Democracy Now: Huge Land Sales to Foreign Corporations by African Countries

Democracy Now anchor, Amy Goodman interviews award-winning Indian journalist and activist, Devinda Sharma about the new phenomenon of companies buying up or leasing vast tracts of land in African countries. He believes it will cause starvation and loss of food independence in those countries. There are 8,000 companies vying for land in Ethiopia alone and the government is cooperating. What is the situation in Cameroon with regards to this global trend? Disclosure is in order. Give Your Kids What they Need, a Strong Education
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Comments

[pijinman]

yes. Are you people giving away land in this kind of neocolonialism? Because dis peepo wuna fit sell wuna mami for sika moni. They make these evil deals. When people protest they send their hired killers, the so called army to massacre people.

[Alain dipoko, Yabassi Boy.]

part of any meaningful democracy is the freedomm of expression. Where this aspect is stifled by an administrator to a blogging site, the word becomes a mockery. I have personally copied Mr. Innocent Chia, why he as a forebear of freedom of expression is allowing censorship as part of his way to building a prosperous Cameroon.He must reign over the editorial boad of Upstation Mountain Club.

In building a democratic society, we have to take into account divergent views. All democratic countries true to that word do accept opposition. Erasing someone,s postings because the postings are an affront to some tribal affiliations only go to point that we are not yet ready for democracy.

Upstation Mountain Club was not voted number one in Africa for a bunch of words being continously posted to its website, but for its tolerance of entertainning divergent views. Now i have realized, the management has become nonchalant and gone bananas. Upstation Mountain Club should and must change. Anything short of this, is a mockery to common sense and good judgement.