George Ngwane

Creative industries, Cultural entrepreneurship and Political statehood

(An Invitation to Anglophone Cameroon Diasporans)

By Mwalimu George Ngwane

Kwame Nkrumah’s battle-cry of “Seek ye first the political kingdom……..” is as relevant today as it was when he made this proclamation fifty years ago. But so are Mao Tse-tung’s Cultural Revolution movement and Emperor Meiji Tenno’s (Mutsuhito) endogenous industrialisation principle that drastically transformed the political statehoods of China and Japan respectively into the superpowers that they are today.

Because we were involved (Reflections on the 1993 All Anglophone Conference)

April: 2-3 1993, anyone who is someone in the Anglophone community in Cameron trudged to the Mount Mary Hospital – Buea for a constitutional therapy.

Since the Foumban talks of July 1961, Cameroonians of English expression had not had an opportunity to discuss what political pundits call ‘’the unfinished business’’ of the Anglophone – Francophone relationship in Cameroon. So when President Paul BIYA rejected the Sovereign National Conference and opted for a Tripartite meeting of representatives of Government, political parties and Independent personalities from 30 October -18 November 1991, to examine two draft documents – one, laying down conditions for the election of members of the National Assembly and the other, a draft decree governing the access of political parties to the public media - the need to widen the terms of reference was felt and expressed as soon as the meeting went into session.