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What is the Anglophone Cameroonian Identity?

By Janvier Tchouteu First published by the blog "New Cameroon Views" on December 06, 2016 After watching a debate featuring the redoubtable Cameroonian journalist Franklin Sone Bayen and Joshua Osih (The Vice President of the Social Democratic Front), with the two facing off a host of French-speaking (Francophone) Cameroonian panelists, I could not help but come out disheartened by a fundamental fact---These Cameroonian patriots, Cameroonian civic-nationalists of Anglophone Cameroonian identify who deplore the system's handling of Cameroon, especially its treatment of the land and populations West of the River Mungo (The Northwest and Southwest regions or what was formerly West Cameroon and before that the British Trust Territory of  Southern Cameroons, and what was down the line the Southwestern  part of German Kamerun), apparently could not be understood in their  brilliant presentation of the Anglophone Cameroonian problem. And what was even more disheartening was the

TERROR: POLITICAL WEAPON, SOCIAL INFECTION, DEHUMANISER

  Terror or terrorism is the indiscriminate use of threats and violence for political purposes. It is perhaps the simplest strategy that a powerless or weak group or organization fighting an organized establishment is tempted to use. The nature of the organization of most terror groups, their support structures, and their objectives often constrain them, forcing them to operate: within a tight inner circle,   with a great deal of fanaticism,  with limited and thinly spread manpower,  with  light and limited materials or weapons,  And with a clearly defined objective to bring down their opponents. Perpetrators of terror with a clearly defined political objective are usually men who are highly committed to a cause, but have little or no regard for the nature of its realization. These are people who stretch the notion of the phrase “Tragic Necessity” to the utmost, pitting their causes against humanity. Terror is a powerful political weapon with a far-reaching s