"Let my People Go"

By Innocent Chia

Etched in my memory are the following lines that our rowdy, innocent and ignorant Sunday school class sang out loud in the early 1980’s from the four walls of one of the classrooms of the Government Bilingual Training College (CBA), the then temporal home to what is now known as Etoug-Ebe Baptist Church, Yaounde.

" These are the words of my mighty Lord

Let my people go

Go down, go down, 

Go down to Egypt

And tell Pharaoh

Pharaoh – Let my People Go"

Ultimately it became a show of force between God - who sent plague after plague (10) to Egypt – and a defiant Pharaoh who thought his magi could either match tit for tat or prevent the Hebrews altogether from leaving Egypt under the leadership of Moses and his assistant, Aaron. It is equally clear today in the instance of the English speaking population that identifies itself as Ambazonians in captivity in Cameroon, that they will not be let go by La Republique even if God multiplied the plagues by tenfold.  Rather than focus on who and what the magicians of La Republique du Cameroun are doing to perpetuate the enslavement, this piece highlights telling miracles for Ambazonia that compare to the splitting of the Red Sea for the nation of Israel. The Miracles notwithstanding, we take an internal look at those in Ambazonia, who, like in the days of Moses, look at the road to freedom as too far, too costly and will dearly miss the perks of their second class status.

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Comments

[Legion (for we are many)]

I thank you for this post. I quote "it brings back memories". But my people its not about the past. Its about the present. The 80% unemployment, the level of corruption, the lack of infrastructure, no freedom of speech, the mismanagement of our natural resources, the very fact that anglophones are treated as second class citizens. Their are so so many problems we face. Yet we still do nothing. We are contented with these problems. I dream of a future for Ambazonia but if we don't start working for that dream now is it when all the resources from our side deteriorates is that when we will start looking for independence. the way we joined La Republique can be the same way we withdraw from it. I really wish 2011 we don't vote for the same president, I wish we vote to be INDEPENDENT. The future is now so make haste whilst the sun shines. AMBAZONIA FOREVER.