Revolutionary Notes on the Liberal Ideal for Liberty, Democracy and Prosperity for the New Cameroon

Union-Nationalism (Cameroonian Civic-Nationalism) PART I

De: Janvier Tchouteu

Narrado por: Virtual Voice

In this book articulating a national ideology for a diverse land welded together by fate and kept distinct and divided by forces sucking Cameroon dry and making it live below its potential, Cameroon’s civic-nationalism otherwise called Cameroonian union-nationalism or Kamerunism, is the national idea around which the land has sought to free itself from the shackles of colonialism and neocolonialism. The ideas and ideals are the corner stone of the effort to found the “New Cameroon”, and are formidable resources that can be tapped in realizing the economic union of Africa and the political integration of the continent. This peculiar form of civic-nationalism nurtured by a diverse people who defied fundamental stereotypes held about Africans by engaging in a struggle for the reunification and independence of the territories of the former German Kamerun that arose from the colony’s partition after the First World war between Britain and France, projects the path to the future that Africa needs to take in order to safeguard its interest in a world where outside forces are trying to hold it down in their desire to continue exploiting the continent. In today’s Cameroon where the entrenched French-imposed system and the political establishment made up of the 34-year old Biya regime and the compromised opposition leaders are trying to maintain the status quo despite the people’s desire for an overhaul of the system, Kamerunism constitute the unifying and galvanizing idea that has been tested over the decades and is the only force capable of founding the “New Cameroon” that has been the battle cry and slogan of exponents of change for more than a century. Would Cameroonians rally behind this idea in the fourth phase of the struggle for the “New Cameroon” that is about to begin, and that is expected to dismantle the anachronistic French-imposed system and put an end to the dictatorship of Paul Biya or anybody that replaces him?