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Monday, 10 August 2009

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Mr. Man

Excellent, Mr. Konde.
The country of Plenty has plenty of stench. Nothing but very poor leadership and has permeated the anglophone region like bad cancer with evry poor prognosis.

Bob Bristol

Bribery has always been viewed from a two sided perspective where either the giver motivates the receiver in order to have some preferences or where the receiver obliges the giver to do so before some services are rendered. The case of Cameroon seems different. The giver has NO CHOICE. The receiver has the yam and the knife. If the giver complains to a superior, bribe is required for his complaint to be taken seriously.

We can curb this nightmare, by granting pardon to those who gave bribe and by motivating them to give information about those who obliged them to give bribe. Basically, we have to lecture public servants on the differences between their responsibilities and what most erroneously consider as favours.

Emmanuel Egbe

Excellent piece, Mr. Konde. thanks for painting such a vivid picture of Cameroon.

Kelvin Ross

Good observation Mr. Konde on the bribery and corruption thing, but on the plenty to eat thing I would say that Cameroonians are malnourished. There is plenty to eat in Cameroon? YES! But Cameroonians fill the stomach with cocoyams, mami coco, planti etc but hardly organize a good balance diet to nourish the body despite the variety and abundance of vegetables, sea foods, etc. A Cameroonian will prefer a bottle of beer to a good diet.

Ma Mary

Rich reward, Konde for selling us to your frog cousins. Don't cry. That is what you got in return, a wholesale importation of venality, which take a generation of assiduous work to erase.

Jive Turkey

No Cameroon for me. Never ever ever. I'll go nuts with that mentality and prolly start beating the crap outta people.

Lasoka

This what organizational psychologists call" a pathological state of a community" Yes, we are are sick in the mind. Cameroon is suffering from the pathology of coruption. Untill some one stands and help, the rest, the disease will only eat deaper into each one of us.

Ivo Mbonde

That was a good masterpiece Konde. This corruption issue is like viral meningitis. It has preety much become an acceptable way of life, and the thought of it can put fire in your guts. I wonder if this issue will ever be averted in this 21st century. Anyway there's still no place like home though..

Ivo Mbonde,
Seattle, Washington
United States.

ekowest

its a shame,CIVIL SERVANTS.The transport ministry should be held accountable for every accident that occurs.In cameroon its easy to buy a drivers liscence without visiting a driving school

Ras Tuge

Konde, i can quite relate to what you just narrated here. Eventhough i am not such a big fan of your articles, i must testify that i was overwhelmed by deep sadness by what i saw as soon as i touched down in my very own country. Well, i expected things to be bad, but the vexing and chaotic horror at the Douala so-called international airport really petrified me.

Shockingly, the police tried to stress me and i saw how worried my old woman was. But i knew what i had to do. Frankly, Cameroon is not for children any more. You must be MAN enough to survive in that place. I truly feel sorry for the average men and women back home who work so hard to make ends meet. But at the same time i really admire their courage to withstand such a horrendous challenge to eke out a living within such a tumultuous system that assails them incessantly.

Chariot town, my place of birth was as cool and serene as ever. But then, i could barely recognise the spirit of the same town that used to be so orderly and dutiful. At the bank to see the manager, i confronted one very lazy and whimsical so-called accountant who tried to prove to me that she too was somebody. But i knew what to do. Limbe, the place where i was raised had deteriorated immensely both physically and spiritually.

All in all, Cameroon is plenty fun when you breeze in with plenty green Konde. I am surprised that with all the bread that you say you had, you still had such a dismal time back home man. Maybe you simply didn't want to share?

Personally i think the moral decadence in Cameroon will simply exacerbate if we the children of that country continue to disengage ourselves from the travails that the country is plagued with as a result of egocentric and lacklustre leadership. Cameroon is still a nice place people.

ambe

Der Vaterland.
I like Motherlands better. More nuturing and kindly like.
A drunk father who does not take care of his kids rules.
Mothers are almost always better.

Hahaha

Masterpiece ma foot! Emmanuel Konde is a rotten piece of shit!

joseph ngu

Konde ia an apologist for his kith and kin francophone cousins. His style is childish and in which Limbe did he see dry fish abandoned by the market which any decent west cameroonian can eat? Let him write about Bassa country also.

DANGO TUMMA

ras tuge,
OH did you really touch down in your own country?

Any own from west of mungo. who did touch down in west of mungo touch down in a foreign country, i mean french cameroun or east cameroun, thats what the worldwide french culture, systeme,politics is, expect nothing better than that in 1000 years if not worse.

the only answe is complete un disturbed INDEPENDENCE FOR WEST CAMEROON AMBAZANIA

Ma Mary

Dango, these are the same people who think since our parents (Foncha, Fonlon etc) gave us excrement to eat, we are doomed to continue to eat excrement. The experiment is over. It is dead. The only thing Fonlon did was that he idealistically believed in the possibilities of the union and toiled in his own way for it. His paper, "Will We Make of Mar?" needs to be excavated and republished so that people read what he was saying to people in power, including Ahidjo in 1967. He was expounded on what needed to be done to create a union between such dissimilar peoples. Clearly, we did not make. We marred.

Joe blo

dwell on the issues without attacking others.

Joe blo

We did not choose to be cameroonians. We do not always chosse our battles in life. We will fight for Cameroon, land of our birth. We will give blood to make it a better country for our children. We will exchange ideas and seek solutions on how we go about change.Enough speeches and criticisms.What can we actively start doing to bring change in Cameroon? How do we go about bringing an all out effective assault against biya,s regime?

VA Boy

Do not be afraid to give your opinion on so hateful a subject matter for fear of being tagged a Bamenda Man with "Herd Mentality" . That is a tactic used to stifle debate. There is absolutely nothing wrong in pointing out evil no matter whose ox is grounded in the process. Allowing this fellow to his machinations is equally a crime of reckless dereliction of Duty and Non Assistance to someone in Danger. Konde is a total Weapon of Mass Distraction (WMD) and should be contained in his Tennessee Library.
Mishe Fon

SNIPPETS FROM FOUR OF HIS "FAMOUS" CYBER ANTI-GRAFFI...ISM

Monday April 14 2008….These Graffi people cannot deal with their village autocrats called cheifs-for-life but have the audacity born of blind ambition to challenge the workings of an evolving democracy headed by President Paul Biya. It is indeed strange that these men who embrace, carress, and worship primitive autocrats in their respective village communities, men who have no inkling about what democracy entails, should now rise to write shamelessly about President Biya

President Biya did not amend the Constitution. It is the elected representatives of the various political parties in the National Assembly--your brothers and sisters--who amended the Constitution. Indeed, at least the National Government has a Constitution that can be amended. Those your primitive and outdated autocracies presided over by village despots have neither constitutions nor laws. Your village polities are ruled by fear, fear that the all powerful village headmen you call chiefs will employ witchcraft to destroy any who dare to dissent.
What hypocrisy! What parasitism! Tell me, how can people like you ever rise to democratic political practice? SHAME on you! Shame on you!

April 17 2008…..There's nothing anti-Graffi in what I write but the truth.
FACT 1: The Graffi village-fondoms are autocratic.
FACT 2: Any Graffi person who aspires to establish democracy in Cameroon should first dismantle the autocratic institutions in his backyard.
FACT 3: Do not bother about the speck in my eye; peer in the mirror and remove the speck in your own eye first. The wisdom in that I offer you has nothing to do exclusively with Western education or culture. It holds true in every culture; it is universal.
FACT 4: Many of you are uneducated. You are simple functional illiterates who went through the motion of schooling: Register, buy and carry books around; sometimes read and perhaps understand nothing; go to class, listen to teacher/professor, perhaps engage in lofty discussion about which you know nothing; graduate with a worthless piece of paper in hand--diploma? Degree?
FACT 5: Confronted with reality, you Bamenda people simply fizzle....Please notice that I am lecturing and not debating with you. How can any right thinking person honestly support Graffi autocracy and advocate democracy for all of Cameroon? That logic is essentially truncated. Go back to school, and, this time, a real school and learn at least to think properly.

Dec 28 2007 Konde wrote…

Go back and review the resumes of those at the helm of the KNDP Government. The prime minister had no previous experience of administering anything but pupils in his classroom. The KNDP (a Graffi party) completely cut off Dr. Endeley from the administration of the affairs of state. The historical record is not mine to make. If you will, please prove me wrong. I do not care much for your sentimentality.

What I have written is not nonsense but the result of long years of study that culminated with my Ph.D. I am applying the cold and rigorous analytical skills I acquired.

Dec 25 2007, Konde….”The Francophones not only rescued West Cameroonians from the Igbos but saw West Cameroonians as totally incapable of administering their State, and thus undertook to transform the entire country to ensure that developments everywhere were running apace. It should surprise none whatsoever that Foncha and his entire entourage of Anglophone political elite gleefully moved to Yaounde in 1965, leaving foggy and dreary Buea to the political chaff.

Moncler jackets

Next time I'll put on some lederhose and sing "Adelvice". That should shatter the Captain Von Trapp illusions most thoroughly..

J. S. Dinga

The narrative about the banks is unfortunately true. What the writer has mentioned is just a tip of the iceberg! Banks actually impose very strange charges and can wipe out an account and leave it in the red. How a dormant account attracts so much interest charges beats my brains. Why customers should be treated as if ATMs are compulsory defies logic and I actually witnessed a poor elderly lady forced to part with 2,000 francs for not using the ATM card withdraw her money from her account. We owe it to our lederly relatives who put us through school, to be nice and reasonable. ATMs are just another method of withdrawing money from the bank; they are not the only means. Extorting money as punishment for a customer not having an ATM card is just like taking bribe from persons who do not have ID cards on them.

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