Verdzekov · approx. 1 Jan 2013 · Africa & the Gulf of Guinea

  Change won't happen by magic. It takes the exercise of brain muscles to move Africa from nonentity to an entity to be reckoned with.

  Tags: africa, storytelling, au, restoration

• alcoholism in the cameroons

  Wanaku Verdzekov · approx. 1 Jan 2013 · The Cameroons

  When the law-makers are the law-breakers, you tell me, what to do?

  Tags: alcohol, public-health, accountability

• china - africa

  Wanaku Verdzekov · approx. 1 Jan 2013 · Africa & the Gulf of Guinea

  My people are TOO kind. I guess that's what UBUNTU is all about.

  Tags: china, ubuntu