The current state of the world, with its growing divergences and increasingly violent confrontations, awakens, if not obliges us, to consolidate our gains and positions, and even to nurse our own ambitions, based fundamentally on our capacities. This change of vision is essential for our countries in search of development, which are accustomed to blindly repeating the intellectual conclusions of foreign peoples with fading morals, and to consuming without moderation the products that have made prosperous once poor countries, but which are now rich with our wealth.
Faced with a development peak that is difficult to maintain over time, with a declining population, depleted resources and a saturated environment, the great powers are rushing to our countries, whose resources they crave. To achieve this goal, they use scheming and violence. Misleading messages and dark manoeuvres are used to organise and sustain socio-political upheavals, and long-planned and programmed armed violence is portrayed as spontaneous. Using a variety of sometimes subjective and very often false pretexts, hired individuals are demanding autonomy or even secession for part of the territory.
It is therefore not surprising that some compatriots, ignorant of their history and unaware of their own personality, are only interested in perpetuating a certain colonial legacy. In fact, every effort is being made to divide the people, to encourage them to increasingly and effectively kill each other so that they can continue to bear the burden of dependence and begging. Cameroon is being targeted by these puppet masters of hegemonic chaos.
To opt for subservience or separatism would be to play into the hands of a colonialism whose only ideology is our degradation and enslavement. Separatism has only ever satisfied the appetites of external actors. Moreover, the mini-states we want to create will be neither viable nor reliable. Coming back to our country, the established powers do not like the idea of Cameroon achieving food self-sufficiency and the scientific capacity to create an industrial and technological fabric capable of making it, in the future, not just a place for the exploitation of raw materials, but a major competitor in the market for goods and services.
Cameroon aspires to become a major pole of prosperity and security, not only in Central Africa but throughout the African continent, with a focus on the more distant countries.
More than ever, therefore, the consolidation of unity and the pursuit of development must be the common ambition of us all. It is time to realise that we have suffered enough from the slave trade, the protectorate, the mandate, the trusteeship, economic crises and terrorism. These are all factors that have fractured our society and led us down a path of socio-economic regression and moral depravity. Now that the time has come to reaffirm our long-despised legitimate ambitions, let’s have the wisdom and courage to categorically and definitively reject those who wish to resurrect the sad memory of a certain colonial history to impose it on us once again.
Sovereign ambition will inevitably cost us dearly in blood, sweat and tears. But it remains the only investment worth our sacrifice. /-
