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Just an odd vent...

I really wanted to put a voice onto this & make it a podcast but content on podcasts isn't taken as seriously as content on blogs these days. I just wanted to comment on President Paul Biya & the Transatlantic Slave Trade again. 

You know, the human mind goes wild sometimes & I'm not Cameroonian or up-to-date on the day-to-day happenings of Cameroon but by my understanding Paul Biya is virtually the king of Cameroon. I even saw a YouTube video titled "Paul Biya est un dieu" ("Paul Biya is a god").

Mes amis camerounais, comment ça va? 

Biya is said to be 92, I'm not ageist but 92? If he can govern, fine but ruling for 40 years? Is Cameroon really a democracy or a monarchy, they need to start telling the truth. And why are Anglophones being killed in the Ambazonia region of Cameroon? Both English & French are not our languages. 

Donc, pourquoi c'est que les Ambazoniens être dans le génocide? 

I've seen very disturbing pictures of people being killed in Ambazonia. People who have been viciously mutilated because they were allegedly English-speaking or Ambazonian secessionists. It really is wild to come across such things. Images that look like a human body was mutilated by a crocodile or other wild animal all because they refuse to speak French.

THE TRANSATLANTIC SLAVE TRADE
Now, a few centre-right black people in America excuse the Transatlantic Slave Trade as being beneficial to them & claim slavery was as common as house maids today. But it still is disturbing to me that people could sell off other people as commodities to another continent. Here in Southeast Africa, we never sold our people to outsiders. The concept of slavery in Africa was almost exclusive to areas which had Muslim contact. Also, the people being sold of into slavery were unwanted people, the persona non gratas of the time. The people selling these people were the nobility of the time (kings, chiefs, caliphs & emperors). In fact, someone descended of slave traders is a rich man today & president of a well-known African country. They say "History doesn't repeat, it instructs" & I hope that's the case for those people being governed by him or they may find themselves working their fingers to the bone for their land & gaining little or nothing. Now, the slaves on the boats to the Americas from Africa likely knew why they were defeated & enslaved. And I think they had every right to be bitter & their descendants to be bitter & resentful of those white slave owners & the nobilities that enslaved them... but it seems not the case. I've seen black Americans return to the exact place their ancestors were enslaved without a smudge of bitterness & that is refreshingly progressive to see that kind of forgiveness but I just want to address this because you don't just immediately trust a hyena after it has bitten you. Now, the history of my ancestral clan is not as sour as many others but it's also a history of displacement & I have not got the time to deal with it as I am not the leader of my clan & I have a full life to live without being forced to deal with things that happened to some ancestor two hundred years ago. I think black Americans have all the right to forsake their African heritage. I don't believe that black Americans should be forced to be part of a land that has a sour history. Of course, there are DNA tests today that show which region in the world you're from but if you're going to force yourself to be part of a people without studying their language & customs, you will always be in for a culture shock. And it is not always necessary to learn of your people or their language just because of blood. I feel you become what you are by assimilating & identifying, not always by blood. Black Americans are American first before they are what their ancestors were. And nobody has the right to force that matter in any direction.
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