Toli Sous le Manguier

You need to give Cameroonians in Cameroon more credit than you seem to accord them. Cameroonians in the homeland have brains of their own too you know. We are no longer in the 1960s when most people were illiterate. The Literacy rate of Cameroon is quite high. It’s over 70% today. I’m not sure what area of Cameroon you were raised in or that you frequented, but in my village of Kai, over 90% of the kids that I knew since I was born in 1978 have been through secondary and high school. Some continued through university, others did not. In Yaounde where I was born and raised, of course, the literacy rate has high too, and with even better standards than in my remote and little known village. When the commenter above in the diaspora expresses a desire for people in the homeland to go out and protest, he is exercising his freedoms to express an idea and even to organize people who have brains and minds of their own. These people can choose whether or not to go out and protest. He is not holding anyone’s foot to the fire asking them to go out and demonstrate. As today’s events have shown us, Cameroonians in the homeland really do have brains of their own and can think for themselves, considering that only a handful of people took to the streets in spite of the incessant calls by the diaspora! Surprise!!!! Again, give the people in Cameroon some credit. They are smart and can think for themselves. Thoughts like yours believe that just because one is in the diaspora, s/he is superior in thought to someone who is in the homeland. If you in the U.K., exercise your freedom to talk and to persuade others express that I in the U.S. should go out and protest, I’m sure you will expect me to formulate my own thoughts as to whether or not I would do so. Same is true if I was in Cameroon. To reiterate, stop berating, minimizing and in short insulting the intelligence of the people in Cameroon.

I’ll tell you a little story. In my line of work, I’ve had to contact lawyers in Cameroon