"Cameroon is simply a real hole: a talented young man describes his situation"

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(Family abandoned from Cameroon)

Last week, I received a peculiar email from a young man from Cameroon.
"I compose stories/scenarios for movies, but here in Cameroon it doesn't pay. I just finished one, which I would have already submitted to the PAGE global Awards in California, but I didn't do it due to a deficiency of funds. Is Can you aid me connect with the movie producers?
The script I have now written is entitled "Black Ego"; the action takes place in a village in Bamenda, Cameroon, GRU-São Paulo Airport (Brazil), Ruta 7, Darien Gap and Los Angeles.
Besides creative writing, I can do anything, sir. I learn fast."

I invited him to tell his story, reminding him that while we in the West are struggling with weight loss, most people are struggling with food.
"On the streets of my country, I see people fighting hunger, fear and a deep sense of abandonment. We're trapped between an envelopment of military force and a hammer of forced rebels. Cameroon is simply a beautiful, diverse country, sucked dry by leadership that refuses to surrender, even erstwhile its grip turns to dust. We look forward to the morning, which seems distant for life, asking the planet to yet look at us—not as a statistic, but as people who deserve to be seen."


The Invisible Cameroon: A Journey Through the Wandering
author: unanimously(henrymakow.com)
I am 29 years old and I have a bachelor's degree Right.

Today I am a ghost in my own country. I live overnight, trapped between military brutality and rebel extortion. There's no job, there's no permanent meal, there's no bed that feels like home. all sunset brings terrifying silence, and all sunrise seems to be a mockery of the effort I put into a life that refuses to succeed.

I fought through the woods and the bullets, but standing here today, the thought of ending everything is the only thing that seems to be a quiet escape from the ground that has forgotten that I exist.

W The time was not only flowing; Crumpled.

The fog over the northwest hills of Cameroon erstwhile meant life; Now he's only hiding the dead. I am the boy of this land, born in a ten-man family, where my parents valued a immense number of hands more than dreams in our heads.

To the 4th degree, the well dried up. My education became a debt paid back later, cutting out virgin forests in Mamfe under the burning sun to finance the 2018 bachelor's degree – just erstwhile my planet began to burn.

The English-speaking crisis (see below) turned my graduation ceremony into a ceremony for my future. I tried to stick to the ground by nurturing 2 acres of cocoa, but the ground became a cemetery. In 2019, the sky collapsed. I saw 3 of my comrades executed by the army right in front of my eyes. I survived a wonderful verbal crime, only to be thrown into another cage. The Amba rebels demanded 250,000 francs — a luck I didn’t have — and took over my farm erstwhile I couldn’t pay.

I fled to Bamenda, but the city was no refuge. The wage of 50,000 francs in the bar wasn't even adequate for a area for 20,000 francs. I retreated to the village just to meet me with another darkness: the suffocating burden of "nightly harassment" and witchcraft. Desperately, I turned to the church, but the pastors were just vultures in their robes, ripping the last coins out of my huts to "sow seeds" that never bloomed.

We're a nation trapped in the shackles of a few. While the planet is moving towards the mid-21st century, we are attached to the dying pulse of a 93-year-old spirit. Paul Biya, a man who has held the office of president for over 43 years, is now little of a leader and more of a rumor. In this "Bad Nightmare" he joins the ranks of Obiang Nguema of Equatorial Guinea and Yoweri Museveni of Uganda – monarchs in suits who converted republics into household affairs, keeping their people in eternal captivity.



Great silence
Since the election on October 12, 2025, the silence from Cameroon's presidency has been deafening. Officially, Biya was declared a winner with a large majority, providing himself an eighth term. But the streets tell a different story. Issa Tchiroma Bakara, erstwhile fiercely "voiced by the regime" as Minister of Communications, became an unexpected face of hope. Fractured and mobilized, he broke ranks and ran for election in 2025. According to all parallel results, Tchiroma won the hearts of youth thirsty for air, yet the results were openly announced in favour of Biya, as for decades.
But Biya's gone. does not attend the ongoing General Assembly of the African Union; He didn't show up for his loud birthday. He's "represented" all step of the way. The common question that goes on all mouth from Marou to Buea is: Who rules Cameroon? The answer whispered in the corridors of power indicates "mascalades" behind the curtain. First woman Chantal
Debt trap
It leads us to bitter irony. While an average man cannot afford basic goods, the government inactive borrows. IMF and global creditors are inactive investing billions in a ship with a broken bottom. Why does the IMF proceed to lend to a heavy indebted and incapable country to show where the money is spent? These loans do not lead to the construction of schools or hospitals; They lubricate the mechanisms of the dying regime, leaving another generation to inherit a debt they never signed.
English-speaking tragedy
Nothing illustrates our fall into disaster better than the English-speaking crisis. What started in 2016 as a worthy protest by lawyers from the customary law and syndicates of teachers against marginalization was answered not by dialogue, but by cold steel military repression.
Paul Atanga Nji, Minister of Territorial Administration and staunch puppet Biya, became an iron fist of this suppression. His refusal to admit the legality of English-speaking complaints turned spark into a forest fire.
From this fire emerged rebel groups "Amba". They came disguised as liberators, promising to defend marginalized, but now they have become a nightmare that rivals — and sometimes surpasses — the brutality of the military. Today, Northwest and Southwest regions are "dead cities". I saw the eyes of children who forgot the sound of the school bell, replaced by the sound of gunshots. Millions have been displaced, and hunger is now lurking in the valleys.
Apathy of the World
The most painful part of this journey through confusion is global indifference. 1 of the world's bloodiest wars is on display, and the global community remains mostly silent. We are a footnote in the global media cycle, a "low-intensity conflict" that frequently takes life.
Walking down the streets of my country, I see people fighting hunger, fear and a deep sense of abandonment. We're trapped between an envelopment of military force and a hammer of forced rebels. Cameroon is simply a beautiful, diverse country, sucked dry by leadership that refuses to surrender, even erstwhile its grip turns to dust. We are waiting for a morning that seems long gone for a lifetime, asking the planet to yet look at us—not as a statistic, but as people who deserve to be seen.


Translated by Google Translator

source:henrymakow.com
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