Languages: identity, domination, resistance by Le Monde diplomatique

Author:Le Monde diplomatique
Language: fra
Format: epub
Publisher: Le Monde diplomatique
Published: 2022-12-15T00:00:00+00:00

‘Many young fighters are on drugs’

The appointment in March of two Anglophone presidential loyalists as ministers has only increased discontent in the region. Pauline Nalova Lyonga Egbe, former rector of the University of Buea, became secondary education minister despite causing outrage in 2016 by calling in the police to break up a student strike. The appointment of Paul Atanga Nji, as territorial administration minister, was ‘the last straw,’ according to Paul Eric Kingué, Kamto’s campaign director. Nji was sent to his hometown of Bamenda to reopen dialogue, but his arrogant attitude only increased animosity. Niying Roger Mbihbiih, a PhD student who has been in Yaoundé for five years, said he was especially worried about ‘the betrayal by the Anglophone elites,’ in particular Prime Minister Philémon Yang, who did not dare return to his village to vote, because his own community hold him in such contempt. President Biya’s other Anglophone loyalists are all influential members of his party, the Cameroon People’s Democratic Movement (RDPC), which was created in Bamenda in 1985 to replace Ahmadou Ahidjo’s Cameroonian National Union (UNC). According to Mbihbiih, they have heightened tensions rather than defusing them.

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