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Prince Israel Zaar on: Let there be Peace In Cameroon · Talk to Prince Show - Solving World's Problems

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Speaker 1: On the Africa nation of Cameroon in the center Africa region,
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Speaker 1: in the center of Africa border in Nigeria chart and
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Speaker 1: I think Cabon, Equatoria, Guinea and Congo. I think elections
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Speaker 1: for a new president happened on the twelfth of October October,
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Speaker 1: I think, and it's a time that that the country
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Speaker 1: decided to schedule elections air their constitution and the electoral
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Speaker 1: process is a democratic process, and democracy is the practice
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Speaker 1: of the Western countries. It's an export and that has
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Speaker 1: been exported in many parts of the world, just as
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Speaker 1: Christianity was exported, just as capitalism in the Western Way.
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Speaker 1: And the Cameroon starting from the Portuguese when they had
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Speaker 1: their empire, and the Cameroon moved based on influences of
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Speaker 1: the Portuguese, and they moved to the Germans. And after
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Speaker 1: the defeat of the Second World War, the Cameroon was
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Speaker 1: in the hands of the British and the French, and
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Speaker 1: there two Cameroon to southern its Southern Cameroon. You got
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Speaker 1: the Southern Cameroon, you got the peoples of Cameroon, and
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Speaker 1: you got the northern part. The northern part. That part
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Speaker 1: became part of Nigeria and the southern part true phabacity,
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Speaker 1: I think, and the Fombank Conference, and with what was
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Speaker 1: happening in the UN technicians and the British relancy to
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Speaker 1: continue with its empire. Due to the death of the empire,
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Speaker 1: and for some other reasons, the Cameroons were given the
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Speaker 1: chance the South in Cameroon. They were given the chance
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Speaker 1: to decide to be part of the part of Nigeria
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Speaker 1: beyond their own or be part of the Cameroons. And
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Speaker 1: for whatever that ensued, the Southern Cameroon became part of Cameroon.
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Speaker 1: First the United Republic of Cameroon. Seconded the did something.
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Speaker 1: It was something like the Ferrari I don't know. It
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Speaker 1: was the United Republic of Cameroon. And after the United
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Speaker 1: was taken out of it and became the Republic to Cameroon.
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Speaker 1: And that name in the of Cameroon was given the
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Speaker 1: Portuguese and the Cameroon is by the Atlantic Ocean, a
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Speaker 1: very beautiful place. And they came and at shrimps and
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Speaker 1: the shreams of prawns they call it. And the coldiness
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Speaker 1: in Portuguese Cameros. So it's like the line of crowns
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Speaker 1: or right shrimps. They just prawns and shrimps. I don't
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Speaker 1: real don't know the difference. But that's how the name
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Speaker 1: Cameroon came about. Since the independence of Cameroon in the
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Speaker 1: nineteen sixties, they called for many African countries around the
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Speaker 1: world and where United Nations to liberate countries from colonization
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Speaker 1: to countries to serf govern So Cameroon had its first
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Speaker 1: president by the name of ahmaduai Jo, and then I
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Speaker 1: think by nineteen seventy five a president Paubia then became
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Speaker 1: part of the government then for its stewardship and respect
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Speaker 1: and obedience to the then President Amadoijo, and he was
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Speaker 1: made the prime minister. And President Paubier was you know,
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Speaker 1: was born from the capital here one day and raised
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Speaker 1: in the church, and she good students and and got
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Speaker 1: at school and excel and went to France to study
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Speaker 1: then studying law and practical science, if I'm not wrong.
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Speaker 1: So he came back home, worked in the civil service
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Speaker 1: and became part of the administration of Amadoijer. To be friends,
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Speaker 1: the pubby was a very sharp man, got looking person
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Speaker 1: and well dressed and well artriculated. And his voice it's
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Speaker 1: just like mine, and there's a vision to the country.
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Speaker 1: But you know then we colonial influence with her and
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Speaker 1: from de gaul and with Joy got met around and Jockshirac.
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Speaker 1: You know, they got influence into all the French presidents
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Speaker 1: because come on, was a French colony. So the French
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Speaker 1: got they see their colonies as part of France. It
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Speaker 1: don't matter did they did, no matter how, no matter
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Speaker 1: the state of the autonomy control. You know that the
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Speaker 1: French has a lot of sight, unlike the British. The
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Speaker 1: British after their defeat in American Revolution and so many
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Speaker 1: and that they would help in the Second World War
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Speaker 1: and the the Britain was struggling. He got many activists
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Speaker 1: in Britain that in like the constuct of of empire.
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Speaker 1: So Britain just wanted to take care of itself. Give
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Speaker 1: it to the British on that you just want to
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Speaker 1: take care of of itself. And the British we want
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Speaker 1: to see their coloniests or their former colonists grow. That's
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Speaker 1: the British way with the French is different. You know,
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Speaker 1: British was an empire, go lot of wealth and you
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Speaker 1: know the islands, the sea and you know Britain's got Scotland, Ireland.
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Speaker 1: So in Britain it's British stars studied. Industrial revolution got
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Speaker 1: the greatest point philosophers they think about it. You know,
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Speaker 1: capitalism came from Britain, Adam Smith, all the greatest writers,
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Speaker 1: even the pooneers of abolitions, abolition, slavery, you know, William
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Speaker 1: will Barfos of the British. You know, the American is
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Speaker 1: a great country because of that Anglo Saxon inclination that
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Speaker 1: that that's period to be independent of self, self reliance,
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Speaker 1: self determination and freedom. So the British and not we're
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Speaker 1: not I don't know about now. They were not that
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Speaker 1: they wanted the colonies to take care of themselves self governance.
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Speaker 1: But the French is a different story because the French
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Speaker 1: it depends on the resources of the colonists and without
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Speaker 1: the colonists, you know Francis, you know France with we're not,
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Speaker 1: we're not doing a lot. So so it became the
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Speaker 1: faith of Cameroon that it's it's position in the place
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Speaker 1: where we got oil, gold, diamond, they got a lot
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Speaker 1: of resources timber, and got a lot of minerals needed
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Speaker 1: for the new world or the new material industries and
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Speaker 1: Cameroon that some people say it's like the miniature of Africa.
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Speaker 1: The people are widely educated. It's a land with with
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Speaker 1: with kings and kings and queens and the proud people,
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Speaker 1: the dress well and the belief in fashion, food and
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Speaker 1: culture and elegance and class the Cameroon. All over the
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Speaker 1: world you see somebody from Cameroon, you know that the
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Speaker 1: very good looking people and very prolific and archicolate. And
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Speaker 1: some people used to say that the Cameroon has been
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Speaker 1: the way it is we want leader for so long
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Speaker 1: because Cammonians are so educated and there is just say
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Speaker 1: that the more educated people are the mode of analyze
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Speaker 1: and they want to avoid risks sometimes because those who
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Speaker 1: go to the street and they got nothing to lose.
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Speaker 1: But when people say educated, they have prospect of hoping
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Speaker 1: for a better day, to have a better life, to
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Speaker 1: take care of their parents and their products and sisters,
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Speaker 1: and hoping to contribute to their country. That that thing
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Speaker 1: to be part of something to the cameroonas have that
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Speaker 1: spirit of together and the love for their country and
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Speaker 1: that proud that pride. Because it was a time when
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Speaker 1: they used to compare Cameroon with France that if Cameroon
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Speaker 1: was not corrupt and the resources were managed, Cameroon will
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Speaker 1: just be a European country, western country. Because it got
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Speaker 1: enough resources and hardworking people, diversities and got enough lane,
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Speaker 1: got space for everybody. It's a melting part. You got
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Speaker 1: a lot of people from various countries want to be
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Speaker 1: in Camero. You go to Cameroon in the cities, you
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Speaker 1: see people from the blind, from Asia, China and India. France,
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Speaker 1: Britain never were in America's American in America or the
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Speaker 1: Americas Ocean. Camy place for everybody. It's a place with
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Speaker 1: the language of the French, it didn't let it go,
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Speaker 1: and the language of the English, it didn't let it go.
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Speaker 1: So just like Canada, Cameroon it's a bilingual country. I
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Speaker 1: happen to study there and study law in Cameroon and
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Speaker 1: it's a very trying place. It promotes education is a
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Speaker 1: key education, family, hard work, self determination, proud of being
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Speaker 1: yourself to contribute in society. Cameroon don't like lazy people,
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Speaker 1: and everybody in Cameroon's most educated. You go to Cameroon
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Speaker 1: because that lack of jobs. You see somebody that it's
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Speaker 1: a you'll be doing some selling something that is just
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Speaker 1: trying to go by. The person got a master's degree.
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Speaker 1: You see somebody with an art job. The persons who
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Speaker 1: are ducated. You got doctors in Cameroon doing art jobs.
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Speaker 1: So they believe in education Cameroon culture. You must be
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Speaker 1: educated or hard working or study business or it's that
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Speaker 1: thing to be somebody that your pride comes from what
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Speaker 1: you do, no what it's say. So it becomes the
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Speaker 1: is job Cameroon. The way of Cameroon with lot the digression.
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Speaker 1: So Cameroon got is to get ten provinces and I
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Speaker 1: left a long time. It's not called the regions. And
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Speaker 1: for the sake of that place. The way it's supposed
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Speaker 1: to be was supposed to be a federation and I
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Speaker 1: studied law then it was supposed to be a federation.
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Speaker 1: That it was a federation. In Nigeria, every state will
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Speaker 1: manage it resources and and there will be that competition
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Speaker 1: like in America when states are federated. And I see
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Speaker 1: in China even got autonomous regions. So regions compete, right,
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Speaker 1: States compete within themselves to see which one is the best.
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Speaker 1: And there's that competition in the city building and community
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Speaker 1: building and in educational standards. So states compete and they
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Speaker 1: manage their own budget. If you mess up your resources
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Speaker 1: within your state, then your own At the same time,
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Speaker 1: the states contribute to the national government into the just
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Speaker 1: like in America at the state and got the filure.
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Speaker 1: So that was the intent of Cameroon. If it was that,
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Speaker 1: then Cameroon would be or the advanced. But the complexity
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Speaker 1: of Cameroon became that it was two different people that
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Speaker 1: some set united on the piece, and some assumed that
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Speaker 1: they were costs, and some assumed that they were deep.
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Speaker 1: So that's the three ways of thinking in Cameroon. So
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Speaker 1: the English spreaking part of Cameroon, they always assumed that
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Speaker 1: it was supposed to be by themselves, it was supposed
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Speaker 1: to be part of Nigeria, or they was supposed to join.
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Speaker 1: They assumed that that their four fathers or their founding
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Speaker 1: fathers did not did not signed a good deal, or
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Speaker 1: they were manipolitic, or they didn't know what they were doing,
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Speaker 1: or they sell out their people. But you know all
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Speaker 1: those if you were there, you think the family, you know.
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Speaker 1: I think at that time that the most important goal
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Speaker 1: was to free yourself from from colonization. You know, the
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Speaker 1: seecond for independence was not which was on the table.
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Speaker 1: It looks like the French did not give the Cameroon
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Speaker 1: founding fathers a good deal. You know, by then they
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Speaker 1: were just happy to be independent. But most of the
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Speaker 1: key poses in cameroonarysources was supposed to be controled by France.
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Speaker 1: Came doesn't have a currency and so most of their
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Speaker 1: ministerial poses were dictated from France from evidence I've seen,
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Speaker 1: and you know the president is thereby it does not
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Speaker 1: have that autonomy. It cannot be a country with that autonomy,
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Speaker 1: agency and control, just like the human being, even autonomy,
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Speaker 1: agency and control of yourself, what can you do? So
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Speaker 1: sometimes the people might not really understand that, even though
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Speaker 1: they blame blame the president their present for what they
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Speaker 1: might think, he does not have that power. You know,
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Speaker 1: most of the key resources Sonaro and even the banks,
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Speaker 1: and you know the action of Cameroon oil crowys produced
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Speaker 1: is refined and brought back, the goal is refined somewhere.
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Speaker 1: They don't have the processing plan planned. You know that
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Speaker 1: they cannot that they're left in the primary industries. So
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Speaker 1: the context of politics and Cameroon's very complicated that you
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Speaker 1: know people in Cameroon, they don't most of some times.
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Speaker 1: You don't stay over seas and study overseas and see
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Speaker 1: the dynamics of world politics and jee politics. Sometimes you
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Speaker 1: might think that those African presidents are just terrible. People
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Speaker 1: won't get to understand much about the war. You know,
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Speaker 1: some of them are just trying to be there. If
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Speaker 1: they raise their head, either they are deposed or some
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Speaker 1: are killed. Somebody tried, and some just end up being
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Speaker 1: corrupt and like their power, like to stay there, and
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Speaker 1: the system become the rub by corruption, the partisman and intimidation,
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Speaker 1: force imprisonment, and people just become timid and coward and
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Speaker 1: they just so render their faith. That's why I when
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Speaker 1: go to Cameroon, everybody talks about God, about Jesus, and
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Speaker 1: they prayer on God and talk about God and everything.
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Speaker 1: And when we go to a place where people talk
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Speaker 1: everything about God, it means they have surrender their faith.
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Speaker 1: It means they belief in faith. It means their destiny
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Speaker 1: is not decided about them, and God becomes the only
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Speaker 1: thing of consolation. The conceptle what can I do? And
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Speaker 1: with the concept of the the union between the South
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Speaker 1: and the Cameroon, the Republic and the Cameroon, and so
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Speaker 1: you got that in some countries you got racism and sexism.
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Speaker 1: In Cameroon, it got that concept that some people want
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Speaker 1: to be part of the union, some people don't want
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Speaker 1: to be and some the southern part always think like
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Speaker 1: they have their resources, the oil, and that they can't
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Speaker 1: they kill themselves, and that they're not giving their hanks
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Speaker 1: that they deserve. They cannot be president, they're just they
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Speaker 1: must be subordinates. And sometimes when they go to the
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Speaker 1: Francophone area as they call it, I don't know how
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Speaker 1: African will call themselves francophone anglophone, How to defy yourself
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Speaker 1: by language that in the surf is selling and not
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Speaker 1: to see yourself as your own people? And they and
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Speaker 1: the de beauties that they fight over lexiconds that means
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Speaker 1: nothing Anglophone Francophone. I don't see. The Canadians call themselves
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Speaker 1: anglophone Francophones, and they call themselves Canadians. But Cameroon happens
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Speaker 1: to fight over language, the identities, language of which when
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Speaker 1: the British came to Cameroon, they didn't like to teach
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Speaker 1: them the Western They like to teach them a language.
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Speaker 1: Isn't that what you got accent and what the language
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Speaker 1: called pidgin or creole. Because the goal was not to
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Speaker 1: teach you the language, because you understand your master, and
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Speaker 1: you understand the tricks, you understand the game of your politics.
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Speaker 1: So that was not the intent. The pigeon came about
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Speaker 1: because they didn't want to teach the natives as they
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Speaker 1: call their language, because as when their language was superior.
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Speaker 1: That's why in Cameroon by those days, if you're educated,
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Speaker 1: it must be decreated. In England, it must be to
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Speaker 1: get in France. So when you educate in France, you
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Speaker 1: go back to Cameroon, you see yourself as somebody different.
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Speaker 1: You go to England, you see yourself that you see
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Speaker 1: yourself something different. It's easy to hear the person say
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Speaker 1: I went to Suborne. I was just from France and
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Speaker 1: just from London and England. There was always I was
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Speaker 1: something before Cameroon, and so become the politics of Cameroon
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Speaker 1: that even the leaders don't see themselves as the people
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Speaker 1: of Cameroon. The they share on Cameroon and excuse my language,
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Speaker 1: that's not proper, the mist they don't see Cameroon as
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Speaker 1: something even though they're the leader, and so therefore they
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Speaker 1: have admiration from France or from England, from their colonial masters,
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Speaker 1: more than they have for their people. So it's become
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Speaker 1: the thing why the place is not developed. There's that
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Speaker 1: inferiority complex. Think about it. Cameroon was supposed to have
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Speaker 1: its own language. It's on current, say, has its own religion.
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Speaker 1: Take lad the Church Church of England. The Church of
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Speaker 1: England separated from Rome and they created the Church of England.
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Speaker 1: Take the other countries like Russia, some like god Ukraine,
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Speaker 1: they got their own church. The Orthodox Church to Cameroon
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Speaker 1: was if they Titus to believe in Jesus or God,
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Speaker 1: they were supposed to have their own church. And on
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Speaker 1: the meon, I always say in my work that if
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Speaker 1: they come to don' have their own philosophers, do have
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Speaker 1: their own religion, do have their own currency, don't have
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Speaker 1: their own history and their own pride, then there is
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Speaker 1: no country, There is no center, ideology isolated Cameroon itself.
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Speaker 1: Everything is foreign, The language is foreign, the system of
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Speaker 1: government is foreign. Most of the leaders, their fate is
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Speaker 1: decided from foreign countries on foreign table, just as it
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Speaker 1: was decided in Germany to divide Africa. Come to see
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Speaker 1: that the civil wars in Africa or the stripes and
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Speaker 1: instablished in Africa was because their fate was divided on
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Speaker 1: the colonial table in I don't know if the Frankfurt
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Speaker 1: or Berlin or somewhere in Germany they divided Africa without
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Speaker 1: knowing what it is. So that's why it's strange that
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Speaker 1: often say that in laws way they wake up the
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Speaker 1: next morning, you know, families were divided, and if your
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Speaker 1: kid maybe went to visit your uncles or somebody or aunties,
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Speaker 1: and the next morning that kid belonged to different country,
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Speaker 1: belonging to a different country. So most of the civil
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Speaker 1: wars and tribals and it's because of land and terroor train.
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Speaker 1: But at the same time they really admire the West,
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Speaker 1: the Amayada colonial masters. See, religion was brought to Africa,
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Speaker 1: the Bible was brought And the different with African and
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Speaker 1: Western religion is that the Western religion. First, the West
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Speaker 1: thought their people the philosophy, the philosophy of the war
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Speaker 1: before they gave them religion. When they came to Africa,
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Speaker 1: they destroyed their own native cultures and customs and worth
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Speaker 1: thinking and they gave them religion without philosophy, without theology.
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Speaker 1: If you give somebody worth thinking when it comes to
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Speaker 1: God matters, they need to be de catering it. So
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Speaker 1: it becomes the plassible effect of most African that God
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Speaker 1: becomes something that is everything. So their leaders this. You
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Speaker 1: see a leader will go to Rome and see the
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Speaker 1: leader with the pope. But the pope man not notice
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Speaker 1: that the picture of the leader is taking the pope
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Speaker 1: is to the people back in Africa would think that,
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Speaker 1: oh that God has sanctioned the leadership. So it it's
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Speaker 1: the thing that they might not now. And since the
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Speaker 1: leaders have taught them how, the colonial masters are very important.
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Speaker 1: So most of the leaders would like to travel overseas.
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Speaker 1: So if you see them repalate, they say. And with
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Speaker 1: the president of Cameroon for example. So the people which
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Speaker 1: are subbordy, they that, oh, look at him is better
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Speaker 1: than us. There is that concept that the strangers better
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Speaker 1: than the people themselves. Somebody, I'm from America, the fat
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Speaker 1: ship be treated differently. There's always that the education of
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Speaker 1: the people's lacking. The people were never taught about themselves,
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Speaker 1: the pride, that dignity, their countryhood, the value of their
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Speaker 1: own culture, of their on local religions or the un
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Speaker 1: way of thinking that the well thought, that thought was
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Speaker 1: taken away. It's that you meet a kid in elementary
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Speaker 1: school and you leave the kid with Plato or Aristo
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Speaker 1: to dunte right. We talk about Plato, that's the foundation
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Speaker 1: of the Christian religion. We talk about Aristoto, that's the
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Speaker 1: foundation of the Muslim religion. Philosophically, you cannot be a
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Speaker 1: Christian without without reading the philosophy of Sena, Augustan Aquinance,
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Speaker 1: and even Spinoza or Nietzscheo some some or dumb or
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Speaker 1: dumb dumte right of Altaire, of the car m Hm
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Speaker 1: or Niche or Hegar. It must immerse yourself with the
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Speaker 1: philosophy of this world. It cannot understand democracy without understand
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Speaker 1: the founding fathers of America without understanding Platau and socratests
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Speaker 1: how even though they conceive democracy, they were very ambivalent.
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Speaker 1: It's even the founding fathers of America they talk about
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Speaker 1: and enlightened people. You cannot understand religion or the theology
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Speaker 1: of the religion. How the Bible came to be and
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Speaker 1: the books of the Bible were written the foundation. You
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Speaker 1: cannot understand the building without understanding the soil upon which
24:53
Speaker 1: the building stands. So it's politics. So sometimes point commund
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Speaker 1: they don't know the complication of power always says something
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Speaker 1: that it does not matter with the president of the
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Speaker 1: country unless the president of the country is about the people,
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Speaker 1: are not about the foreign power authority. People might not
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Speaker 1: understand that the leaders of Africa some African state, don't
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Speaker 1: get me wrong, are like CEOs of company. The CEO
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Speaker 1: of a company that is on the stock exchange market,
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Speaker 1: it's a CEO. It's not the owner of the company.
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Speaker 1: Because that company got a lot of shares. The shareholders
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Speaker 1: are the owner of that company. People might not understand
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Speaker 1: America in the beginning, what's the company that fought against
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Speaker 1: the British to become a country, first to become colonies
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Speaker 1: before decide to become the country. So it's the fate
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Speaker 1: of most African states esplacially in West Africa or Central Africa,
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Speaker 1: the part of the world you can know about appetite
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Speaker 1: and appetite in South Africa appatate, I think that's what
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Speaker 1: they call it. Just to be dramatically if it's the
26:22
Speaker 1: American not the British. The struggles of the world is everywhere.
26:29
Speaker 1: There is this concept of African country, African country and
26:33
Speaker 1: African people always blaming the West, blame in Britain, blame
26:37
Speaker 1: in France, blaming America, always blaming somebody that does not
26:41
Speaker 1: look like them. But they failed to look that their
26:44
Speaker 1: leaders look like them, their leaders speak the same language,
26:48
Speaker 1: but for the fact that most of them started overseas.
26:54
Speaker 1: You cannot always, you cannot keep blaming somebody for their
26:57
Speaker 1: own situation. The burden of French Africa cannot constantly be
27:10
Speaker 1: on the shoulders of France. Look at France right now.
27:15
Speaker 1: The government is trying to stand you see France, See
27:21
Speaker 1: Manuel Macron. He's doing everything to be a democratic leader.
27:29
Speaker 1: He even saws been expension. That is the call of
27:33
Speaker 1: his policy, his pension policy, that's a call of his policy.
27:37
Speaker 1: Just to see a compromise, to have a prime minister
27:42
Speaker 1: that come from a government that's democracy. But the democracy
27:51
Speaker 1: of France did not start to die. He can go
27:55
Speaker 1: back to Louis the fourteen, To Louise the sixteen. All
27:57
Speaker 1: of us know that Marie Antoinette, you know what happened
28:02
Speaker 1: the guillotine. The French philosopher ro Montesque, Jean Jaquesroox. So
28:10
Speaker 1: you know what happened the versa. You know what happened.
28:20
Speaker 1: How many republic state friends have but that concept of
28:25
Speaker 1: lipetel fraternity and legality. The African the Camel Union people
28:38
Speaker 1: must understand that domestic politics is different from international politics
28:42
Speaker 1: and the Cameroonian colonial become comunial. Colonial heritage is different
28:47
Speaker 1: from free countries. Democracy has work well for Western countries.
28:51
Speaker 1: Don't get me wrong, because they write the philosophers. The
28:58
Speaker 1: Cameroonians to read to read the philosophers. When you read
29:04
Speaker 1: the philosophers, they founding fathers. Read the philosophers. They can
29:09
Speaker 1: see a man we can't. In American politics, you can
29:13
Speaker 1: see the separation of state and religion. You can see
29:17
Speaker 1: Thomas Harp san Ja Cross is very important. Montesquieu and government.
29:28
Speaker 1: Having a state, it's a battle having a king or
29:33
Speaker 1: having a republic. The concept of democracy is power to
29:37
Speaker 1: the people, for the people, by the people. It comes
29:43
Speaker 1: with gradualism and progression. It's not about democracy because most
29:50
Speaker 1: African countries are democratic. It's not about having a republic.
29:58
Speaker 1: For example China, China is a communist country and during
30:06
Speaker 1: the Co War, most African leaders some went to exile
30:10
Speaker 1: because the West were trying to stop communism because of
30:18
Speaker 1: the fear that power would be centralized, not decentralized, and
30:28
Speaker 1: they fear that the people are not afraid and their
30:32
Speaker 1: leaders will not leave power. The look a Cameroon. Cameroonians
30:40
Speaker 1: are very peaceful people. That's why I can't have a
30:44
Speaker 1: leader that they call the oldest serving leader in the world,
30:51
Speaker 1: because Cameroonians have a thing and no matter how somebody is,
30:56
Speaker 1: that person is our person deep within Cameroons. They don't
31:01
Speaker 1: like war, they don't like blood. They like to debate
31:05
Speaker 1: their enemies. Communions like a lot of politics. They watch
31:10
Speaker 1: a lot of news. That's what happened in Grease and attends.
31:16
Speaker 1: That's what's transmitted to America in the Western world. Now
31:22
Speaker 1: we can debate, we can disagree to disagree. Comunion like
31:26
Speaker 1: the game of politics. You go to the bars and restaurants.
31:30
Speaker 1: They like to talk politics. See somebody dressed wild, having
31:34
Speaker 1: a suit and having a pot of beer and some
31:36
Speaker 1: good food. They talk about politics and the Comeunion President
31:42
Speaker 1: Poul Beer is being started by other leaders. He knows politics,
31:50
Speaker 1: how to maneuver your way for forty three, if not
31:56
Speaker 1: mistaken years, as president. I don't know if done. It's
32:00
Speaker 1: a long time and people might not now that the
32:06
Speaker 1: patroness system that prop are used was established by a
32:10
Speaker 1: heja called CNU, and people might not know that. When
32:22
Speaker 1: I need your lost power, he was worried more to
32:25
Speaker 1: be chairman of the CNU. That was a patroness system
32:29
Speaker 1: he created. That's a system the president Pauplia mastered. That's
32:41
Speaker 1: the traditional African type of system with the chop first,
32:48
Speaker 1: clash my back's clutch your back. The patroness system is
32:53
Speaker 1: a system where the leader as a group of people.
32:59
Speaker 1: They called the sain Trial party. China got the Communist Party,
33:06
Speaker 1: but in America we don't have that. You got lobbyists
33:10
Speaker 1: and organizations that decide the concept of super delegates and
33:16
Speaker 1: you know, they decide the planks of the you know
33:19
Speaker 1: the meeting places that have congress. They decide who would
33:23
Speaker 1: be which are the guys are good for leaders. They
33:28
Speaker 1: test the people to be the governor, being a mayor
33:33
Speaker 1: and letting them speak, let them solve problems. They test
33:38
Speaker 1: their petutism. They believe in the country. This is what
33:43
Speaker 1: they called the three A M car the buill love
33:51
Speaker 1: for country or pride if you're a camera and when
33:55
Speaker 1: you see the flag, you're back if you means something.
34:00
Speaker 1: When the issue of corusion is that it destroy everything.
34:06
Speaker 1: When the president is not in charge, but the patron
34:11
Speaker 1: system in his charge. It might be the cer your
34:14
Speaker 1: Disciplidian party. Some see the Chinese Center government. I would
34:20
Speaker 1: have called a five year plan. The five year plan
34:22
Speaker 1: they actually make to do something. I just to have
34:30
Speaker 1: the central system. You have the Democratic Party, the Republican Party.
34:39
Speaker 1: It's not about patronage. That's why democratic systems freely democratic
34:47
Speaker 1: system because there's a difference between the free war and
34:50
Speaker 1: the colonial war that is still not free. But have democracies.
34:56
Speaker 1: A democracy in colonial countries is just a name. It's
35:00
Speaker 1: a facade. That's why I started by saying that some
35:04
Speaker 1: of these countries are just businesses. Their leaders are like
35:08
Speaker 1: CEOs and people and companies around the world. They have
35:13
Speaker 1: shares in that country, mostly Fortune five from the countries
35:17
Speaker 1: or these great companies in the world. If the president
35:21
Speaker 1: is CEO, it can be sacked if it does not
35:24
Speaker 1: do what the shareholders won't. Sometimes what the shareholders won't
35:31
Speaker 1: it's profit. That's why the shareholders to keep the shaholders happy.
35:38
Speaker 1: You mean it's mice costs and maximize profit. If that's
35:42
Speaker 1: a country, you minimize in infrastructure and development, they can
35:47
Speaker 1: care to people because that is expenditure. You're not defination building,
35:54
Speaker 1: streamline employment. Be frugal with his system. Don't develop anything.
36:00
Speaker 1: Don't build anything because it showlders we lose money. Why
36:05
Speaker 1: because most African countries are just primary industries, so you
36:08
Speaker 1: don't need to build anything. The real roads about since
36:11
Speaker 1: my colonial times. So just don't develop the place because
36:17
Speaker 1: it's just a farm. It's a farm. That's what it's
36:22
Speaker 1: all about, is a farm. I don't build a beautiful
36:26
Speaker 1: series because the people ask more, don't. Educational systems actually
36:35
Speaker 1: means something. The one thing you gain from common education
36:42
Speaker 1: is resilience, the difficulties and hard work. I always tell
36:48
Speaker 1: my friends I've studying Cameroon and succeeded. A which is
36:55
Speaker 1: important is on the certificate. It's not the degree you have.
36:57
Speaker 1: Sometimes we never even know what the degree is because
37:02
Speaker 1: the teacher's job is to failure. But here the teacher
37:07
Speaker 1: helps you to it's uncomfortable for you to fail. You
37:10
Speaker 1: have people to assist you. The job with the teacher
37:14
Speaker 1: is the failure. The teachers are very frugal and crafty.
37:19
Speaker 1: They are grades. I remember my university, I got a
37:30
Speaker 1: cash award. I was surprised that I did well, Like really,
37:36
Speaker 1: because you see over our grade, you do well in
37:38
Speaker 1: one and one teacher pinning you down because he dress well,
37:43
Speaker 1: or maybe some said you took their girlfriend. There's always
37:45
Speaker 1: something think about it. How would teacher in the first
37:49
Speaker 1: place be there in his her student. But putting that aside,
37:56
Speaker 1: the value systems of countries are different. All I'm trying
38:02
Speaker 1: to do is the dynamics of this system in which
38:06
Speaker 1: Cameroon find themselves. Before the West African Camero in particular,
38:15
Speaker 1: there was not a name called Cameroon. Cameroon was ruled
38:24
Speaker 1: by kings. Had always came and called them chiefs, you know,
38:28
Speaker 1: just to subordinate them. And those that were powerful at
38:31
Speaker 1: the sortan of Bamon or the king of Bamu, some
38:35
Speaker 1: of them went to exile and some most African kings,
38:39
Speaker 1: their powers were taken away and their oppositions were made
38:43
Speaker 1: chiefs and they have their own territory. And they came
38:47
Speaker 1: and created a system called first class, second class. It's
38:50
Speaker 1: always everything. They don't have power, so divide and ruined
38:53
Speaker 1: to be fight into the second class or tel class
38:55
Speaker 1: or paramount. This w told be the house of chiefs
39:00
Speaker 1: that decided on the matters. So there's their own way
39:03
Speaker 1: of being. But these powers were taken away and those
39:09
Speaker 1: core kings became chiefs and they divided. They got many languages,
39:13
Speaker 1: many villages, and that's how you divide the structure that
39:18
Speaker 1: was before King Arthur says, the whole other changed. He
39:28
Speaker 1: didn't place the nail else one could culture collapse the
39:33
Speaker 1: world and must get rid of the oil to see
39:37
Speaker 1: what the new can be. Cameeron did that from my
39:42
Speaker 1: ego to President Pobia. I remember when President Pobia came
39:48
Speaker 1: to power. It's very strange that President Pobia has been
39:53
Speaker 1: in power for fifty years. And that has been my
39:55
Speaker 1: whole life in politics and in politics for fifty years.
40:02
Speaker 1: If I'm not He got in and work in the
40:05
Speaker 1: civil service and proof is worth it's a good bureau
40:09
Speaker 1: card and rise to prime minister. And when the former
40:17
Speaker 1: president for health reason left and president probably I remember
40:23
Speaker 1: his speech. I think it's nineteen eighty two. I was
40:27
Speaker 1: a char in primary school and I'm talking today he's
40:32
Speaker 1: still the president. The one thing with Cameroonians they've managed
40:41
Speaker 1: how to deal with difficult times, good or bad or ugly.
40:47
Speaker 1: Cameroonas don't like to help one another. Cameroonias are the
40:54
Speaker 1: most forgiving people on Plan Earth. Most Cameroons are good people,
41:01
Speaker 1: like family. They're very first with the war, and they're
41:10
Speaker 1: proud of themselves and their cultures and who they are.
41:14
Speaker 1: Most proud people in Africa are Cameroonians. Got They work hard,
41:20
Speaker 1: and you go to that place called Cameroon, despite the difficulties,
41:25
Speaker 1: you meet people that are just happy. They got the
41:32
Speaker 1: gift of football. And we're going to order, and I said,
41:36
Speaker 1: I was born in Cameroon. And they asked Roger Miller
41:41
Speaker 1: just when Publia came to power he was given the
41:44
Speaker 1: gift of football. I think it's nineteen eighty two. As
41:47
Speaker 1: a kid, I think there was a World Cup in
41:50
Speaker 1: Spain black and white TV. But then we could see
41:54
Speaker 1: the television from Malabo. I'm still young man, but I
42:00
Speaker 1: don't I got the telegraphic memory. I could remember a
42:04
Speaker 1: few people are TVs. You know, we were stand by
42:08
Speaker 1: the roadside by the street and see from Afar and
42:15
Speaker 1: then you could get I think the report of the
42:19
Speaker 1: radio station. And boy I was I forgot this name.
42:24
Speaker 1: I remember names of a telegraphic memory. I forgot this name.
42:28
Speaker 1: I forgot that guy. We listen on the radio and
42:34
Speaker 1: I got to watch on TV. As a kid, the
42:36
Speaker 1: television was just few, not because they could not buy
42:39
Speaker 1: TV because by then they have the t TV signal.
42:43
Speaker 1: You know it's it took no time Cameroon had that
42:48
Speaker 1: had the on big screen of TV. Just when TV
42:50
Speaker 1: became a thing here Cameroons in America or Britain, they
42:55
Speaker 1: bought TV's and they came and that became the thing.
42:58
Speaker 1: I'm just telling you since when the president Popia was
43:02
Speaker 1: in power. That that's my as a philosopher. I like
43:06
Speaker 1: to take you back and when TV was the black
43:09
Speaker 1: and white and when Cameroon could watch Cameroon play in
43:14
Speaker 1: nineteen eighty two un black and white. There you see Kunde.
43:17
Speaker 1: I remember Kunde and the Cameroonian squad. I don't I
43:22
Speaker 1: think I beg her till if he was a kid.
43:23
Speaker 1: I was just a child. I remember I love soccer.
43:27
Speaker 1: And over the time we got Rogia Miller and the
43:32
Speaker 1: tall face and that became the glory of Cameroon. The Cameroonians,
43:36
Speaker 1: we Cameroons just like Brazilians and Mexicans and Europeans, and
43:42
Speaker 1: they really love soccer. Sometimes don't tell the government man
43:46
Speaker 1: your business and the half hour soccer. I can actually remember.
43:52
Speaker 1: Not during the Cameroon crisis over back, I see the
43:56
Speaker 1: oil resources, the oil region and by the way, way
44:01
Speaker 1: is the Cameroonian one the case and my professor in
44:04
Speaker 1: law was Cameroon lawyer for that case. But during that
44:10
Speaker 1: time I lost my brother during that war, was in
44:13
Speaker 1: the military because the Nigeria knew that Cameroon has like soccer,
44:21
Speaker 1: and you know, they encroached into his region on that
44:26
Speaker 1: Alantic coast just when he was in soccer. And my
44:32
Speaker 1: brother gave his life, her been saved the lives of soldiers.
44:38
Speaker 1: If my brother was an American or European, he'll be
44:45
Speaker 1: a hero. But the constock of Cameroon does not work
44:48
Speaker 1: like that is not even remembered. There's no act of
44:51
Speaker 1: heroism because the country in itself does not believe in itself.
45:00
Speaker 1: You must love your country, have that pride to develop
45:05
Speaker 1: your people. Don't keep blaming the West. France would like
45:09
Speaker 1: to see Cameroon develop. America would like to see Cameroon develop.
45:19
Speaker 1: The Europeans would like to want to see Cameroon developed.
45:21
Speaker 1: The Chinese want to seek cam Un developed, the Indians,
45:24
Speaker 1: everybody want to see him and develop. But you must
45:26
Speaker 1: have autonomy, agency and control of your own destiny. You
45:35
Speaker 1: cannot talk about democracy where you don't have independence, where
45:43
Speaker 1: you don't come to the office of state and you're
45:47
Speaker 1: not a state, you have a vessel to somebody else.
45:52
Speaker 1: That's why it's easy in Africa that when the people
45:56
Speaker 1: force the president of office, they need to run somewhere else.
46:00
Speaker 1: It is not supposed to be that way. That's my point.
46:06
Speaker 1: I've not been there forever. I don't just want to
46:11
Speaker 1: see Cameroon. They've gone through a lot, from those trying
46:18
Speaker 1: to separate and be their own state and from the
46:21
Speaker 1: country trying to rebuild itself and see how it can
46:24
Speaker 1: do to cause something in the country or federation or
46:31
Speaker 1: see the consolation about the separatists. With the separatists just
46:36
Speaker 1: for people to stop dying. At the end of the day,
46:40
Speaker 1: Cameroonians are dying. When people die, they don't come back
46:47
Speaker 1: physically the dead, their dreams, their hope, their parents, their children.
47:00
Speaker 1: We should remember that the twelfth of October an election happened.
47:10
Speaker 1: I am the philosophy of the war. But I must
47:13
Speaker 1: not sit by and not talk about where I was born.
47:20
Speaker 1: Most people will read my philosophy. I believe in positive causality,
47:26
Speaker 1: positive intelligence, people working together for the kit of the war.
47:32
Speaker 1: I don't believe people fighting wars and diying because of politics.
47:41
Speaker 1: When the cross road of the new Wall order from
47:44
Speaker 1: a unipolar system to multipolar and and multilateral system that
47:51
Speaker 1: many countries now want to be self determined. The election
47:56
Speaker 1: happened means the system decided. For relations to happen, you
48:00
Speaker 1: must give credit to the system and the people voted.
48:06
Speaker 1: I know, as a philosopher understood of politics, that's a
48:10
Speaker 1: very difficult time for Cameroon. When I know within the
48:15
Speaker 1: system that be that you know when the sign is
48:24
Speaker 1: on the war and the war when it's the right
48:28
Speaker 1: thing to do, respect the will of the people. This time,
48:42
Speaker 1: I give advice to many people on the war, many
48:46
Speaker 1: powerful places on plan and listen to me speak. I
48:50
Speaker 1: know because I talk to power. If you ever hear me,
48:56
Speaker 1: listen to my advice. Exit with grace, and I now
49:10
Speaker 1: that I spoken about the president and the system, the
49:14
Speaker 1: pretriding system. Whoever wins secretly consolation keep. Those who want
49:23
Speaker 1: to keep, do not go for punishment and vengeance. You know,
49:33
Speaker 1: you guys, sit and now talk within yourself. That was
49:36
Speaker 1: your wait there. The people have spoken. The fear is
49:41
Speaker 1: that if their voices are not heard. You don't want
49:46
Speaker 1: Camarians to die. At the point in time you would
49:51
Speaker 1: say to yourself, I got enough. I got enough. Always
49:57
Speaker 1: know when that people don't want you anymore. That's wisdom.
50:01
Speaker 1: Don't force it. We can't tink about what happened to
50:07
Speaker 1: many countries and underworld with no leaders in Africa, that
50:10
Speaker 1: they not end well because you think you have power.
50:16
Speaker 1: Because you think you have power, The power is from
50:19
Speaker 1: the people. The people will take it. And there is
50:23
Speaker 1: a time when it becomes difficult. As he said, when
50:30
Speaker 1: the genie is out of the bottom, it's difficult to
50:33
Speaker 1: put it back. Politicians are visionaries. They can see the future.
50:39
Speaker 1: Then now could they have tested the waters. You can't
50:44
Speaker 1: feel the energy, you can't feel it. Don't push it.
50:53
Speaker 1: Exit with Christ. Exit with Christ. And to those who
51:01
Speaker 1: have been there for a very long time. Every good
51:05
Speaker 1: thing comes to an end. The country is a country,
51:11
Speaker 1: as I called democracy. Does I have elections? They always
51:17
Speaker 1: tell people that don't depend so much on politics. You're
51:21
Speaker 1: just a servant of the state. Don't make the government
51:26
Speaker 1: your bank, your company. It's not supposed to be that way.
51:33
Speaker 1: Don't be so attached to the government because it's a system.
51:39
Speaker 1: I was not bound by you, which was given to you,
51:45
Speaker 1: and that system was grown because it's the system of
51:49
Speaker 1: the people. Win or lose. Let the be peace. They
52:02
Speaker 1: cannot be paised when the people are nothappy with the choice.
52:12
Speaker 1: I do not know that choice, but you know the
52:16
Speaker 1: people do not get their choice after the result of
52:19
Speaker 1: the elections. After every elections, I will tell people, based
52:26
Speaker 1: on my philosophy on triangleism, three things will happen. But
52:32
Speaker 1: people always see too the binary of things. The janglings
52:38
Speaker 1: of things always make you to see the middle or
52:41
Speaker 1: the missing element between the either or there is a
52:50
Speaker 1: great area. Three things will happen. The people will accept
52:58
Speaker 1: the elections result, they will not accept the relation result.
53:07
Speaker 1: Or they can accept and deny at the same time.
53:12
Speaker 1: It means they're just okay, let it be let it go.
53:19
Speaker 1: If people have done this part so many times, let
53:21
Speaker 1: it be let a girl, Let be let a girl.
53:24
Speaker 1: Don't push alock because at the end of the day
53:30
Speaker 1: is to have a life to live. So I don't
53:33
Speaker 1: go into scrabbles. I don't get into blame game and
53:36
Speaker 1: that person. I've done that because I always tell people,
53:40
Speaker 1: learn to forgive, learn to let go, learn to move on,
53:48
Speaker 1: and learn to move forward. Always think bigger than yourself,
53:57
Speaker 1: think bigger than yourself for the sake of the country.
54:03
Speaker 1: This time, let then be transparency, because the whole world
54:12
Speaker 1: is watching these elections. Why, because it's been spoken everywhere
54:21
Speaker 1: that Cameroon has the oldest leader. Is that what the
54:23
Speaker 1: oldest leader? That's making every person around the world asking
54:28
Speaker 1: what about Cameroon? What about the elections? So the world
54:30
Speaker 1: is watching it? And what the world is watching at?
54:33
Speaker 1: You be mindful, have some dignity, have respect and fairness.
54:54
Speaker 1: And politicians must learn not to speak blood to get
55:01
Speaker 1: to the necocis on table. Come on, yourself suffered a
55:07
Speaker 1: lot just to believe that the future is better. Men.
55:19
Speaker 1: People have died these past times because people do want
55:24
Speaker 1: to be free. If I want to self determine, that's
55:31
Speaker 1: the promise of democracy. You cannot eat my cake and
55:35
Speaker 1: have it. You cannot be democratic with on democratic principles.
55:50
Speaker 1: This is say that I might fair so many times.
55:56
Speaker 1: By the point in time you said, let me do
55:58
Speaker 1: the right thing. I call it right action. There's always
56:03
Speaker 1: something in the human pain to know that this is
56:08
Speaker 1: the time to do the right thing. That's how our
56:12
Speaker 1: name get into history. As as since I've forgoten as
56:19
Speaker 1: what happened in South Africa, they got a reconciliation committee
56:22
Speaker 1: where people just come and apologize and reconcier confess and
56:26
Speaker 1: things are okay. We must not all hate and bitterness
56:41
Speaker 1: and vengeance or retribution of vindictiveness when it comes to
56:51
Speaker 1: the matter of state. At the end of the day,
56:57
Speaker 1: we turn around. You guys are all Africans, all Cameroonians,
57:09
Speaker 1: that which is left of it. When the world is
57:16
Speaker 1: watching in the in the slowdance of soccer, when comoion
57:25
Speaker 1: players know that Cameroonians are watching, the politics is failing them.
57:31
Speaker 1: The Comunion players always deliver. They deliver. That is to
57:36
Speaker 1: be the thing of Cameroon. This time they ask the
57:39
Speaker 1: politicians too, that the world is watching, they should deliver,
57:48
Speaker 1: They should deliver. Philosopher Prince Ai intelligences Philosopher Princess Rosa
58:03
Speaker 1: October eighteenth, twenty twenty five, Hoping that we don't watch
58:15
Speaker 1: the blood shed and Cameroon, You'll not be a good sign.
58:22
Speaker 1: Respect life, respect the lives of others. Place. I know
58:30
Speaker 1: they're a dead court many ways, many places just don't.
58:36
Speaker 1: Don't skill the plot of people with nothing. Let the
58:43
Speaker 1: lives of those people matter. Protect life by doing the
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Speaker 1: right thigh history will give you credit. Don't be deceived
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Speaker 1: by people who keep telling you to stay on, to
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Speaker 1: act on. Just be the boss and know when you
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Speaker 1: get enough and exit with Christ and for the members
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Speaker 1: of the party that loves. Just fight for the necolections.
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Speaker 1: Go back to the drawing board and restrategize and come back.
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Speaker 1: That's what democracy is. I think it must not be
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Speaker 1: a do or die. Live to fight another day and
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Speaker 1: exit with Chris. Be a gentleman, a gentlewoman, because of
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Speaker 1: all is watching. Thank you,