Up Station Mountain Club

VOICES IN EXILE

By Christmas Ebini

 

Hear my cry and remember it

for I don’t only cry for me

pushed away from a beautiful home

bearing my spirit and soul

but I cry for you and your love too

for you were pushed away like me

 

know my pain and feel its pinch

for I don’t only hurt for me

tortured by the warring invaders

imposing on us a satanic acclaim

but I hurt for all of those gone from homes

for their lives too were taken like mine

Why Legalizing Dual Nationality Makes Good Progressive and Economic Sense

By Christmas Ebini
 
During the era of the deeming days of the eighties, when our country had shown all signs of large scale disintegration, and a fast progression towards national shame, I was a high school economic s teacher. I had offered my services as a weekly economic columnist to the Cameroon Outlook, the paper the famous and controversial late Tataw Obenson (Ako-Aya) created and served as editor-in-chief. I then took this task personally serious because I had just returned home from knowledge seeking in the West. Majority of things as most of us know, would not quite fit and the greatest opportunity I had was the fact that the first best job offer I had was from the government and to be responsible for developing the minds of young citizens.

Where is the Patriotic Rage: We Must Reclaim our Nation

By Christmas Ebini

We must all as Cameroonians  examine our heads and mental status if we stand by and allow Paul Biya  continue in the presidency of Cameroon after 2011. Biya must be stopped by all Cameroonians. This has nothing to do with political party affiliation or ethnic background. Our CPDM brothers and sisters must join hands with the rest of the country to put a stop to Biya’s madness, theft, abuse, killings, rape etc. Our brothers and sisters of the CPDM are also victims like their brothers and sisters of other political parties. They have given their trust to a man who has betrayed them and deceived them.

Our Political Parties are Failing Us: Let Us Consider and Independent Candidate

An open letter to Cameroonians at home and in the Diaspora

By Christmas Ebini
 
My dear brothers and sisters: I would have loved to address you my fellow Cameroonians but the last time I used that phrase on camnet (our online internet discussion forum) I ran into some problems and this is not the time for us to waste valuable time on avoidable problems with each other.  I think we should together face patriotic responsibilities and obligations.

I am writing this letter to you because I think it is time we started taking a more serious practical look at our future, that of  posterity and our nation. We have experienced some very trying and difficult times but we should also remember that we had a past that was less difficult and promising. It is easy for a people and thus their nation, to be weaken in spirit and give in when confronted with difficult times. But I have faith that, if we see our nation through the present eye of the storm we find ourselves in  today, the future would reward us with pride and dignity, as a people and a nation.