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Somen scores, Nkoulou on the bench again: How Le Guen's men fared this weekend

As the Indomitable Lions of Cameroon gather in Yaounde ahead of their double-header against Gabon on the 5th and 9th of September, Somen A Tchoyi was the only one in the 22 Europe based players to score for his club this weekend.

He thundered in a header to score the second goal for Red Bulls Salzburg that beat KSV Superfund 3-0 in the Austrian superleague. The Bulls are now topping the league in Austria.

Samuel Eto'o played his most elaborate game in an Inter shirt (although he did not score) when the Italian champions destroyed their city rivals Milan 4-0. He gave width, depth and fluidity to Inter's game. He obtained a penalty when Gatusso fouled him in the 18 yard box which, Milito scored.

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As the Indomitable Lions of Cameroon gather in Yaounde ahead of their double-header against Gabon on the 5th and 9th of September, Somen A Tchoyi was the only one in the 22 Europe based players to score for his club this weekend.

He thundered in a header to score the second goal for Red Bulls Salzburg that beat KSV Superfund 3-0 in the Austrian superleague. The Bulls are now topping the league in Austria.

Samuel Eto'o played his most elaborate game in an Inter shirt (although he did not score) when the Italian champions destroyed their city rivals Milan 4-0. He gave width, depth and fluidity to Inter's game. He obtained a penalty when Gatusso fouled him in the 18 yard box which, Milito scored.

Eleven Dead in Cameroon after two train accidents in two days

At least eleven people have been killed in two separate train accidents on Friday and Saturday in Cameroon's capital Yaounde, the country's minister of communication has confirmed.

In the latest and most devastating incident, a passenger train from Ngaoundere derailed at the northern entrance to Yaoundé (at the Abbatoire neighbourhood) killing 9 people and leaving at least 275 others injured.

Pictures broadcast on state television (CRTV) on Saturday 29 August showed overturned wagons, some with people still trapped inside as rescue workers struggled to save them, while other survivors looked concussed.  

Shock Video: The Operating Room at the Bota Annex Hospital in Cameroon

A Modern Veterinary Operating Room

Professor Titus Edzoa’s Seeding of G-11 – Part II of President Paul Biya’s Cabinet in Jail

Co-written and Edited by Innocent Chia

The arrest this Wednesday of the former boss of the National Petroleum Depots of Cameroon (SCDP), Jean-Baptiste Nguini Effa, is but another casualty in the all-daggers–drawn Fang Vs Ewondo ethnic rivalry. Even as the Government of Cameroon dutifully makes its case of embezzlement against Nguini Effa and conspirators, it will tread far off from the motive that Effa’s real crime is that he is Ewondo from Ngoumou Sub-Division in the Mefou Akono Division like Edzoa. Indeed, Jean-Baptiste Nguini Effa rose to power under the wings of an anomaly in the cabinet reshuffle of March 1985. In that reshuffle the arch-rivals of President Biya were booted out in favor of his ethnic Bulu / Fangs. The anomaly was Titus Edzoa. Irrefutably considered a very smart, dedicated pediatric surgeon, Professor Titus Edzoa was workaholic employed at the Yaounde Central Hospital. He emerged as Minister of Special Duties at the Presidency.

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The arrest this Wednesday of the former boss of the National Petroleum Depots of Cameroon (SCDP), Jean-Baptiste Nguini Effa, is but another casualty in the all-daggers–drawn Fang Vs Ewondo ethnic rivalry. Even as the Government of Cameroon dutifully makes its case of embezzlement against Nguini Effa and conspirators, it will tread far off from the motive that Effa’s real crime is that he is Ewondo from Ngoumou Sub-Division in the Mefou Akono Division like Edzoa. Indeed, Jean-Baptiste Nguini Effa rose to power under the wings of an anomaly in the cabinet reshuffle of March 1985. In that reshuffle the arch-rivals of President Biya were booted out in favor of his ethnic Bulu / Fangs. The anomaly was Titus Edzoa. Irrefutably considered a very smart, dedicated pediatric surgeon, Professor Titus Edzoa was workaholic employed at the Yaounde Central Hospital. He emerged as Minister of Special Duties at the Presidency.

Motion of Support

Kangsen Feka Wakai

Mindful of the constitution of the Republic; one that only you could envision;

Mindful of law No. 1982/114 to ensure peace, prosperity and happiness for eternity, notwithstanding all the provocations from that delusional dictator Nguema;

Mindful of Decree No. 1984/406 creating the office of shit talking and anointing me as a parrot at your service;

Aware of the lethargy and feymania that continue to reign through out the Republic;

(Book Review) K’cracy, Trees in the Storm by Bill F. Ndi

(Published by Langaa Research & Publishing CIG, 2008)

Reviewer: Peter Wuteh Vakunta, Ph.D [University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA]

K’cracy, Trees in the Storm, a compendium of one hundred and fourteen captivating poems, is an effusion of bitter-sweet emotions.  By titling his book of poems “K’cracy”, Bill Ndi makes a powerful political statement on the status quo in Africa. “K’cracy”, metonym for the reign of kleptocracy-cum-kakistocracy, is the poet’s harrowing hymn in denunciation of climes characterized by love-hate relationships. The poet summons his readers to a collective examination of conscience.

The Nonsense in Gabon

Originally published in This Day 
 
Gabonese voters are expected to file out in what many observers have already tagged “another round of sham election” to pick a successor to the late President Omar Bongo, who died on June 8 after ruling the Central African nation for 42 years.

Predictably, the son of the late Bongo, Ali Ben Bongo, is favoured to win the election in which no fewer than 22 other candidates are running. Although some semblance of compliance with democratic ethos are noticeable in the run-up to the August 30 election, the whole exercise appears precariously flawed right from the start.

(Book Review) Letters to Marion (and the coming Generations) by John Nkengasong

Reviewed by Kelvin Ngong Toh (Department of African Literature and Civilisations, The University of Yaounde 1)

In Letters to Marion (and the coming Generations) Nkengasong handles issues  which are a full representation of his milieu like the new elite in post independent Africa, tradition versus modernism, generational conflicts, oppression and dictatorship, individualism and collectivism, autobiographical verse, alienation, the quest for identity and above all the Cameroon Anglophone problem.

Remembering Dr. Bernard Fonlon

By Paul Verdzekov - Archbishop Emeritus of Bamenda (Originally published in 2006 on the 20th anniversary of Dr. Fonlon's passing)

  1. Twenty years ago, on 26th August 1986, Bernard Nsokika Fonlon died in Canada. He had gone there in the month of May of that year in order to receive a doctorate degree in Literature (D. Litt.) from the University of Guelph, and it was his intention to spend the 1986/1987 academic year in the United States of America, within the framework of a Fulbright programme. But the Lord, the Giver of Life, decided otherwise. Bernard died in Canada at the age of sixty-one years, and nine months and six days. He would have been sixty-two years of age on 19th November 1986.

By Paul Verdzekov - Archbishop Emeritus of Bamenda (Originally published in 2006 on the 20th anniversary of Dr. Fonlon's passing)

  1. Twenty years ago, on 26th August 1986, Bernard Nsokika Fonlon died in Canada. He had gone there in the month of May of that year in order to receive a doctorate degree in Literature (D. Litt.) from the University of Guelph, and it was his intention to spend the 1986/1987 academic year in the United States of America, within the framework of a Fulbright programme. But the Lord, the Giver of Life, decided otherwise. Bernard died in Canada at the age of sixty-one years, and nine months and six days. He would have been sixty-two years of age on 19th November 1986.

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Stagnation In Francophone Cameroon

 

Louis Egbe Mbua (Originally published in Living Lights)

 

It is a strange twist of fate: how privilege can turn into disaster; how the privileged elite may be so wrong headedly spoilt -- such a pity. A touch down at the Douala Airport in Cameroon reinforces beliefs that what is served on a platter of gold may turn out to be a bitter pill that may not be swallowed by hard-working citizens. For almost half a century, the elite of this part of Cameroon have held sway in Power. Ahmadou Ahidjo from Garoua came; did his own part of development and left. Monsieur Paul Biya, from Mvomeka, again from French-Speaking Cameroon also arrived, did little or nothing and has never left after 27 years. The English-Speaking Cameroon on the West Bank of the River Mungo has not had a look in. Rather, their human and natural resources have been looted, supposedly going to develop Douala, Edea, Ebolowa, Garoua all in La Republique du Cameroun; so the story goes. Or is it?

 

President Paul Biya's Cabinet in Jail - G11

Co-Written and edited by Innocent Chia

With elections a couple of years away in 2011, it is no-holds-barred in the raging battle to define ultimately whether or not power oscillates in the failed state of La Republique du Cameroon. In spite some brouhaha chiefly from some in Cameroun’s American Diaspora about fielding an “aboriginal Anglophone”, push is coming to shove and the main rivalry is an age-old hatchet between ethnic cousins: the Bulu / Fangs - of President Paul Biya - Vs the Ewondo’s - of the belated Ayissi Mvondo, who was murdered cold blood in Paris. In spite his death, his affect is far from over. The torchbearers of the Ayissi Mvonvo clan are known today as G-11, a pseudonym that aptly describes the goal of regaining supremacy in Cameroon’s geo-political landscape in 2011.

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Eto'o, Meyong, Makoun Score in European Football Leagues this Weekend

Samuel Eto'o Fils scored on Sunday from the penalty spot in his Italian Serie "A" debut for Inter Milan which drew 1-1 with FC Bari.

"I am satisfied with his [Eto'o's] performance today but, of course, I expect him to improve each week," Inter's manager, José Mourinho, told pressmen after the game.

The Cameroonian striker told pressmen that his team still needs to work harder and stay focused to attain their objectives for the season.

Eto'o, who told French TV channel TF1 that his biggest wish for the moment was to see Cameroon qualify for the 2010 World Cup, was not the only member of Paul Le Guen's 22 man list for the World Cup qualifiers against Gabon to have scored for his team. Here is a round-up of Lions in action this weekend.  

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(Blog Review) What African Women think inside - A review of poetry on Batuo’s World

 (Originally posted on Gef's Outlook)

Is it easy to be an African woman? Always having other people deciding what you do, have, like or say and how you should feel and act. Except you are a woman like Joyce Ashutantang; a Cameroonian literary academic, actress, playwright, scriptwriter and poet.

In a series of poems posted on her blog –Batuo’s World – she masterfully brings out women's innermost feelings about love and life that some of society’s “protectors” in her native country and continent would want gagged and buried inside.

One of those issues is whether to allow women choose to keep or terminate pregnancy within given conditions. In “Sarah Palin: A Poem for Women” Ashutantang writes: “She can kill a moose, I can’t / She touts a gun, I hate guns / She derides abortions; I stand by them; my body is mine…”

Recently in Cameroon, persons who speak for women (and who seem to know better than women about choices they should make) got thousands of men and women to march on the streets against the parliament’s decision to ratify the Protocol to theAfrican Charter on Human and People's Rights on the Rights of Women in Africa which simply provides that right to choose.

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I'm Black but I Don't Like Cassava'

Cameroon born French writer, Gaston Kelman explains his controversial views on race and integration. French writer Gaston Kelman was born in Cameroon but has angered many in France's African diaspora with his controversial views on race and integration. Now the author of 'I'm Black but I Don't Like Cassava' explains his points of views.

(Book Review) Betrayal of Too Trusting a People by Carlson Anyangwe

Carlson Anyangwe. Betrayal of Too Trusting a People: The UN, the UK and the Trust Territory of the Southern Cameroons. Langaa RPCIG, Cameroon | Paperback | 260 pages | 2009

There is a growing body of literature on what was originally envisioned as a free political association of the French and British Cameroons and its dramatic effects on the 'British Cameroons' community. Anyangwe's new book is an attempt to write the history of the Southern Cameroons from a legal perspective. This authoritative work describes in great detail the story of La Republique du Cameroun's alleged annexation and colonization of the Southern Cameroons following the achievement of its independence, while highlighting the seeming complicity of the United Nations and the British Trusteeship Authority. In the process, Anyangwe unravels a number of myths created by the main actors to justify this injustice and, in the end, makes useful suggestions to reverse the situation and to restore statehood to the Southern Cameroons. The book is rich in archival research and informed by a global perspective. It convincingly shows the uniqueness of the Southern Cameroons case.

The “Jacobsean Fallacy"

Emmanuel Fru Doh

It is true that the internet is an invaluable source for the acquisition and dissemination of knowledge, yet, regrettably, it lends itself with equal alacrity to abusive and equally destructive use by some. Emmanuel Jacobs’ attack on Peter Vakunta is an example. It is always exciting for anyone who reads and writes, but especially for those in Literary Theory and Criticism, to encounter constructive reactions to theirs and others’ works. Accordingly, it was with a lot of interest that one followed the exchanges between Vakunta and his readers after his article on Pidgin, until Jacobs’ most vitriolic and personal attack.

Of Gramophones and the Talibanization of Government Communication

By Ntemfac Ofege* (originally published on Poswatch Magazine online)

Basic. The prime duty of government is to provide services. Whenever government fails to provide services, the citizenry resorts to all manner of ways including criticisms on radio and in newspapers, uprisings and coup d’états to abrogated predatory and failed governments.

Basic. The gramophone. Described as a willful artifact capable of producing sound of often dubious quality. A trademark of the gramophone: His Master’s voice. Whenever the pin of the gramophone got stuck, the instrument produced plenty of sound and fury, signifying nothing. The production of plenty of sound and fury is called noise. Cameroon’s current Minister of Communications, the esteemed Issa Tchiroma Bakary sounds like the final gramophone.

Hammering another nail into Cameroon’s economic coffin

By Hinsley Njila - Senior Economic Analyst at www.chiareport.com 

Illustrated and edited by Innocent Chia

The lifeblood of any economy, whether it be that of Burkina Faso or United States is the small business owner. In fact, one can easily make the case that small business owners are far more important in developing countries in terms of their relative contribution to GDP in their local economies than they are in developed countries. Plus what is ‘big’ business in developing countries is so easy to define as there are only a handful of companies that would fit the criteria. In the following piece, we will be making the case that to strengthen its economy, Cameroon should be encouraging competition among small business owners, as well as enabling consumer groups that would educate and empower consumers. These are clear, reasonable and proven choices that are working the world over, not the choices made by the Cameroon Minister of Commerce.

Continue reading this piece at www.chiareport.com

Why African Presidents Need Blackberries

Aidan Eyakuze (Originally published in the Sunday Monitor - Uganda)

He apparently stepped off the plane in a foul mood and, right there on the tarmac, delivered a white-hot tongue-lashing to the awaiting chiefs of the army, police and other branches of the security services.

While travelling abroad, Tanzania’s President Jakaya Kikwete had apparently surfed the internet, visited a Swahili-language blog and stumbled across a digitally-manipulated photo which seriously insulted both his person and his office. How, he asked, had they not seen this and dealt with it immediately?

Photo: In Business for Himself

Why grant asylum to economic and political criminals?

By Aloysius Agendia: originally posted on Sharing Knowledge and Ideas for Positive Change.

Take look at history and you will realise that several people who have plundered various African countries with or without the complicity of western, fellow African and Asian country leaders either in the domain of politics and the economy have either died out of their country of origin or been granted asylum in some of these “safe havens”.

On the contrary, the real people who need protection, who have been or are being persecuted by the system organised by dictators, some are refused the right of asylum.

Cameroon Duo Gives Spurs Victory Over Liverpool in Le Guen's Presence

(originally posted on Gef's Outlook)

Cameroon's Benoit Assou-Ekotto and Sébastien Bassong, Sunday scored the two goals that helped Tottenham Hotspur beat Liverpool FC 2-1 in the last game of the opening day in the English premier league.

Both men scored in the presence of the Indomitable Lions manager, Paul Le Guen, who was in London as a pundit for the French television channel Canal+.

Generally a very controlled person, Le Guen's pride could be felt in his voice as he responded to the screams by the french commentator who reminded his viewers at every occasion that the two players were Cameroon internationals and Le Guen  is their manager.

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Cameroon's Benoit Assou-Ekotto and Sébastien Bassong, Sunday scored the two goals that helped Tottenham Hotspur beat Liverpool FC 2-1 in the last game of the opening day in the English premier league.

Both men scored in the presence of the Indomitable Lions manager, Paul Le Guen, who was in London as a pundit for the French television channel Canal+.

Generally a very controlled person, Le Guen's pride could be felt in his voice as he responded to the screams by the french commentator who reminded his viewers at every occasion that the two players were Cameroon internationals and Le Guen  is their manager.

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Dieudonne Ambassa Zang – A Nightmare for Biya’s 2011 Presidential Bid

Co-Written and Edited Innocent Chia Even though the 2011 presidential elections appear to be far a-field, there is growing concern in the Biya household that self-succession to the throne of his Cameroon kingdom is looking a lot less than a slam dunk. The “boy’s” recent trip to Monsieur Sarkozy in France yielded a mixed bag: “Yes” Sarkozy said to Biya, “I will give you money on condition that you conduct free and fair Senatorial Elections before the 2011 Presidential”. But that is just one headache. Major trouble for the headache of State is coming from within the house itself – L’ennemi est dans la maison. Armed with a lot of cash and sufficient backbone to split Biya’s electoral stronghold in the Center Region, the Honorable Dieudonne Ambassa Zang - a former Presidential Aide and confidante of President Biya - is out on the loose.

Continue reading this story at www.chiareport.com

Hot peppers: Taking the medical world by storm

By Yemti Harry Ndienla, Originally published on Prince report

Hot peppers have an array of health benefits and it’s time to get them in your diet. Dawn Jackson Blatner, registered dietitian and author, once said people need to get creative in the ways they incorporate these little red, green, yellow, red and orange vegetable fireballs to acquire a taste for some of nature’s piquant foods. Blatner said hot pepper medicine is exciting because people have these foods already in their cabinets.