I'm a cameroonian, and we should be carefull about what we hear. No one is understanding for sure who was behind what happened in Douala's main bridge last thursday, but i believe and so, almost all fellows i know that it is not what gonna change our country. For most cameroonians, even inside CPDM (Biya's party) - Biya has failed and he must  leave, but we don't forget that behind those strange "revolutionnaries" that seem to come from nowhere, there are people even hungrier than Biya who want to take our country even if it is to sell it again to the west. Talking about the "international community" - they have left Biya on his own, and their behaves for the last months have clearly show that they want popaul (BIYA) to step down. But this time, France seems to have left this task to the U.S,
The Obama's administration has seemed to be interested in Cameroon political life this year, like never before. Many of their behaves and what they said (through the ambassador, secretary of african affairs, Mrs Clinton or Obama himself) show that they will be willing to support "democracy" in Cameroon - in their way to support democracy. For example just last week there has been a curious meeting in the U.S. embassy between americans and some groups of civil society who claim that they will take power by the street (while in the same time the ambassador was received in the unity palace to congratulate Biya for his investiture to run for a re-election). They said Biya is a dictator, but in a real dictatorship, those people who announce revolutions and "coup d'Etat" everyday in the medias couldn't speak because they would be in jail or 6 feets under.

Now i want to be clear about two things, first of all - i want to remain you that i'm strongly against Biya's policy because it's a BIG failure and it's killing cameroonians everyday, but i'm also convinced that there are people not better than him who have already sold our country before to get to the Etoudi palace - and now are just waiting to profit from any occasion to bring chaos and blood and then accuse Biya for it.
the second thing is that i didn't say america is behind what happened in Wouri bridge (i even don't think they are) but they will support any rebellion that might eventually come out to attack the regime.

Anyway, i believe the people from Cameroon, even if they want Biya out more than anyone, they know there is cannibals out there just waiting to use the people's frustation to take the power.  So all this blood for what? I believe in progressive transformation in our mentality, and we get more and more freedom every season than in the previews ones.

Cameroon has a great history of fighting for freedom. Cheick Anta Diop - the Senegal's greatest historian and anthropologist had once said that "the first time he heard an african claim that he wants the indepedance of his country, it's was a cameroonian." And the great heritage we got from our forefathers is the ability to understand depending on the situation where our interest are. Today it is not in Biya's rule, but neither in some weird hungry politicians who act like if they want they good of the people more than the people itself.

B. Assou-Ekotto and T. Taiwo!

[quote="tatafla"]Looks it may be heating up

http://www.ghanaweb.com/GhanaHomePage/NewsArchive/artikel.php?ID=214755


Like I said its gonna cost problems[/quote]
SMH!
Where are we heading to! I'm almost speechless, it's totally nonsense, but i'm not so much suprised since there has been worse cases in Africa in this 2011 year,

I think people are afraid of failing in Love for a main reason : because they are afraid to loose control, generaly because we are control freaks.
People aren't afraid to Love, they are afraid to fall.

I don't know all the story and all the history between Ghana and Nigeria (being myself from Cameroon), but i always found sad when africans deport other africans. I wish african countries find a way to have a common interest within regional immigration. Almost everyone is victim of this politics. We've seen this recently or in the past in countries like Gabon, equatorial guinea or Angola,
But as i said, i don't know the whole story, but i hope african governments find a way to have common interest within regional immigration.

They are both really nice, it's hard to choose

Wow, you have been all over Africa!!!  I envy 
Yes, you are right - our country is very blessed, and it's called "Africa in miniature" for a reason. By the way, it seems patriotism is just something we are born with, because they don't teach us that in school. And what is interesting is that people abroad know about our strong and fighting spirit.
But just like Nigeria and many other african nations, we do have a lot of potentials unfortunately left out, and i hope that (bring our countries together and wisely use our God-given natural and human resources) would be the fight of our generation.

Great! I've met some Cameroonians who have had children abroad and they always try to raise them "cameroonianly" - they teach them about stuffs like food, music and some culture. I went last week to a cameroonian couple in Moscow who has two little girls (9 and 5 years old) ; the 9 years old was all the time checking stuffs about Cameroon where she has never been yet, in Wikipedia ; she was all the time asking me questions about Yaounde & Douala to know which city is better lol

Anyway good to know a little about you. As for me, i'm actually studying in Russia, and plan to go back home next year. And also, i would love to visit other african countries including our dear neighbor Nigeria.

I'm bamileke from baham. Glad to meet you my bantou sister!
I saw you like history, and we know our forefathers (especially the bassas and the bamis) have struggled a lot to get a real independance, what didn't happen exactely as they wished; but which has left a certain heritage that i can see everytime i read you.
So , where were you born? In Cameroon or France?

I'm a cameroonian, and one thing i can say about us is that cameroonian men tend to be sensitive in a sens that they understand people, there are easy going, and prefer to enjoy what they have than to dream about what they don't. Cameroonians usually have a high sens patriotism, but are very open-minded like to know more about the other. And this is particular to Cameroonians, we know more about Nigeria, Chad, Congo, Mali, Angola, Ivory Coast, Rwanda etc, than the others know about countries other than their own. So we like to be cultivated and are usually open-minded, and like to do as much as we like to talk, depending on where you want to be.

@Nayah
I'm already glad that you could understand despite my mistakes,
And also want to tell that even if i'm new here, i've read a lot of topics, and have always enjoyed reading you sister!

Hello everybody, i'm a cameroonian who was born and raised in Douala.
As Nayah, i was suprised to read from some sites that Cameroon is a west african country. I've probably always read this in non-cameroonian english web site; particulary in english, american and english-speaking african countries web sites. I don't specially care if people consider us to be in central, western, eastern, northern or southern Africa, but the matter of fact is that we are a part of central african countries community. And seriously, we are much closer to the center of Africa than to the west. And another good reason for us to be where we are, is that we are the only country within the community which share a border with each member of the community (namely Chad, CAR, Congo, Gabon, Equatorial Guinea), and you know wich advantages this might bring.

Now about Biya, and the peace thing - I have to say to thing :

1- For me, Biya is just the worst president that you will find out there, but understand that speaking like that; i might not be totally objective, since i know about my country and our president much more than i do about the others, and in the same way, i grief more for my country.

2- secondly, Peace today in our philosophical mind became a relative term,  What does peace mean really? - I have my own opinion, but about Cameroon, i would say that despite Biya, Our country experiences some social stability and peaceful acceptance among the over 200 tribes that we get. I can guaranty you right the way that we don't specially love each other, but we accept each other, i will not give that credit to Biya, but to the people who realize that they don't need to fight against each other. If any credit should be given to the government - it's the fact that they don't try to create divisions between people, what i believe a lot of politicians in Africa including Nigeria (according to a Nigerian very good friend of mine) do. As for Biya, i think he doesn't care much about the peace as he care about "smartly" not offending too much anyone to not fragilise his regime.

And as a leader, he doesn't do "unnecessary" violations as  those they usually call dictator do. And i think that is the reason why he has been for nearly 30 years in power. Now, don't think cameroonians live in fear or something because of the Biya's regime, No! if you do, you are wrong, and to verify it - you could ask to people living in the country, and I'm pretty sure most of people will honestly reply that they don't fear to say what they feel or do what they want to if possible. And there are a lot of people who every day criticize the regime and they walk freely in our streets, there is even a very popular young rap-singer (General Valsero) who are very engaged in his texts, and always sing how the president and his acolytes steal the money and don't care about the people, he even call them by some words like "brigands,  thiefs, sorcerers, thugs, pede (homosexuals in "cameroonian" etc, " and the guy is living freely in Yaounde. They even had to stop his concerts sometimes because as they said once "they threaten the republic". There is no in central Africa another country who has reach the same level of freedom of speech, except maybe Gabon (and i say "maybe".
  All that to say that cameroonians don't live in fear, you know when you see someone who has lived in fear, and most cameroonians you will meet will absolutely not match that type.

Now, to comeback to the topic, i will just add that Cameroon could have decided to join Ecowas, but for geographical and economical reasons, it's better for us to be where we are and being the predominant economy (nearly 40% of the regional GDP)  of the CEMAC - economy and monetary community of central africa, and being his grain basket than being the most eastern country of west Africa. And about the west african market, i think 150 millions of nigerians is just enough, if we cannot get to Nigeria, we could not use our ecowas link with far countries like Ghana, Ivory Coast or Senegal!

I love Nigeria.
Peace to all!

I'd read this in french, It's really crazy!!!

Oh Good Lord, have mercy on us!

Okocha and Kanu are both my favorite nigerian players. Kanu was precocious, but what i've liked most about him, it's his perseverance, But Jay jay, was something else. What Jay-Jay did on the pitch is still in our memories. It was a genious, just the play-maker you want to have in your time. Whether you understand football or not, you were amazed by him.

A career is about a lot of things, but the talent is unique, And Okocha was unique. You can find players who tend to play like Nwankwo and persevere in his buisness, but it will be hard to find someone in professional football who attracts the ball and make the game beautifull like Augustine Okocha!

I'm a cameroonian and Kanu is with Okocha my favorites nigerian football players, and definitely among the best of their generation. Ok, i understand that at the senior level, he didn't win that much, but what makes somebody a legend is the global impact he has made on his time period.
- Drogba never win anything with Ivory coast, he just went to the ACN's final once, and has never been among the top scorer of the continental competition, but does this stop him to being a legend? I don't think so.
- Weah never gone anywhere with his national team, but he's still a reference (if not the reference) for all african players.
- Kalusha Bwalya never win anything with Zambia but he's still probably the the most genius player that came from the south part of Africa.
And so son,

Nwankwo Kanu is a true football legend!
Period!

Hey, I'm a new here,
Kanu is just one of the best player of his generation. He is my second favourite nigerian player after Jay Jay.
His style was unique, and he remains the best of african players when they were 20. If not the big surgery, maybe he would have gone as far as Weah or Eto'o.