CAMEROON IN SEARCH OF A POLITICAL SCAPEGOAT:
It is clear even to the lunatic that the tragic drama of tyranny in Cameroon is about to end. The pain of the suffering people must be cleansed and purged out. Someone living must carry the blame. When the angry mob of demos comes calling for blood, one unfortunate individual will be chosen on the spur of the moment to bear the guilt of the bad system. Who will be this Scapegoat? Using nature as a Pedagogue, my philosophical fault-finding Mind goes for the fall of an Iroko tree for an analogy of what may happen in Cameroon. I say may and not will because I am a philosopher and not a doom day prophet. When the Iroko goes down, it usually takes along with it all the undergrowth around it. The grim tenantry of vampire bats took a parasitic bite of its fruits. The grim tenantry of rats, roaches and snakes that took shelter within its darkness must go with it. When tyrants abandoned power, they always forgot some of their loyalists to be used by the bloodthirsty mob as a scapegoat for national catharsis. It happened to the Friends of IdiAmin.It happened recently to the friends of El Bashir in Syria. It happened to Mobutu’s friends, it happened to friends of Babatura. It happened to the Brothers of Blaise Campaore. Since most of them, the chosen SCAPEGOAT is always innocent, the SCAPEGOAT of Cameroon politics will always be someone outside the ruling Tribe or ruling class or the ruling language. Since it cannot be a Betibululand who are first citizens, it can neither be from the Babaturaland nor Kamtografiland since they all speak the superior French language. The narrative quest for the SCAPEGOAT narrows down in its satanic logic to the Anglofooland. Yes, these are natural SCAPEGOAT from their inborn naivety. It takes only a SCAPEGOAT to have abandoned a quasi-sovereign state and moved majestically into the house of slaughter in the name of Independence by Joining. Their king Achirimbi lamented it as a move from water to fire. Les Anglofools are the natural SCAPEGOATs.Oh Yes. The Sacrifice will be a Reunification of any further attempt at undermining the sovereign Tribal Republic of Betibuland. I say REUNIFICATION. The critical question is who will be that particular Anglofool to be picked by ill fate, NDAWN or LON as a sacrifice to the gods of Etoudi so as to assume the wrath of the avenging angel of death flies about Betibuland? It cannot be fonlonist whose spirit passed on on the eve of the reunification by the Lake God. It must be someone bold enough to bury the bereaved alongside the death. When all attempts at reasoned-out solutions fail, the crowd may move towards this political Buffoon who loves his dead master more than his dead living sibling, whose name he carries as a SCAPEGOAT in their sacrifice of Reason. Tell My Lady Muse to follow me into my ancestral forest for philosophical Romance. Let her bring along clean sheets of paper with much critical ink in her blood. While the vampire dance at the sacrifice of Reason will be going on, we will be making love with ideas for posterity
CAMEROON IN SEARCH OF A POLITICAL SCAPEGOAT:
