Innocent Chia
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AFRICAphonie is a Pan African Association which operates on the premise that AFRICA can only be what AFRICANS and their friends want AFRICA to be. - Bakwerirama
Spotlight on Bakweri Society and Culture. The Bakweri are an indigenous African nation. - Bate Besong
Bate Besong, award-winning firebrand poet and playwright. - Bernard Fonlon
Dr Bernard Fonlon was an extraordinary figure who left a large footprint in Cameroonian intellectual, social and political life. - Fonlon-Nichols Award
Website of the Literary Award established to honor the memory of BERNARD FONLON, the great Cameroonian teacher, writer, poet, and philosopher, who passionately defended human rights in an often oppressive political atmosphere. - France Watcher
Purpose of this advocacy site: To aggregate all available information about French terror, exploitation and manipulation of Africa - George Ngwane: Public Intellectual
George Ngwane is a prominent author, activist and intellectual. - Jacob Nguni
Virtuoso guitarist, writer and humorist. Former lead guitarist of Rocafil, led by Prince Nico Mbarga. - Martin Jumbam
The refreshingly, unique, incisive and generally hilarous writings about the foibles of African society and politics by former Cameroon Life Magazine columnist Martin Jumbam. - Nowa Omoigui
Professor of Medicine and interventional cardiologist, Nowa Omoigui is also one of the foremost experts and scholars on the history of the Nigerian Military and the Nigerian Civil War. This site contains many of his writings and comments on military subjects and history. - Postwatch Magazine
A UMI (United Media Incorporated) publication. Specializing in well researched investigative reports, it focuses on the Cameroonian scene, particular issues of interest to the former British Southern Cameroons. - Simon Mol
Cameroonian poet, writer, journalist and Human Rights activist living in Warsaw, Poland - Victor Mbarika ICT Weblog
Victor Wacham Agwe Mbarika is one of Africa's foremost experts on Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs). Dr. Mbarika's research interests are in the areas of information infrastructure diffusion in developing countries and multimedia learning. - Tunduzi
A West African in Arusha at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda on the angst, contradictions and rewards of that process. - Dr Godfrey Tangwa (Gobata)
Renaissance man, philosophy professor, actor and newspaper columnist, Godfrey Tangwa aka Rotcod Gobata touches a wide array of subjects. Always entertaining and eminently readable. Visit for frequent updates. - Francis Nyamnjoh
Prolific writer, social and political commentator, he was a professor at University of Buea and University of Botswana. Currently he is Head of Publications and Dissemination at CODESRIA in Dakar, Senegal. His writings are socially relevant and engaging even to the non specialist. - Ilongo Sphere: Writer and Poet
Novelist and poet Ilongo Fritz Ngalle, long concealed his artist's wings behind the firm exterior of a University administrator and guidance counsellor. No longer. Enjoy his unique poems and glimpses of upcoming novels and short stories. - Scribbles from the Den
The award-winning blog of Dibussi Tande, Cameroon's leading blogger. - Enanga's POV
Rosemary Ekosso, a Cameroonian novelist and blogger who lives and works in Cambodia. - GEF's Outlook
Blog of George Esunge Fominyen, former CRTV journalist and currently Coordinator of the Multi-Media Editorial Unit of the PANOS Institute West Africa (PIWA) in Dakar, Senegal. - The Chia Report
The incisive commentary of Chicago-based former CRTV journalist Chia Innocent - Voice Of The Oppressed
Stephen Neba-Fuh is a political and social critic, human rights activist and poet who lives in Norway. - Bate Besong
Bate Besong, award-winning firebrand poet and playwright. - Up Station Mountain Club
A no holds barred group blog for all things Cameroonian. "Man no run!" - Bakwerirama
Spotlight on the Bakweri Society and Culture. The Bakweri are an indigenous African nation. - Fonlon-Nichols Award
Website of the Literary Award established to honor the memory of BERNARD FONLON, the great Cameroonian teacher, writer, poet, and philosopher, who passionately defended human rights in an often oppressive political atmosphere. - Bernard Fonlon
Dr Bernard Fonlon was an extraordinary figure who left a large footprint in Cameroonian intellectual, social and political life. - AFRICAphonie
AFRICAphonie is a Pan African Association which operates on the premise that AFRICA can only be what AFRICANS and their friends want AFRICA to be. - Canute - Chronicles from the Heartland
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US Foreign Policy and Minority Struggles
By Innocent Chia
In a recent posting on “Scribbles from the Den”, ace-Cameroon blogger Tande Dibussi revisits the main thrusts of U.S foreign policy in a sobering attempt to call any daydreamers to check. He contends in “Obama and Africa: Change and Changelessness in US Foreign Policy” that changes of seismic proportions do not happen overnight when it comes to US foreign policy interests. The less-pedestrian, more-pedantic piece substantiates his argument with this quote from the former US Secretary of State, Henry Kissinger: "one of the most unsettling things for foreigners is the impression that our foreign policy can be changed by any new president on the basis of the president's personal preference."
If Kissinger is right, and I bet he masters the subject matter as well as anyone with his experience, there is the inference that there are hardly major sudden deviations from pre-determined U.S policies and interests. Another safe assumption is that it becomes an even stronger improbability if those deviations unavoidably put the U.S on a collision route with another power, say France, over Africa. But I will posit that there are possible exceptions, including the Southern Cameroons, if only the leadership and people muster the will power to. However, it will be foolhardy to imagine the United States risking its blood and treasure by flying out to whisk Biya from power and, by the same token, granting independence to Southern Cameroon! Unless…
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