Dear Cameroon

The problems Cameroonians have faced with the two presidents since independence are many and complex. Eventhough at one time she was known as the cradle of peace in the African continent when must countries were bedeviled by civil strife and socio-economic upheavals, it appears she is rocking gently now like some pendulum that will soon strike the centre and let lose a mayhem that will will be hard to quell. The introduction of a pluralist democracy in the 1990s amidst bloodshed, came together with a revisitation of issues of reunification and questions about the sanity of continuous marriage of the now apparently strange bedfellows: the Southern and Eastern Cameroonians or better still, the Anglophones and Francophones. This question led to the numerous conferences that culminated with the formation of the Southern Cameroons National Council (SCNC) to which many souls have been lost including those of my brothers in Kumbo. The continual refusal to recognise the anglophone predicament in the current geo-political landscape of Cameroon by His Royal Highness Paul M. Biya and his stoogies has raised in a more forceful way, the question of whether we should have a Cameroon or Cameroons. WHAT IS THE WAY FORWARD?