When confronted by a challenge that is not easy to overcome, we impulsively become divisive, dwelling on differences instead of compatibilities, and falling back on our ethnic groups, tribes, provinces, regions and villages; all depending on the severity of the challenge. This mindset enables us to escape from self-blame and pushes us to limit collective blame to a point where we tend to exclude ourselves as a people (region, province, ethnic group, tribe, village or religion) from the Cameroonian malady.
It is the malady of our impulsively divisive mindset that makes commentators in this forum( a microcosm of present day society as a whole)who before posed as members of the opposition and advocates of change fighting for a New Cameroon; but who delimited themselves yesterday by advocating for the goals of the different Southern Cameroons groups (anti-Francophone, pro-secession), interest groups, collaborators with the outdated and corrupt system; and today portray themselves as propagators of NW/SW divide and ethno-centrists or tribalists.
As exponents of change, we shall never move forward in any direction unless we mitigate or suppress those divisive impulses.
I weep for that Cameroonian soul that began the march to the New Cameroon (1946-1966) and united the people in their total and complete rejection of the anachronistic system and the Biya regime (1990-1993.
Cameroonians should regard with skepticism those political figures that use the regional or tribal cards for personal reasons.
It shouldn't be strange to anyone that Biya and the leaders of the so-called opposition are intrinsically ethnocentric, having little experience outside of their ancestral lands or provinces. In a curious way, they don't have a deep empathy for other Cameroonians. It takes a great deal to try to understand how others who are not from the group we come from, think or feel in the collective framework of
