Cameroon: Fruitless Secessionist Attempts Worldwide

All continents in the world have witnessed secessionist movements that have had no future.

At the time the secessionists in the English-speaking North West and South West Regions of Cameroon is multiplying attempts to separate from the rest of the country, world history stubbornly indicates that such attempts in many countries across the continents of the world have yielded no fruits. The attempt to divide Cameroon comes at the time when countries are grouping themselves into subregional and regional blocks in order to face the growing world socio-economic and security challenges. Statistics indicate that some 40 countries in the world have lived secessionist moments without the countries finally breaking up. The separation drive from history has touched all nowconsidered great countries. The history of the United States of America reveals that since its foundation, eight secessionist movements have come up in different parts of the country seeking for independence. Canada, America's northern neighbour that has the English -speaking and French-speaking parts, has also been living the secessionist tendencies in Quebec. The will by the population to forge ahead in the one country Canada, was manifested in the 1995 referendum on the sovereignty of Quebec. Indeed, the separatist party in Quebec got trounced in the process. The African continent is rife with the history of separatist and secessionist tendencies attempts, indicating that living together ultimately thrives. A glaring example is the Biafra region in the neighbouring Federal Republic of Nigeria.

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