Voice Of The Oppressed

A Black Man In A White House?

By Neba-Fuh

To be indifferent to the American presidential election is to be indifferent to the future of the world. Whether you love the U S   or not, is immaterial. The fact is that US must affect you wherever you are in this world. The land of opportunities,The world's biggest economy, the world's greatest military might, the world's...., the world's... etc.

The 2008 presidential election in the US is an epoch of this century. There is a possibility that a black man will  move  into The  White House. There is also another possibility that a woman will be the Commander-in- Chief of the World's most sophisticated army.

Since America's more than 200years of independence, neither a black man nor a woman has ever been the President of that country. But what makes it even exciting is that this time the black man is of  African descent specifically from Kenya.

Senator Barack Hussien Obama will make history by becoming the first black man of African descent to reach the apex of the world's only, but 'dwindling' superpower.

Poem: Black Uncle Sam *

By Neba-Fuh

Anytime we lack
We think it is Black,
Even when they win
We never let them in.

CPDM -23 years of stagnation

Neba-Fuh

When Bamenda hosted the 'ceremony of change of name' from  the Cameroon National Union(CNU) to the Cameroon People Democratic Movement(CPDM), on the March 24, 1985, many a Cameroonian then  reserved their doubts on the intents and purposes of this new outfit.  After all, we  thought we  had just graduated from the repressive regime of fellow comrade Ahmadou Ahidjo.
Today, time has exposed what would become the source of the malaise to a majority of  fellow Cameroonians. Molding the CPDM from the dregs  of the CNU, was the last straw to eclipse the shadow of the personality cult late Ahidjo had built.

Poem: Rising Tide *

By Neba-Fuh

Greater perverse ambition, orchestrated
By con zealots,
Disdainfully calling the limping wimp
In power crutches, to trek a mile further.

By Neba-Fuh

Greater perverse ambition, orchestrated
By con zealots,
Disdainfully calling the limping wimp
In power crutches, to trek a mile further.

Poem: Flying Ashes*

Neba-Fuh

I see a nation's equilibrium perturbed,
Caesar's treasury brimful
Of peasants' peanuts;

I see a nation's equilibrium perturbed,
Caesar's treasury brimful
Of peasants' peanuts;

Complexities of Religiosity

Neba-Fuh

This is holy week. A week when Christians commemorate the death and resurrection of Jesus-The Christ. The tenets of Christian belief center around the resurrection-the act of rising from the death. Religiosity is a complex phenomenon. This phenomenal aspect of religiosity is not what tilt us to our religious beliefs, but the simple fact that man is prone to be religious. What makes religiosity complex is the fact that it is centered on facts and beliefs. The aspects of religiosity that are not provable(not facts), are considered beliefs, making religion one of the  known concepts that ignores the proof paradigm. The logic aspect(logos) may or may not be as important as the non-logical aspect(pure belief borne from faith).

Southern Cameroons -The Way forward

Neba-Fuh

 

The Southern Cameroons issue is one of the most important minority rights problems in the 21st century, but also the least activated as well. It is like a laboring woman who is not giving birth or 'putting to bed'. We have all been caught up in the cozy confines of rhetoric, thinking that the solution will solely spring  up from without.

Neba-Fuh

 

The Southern Cameroons issue is one of the most important minority rights problems in the 21st century, but also the least activated as well. It is like a laboring woman who is not giving birth or 'putting to bed'. We have all been caught up in the cozy confines of rhetoric, thinking that the solution will solely spring  up from without.

The Last Cry of the Millennium (1999)

By Neba-Fuh

This piece was written on the eve of the new millennium. It was a call for action to all Southern Cameroonians.

Interdependence is a voluntary venture often sought by an independent individual or a group of individuals, for the good of all the parties concerned. When one is independent, he is self- reliant, that is, dependent on himself. Any interaction between two independent entities for their mutual benefit, is what is known as Interdependence.

Therefore, one cannot claim to be in the state of interdependence without passing through the independent state. Furthermore, when an independent entity decides to be dependent at some point in time, it immediately ceases to be interdependent. 

Independence is a state of mind that can only be achieved , not given and when you seek it you must first cut all the 'strings attached' to your wish. There is no such thing as 'dependent' independence. What we call political or economic independence of some western nations , is actually political or economic interdependence.

In Retrospect!!!!

Selected  articles and reactions by this author;
some of which were published by The Post Newspaper between 1999 and 2007

Salary Adjustments- A fallout of the Upheaval or Government's Plan?

By Neba-Fuh

On the 7th of March 2008, Paul Biya signed two decrees adjusting the monthly wages by 15% and house allowance by 20%, of state personnel.

The decision was the fallout of the council of Ministers meeting that took place that same day chaired by Mr Biya.

Reading through the press release announcing the salary adjustments issued by the Secretary General of the Presidency, it is stated that the council 'had a single item in its agenda namely a special statement by the head of state'.

That special statement was: ' a series of short and medium term measures intended to provide first solutions to the IMPATIENCE being expressed'