Time for Cameroon's Biya to Step Down?

From the outside, Paul Biya's long rule might represent welcome stability in an unstable region, but Cameroon's political consistency has been illusorily and illegitimately constructed on corruption and nepotism to the benefit of the Biya clan and its allies at the expense of the Cameroonian people, writes Atabong Tamo from ThinkAfricaPress.

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President Paul Biya addresses the United Nations.



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  • cliftan77
    Nov 26 2012, 18:31
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    I solemnly disagree that BIYA has to go. The author's view is a wide vision all cameroonians share which I personally think is very narrow. I want to draw the author's attention to two fundamental issues. Cameroon was and is still a main producer of comodity goods but consumes finished produce made from developed countries, you might have all the raw materials you need but as long as the industries to transform these products aren't there you cannot grow. Secondly cameroon has been under french influence since 1916 whose main purpose was to keep us under the chain line as comodity producers alimenting their industries. Since 2006 when China moved heavily into cameroon and is consuming this same comodities but on the other is financing energy and transport infrastructure, the economy is now growing again and I bet in the next decade jobs will be created, brain drain and immgration will reduce and cameroon will finally emerge as an industralized nation with or without Biya.