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A Very Gaullist Chief in the Southern Cameroons

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The very Gaullist Chief Endeley

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Charles De Gaulle
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“The Germans, our first colonial master, and the English virtually abandoned us but the French have remained and have become our real friends.” Chief Endeley told his guests.

According to The Post (March 13, 2007), Chief Endeley made the statement, Saturday March 3, while welcoming French Ambassador to la République du Cameroun Georges Serre and wife, to the Buea Town residence of former UN Representative to Congo, Dr. Namata Ngongi.

In the 1944 Brazzaville Conference where France unveiled her blueprint for the continuous plunder and brutality of their colonized possessions in negation of the global decolonization spirit in a post-Hitler world, part of the declaration read:

“The goal of the task of civilization by France in her colonies rule out any possibility of evolution outside the French block of the empire. The eventual creation even in the distant future of ‘self-government’ for the colonies is to be set aside … In greater colonial France, they are neither people to enfranchise nor racial discrimination to abolish. They are populations which we intend to conduct stage by stage to a political personality and for the more developed to political rights. But this will mean that the only independence they will want will be the independence of France.”

Africa and the Southern Cameroons remains burdened with a certain breed, hopefully on the verge of passing on naturally, which continues to remind us on why the continent remains the last enchanting laboratory for all sorts of human misery. This breed have for centuries been conducted stage by stage to political personalities that enable them to betray the essence of Africa’s collective humanity. Some of our Chiefs and Fons in the Southern Cameroons have fit perfectly into this Gaullist view of Africa.


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Hello Mr. Georges Serre, French Ambassador to la République du Cameroun

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GEORGES SERRE, French Ambassador to la République du Cameroun

Thank you for the interview accorded to The Post newspaper of March 05/2007.
(Appended at the end of this piece)

A few years ago, a story circulated in the Southern Cameroons about an exchange between Cardinal Christian Tumi and another French man of God. When told that he was from the Cameroons, the French man of God asked Cardinal Tumi what was taking so long to Frenchify those anglophones in the Cameroons. And to his “embarrassment” Cardinal Tumi calmly replied that he is indeed one of those anglophones.

Whether this anecdote is true or false, it does reveal the depths and depravity of the conspiracy against the people of the Southern Cameroons. It also reveals the intentions behind the brutality that the state and people of the Southern Cameroons have been subjected to. But it also is displays the success of a genteel but robust resistance, which despite close to half a century of relentless and brutal colonial rule of France masquerading as la République du Cameroun sanctioned by the “international community,” she has miserably failed to destroy the political identity of the state and people of the Southern Cameroons. Or it may just be the incompetence and limitation of the patented French illusions of grandeur laced with the Fashoda Syndrome.

But here we are in March of 2007, in desperation struts in this Messenger of Death called Georges Serre, in the name of the French Ambassador to their bush Bastille enclave called la République du Cameroun. Along with his primitive coterie of Gaullist monkeys from Yaoundé he declares (or decrees?) in an interview with The Post newspaper that the University of Buea is a “national university with a focus towards bilingualism.” Even basic intellectual competence eludes this so-called French diplomat sent from the métropole to one of the primitive recesses of the periphery. It will really be helpful to both the peoples of France and la République du Cameroun that we of the Southern Cameroons have competent interlocutors who are capable of understanding the basic processes and realities of life.

Why George Serre Came to the Southern Cameroons and the University of Buea

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SCNC Defence Counsel Blames Gendarmes For Obstructing Justice

By Chris Mbunwe
(Culled from The Post newspaper, March 2, 2007)

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"It is our humble submission that the State of Southern Cameroons, the independence of which the accused persons are arguing has never in law nor historically been an integral and inseparable part of he Republic of Cameroon." Bobga went further to explain to the court that the Republic of Cameroon gained independence on January 1, 1960, while the State of Southern Cameroons gained her independence on October 1, 1961.

According to Bobga, the experiment to create a two-state Federation of the States of "The Republic of Cameroon" and that of "Southern Cameroons" has been a legal constitutional and historical failure giving rise to the peaceful struggle of Southern Cameroonians seeking a restoration of their independent state "now under the Republic of Cameroon illegal occupation, not withstanding the dubious Cameroon-Nigeria land and maritime boundary judgment of the International Court of Justice and the comic Green Tree agreement idea of the three neo-colonial agents and conspirators Mr. Paul Biya of La République du Cameroun, Obasanjo of Nigeria and former UN Secretary General Kofi Annan," Bobga declared.

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