Set up to Fail

"Swag"

I tell my brothers and sisters to speak up and speak out, but not to become a Nyamfɨkah. You are much more precious than that. Once you have made peace with your intellectual reasons for refusing to accept a system that is set up for you to fail in life, then when you take to the street, even the way you walk (your "swag", as some young people call it) will be dignified. It is not magic. It is just the way real humans (not Nyamfɨkahs) are wired.

Principles

There are principles that, when followed, work as if by magic. For example, if you are going to start something, make sure you also plan how to finish it. Question: when you take to the street, do you know how it is going to end? If not, it is good to plan that part of the operation before starting.

We are not Nyamfɨkahs, and we will refuse to be treated as such, just by the dignified way we, our children and everyone committed to our cause carry ourselves.

Sharpening skills

There is much to do, especially individually: for example, sharpening skills. Every citizen will have to do something to earn a living. The era of "chop-broke-pot-ism" will suddenly come to an end. What will you do?

There will be opportunities for ALL kinds of things to be done in the new state. Think of the skills that will be needed, and the list is endless. Between public- and private-sector products and services, higher-education graduates will be so busy there will NOT be time to ask for an export "33" again. You would be thinking (you chemistry graduates) about how to start your own breweries in Mbengwi, Manyemen or Fontem.

Question: will the coming of our new state end "chop-broke-pot-ism" in the eastern Cameroons? That is a question for the experts in that system to answer. Are you an expert in the Camerounese system? You tell me.

Set up

We have been set up for failure. And those responsible know what they are doing. If not, their ignorance is beyond compare. Trust me: the people of the State of former British Southern Cameroons are living in a system set up for them to fail in every human endeavour. And that, my friends, is a wicked thing for one set of "Africans" to do to another.

The ancestors and our children are watching.

TribalMonk

PS: Nyamfɨkah literally means "bush animal". In a social context, it describes humans who show tendencies similar to those of a bush animal. If they start walking on all fours, it becomes a psychiatric problem. But an upright-walking human behaving like a bush animal is called a "Nyamfɨkah"… until the behaviour changes.

— Wanaku Verdzekov