Prince Israel Zaar on: Let there be Peace In Cameroon

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Speaker 1 (00:01):
On the Africa nation of Cameroon in the center Africa region,

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in the center of Africa border in Nigeria chart and
I think Cabon, Equatoria, Guinea and Congo. I think elections
for a new president happened on the twelfth of October October,

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I think, and it's a time that that the country
decided to schedule elections air their constitution and the electoral

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process is a democratic process, and democracy is the practice
of the Western countries. It's an export and that has
been exported in many parts of the world, just as

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Christianity was exported, just as capitalism in the Western Way.
And the Cameroon starting from the Portuguese when they had
their empire, and the Cameroon moved based on influences of

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the Portuguese, and they moved to the Germans. And after
the defeat of the Second World War, the Cameroon was
in the hands of the British and the French, and
there two Cameroon to southern its Southern Cameroon. You got

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the Southern Cameroon, you got the peoples of Cameroon, and
you got the northern part. The northern part. That part
became part of Nigeria and the southern part true phabacity,
I think, and the Fombank Conference, and with what was

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happening in the UN technicians and the British relancy to
continue with its empire. Due to the death of the empire,
and for some other reasons, the Cameroons were given the
chance the South in Cameroon. They were given the chance
to decide to be part of the part of Nigeria

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beyond their own or be part of the Cameroons. And
for whatever that ensued, the Southern Cameroon became part of Cameroon.
First the United Republic of Cameroon. Seconded the did something.
It was something like the Ferrari I don't know. It

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was the United Republic of Cameroon. And after the United
was taken out of it and became the Republic to Cameroon.
And that name in the of Cameroon was given the
Portuguese and the Cameroon is by the Atlantic Ocean, a

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very beautiful place. And they came and at shrimps and
the shreams of prawns they call it. And the coldiness
in Portuguese Cameros. So it's like the line of crowns
or right shrimps. They just prawns and shrimps. I don't

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real don't know the difference. But that's how the name
Cameroon came about. Since the independence of Cameroon in the
nineteen sixties, they called for many African countries around the
world and where United Nations to liberate countries from colonization
to countries to serf govern So Cameroon had its first

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president by the name of ahmaduai Jo, and then I
think by nineteen seventy five a president Paubia then became
part of the government then for its stewardship and respect
and obedience to the then President Amadoijo, and he was

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made the prime minister. And President Paubier was you know,
was born from the capital here one day and raised
in the church, and she good students and and got
at school and excel and went to France to study

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then studying law and practical science, if I'm not wrong.
So he came back home, worked in the civil service
and became part of the administration of Amadoijer. To be friends,
the pubby was a very sharp man, got looking person
and well dressed and well artriculated. And his voice it's

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just like mine, and there's a vision to the country.
But you know then we colonial influence with her and
from de gaul and with Joy got met around and Jockshirac.
You know, they got influence into all the French presidents
because come on, was a French colony. So the French

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got they see their colonies as part of France. It
don't matter did they did, no matter how, no matter
the state of the autonomy control. You know that the
French has a lot of sight, unlike the British. The
British after their defeat in American Revolution and so many

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and that they would help in the Second World War
and the the Britain was struggling. He got many activists
in Britain that in like the constuct of of empire.
So Britain just wanted to take care of itself. Give

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it to the British on that you just want to
take care of of itself. And the British we want
to see their coloniests or their former colonists grow. That's
the British way with the French is different. You know,
British was an empire, go lot of wealth and you
know the islands, the sea and you know Britain's got Scotland, Ireland.

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So in Britain it's British stars studied. Industrial revolution got
the greatest point philosophers they think about it. You know,
capitalism came from Britain, Adam Smith, all the greatest writers,
even the pooneers of abolitions, abolition, slavery, you know, William
will Barfos of the British. You know, the American is

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a great country because of that Anglo Saxon inclination that
that that's period to be independent of self, self reliance,
self determination and freedom. So the British and not we're
not I don't know about now. They were not that
they wanted the colonies to take care of themselves self governance.
But the French is a different story because the French
it depends on the resources of the colonists and without

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the colonists, you know Francis, you know France with we're not,
we're not doing a lot. So so it became the
faith of Cameroon that it's it's position in the place
where we got oil, gold, diamond, they got a lot
of resources timber, and got a lot of minerals needed
for the new world or the new material industries and

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Cameroon that some people say it's like the miniature of Africa.
The people are widely educated. It's a land with with
with kings and kings and queens and the proud people,
the dress well and the belief in fashion, food and
culture and elegance and class the Cameroon. All over the

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world you see somebody from Cameroon, you know that the
very good looking people and very prolific and archicolate. And
some people used to say that the Cameroon has been
the way it is we want leader for so long
because Cammonians are so educated and there is just say

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that the more educated people are the mode of analyze
and they want to avoid risks sometimes because those who
go to the street and they got nothing to lose.
But when people say educated, they have prospect of hoping
for a better day, to have a better life, to
take care of their parents and their products and sisters,

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and hoping to contribute to their country. That that thing
to be part of something to the cameroonas have that
spirit of together and the love for their country and
that proud that pride. Because it was a time when
they used to compare Cameroon with France that if Cameroon
was not corrupt and the resources were managed, Cameroon will

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just be a European country, western country. Because it got
enough resources and hardworking people, diversities and got enough lane,
got space for everybody. It's a melting part. You got
a lot of people from various countries want to be
in Camero. You go to Cameroon in the cities, you
see people from the blind, from Asia, China and India. France,
Britain never were in America's American in America or the

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Americas Ocean. Camy place for everybody. It's a place with
the language of the French, it didn't let it go,
and the language of the English, it didn't let it go.
So just like Canada, Cameroon it's a bilingual country. I
happen to study there and study law in Cameroon and

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it's a very trying place. It promotes education is a
key education, family, hard work, self determination, proud of being
yourself to contribute in society. Cameroon don't like lazy people,
and everybody in Cameroon's most educated. You go to Cameroon
because that lack of jobs. You see somebody that it's

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a you'll be doing some selling something that is just
trying to go by. The person got a master's degree.
You see somebody with an art job. The persons who
are ducated. You got doctors in Cameroon doing art jobs.
So they believe in education Cameroon culture. You must be
educated or hard working or study business or it's that

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thing to be somebody that your pride comes from what
you do, no what it's say. So it becomes the
is job Cameroon. The way of Cameroon with lot the digression.
So Cameroon got is to get ten provinces and I
left a long time. It's not called the regions. And

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for the sake of that place. The way it's supposed
to be was supposed to be a federation and I
studied law then it was supposed to be a federation.
That it was a federation. In Nigeria, every state will
manage it resources and and there will be that competition
like in America when states are federated. And I see
in China even got autonomous regions. So regions compete, right,

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States compete within themselves to see which one is the best.
And there's that competition in the city building and community
building and in educational standards. So states compete and they
manage their own budget. If you mess up your resources
within your state, then your own At the same time,
the states contribute to the national government into the just

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like in America at the state and got the filure.
So that was the intent of Cameroon. If it was that,
then Cameroon would be or the advanced. But the complexity
of Cameroon became that it was two different people that
some set united on the piece, and some assumed that

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they were costs, and some assumed that they were deep.
So that's the three ways of thinking in Cameroon. So
the English spreaking part of Cameroon, they always assumed that
it was supposed to be by themselves, it was supposed
to be part of Nigeria, or they was supposed to join.
They assumed that that their four fathers or their founding

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fathers did not did not signed a good deal, or
they were manipolitic, or they didn't know what they were doing,
or they sell out their people. But you know all
those if you were there, you think the family, you know.
I think at that time that the most important goal
was to free yourself from from colonization. You know, the

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seecond for independence was not which was on the table.
It looks like the French did not give the Cameroon
founding fathers a good deal. You know, by then they
were just happy to be independent. But most of the
key poses in cameroonarysources was supposed to be controled by France.
Came doesn't have a currency and so most of their
ministerial poses were dictated from France from evidence I've seen,

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and you know the president is thereby it does not
have that autonomy. It cannot be a country with that autonomy,
agency and control, just like the human being, even autonomy,
agency and control of yourself, what can you do? So
sometimes the people might not really understand that, even though
they blame blame the president their present for what they

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might think, he does not have that power. You know,
most of the key resources Sonaro and even the banks,
and you know the action of Cameroon oil crowys produced
is refined and brought back, the goal is refined somewhere.
They don't have the processing plan planned. You know that
they cannot that they're left in the primary industries. So

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the context of politics and Cameroon's very complicated that you
know people in Cameroon, they don't most of some times.
You don't stay over seas and study overseas and see
the dynamics of world politics and jee politics. Sometimes you
might think that those African presidents are just terrible. People
won't get to understand much about the war. You know,

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some of them are just trying to be there. If
they raise their head, either they are deposed or some
are killed. Somebody tried, and some just end up being
corrupt and like their power, like to stay there, and
the system become the rub by corruption, the partisman and intimidation,
force imprisonment, and people just become timid and coward and

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they just so render their faith. That's why I when
go to Cameroon, everybody talks about God, about Jesus, and
they prayer on God and talk about God and everything.
And when we go to a place where people talk
everything about God, it means they have surrender their faith.
It means they belief in faith. It means their destiny
is not decided about them, and God becomes the only

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thing of consolation. The conceptle what can I do? And
with the concept of the the union between the South
and the Cameroon, the Republic and the Cameroon, and so
you got that in some countries you got racism and sexism.

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In Cameroon, it got that concept that some people want
to be part of the union, some people don't want
to be and some the southern part always think like
they have their resources, the oil, and that they can't
they kill themselves, and that they're not giving their hanks
that they deserve. They cannot be president, they're just they

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must be subordinates. And sometimes when they go to the
Francophone area as they call it, I don't know how
African will call themselves francophone anglophone, How to defy yourself
by language that in the surf is selling and not
to see yourself as your own people? And they and
the de beauties that they fight over lexiconds that means

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nothing Anglophone Francophone. I don't see. The Canadians call themselves
anglophone Francophones, and they call themselves Canadians. But Cameroon happens
to fight over language, the identities, language of which when
the British came to Cameroon, they didn't like to teach
them the Western They like to teach them a language.

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Isn't that what you got accent and what the language
called pidgin or creole. Because the goal was not to
teach you the language, because you understand your master, and
you understand the tricks, you understand the game of your politics.
So that was not the intent. The pigeon came about
because they didn't want to teach the natives as they

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call their language, because as when their language was superior.
That's why in Cameroon by those days, if you're educated,
it must be decreated. In England, it must be to
get in France. So when you educate in France, you
go back to Cameroon, you see yourself as somebody different.
You go to England, you see yourself that you see
yourself something different. It's easy to hear the person say

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I went to Suborne. I was just from France and
just from London and England. There was always I was
something before Cameroon, and so become the politics of Cameroon
that even the leaders don't see themselves as the people
of Cameroon. The they share on Cameroon and excuse my language,

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that's not proper, the mist they don't see Cameroon as
something even though they're the leader, and so therefore they
have admiration from France or from England, from their colonial masters,
more than they have for their people. So it's become
the thing why the place is not developed. There's that
inferiority complex. Think about it. Cameroon was supposed to have

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its own language. It's on current, say, has its own religion.
Take lad the Church Church of England. The Church of
England separated from Rome and they created the Church of England.
Take the other countries like Russia, some like god Ukraine,
they got their own church. The Orthodox Church to Cameroon
was if they Titus to believe in Jesus or God,

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they were supposed to have their own church. And on
the meon, I always say in my work that if
they come to don' have their own philosophers, do have
their own religion, do have their own currency, don't have
their own history and their own pride, then there is
no country, There is no center, ideology isolated Cameroon itself.

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Everything is foreign, The language is foreign, the system of
government is foreign. Most of the leaders, their fate is
decided from foreign countries on foreign table, just as it
was decided in Germany to divide Africa. Come to see
that the civil wars in Africa or the stripes and
instablished in Africa was because their fate was divided on

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the colonial table in I don't know if the Frankfurt
or Berlin or somewhere in Germany they divided Africa without
knowing what it is. So that's why it's strange that
often say that in laws way they wake up the
next morning, you know, families were divided, and if your

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kid maybe went to visit your uncles or somebody or aunties,
and the next morning that kid belonged to different country,
belonging to a different country. So most of the civil
wars and tribals and it's because of land and terroor train.
But at the same time they really admire the West,
the Amayada colonial masters. See, religion was brought to Africa,

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the Bible was brought And the different with African and
Western religion is that the Western religion. First, the West
thought their people the philosophy, the philosophy of the war
before they gave them religion. When they came to Africa,
they destroyed their own native cultures and customs and worth

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thinking and they gave them religion without philosophy, without theology.
If you give somebody worth thinking when it comes to
God matters, they need to be de catering it. So
it becomes the plassible effect of most African that God
becomes something that is everything. So their leaders this. You

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see a leader will go to Rome and see the
leader with the pope. But the pope man not notice
that the picture of the leader is taking the pope
is to the people back in Africa would think that,
oh that God has sanctioned the leadership. So it it's
the thing that they might not now. And since the
leaders have taught them how, the colonial masters are very important.

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So most of the leaders would like to travel overseas.
So if you see them repalate, they say. And with
the president of Cameroon for example. So the people which
are subbordy, they that, oh, look at him is better
than us. There is that concept that the strangers better
than the people themselves. Somebody, I'm from America, the fat

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ship be treated differently. There's always that the education of
the people's lacking. The people were never taught about themselves,
the pride, that dignity, their countryhood, the value of their
own culture, of their on local religions or the un
way of thinking that the well thought, that thought was
taken away. It's that you meet a kid in elementary

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school and you leave the kid with Plato or Aristo
to dunte right. We talk about Plato, that's the foundation
of the Christian religion. We talk about Aristoto, that's the

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foundation of the Muslim religion. Philosophically, you cannot be a
Christian without without reading the philosophy of Sena, Augustan Aquinance,
and even Spinoza or Nietzscheo some some or dumb or

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dumb dumte right of Altaire, of the car m Hm
or Niche or Hegar. It must immerse yourself with the
philosophy of this world. It cannot understand democracy without understand
the founding fathers of America without understanding Platau and socratests

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how even though they conceive democracy, they were very ambivalent.
It's even the founding fathers of America they talk about
and enlightened people. You cannot understand religion or the theology
of the religion. How the Bible came to be and

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the books of the Bible were written the foundation. You
cannot understand the building without understanding the soil upon which
the building stands. So it's politics. So sometimes point commund
they don't know the complication of power always says something

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that it does not matter with the president of the
country unless the president of the country is about the people,
are not about the foreign power authority. People might not
understand that the leaders of Africa some African state, don't
get me wrong, are like CEOs of company. The CEO

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of a company that is on the stock exchange market,
it's a CEO. It's not the owner of the company.
Because that company got a lot of shares. The shareholders
are the owner of that company. People might not understand

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America in the beginning, what's the company that fought against
the British to become a country, first to become colonies
before decide to become the country. So it's the fate
of most African states esplacially in West Africa or Central Africa,

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the part of the world you can know about appetite
and appetite in South Africa appatate, I think that's what
they call it. Just to be dramatically if it's the
American not the British. The struggles of the world is everywhere.
There is this concept of African country, African country and

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African people always blaming the West, blame in Britain, blame
in France, blaming America, always blaming somebody that does not
look like them. But they failed to look that their
leaders look like them, their leaders speak the same language,
but for the fact that most of them started overseas.

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You cannot always, you cannot keep blaming somebody for their
own situation. The burden of French Africa cannot constantly be
on the shoulders of France. Look at France right now.

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The government is trying to stand you see France, See
Manuel Macron. He's doing everything to be a democratic leader.
He even saws been expension. That is the call of
his policy, his pension policy, that's a call of his policy.

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Just to see a compromise, to have a prime minister
that come from a government that's democracy. But the democracy
of France did not start to die. He can go
back to Louis the fourteen, To Louise the sixteen. All
of us know that Marie Antoinette, you know what happened

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the guillotine. The French philosopher ro Montesque, Jean Jaquesroox. So
you know what happened the versa. You know what happened.
How many republic state friends have but that concept of

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lipetel fraternity and legality. The African the Camel Union people
must understand that domestic politics is different from international politics
and the Cameroonian colonial become comunial. Colonial heritage is different

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from free countries. Democracy has work well for Western countries.
Don't get me wrong, because they write the philosophers. The
Cameroonians to read to read the philosophers. When you read
the philosophers, they founding fathers. Read the philosophers. They can

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see a man we can't. In American politics, you can
see the separation of state and religion. You can see
Thomas Harp san Ja Cross is very important. Montesquieu and government.
Having a state, it's a battle having a king or

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having a republic. The concept of democracy is power to
the people, for the people, by the people. It comes
with gradualism and progression. It's not about democracy because most
African countries are democratic. It's not about having a republic.

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For example China, China is a communist country and during
the Co War, most African leaders some went to exile
because the West were trying to stop communism because of
the fear that power would be centralized, not decentralized, and

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they fear that the people are not afraid and their
leaders will not leave power. The look a Cameroon. Cameroonians
are very peaceful people. That's why I can't have a
leader that they call the oldest serving leader in the world,

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because Cameroonians have a thing and no matter how somebody is,
that person is our person deep within Cameroons. They don't
like war, they don't like blood. They like to debate
their enemies. Communions like a lot of politics. They watch
a lot of news. That's what happened in Grease and attends.

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That's what's transmitted to America in the Western world. Now
we can debate, we can disagree to disagree. Comunion like
the game of politics. You go to the bars and restaurants.
They like to talk politics. See somebody dressed wild, having
a suit and having a pot of beer and some
good food. They talk about politics and the Comeunion President

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Poul Beer is being started by other leaders. He knows politics,
how to maneuver your way for forty three, if not
mistaken years, as president. I don't know if done. It's
a long time and people might not now that the

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patroness system that prop are used was established by a
heja called CNU, and people might not know that. When
I need your lost power, he was worried more to
be chairman of the CNU. That was a patroness system

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he created. That's a system the president Pauplia mastered. That's
the traditional African type of system with the chop first,
clash my back's clutch your back. The patroness system is

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a system where the leader as a group of people.
They called the sain Trial party. China got the Communist Party,
but in America we don't have that. You got lobbyists
and organizations that decide the concept of super delegates and

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you know, they decide the planks of the you know
the meeting places that have congress. They decide who would
be which are the guys are good for leaders. They
test the people to be the governor, being a mayor
and letting them speak, let them solve problems. They test

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their petutism. They believe in the country. This is what
they called the three A M car the buill love
for country or pride if you're a camera and when
you see the flag, you're back if you means something.

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When the issue of corusion is that it destroy everything.
When the president is not in charge, but the patron
system in his charge. It might be the cer your
Disciplidian party. Some see the Chinese Center government. I would
have called a five year plan. The five year plan

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they actually make to do something. I just to have
the central system. You have the Democratic Party, the Republican Party.
It's not about patronage. That's why democratic systems freely democratic

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system because there's a difference between the free war and
the colonial war that is still not free. But have democracies.
A democracy in colonial countries is just a name. It's
a facade. That's why I started by saying that some
of these countries are just businesses. Their leaders are like

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CEOs and people and companies around the world. They have
shares in that country, mostly Fortune five from the countries
or these great companies in the world. If the president
is CEO, it can be sacked if it does not
do what the shareholders won't. Sometimes what the shareholders won't

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it's profit. That's why the shareholders to keep the shaholders happy.
You mean it's mice costs and maximize profit. If that's
a country, you minimize in infrastructure and development, they can
care to people because that is expenditure. You're not defination building,

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streamline employment. Be frugal with his system. Don't develop anything.
Don't build anything because it showlders we lose money. Why
because most African countries are just primary industries, so you
don't need to build anything. The real roads about since
my colonial times. So just don't develop the place because

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it's just a farm. It's a farm. That's what it's
all about, is a farm. I don't build a beautiful
series because the people ask more, don't. Educational systems actually
means something. The one thing you gain from common education

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is resilience, the difficulties and hard work. I always tell
my friends I've studying Cameroon and succeeded. A which is
important is on the certificate. It's not the degree you have.
Sometimes we never even know what the degree is because
the teacher's job is to failure. But here the teacher

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helps you to it's uncomfortable for you to fail. You
have people to assist you. The job with the teacher
is the failure. The teachers are very frugal and crafty.
They are grades. I remember my university, I got a

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cash award. I was surprised that I did well, Like really,
because you see over our grade, you do well in
one and one teacher pinning you down because he dress well,
or maybe some said you took their girlfriend. There's always
something think about it. How would teacher in the first
place be there in his her student. But putting that aside,

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the value systems of countries are different. All I'm trying
to do is the dynamics of this system in which
Cameroon find themselves. Before the West African Camero in particular,
there was not a name called Cameroon. Cameroon was ruled

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by kings. Had always came and called them chiefs, you know,
just to subordinate them. And those that were powerful at
the sortan of Bamon or the king of Bamu, some
of them went to exile and some most African kings,
their powers were taken away and their oppositions were made
chiefs and they have their own territory. And they came

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and created a system called first class, second class. It's
always everything. They don't have power, so divide and ruined
to be fight into the second class or tel class
or paramount. This w told be the house of chiefs
that decided on the matters. So there's their own way
of being. But these powers were taken away and those

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core kings became chiefs and they divided. They got many languages,
many villages, and that's how you divide the structure that
was before King Arthur says, the whole other changed. He
didn't place the nail else one could culture collapse the

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world and must get rid of the oil to see
what the new can be. Cameeron did that from my
ego to President Pobia. I remember when President Pobia came
to power. It's very strange that President Pobia has been

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in power for fifty years. And that has been my
whole life in politics and in politics for fifty years.
If I'm not He got in and work in the
civil service and proof is worth it's a good bureau
card and rise to prime minister. And when the former

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president for health reason left and president probably I remember
his speech. I think it's nineteen eighty two. I was
a char in primary school and I'm talking today he's
still the president. The one thing with Cameroonians they've managed

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how to deal with difficult times, good or bad or ugly.
Cameroonas don't like to help one another. Cameroonias are the
most forgiving people on Plan Earth. Most Cameroons are good people,

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like family. They're very first with the war, and they're
proud of themselves and their cultures and who they are.
Most proud people in Africa are Cameroonians. Got They work hard,
and you go to that place called Cameroon, despite the difficulties,

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you meet people that are just happy. They got the
gift of football. And we're going to order, and I said,
I was born in Cameroon. And they asked Roger Miller
just when Publia came to power he was given the
gift of football. I think it's nineteen eighty two. As

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a kid, I think there was a World Cup in
Spain black and white TV. But then we could see
the television from Malabo. I'm still young man, but I
don't I got the telegraphic memory. I could remember a
few people are TVs. You know, we were stand by

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the roadside by the street and see from Afar and
then you could get I think the report of the
radio station. And boy I was I forgot this name.
I remember names of a telegraphic memory. I forgot this name.
I forgot that guy. We listen on the radio and

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I got to watch on TV. As a kid, the
television was just few, not because they could not buy
TV because by then they have the t TV signal.
You know it's it took no time Cameroon had that
had the on big screen of TV. Just when TV
became a thing here Cameroons in America or Britain, they

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bought TV's and they came and that became the thing.
I'm just telling you since when the president Popia was
in power. That that's my as a philosopher. I like
to take you back and when TV was the black
and white and when Cameroon could watch Cameroon play in
nineteen eighty two un black and white. There you see Kunde.

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I remember Kunde and the Cameroonian squad. I don't I
think I beg her till if he was a kid.
I was just a child. I remember I love soccer.
And over the time we got Rogia Miller and the
tall face and that became the glory of Cameroon. The Cameroonians,
we Cameroons just like Brazilians and Mexicans and Europeans, and

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they really love soccer. Sometimes don't tell the government man
your business and the half hour soccer. I can actually remember.
Not during the Cameroon crisis over back, I see the
oil resources, the oil region and by the way, way
is the Cameroonian one the case and my professor in

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law was Cameroon lawyer for that case. But during that
time I lost my brother during that war, was in
the military because the Nigeria knew that Cameroon has like soccer,
and you know, they encroached into his region on that

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Alantic coast just when he was in soccer. And my
brother gave his life, her been saved the lives of soldiers.
If my brother was an American or European, he'll be
a hero. But the constock of Cameroon does not work

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like that is not even remembered. There's no act of
heroism because the country in itself does not believe in itself.
You must love your country, have that pride to develop
your people. Don't keep blaming the West. France would like

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to see Cameroon develop. America would like to see Cameroon develop.
The Europeans would like to want to see Cameroon developed.
The Chinese want to seek cam Un developed, the Indians,
everybody want to see him and develop. But you must
have autonomy, agency and control of your own destiny. You

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cannot talk about democracy where you don't have independence, where
you don't come to the office of state and you're
not a state, you have a vessel to somebody else.
That's why it's easy in Africa that when the people

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force the president of office, they need to run somewhere else.
It is not supposed to be that way. That's my point.
I've not been there forever. I don't just want to
see Cameroon. They've gone through a lot, from those trying

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to separate and be their own state and from the
country trying to rebuild itself and see how it can
do to cause something in the country or federation or
see the consolation about the separatists. With the separatists just
for people to stop dying. At the end of the day,

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Cameroonians are dying. When people die, they don't come back
physically the dead, their dreams, their hope, their parents, their children.

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We should remember that the twelfth of October an election happened.
I am the philosophy of the war. But I must
not sit by and not talk about where I was born.

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Most people will read my philosophy. I believe in positive causality,
positive intelligence, people working together for the kit of the war.
I don't believe people fighting wars and diying because of politics.

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When the cross road of the new Wall order from
a unipolar system to multipolar and and multilateral system that
many countries now want to be self determined. The election
happened means the system decided. For relations to happen, you
must give credit to the system and the people voted.

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I know, as a philosopher understood of politics, that's a
very difficult time for Cameroon. When I know within the
system that be that you know when the sign is
on the war and the war when it's the right

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thing to do, respect the will of the people. This time,
I give advice to many people on the war, many
powerful places on plan and listen to me speak. I

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know because I talk to power. If you ever hear me,
listen to my advice. Exit with grace, and I now

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that I spoken about the president and the system, the
pretriding system. Whoever wins secretly consolation keep. Those who want
to keep, do not go for punishment and vengeance. You know,

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you guys, sit and now talk within yourself. That was
your wait there. The people have spoken. The fear is
that if their voices are not heard. You don't want
Camarians to die. At the point in time you would
say to yourself, I got enough. I got enough. Always

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know when that people don't want you anymore. That's wisdom.
Don't force it. We can't tink about what happened to
many countries and underworld with no leaders in Africa, that
they not end well because you think you have power.
Because you think you have power, The power is from

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the people. The people will take it. And there is
a time when it becomes difficult. As he said, when
the genie is out of the bottom, it's difficult to
put it back. Politicians are visionaries. They can see the future.

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Then now could they have tested the waters. You can't
feel the energy, you can't feel it. Don't push it.
Exit with Christ. Exit with Christ. And to those who

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have been there for a very long time. Every good
thing comes to an end. The country is a country,
as I called democracy. Does I have elections? They always
tell people that don't depend so much on politics. You're
just a servant of the state. Don't make the government

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your bank, your company. It's not supposed to be that way.
Don't be so attached to the government because it's a system.
I was not bound by you, which was given to you,
and that system was grown because it's the system of

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the people. Win or lose. Let the be peace. They
cannot be paised when the people are nothappy with the choice.

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I do not know that choice, but you know the
people do not get their choice after the result of
the elections. After every elections, I will tell people, based
on my philosophy on triangleism, three things will happen. But

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people always see too the binary of things. The janglings
of things always make you to see the middle or
the missing element between the either or there is a
great area. Three things will happen. The people will accept

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the elections result, they will not accept the relation result.
Or they can accept and deny at the same time.
It means they're just okay, let it be let it go.

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If people have done this part so many times, let
it be let a girl, Let be let a girl.
Don't push alock because at the end of the day
is to have a life to live. So I don't
go into scrabbles. I don't get into blame game and
that person. I've done that because I always tell people,

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learn to forgive, learn to let go, learn to move on,
and learn to move forward. Always think bigger than yourself,
think bigger than yourself for the sake of the country.

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This time, let then be transparency, because the whole world
is watching these elections. Why, because it's been spoken everywhere
that Cameroon has the oldest leader. Is that what the

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oldest leader? That's making every person around the world asking
what about Cameroon? What about the elections? So the world
is watching it? And what the world is watching at?
You be mindful, have some dignity, have respect and fairness.

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And politicians must learn not to speak blood to get
to the necocis on table. Come on, yourself suffered a
lot just to believe that the future is better. Men.

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People have died these past times because people do want
to be free. If I want to self determine, that's
the promise of democracy. You cannot eat my cake and
have it. You cannot be democratic with on democratic principles.

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This is say that I might fair so many times.
By the point in time you said, let me do
the right thing. I call it right action. There's always
something in the human pain to know that this is
the time to do the right thing. That's how our

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name get into history. As as since I've forgoten as
what happened in South Africa, they got a reconciliation committee
where people just come and apologize and reconcier confess and
things are okay. We must not all hate and bitterness

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and vengeance or retribution of vindictiveness when it comes to
the matter of state. At the end of the day,
we turn around. You guys are all Africans, all Cameroonians,

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that which is left of it. When the world is
watching in the in the slowdance of soccer, when comoion
players know that Cameroonians are watching, the politics is failing them.

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The Comunion players always deliver. They deliver. That is to
be the thing of Cameroon. This time they ask the
politicians too, that the world is watching, they should deliver,
They should deliver. Philosopher Prince Ai intelligences Philosopher Princess Rosa

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October eighteenth, twenty twenty five, Hoping that we don't watch
the blood shed and Cameroon, You'll not be a good sign.
Respect life, respect the lives of others. Place. I know

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they're a dead court many ways, many places just don't.
Don't skill the plot of people with nothing. Let the
lives of those people matter. Protect life by doing the

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right thigh history will give you credit. Don't be deceived
by people who keep telling you to stay on, to
act on. Just be the boss and know when you
get enough and exit with Christ and for the members

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of the party that loves. Just fight for the necolections.
Go back to the drawing board and restrategize and come back.
That's what democracy is. I think it must not be
a do or die. Live to fight another day and

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exit with Chris. Be a gentleman, a gentlewoman, because of
all is watching. Thank you,