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  When Fon Yuh II, paramount ruler of the United Kingdom  of great Kom passed away on November 22, 2017, life in the whole of the Kom nation literally came to a halt. Until the new one, Fon Ndzi was enstooled, virtually every bonafide kom son or daughter paid tribute to the lost one by showing up at Liakom-seat of kom traditional authority-half-clothed. The same was expected of non-kom mourners, but for civil administrators and uniform officers who were there on official state duties. Other surrounding kingdoms either found separate days to come pay their tributes or came the same day the new fon was enthroned. Fondoms from across the grassfields and beyond that could not attend, sent official telegrams containing their condolence messages. This is not the same treatment the late Queen Elizabeth II of Great Britain   would be receiving from Africans, especially as Her Majesty's government took part in destroying the once vibrant African Kingdom nations.   More than Q...

When Muteff community in Fundong Subdivision of Boyo Division of the North West Region opted for school boycott in the 70s as part of the strategy to achieve autonomy from mainland Abuh, they knew it was after all just going to be only an adhoc move, not a permanent one. That's why one year after, they were quick to take their knees off the necks of the hundreds of children who had forcefully been withdrawn from the main school in Abuh and allowed to continue schooling in Muteff, even as the struggle intensified. And that's definitely the reason why it is the children that went to school in Muteff at that time that are providing informed leadership and development initiatives to that emblematic community today. That, to the Muteff spirit, is the meaning of independence.   Although the immediate cause of the brutal decision by Muteff parents to withdraw their children from CBC school Abuh was Abuh authorities' refusal to allow for a junior primary school in Muteff (where chi...

Muteff wasn't particularly a Christian community like Njinikom where names like Peter, Paul, Jacob, John, etc, could abound. That didn't mean the village lacked its fair share of imported names. That's how one could hear names like 'Ibo', 'I Think', 'Fine Boy'(brother to the famous Tella Kfvumte), 'Amphalia', and a lot more. Such nicknames either captured foreign lands the persons had visited in the course of their exploits to eke out a living for themselves or just English expressions they picked up in the course of their journey and came back to mesmerize villagers with. Before my father became a convert and picked up the christian name Jude Thaddeus, he was known throughout the community simply as 'Bafia'. The sobriquet name given to him by villagers due to his constant narration of jaw breaking incidents and challenging experiences overcome during his numerous trips to Bafia, a community in the Centre Region of Cameroon, virtually...

The one-month-long sit-home call by separatists fighting to create an independent  state for minority Anglophones in Cameroon (which they call Ambazonia), might have been averted at the last minute, but its negative effects are far-reaching as more people than one already relocated from the two English-speaking regions in the run-up to the announced lockdown. This other lockdown that was to begin on Tuesday August 2, 2022, was coming on the heels of yet another that went from July 25-27, ostensibly to discredit the visit of the French Head of State to Yaounde, Emmanuel Macron, on the invitation of Cameroon's President, Paul Biya.   Coming barely a month to the beginning of the 2022/2023 academic year, the renewed archaic strategy of lockdown  is a reminder to many a parent who had since brought back their children to the regions after the long years of school boycott campaigns ; that the school calendar in the restive regions may after all , not still be manageable, if we...

  Your Excellency; welcome to Cameroon, 'land of promise' and 'land of glory'; after winning your second and last mandate as President of France, Cameroon's (former) colonial master. I know you come as a master who wants to see first hand how his (former) estate is farring. No gainsaying the fact. Your decision to visit Cameroon this Monday July 25, 2022, may seem innocent to many, but by God's design, it's providential. July 25, in the church's year, is feast day of St. James, one of the two sons of Zebedee and first matrye of the 12 apostles. James is famous in the Bible because his mother, wife of Zebedee, who had great influence on Jesus went kneeling infront of Jesus, requesting that he commands that his two sons, James and John, take the first position in Heaven: one on his left and one on his right. Although Jesus disappointed her by saying that her sons may only have the privilege of sharing in his suffering, the decision on who goes to Heaven is...