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CAMEROONS Crisis: Plato vs Dinka?
By Wanaku Verdzekov · · The Cameroons
Date note: Estimated (late December 2022), from its place among the dated posts around it.
Tags: governance-template, self-rule, systems
AMBAZONIA, in this period of resetting and reasserting our independence, will have to write our own systems into existence, from scratch.
Or else…
Question: where does AMBAZONIA's governance template come from? From Plato's "government of the people…", or from Chief Dinka's New Social Order?
Do you know?
TM
— Wanaku Verdzekov
Reading & grammar
Reading level: Gr 9–11
Understand
- What does the author say Ambazonia must do in this period?
- Which two sources of governance does the author compare?
- Who was Fon Gorji Dinka?
Grammar focus: brevity. This post is only a few lines: a claim and a question. Short posts can open a debate but leave the work to the reader.
Try it: Expand the post into a paragraph that compares Plato's idea of government with an African model you know.
Discuss: Should a new state borrow its system from ancient philosophy, from local tradition, or both?