The Cameroon Dispatch

Since the discovery on 2 June 2017 of the corpse of Bishop Jean-Marie Benoît Bala of Bafia, and especially after the solemn announcement of the National Episcopal Conference of Cameroon (NECC) through the voice of its President, Mgr. Samuel Kleda, on 13 June, for whom "Bishop Jean-Marie-Benoît Bala did not commit suicide, he was brutally assassinated",  Cameroonians are embarrassed. It is not unnecessary, beyond all technical considerations of forensic expertise, to recall that all Cameroonians saw Msgr. Kleda and other senior religious leaders along the bank of the Sanaga at the time of lifting the body of the Bishop of Bafia out of water. Thus, when he publicly evoked the brutality with which Bishop Jean-Benoît BALA was assassinated , one is inclined to believe that it is on the basis of observations, even "basic", that he and all those who were in direct contact with the remains of the unfortunate Bishop made. CRM does not wish to interfere with invest...

The US and the United Kingdom have been very reticent following the on-going socio-political quagmire in the two Anglophone regions of Cameroon since November 21, 2016 after lawyers and teachers embarked on an indefinite strike to protest against marginalisation. Since then, courts and schools have been grounded as the crisis took a different twist plunging that part of the country into upheavals. The Cameroon government decided to cut internet services in the North West and South West which was only re-established after several months. Faced with this imbroglio, the government has been adamant to open meaningful dialogue with the leaders of the Cameroon Anglophone Civil Society led by Barrister Felix Nkongho Agbor Balla, Dr Fontem A. Neba and Mancho Bibixy incarcerated by the Yaoundé regime for close to seven months now. Britain, the former colonial master of Southern Cameroons has till date not made any official statement vis-à-vis the stalemate in Anglophone Cameroon. Desp...

Things Are Falling in Place (a response to Barrister Akere Muna’s “Things Fall Apart”) Sincere thanks to Barrister Akere Muna for his “Things Fall Apart” article on the s. It provides not only great reading, but it reminds us all that many peace-loving citizens continue to think through and offer (at least for public debate) what they consider possible solutions. Kindly allow me to comment on some aspects and highlight what I consider shortcomings in your approach: First, your diagnosis is to the effect that things are falling apart in the s. You cite a litany of divisions, indirectly insinuating that these divisions stem from the ongoing crisis. Not true! Long before the current crisis, we were a divided people. We have always been a divided people.  The so-called “United Republic” under Ahidjo-Foncha-Biya-Muna has never existed. Not anymore than you accurately indicated that there is no “one, and indivisible” . To be clear, our colonizers did not start calling ...