MK’s THOUGHTS N° 006 to 20
MK’s THOUGHTS N° 006-2024.
Political involvement is not the cause of our misfortunes; it’s our lack of interest in politics, in everything to do with the management of the city that is driving us into the grave. Political involvement by citizens causes infinitely fewer deaths than the diseases of extreme poverty, strokes caused by lack of employment and chronic unemployment, negligence in hospitals, road accidents due to the bad state of the roads and negligence while driving etc.This is what change must remedy.
MK’s THOUGHTS N° 007-2024.
The option of “peaceful change through the ballot box” is a strategic choice that runs counter to the plans of a regime that is only comfortable with violence. That’s why the latter invents insurrection, rebellion, revolution, hostility against the homeland to brutalise, torture and even kill peaceful citizens. But peaceful change through the ballot box is inevitable if we want it together.
MK’s THOUGHTS N° 008-2024.
I was in an accident, a passer-by helped me; I don’t know his/her tribe. I was dying, a health specialist saved my life; I don’t know his/her ethnicity. Think about it: are those who have done you good in life always from your family, your tribe or your ethnic group? Are all those who have harmed you unrelated to your family, tribe or ethnic group? Tribalism is a sham that destroys our mental faculties, blinding us; it’s a lie of Emotion to Reason. We must fight it relentlessly.
MK’s THOUGHTS N° 009-2024.
Tribalism is a nation’s cancer. The family unit is the first place where we must teach our children not to contract this deadly disease. The State must fight it with the same determination as it would any existential threat. Society must agree to regard it as a collectively rejected counter-value.
MK’s THOUGHTS N° 010-2024
Young Cameroonians are naturally gifted in all areas. Training young people in Cameroon who have no complexes about finding the conditions for their full development in their own country is an imperative and a challenge that we want to succeed in with the help of parents, every segment of society and the cooperation of the young people themselves. They must dream big for themselves, their country and Africa.
MK’s THOUGHTS N° 011-2024
I propose that tomorrow we organize a general assembly on land ownership in our country, with the direct and effective participation of the Customary Authorities who are the guardians of our traditions and ancestral lands, in order to adopt legislation that better reflects the country’s socio-cultural realities, protects communities and individuals, and offers security in land transactions. This is an essential condition for accelerating our country’s development, particularly in the agricultural sector
MK’s THOUGHTS N° 012-2024
Corruption and misappropriation of public assets are like monstrous beasts that devour their own children. They must be fought without respite or qualms.
MK’s THOUGHTS N° 013-2024.
The Cameroonian school of tomorrow will cultivate the spirit of questioning (why?), the spirit of curiosity (how?), cardinal moral values and patriotism in young people from an early age, so that they become high-level scientists, talented inventors and civic-minded citizens in love with their country.
MK’s THOUGHTS N° 014-2024.
Our country must work to create and promote a national language from Cameroonian languages. We could start by drawing up a grammar, the lexical part of which could be made up of as many words as possible drawn from different languages and considered as synonyms when they designate the same thing. It’s up to the specialists to work on this, bearing in mind that they also have at their disposal the Shiimum invented by Sultan Njoya in the 19th century.
MK’s THOUGHTS N° 015-2024.
The celebration of a country’s national day is the commemoration of a crucial, even founding event for that nation, around which we want to maintain a common memory. It is a time for exalting unity through patriotic fervour, a time for a truce in political disputes to magnify shared memories and a common faith in the future. It is an empty shell if the shared memory is blurred by an armed conflict that alienates part of the nation from the sense of belonging together, or if sections of the citizenry are excluded for puerile political reasons. Cameroon’s National Day is called the Unity Day; it cannot be a Division Day.
MK’s THOUGHTS N° 016-2024.
The education of young people is the seed that a wise nation sows and waters regularly to guarantee the future. This is why educators and teachers at all levels must be treated with care, consideration and respect, so that they give learners the best fruits of the garden of knowledge.
MK’s THOUGHTS N° 017-2024.
Nature creates brothers and sisters by blood ties. The Republic makes us brothers and sisters by our free choice to live together within it. Love in the republican fraternity is the blood that irrigates a Nation.
MK’s THOUGHTS N° 018-2024.
Everything we admire elsewhere is the work of men and women who were determined to leave their mark on history. If we are driven by this spirit, we will leave something great and beautiful to our country, Africa and future generations. Each of us can achieve this, whatever our level. The first condition is to have such an ambition within ourselves.
MK’s THOUGHTS N° 019-2024.
The culture of a Nation cannot be considered as an element of decoration, folklore or entertainment alone. It is both the sap that feeds the tree and the fruit which is the expression of its fertility and its wealth. Our ambition is to work for the emergence of a Cameroonian cultural identity, a stone for a rehabilitated and renovated African cultural identity, to organize and finance teaching and artistic and cultural expression, to promote the appropriation of arts and culture to make them a tool for reconstructing our collective imagination, a vector of influence, growth and development.
MK’s THOUGHTS N° 020-2024.
A nation is built on a cultural foundation of values shared by its people. Some Nations have promoted values such as freedom, equality, fraternity, and so-called liberal democracy based on electoral arithmetic. I contend that the cardinal value for a human being, and more so for Africans and African Nations, is Dignity. Patrice LUMUMBA deserves the credit for having felt and expressed it with the strength of conviction that cost him his life. What use are freedom and democracy to human beings who can be scorned, trampled on, crushed, and shot like dogs by the first policeman that comes along, or considered as subhuman or assimilated to animals by beings who believe themselves to be superior? The happiness and greatness of a human being lies in his/her Dignity before in his/her freedom. Dignity deserves to be part of our motto one day.