Saying the
truth to those who need it the most often gets the wrong reception. Revolution
is a science that those wanting to carry it out need to think it through,
taking into account so many factors. No Western institution has a good grasp of
it. The fine art of it was never developed in the West nor mastered there. Back
in 1997, at a time that our SDF had more than 60% support in Cameroon and the
system(Biya regime and France) was treating it with disdain, at a time that I
was just back home, some of our people thought the SDF should pick up arms.
Despite its popularity, the SDF lacked a national idea, a unifying ideology
that all those who militated in, supported, sympathized with or led it could
identify as a rallying or sobering source.
Advocates
for a revolution should never dismiss the aspect of "unintended
consequences" arising from an abortive revolution, especially one that is
not well formulated. The SDF at the time was different things to different
peoples. It was “na wya party" in different senses (tribal, linguistic,
ethnic, regional, national, etc.)of the phrase, hence a recipe for the worst
(the unleashing of the Pandora's box) in a situation where it engaged in an
armed struggle against the system.
In a nutshell,
a revolution needs more than just goal(s). Cameroon, whether as a whole or a
part of it needed a unifying idea or ideal in the democratic/revolutionary
phase meant to finally bring down the system. Hence the article below entitled
" TERROR: POLITICAL WEAPON, SOCIAL INFECTION, DEHUMANISER:", meant as
a caution, or call it a warning cry. That task of coming up with a unifying
idea was close to completion before the insurrection in Anglophone Cameroon.
Now, it requires a genius or a madman to reverse this descent into political
lethargy and other things, which are all to the benefit of the French-imposed
system that is almost comatose. In fact, the moribund system under the Biya
regime is feeding off the growing anarchy and getting a lease of life from the
degeneration in the regions West of the
River Mungo called the Northwest and Southwest.
And it would
be a difficult task in any national and civic-nationalist endeavor to dismantle
the system without considerable participation of the land and peoples of the
Northwest and Southwest regions. That can only happen with the Kamerunist
(union-nationalists) and federalists, who are the majority West of the Mungo,
exerting themselves and extending a hand to the other forces of change in the
rest of Cameroon.
March 2019
I quit the
SDF in 2002 when Fru Ndi led the SDF in betraying the ideals of the Cameroonian
struggle to complete its unfinished liberation by openly collaborating with the
Biya regime and the French-imposed system through the Fru Ndi/Ngwasiri pact
with the system to accept the councils
and 23 parliamentary (13%) seats the regime allowed the SDF to keep, even
though the SDF was the most popular
political party in the country. Those seats were predominantly in the
Northwest, hence Fru Ndi helped the regime/system in the game plan to tag the
SDF as a regional party or a Northwest party, a capitulation by the Fru Ndi
mafia in the SDF that effectively killed the party as a national party and
perceived successor of the historic UPC
that the civic-nationalists who had joined the party projected it to be.
https://viewsnewcameroon.blogspot.com/2010/09/terror-political-weapon-social.html
