How Biya's Rapacity Became A Call

From 2009 to 2005, five volumes of motions of support from the Biya clique in Cameroon has been published by a publishing house in the country. The work, without any hint of irony or malice, is titled, Paul Biya: The People's Call. The premise of the work is that these motions of support are a testament that the people of Cameroon are begging Biya to be their leader for ever. Apart from the sheer stupidity of the premise itself, anyone familiar with the nature of motions of support in Cameroon would know that they are a hoax orchastrated by those who are in the employ of the Biya regime. The fact of the matter is that Biya has imposed himself on the people for thirty years. The last time I checked, only dictators and kings or queens have been in power for the length of time Biya has expended. The very fact that Biya has been in power for that long is a clear demonstration that he has not been called by the people. In order to make his imposition of himself on the Cameroonian people seem justified, he has hired pseudo-intellectuals who have taken upon themselves the responsibility of concocting books which they cannot write on their own. The only benefit of this hollow work is that when our children read it in the future, it will remind them of a time when our own intellectuals were so complicit in our humiliation that they made up things to justify their complicity. In the future, these volumes will remind us of a time when we lived in Biya's rapacious autocracy. They should be preserved as evidence against those who connived with Biya in this rapacity. We shall remember them when the time comes.