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The Ethnicisation Of The Oil Conflict In The Niger Delta (2) |
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George Ngwane*
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Wednesday, 09 June 2010 15:52 |
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Instrumentalism
Instrumentalists do not think of psychological bonding. They perceive ethnicity as one of the many means or resources available to elites to be used to achieve political or economic goals.
The primordialist and instrumentalist approaches however are not mutually exclusive.
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Reunification Bilingualism The Schizophrenic Character Of Anglophones (2) |
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Adolf Mongo Dipoko
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Monday, 15 February 2010 07:07 |
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The errors of our past are regrettable, but they must only spur us faster towards this only goal, survival which we have come to realise that we missed. The difference between then and now is that we can see clearer now than in the darkness of the yesteryears of the beginning.
The strength to guarantee such a victory can only be obtained from our oneness; from our fellowship; from a reassembly of the Anglophone; from a re-education of the masses that even our marginalisation could work as a magic wand to revive us from an anesthesia which has since 1961 stripped us of our real strength and unity. We are condemned to make a new beginning from the ashes of our failure.
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Youth Day And 50 Years of Independence |
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Tarhyang Enowbikah Tabe
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Monday, 08 February 2010 10:37 |
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As young Cameroonians celebrate 11 February as Youth Day, the question that comes in mind is if they know what or why they are celebrating.
The situation even becomes precarious if we go by the theme of this year's celebration: "Youth and the consolidation of 50 years of Independence".
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Last Updated on Saturday, 13 February 2010 00:11 |
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Reunification, Bilingualism And The Schizophrenic Character Of Anglophones (1) |
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Adolf Mongo Dipoko
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Monday, 08 February 2010 09:13 |
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I beg to agree with the late Rev. Martin Luther King Junior who said "our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter". Certainly our reunification experiment constitutes one of the things that matter in our contemporary Cameroonian politics no matter how many efforts we exert to cover the facts.
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Can Winnie Mandela's Heroism Outshine Her Crimes? |
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John Thynne
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Tuesday, 02 February 2010 04:45 |
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She was known to many as the Mother of the Nation, but Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, the once celebrated heroine of the anti-apartheid struggle, is no stranger to controversy.
Now it seems that film-makers on both sides of the Atlantic have seen the dramatic potential.
Jennifer Hudson has been lined up to play the lead role in a Hollywood film of the revolutionary firebrand's life, and the BBC has filmed its own drama, Mrs. Mandela, with Sophie Okonedo in the lead role.
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Last Updated on Tuesday, 02 February 2010 04:54 |
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Wait A Minute Mr. Minister |
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Adolf Mongo Dipoko
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Monday, 29 September 2008 02:00 |
 The one man I shall live to admire for his prophetic sense of peoptry and music is Emmanuel Eboa Lottin, son of the Rev. Pastor Adolf Lotton’s same, the revolutionary clergy who broke away from the American Baptist to found his Native Baptist Church of the good old days. One of Eboa Lottin’s recordings in the early sixties has inspired me in the theme for my essay this week.
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Journalism Turned Wayward |
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Adolf Mongo Dipoko
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Monday, 15 September 2008 00:00 |
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It keeps coming back to my mind. The honour, commitment and responsibility that the journalist of yesteryears carried on his shoulder, and walked the streets with pride and admiration. Under this circumstances, one felt the urge to choose journalism among other callings at a time when jobs did abound and workers were being sought for.
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Not Yet A Rudderless Ship? |
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Adolf Mongo Dipoko
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Monday, 01 September 2008 00:00 |
I remember very vividly that just a little over a year ago, this country sprang alive with the throbbing of election campaign drums which to cynics were just like the sounds created by the dexterity of ordinary village folks during an annual festival.
Not one of these sounds bore any message of hope for a people on the deck of a rudderless ship.
It is only out of sheer courtesy and patriotism that I would want to share the belief that we are not yet in that ship.
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Cameroon/Nigeria Relation: Dawn Of A New Era As I See It |
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Adolf Mongo Dipoko
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Monday, 25 August 2008 00:00 |
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Cameroonians are not very used to their president addressing them outside the usual calendar of presidential speeches. The conventional rendez-vous are usually on the eve of a new year, which is also the historic date for the independence of La Republique Du Cameroun, the 11 February, which in earnest, is the United Nations sponsored plebiscite Day, turned to Youth Day and some times unpredictably, the president addresses the nation on 20 May to commemorate the so-called peaceful revolution.
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The Obscure Reality Of The Bakassi Takeover |
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Adolf Mongo Dipoko
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Monday, 18 August 2008 00:00 |
 History has one more event to absorb; the final handover of the erstwhile disputed Bakassi Peninsula, by Nigeria to Cameroon. And what was seen from the point of view of cynics as a mere gamble on the part of Cameroon, now proves itself as a reality. Bakassi is now indisputably Cameroon.
But underneath this reality lies an obscurity. There is certainly a difference between laying claim to a precious object, and giving that object the precious value it deserves. The truth is that Bakassi was not given the attention it deserved before and during the occupation by Nigeria.
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Last Updated on Wednesday, 20 August 2008 08:58 |
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Adolf Mongo Dipoko
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Monday, 05 May 2008 11:00 |
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There is the tendency for the elderly people to see their days of youth as the highest, most acceptable and glorified point in their lives. And so anyone who has crossed the borders of time which demarcates middle age, the nostalgic reflection always has the chances of constantly passing through the mind’s screen. This at once offers one the momentary satisfaction at the centre of a world that has continuously denied man the moral joy of evolving times.
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