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CAMEROONS Crisis – Where is the Wealth?

By Wanaku Verdzekov · · Africa & the Gulf of Guinea

Tags: cfa-franc, oil, bakassi, ambazonia

Africa is BIG enough for all Africans. Do not look for "unification" where there isn't any foundation.

Kamerun was created by the Germans, Franco-Cameroun by France, British Cameroons by Britain. Do not blame my GrandPa for that.

Just leave British Cameroons (South), aka AMBAZONIA, alone.

There is enough land in Franco-Cameroun for MORE than one country or nation, if you ask me. Question: have you been to Equatorial Guinea? That "country" could fit into Cameroun 10 times, with land to spare.

What "unification" is Franco-Cameroun looking for? Why has Franco-Cameroun not made any attempt to "reunite" with ALL the other former French nations to its north, east and south? Why would a former French colony be killing Africans to force them into a Francophonie that my GrandPa DOES NOT WANT?

Why have Franco-Cameroun and France been committing GENOCIDE in British Cameroons (South), aka AMBAZONIA, since 2016? (Actually since 1961: a number of unexplained deaths of British Cameroons citizens remain unresolved. That even pales beside the fact that the first president of Franco-Cameroun is dead and buried in a "foreign" land: Senegal!)

How do you explain that to the children? I would really like to know how Franco-Camerounese politricksters would handle that point in a classroom full of "patriotic" children and students.

France has brainwashed and scared everyone in that space into thinking that WITHOUT the OIL in BAKASSI, France will stop PRINTING CFA francs for the so-called "elite" in Franco-Cameroun to take into the villages and "spread the wealth". Since 1960, ask a GrandMa in Ngolemeduka: "Where is the wealth?" Probably hidden in a bottle of Quinientos Unos?

Excuse my French, but it looks like the truth must be told in no uncertain terms.

TM

— Wanaku Verdzekov

Reading & grammar

Reading level: Gr 10–12

Understand

  1. Which three colonial powers created the different Cameroons, according to the author?
  2. What comparison does the author make with Equatorial Guinea?
  3. What question does the author want to ask a grandmother in Ngolemeduka?

Grammar focus: the word genocide. Genocide is a legal term: acts intended to destroy a national, ethnic, racial or religious group. Using it is a strong claim that needs evidence; the editor's note flags it as the author's characterization.

Try it: Look up the UN definition of genocide. Write two sentences on why careful use of such words matters.

Discuss: When writers use very strong words (genocide, slavery, robbery), does it help their cause or weaken it? Argue.