February 6, 2022
CAN CAMEROUN 2021 ends today, February 6, 2022. The point now is not whether it was played by lizards, rats or cats. Not whether the best Kamer player is a one-eyed sheep or a mad cow! SAVE A MATTER OF TRYING TO LICK UP SPILT MILK! But, No! The task of today should be excogitating what lessons can be learnt.
Our own interest, on our part, for instance, is the performance of Cameroun now and in 1972; and how that can be translated into the real national public life. We think that what strikes most in the first place is how an event taking place in 2022 can logically be said to be of 2021.
AND THAT IS WHERE ALL THE FRAUD BEGINS!
One of the fruits of such dishonesty is that Cameroun has ended up retrograding. The bigoted, of course, are quick to say they are third in the overall classification.
AND SO WHAT? IS THAT ALL?
True it is that Cameroun was third in 1972. What preceded that, though, is that Cameroun lost at semi-final on the Ahmadou Ahidjo Stadium with a deficit of ONE GOAL ONLY. Much as Cameroun is third in 2022, the deficit at semi-final on the same Ahmadou Ahidjo Stadium is TWO GOALS.
RETROGRSSION, OF COURSE!
What, then, explains for all that? All points to this one fact that Ahmadou Ahidjo’s ghost does haunt Cameroun! HOW CAN IT BE OTHERWISE? Only a few days ago did the world learn that Ahmadou Ahidjo’s Stadium has been renamed MFANDENA Stadium! WHAT CALLOUS DESPARATION!!! Even Jesus did ask: “Where are the OTHER NINE”.
NEVER MIND! What is of crucial importance now is where all this leads to pragmatically. It goes without saying that CAN is a true reflection of the conduct of official business in Cameroun. To put it otherwise, the Camerounese value dose in the conduct of official business now is in the negative: up to MINUS TWO!
Consequently, the Camerounese citizens have grown envious. WHAT, FOR INSTANCE, ACCOUNTS FOR THE AVERSION FOR IVORY COAST? PURE ENVY! AND UNDERSTANDABLY! Cameroun was at par with the Ivory Coast in cocoa production at independence. While the Ivory Coast is above one million tons per annum today, Cameroun has been struggling over the years to get to two hundred and fifty thousand tons!
WHAT A CONTRAST! MORE THAN JUST STAGNATION!
NOW, AS AFCON HAS DEMOSTRATED, WIA OWN NA BACK BACK! FROM MINUS ONE HALF A CENTURY AGO (1972) TO MINUS TWO TODAY (2022)! MISPLACED PRIORITIES! LAZINESS! HOLLOW AND HYSTERICAL PATRIOTISM!
By Electa Shalo Manyimuchua