Culled from Eden Newspaper
"If you look at the World Bank report on Doing Business, you will realise that Cameroon is backwards and much still needs to be done." US Ambassador to Cameroon, Janet Garvey.
Despite having huge potentials for tourism,and with government making efforts to attract more investors to Cameroon, the U.S Ambassador to Cameroon, Janet Garvey says the cumbersome visa procedure at Cameroon Embassy in Washington DC is diverting American tourists from making Cameroon a destination, while at the same time administrative bottlenecks and an unfriendly fiscal and tax policy are scaring American investors from the country.
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A man is hanging naked from the ceiling by a meat hook. His feet are bound, but his mouth is open – screaming a confession. He is surrounded by half a dozen soldiers in ragged uniforms whose fists are caked in his blood. Unsatisfied, they taunt him in a language he doesn't understand, as a rifle butt is thrust into his groin. His name is Nick du Toit. He is a South African mercenary, and one of my best friends.
How does it feel to live without an identity, without a deeper meaning of the word me because you know nothing about yourself? How can you measure the intensity of the pain you feel in your soul when you face the horrible prospect of totally losing the chance of eternal happiness in the loving arms of a man because of a dark past you don’t know?
Never in the History of Mankind has so Much been said by so Many about Food! The scarcity of Food has brought fear in decision making circles around the world as price hikes hit unprecedented levels. What exactly is happening? How did we get there? Are we just victims of Malthusian prophecies? What are the short and medium term, small and large scale solutions to the food shortages affecting Cameroon and other countries? Have we snubbed our local staples for imported food thereby creating less incentives for local farmers to sustain production? So many questions awaiting answers...
Very few Cameroonians know the history of Cameroon in all its diversity and depth. And with good reason. Most of what passes for “Cameroonian history” in schools is a sanitized version of the country’s history whose sole purpose is to reinforce “state control” and “toe-the-line” concepts such as “unité nationale and intégration nationale. These concepts seek to legitimize the official narrative on the “colonial partition” of the Cameroonian family and the ultimate “reunification” of these long lost brothers and sisters against all odds in 1961 in a “historic burst of nationalism”. Any piece of history which either questions or contradicts this official narrative, or fails to add value to it, is simply ignored or discarded. The result? Many key events and personalities in Cameroon’s pre-colonial and colonial history remain largely unknown and confined to local and ethnic folklore.
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