The Fourth Phase of the Cameroonian Struggle for Freedom, Democracy and Liberty

By: Janvier Tchouteu

Narrated by: Virtual Voice

Length: 30 mins

Publisher's summary

Three attempts have been made by Cameroonian patriots in the history of the land to change the status quo and usher in freedom, democracy, liberty, prosperity and the rule of law. Unfortunately, the Cameroonians patriots otherwise known as the Kamerunists or union-nationalists, never succeeded. Today, the Cameroonian struggle against the French-imposed system under the leadership of Paul Biya is in its fourth Phase, haunted by the lessons of: • The First Phase of the Struggle where the German colonial army defeated it and executed Marin Paul Samba, Rudolf Duala Manga Bell and the rest of the liberation movement’s leadership in 1914. • The Second Phase where the leadership that campaigned and fought for the country’s reunification and independence either got killed (Ruben Um Nyobe, Felix Moumie, and Ernest Ouandie etc), exiled or cowed by the new French colonial masters and the puppet system it put in place in Cameroon. • The Third Phase of the struggle where taking advantage of the clamor for democracy and freedom generated by Soviet Statesman Mikhail Gorbachev’s “Glasnost” and “Perestroika”, members of the monolithic regime in power rushed ahead and formed opposition parties that were immediately supported by the genuine advocates of the Cameroonian Struggle, only for them to turn around and join the system again, effectively becoming pseudo-opposition leaders that are in symbiosis with the anachronistic French-imposed system, a move that threw the vast majority of Cameroonians who oppose the system under the bus. Would this fourth phase of the struggle, espoused mostly by members of the DIASPORA who never worked with the system and who always opposed it, succeed?