In a simplistic manner, it is often claim that, the people of the north of Anglophone Cameroon, otherwise known as the North West province, have enjoyed a special love and preferential affair with the majority and governing French-speaking government in Yaoundé. But in reality, those who benefited from the erstwhile or the claimed special rapport that existed between elites of the North West province and elites of the governing majority French-speaking Cameroonians in Yaoundé, were principally North West elites, who originated from the same region and towns within Mezam division and from Bamenda city in particular. The others, who benefited from the erstwhile treaty, that linked the majority French-speaking central government in Yaoundé with Anglophone elites of the nationality or region earlier mentioned, were a special highly enterprising nation/tribe of the North West province called the Mettas. The Mettas succeeding in being part of the decried latter mentioned syndicate, courtesy their formidable greater Widikum mafia, which has given birth to sub mafia clans such as the Batibo & Bafochu Mafias. Anglophone Cameroon has a unity façade, which is the envy of French-speaking Cameroonians.
But under that feel-good and united-we-stand, propaganda, that some Anglophone nationalists like to extol, there is a visceral dichotomy, pitting Anglophones elites from the North or North West province, against Anglophones from the south, known today as the South west province.
But beyond those dichotomies, whose roots are old and has which been exacerbated by the outcome of the 1961 unification treaty, there is an intra North West dichotomy and also an intra South west dichotomy. The latter has been superficially treated above, but the former’s own cause and problems it has orchestrated, has not been treated or mentioned in detail hereon. It is therefore necessary to mention hereon that, the North West province, have it own set of dichotomies. It is crystallised by the conflicts that pit elites from a part of the North West province known as far North West, against those of Momo and Mezam divisions, who seem to have benefited overwhelmingly, from political appointments, since 1961. But as the rapport between elites of the North west province and elites of the governing majority French-speakers in Yaoundé was deteriorating, because the former became the leaders of pro-democracy movements and political parties in the county, elites of the South of Anglophone Cameroon, otherwise known as the South West province stood ready on the sidelines to benefit from the spoil of war of the former friends.
Tuesday, August 19, 2008
Anglophone Cameroon's unity façade
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