CAMEROUN: ANCESTORS REFUSING TO LEAVE POWER
Cameroon’s Power Bench: Still in the Hands of the ’80s and ’90s Club
Cameroon’s top leadership reads like a roll call from another era.
President Paul Biya, recently proclaimed the winner of the highly contested October 12 fraudulent election, is 92. Senate President Marcel Niat Njifenji clocks in at 91. Armed Forces Chief René Meka stands at 86. National Assembly Speaker Cavayé Yéguié Djibril is 85, and Constitutional Council head Clément Atangana is 84. ALL FACULTATIVE AGES.
Together, they form a leadership lineup with a combined age of nearly 440 years, older than Cameroon’s independence itself.
As citizens call for generational change, a question lingers: Is Cameroon’s future still trapped in the past?
