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"African time" is a psycho-social and cultural symptom that needs a fundamental philosophical mind-shift to stop its negative effects. There is what's called "coloured people's time", "African time"… So this is not limited to people from the Cameroons.

How do we solve the problem? It is the same as asking: how do you change the culture of a people or community? This is how: discuss and implement a philosophical mind-shift, if you ask me.

Reminder: "Potopoto flows from up to down." The children are watching and copying what they see. They are excellent copycats.

Note: humans have the same hardware. What is different is the software: CULTURE. Is there anything that can be described as "Camerounese culture"? What is it? You tell me.

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Her Majesty the Queen of England presided over a botched decolonization process that has left 6 million+ citizens of the State of former British Southern Cameroons in political limbo. It is time to right a wrong, and what better way than the authors of the wrong doing the right thing?

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Citizens of the State of former British Southern Cameroons should not waste time and energy trying to solve the problems created by the Franco-Camerounese system of Ahidjo, Fochivé and Biya. None of our citizens has ever signed a decree in the Cameroons. So use that time and energy to gain the skills to rebuild our own space (physical, cultural, emotional).

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And God said: "Let there be light"! Were you there to hear Him (or Her) say it? If not, how would you know? In the Cameroons, so many people spend their time getting drunk and expect to wake up in the middle of the night to say "Let there be light!" There is no magic. If our own children are not the engineers (civil, electrical, etc.), who do you expect to solve the energy problem? You tell me.

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Our children have not been taught to speak out. Most of them cannot express themselves well in either foreign language (French or English). Have you listened to a typical Camerounese kid making a public statement? It is a mishmash of English, no English, French, no French… which, in a global setting, is totally meaningless (if you ask me). That is what I mean by "dumbed down". If several generations of our children lose their power of expression on the global stage, what are they left with? You tell me.

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Bobe,

In "Anglophone" culture, there is something called "home training". When a human lacks home training, it means the framework (circumstances, environment, culture, language, food, living space…) in which that person grew up lacked the instruments needed for an efficient upbringing into a given society. Behaviour that seems unexplainable is more likely rooted there. What to do if you observe it? Find ways to help, or else move on.

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The place seems so small,
and people seem unable to breathe.
The keyword is "seems",
because that is not the case.
It is the impression the movers and shakers
give the people: "The air in this room is running out,
so some people need to stay outside."
And that is what happened. A lot of people stay outside.

Here is a picture of Franco-Camerounese people I respect: women in Turu, Cameroun, wearing calabash hair hats. I am not sure the so-called president and his cohorts have ever visited these people, or know their story. So when a national psycho-social agenda tries to squeeze everyone's awareness into a narrow pipe, remember that Africa is eleven million square miles. Question: what are you doing with it? You tell me.

~wv

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If you want your culture and lifestyle to be buried before they die,
make yourself a minority. Then wait for the majority to squash your
dreams to kingdom come.
We have to monitor the taps of cultural assimilation
by controlling a few things: what we see, hear, say, repeat, touch and feel.
If the first thing you hear in the morning is the crackle of the president's voice
and the last thing you hear at night is the croak of a frog,
then you are surely sliding into the cultural abyss,
with little hope of turning back.
Unless… you tell me.

TribalMonk

— Wanaku Verdzekov