Bate Besong

CPDM Mayor: A Short Comment

By Bate Besong

I would like to make a preliminary remark before going to the matter at hand.  I refer to statements in the local press by the President of the South West Chiefs Conference, His Majesty Nfaw Lawyer Tabetando, during the Philemon Yang-Dion Ngute caravan of opportunism and collaboration. I do not know to what extent these have been reported accurately. But I do know that his interview over Cameroon Calling last September, exuded, with the sort of toady enthusiasm that tends to imperil and suffocate debate and thus generate cynicism and apathy.

DON MCKINNON EATS HIS CARROT

By Bate Besong

The totalitarian temptations or tendencies of the “new” Deal government of President Paul Biya and its consequent paradoxical resemblances to the “Volk” of Hitlerian Nazi Germany and the “Popolo” of IL Duce Benito Mussolini’s Fascist Italy were, more ominously, adumbrated on October 12, 2005, during the conferment of the honoris causa in Political Science of the University of Buea on the Rt. Hon. Don McKinnon, Secretary General of the Commonwealth.

Welcome Governor Eyeya Zanga

By Bate Besong

The foundation of which the Cameroonian Federation was built in Foumban, in 1961, was a power arrangement contoured to deal with a sociologically complex polity as presented by our multi-ethnic, linguistic and cultural diversities. It was a type of national integration that recognized the two separate but equal parts and the central government, in Ahmadou Ahidjo’s Yaounde, as mutually coordinate, and not subordinate one to the other.