Calls for schools boycott:

“Who is fooling who”

While it is legitimate for any people to fight for as much freedom and independence they can get, it is wrong to do so at "any price".

                Sacrificing the future of a generation (our children) and the economy of two regions without a clear path to "victory" sounds to me like stupidity.

                Biafra started a war and for those who are old enough to remember, they lost the war and ended up with full grown bearded adults in primary schools in Kumba and Bamenda. My late friend and classmate, Okoro, was a man learning with kids.

                If schools don't start, well-to-do "Southern Cameroonians" shall send their children to Douala and Yaoundé. Teachers shall emigrate to Douala and Yaounde so they can feed their families. Bamenda will lose its stature as the "education capital of Cameroon". The economy of the NW and SW regions will tank.

                It is easy for someone living in Washington DC, London,  Berlin, Paris or Johannesburg to make declarations on social media advocating all sorts of sacrifices to be made by others. The real question is who in the diaspora is willing to keep his/her children at home? Who in the diaspora is willing to stay at home and not earn a salary to feed and clothe his/ her family?

                Change is a slow process. The people of former Southern Cameroons have stood up for their rights and the whole world has heard our cry and even felt our pain. We have shamed the Cameroon government into admitting that we have been neglected and have suffered injustice. The government is making an effort. Teachers' and lawyers' demands have been met

                We should think about other more positive strategies to make the government honor its engagements. Disrupting the lives of our children and destroying our economy is not a sustainable strategy. Its shooting ourselves in the foot.

                Someone sitting in the diaspora and making no sacrifice but only sending revolutionary messages after returning home from work, had his/her dinner and put the kids to bed has no right to ask me to remain hungry and keep my children at home.

                Let's think of a strategy to make Cameroon a better country. One way (but not the only way) is that we can be "one and indivisible" in a federation, confederation, décentralisation or déconcentration.

                Come September 2017, I am sending my children to school. Join me and all those in the diaspora whose children shall all be going to school.

                I don't work for the Government and im not looking to work for the government.