Thoughs of Maurice kamto
MK’s THOUGHTS N° 071-2025. The defence and security forces are an integral part of the People. They cannot set themselves up as the People’s enemy when the People demand, and demand peacefully, respect for the law and for the rights enshrined in the legal order of the Republic. Defending the institutions does not mean defending…
MK’s THOUGHTS N° 063-2025 There are thirty million “geniuses” here, thirty million oversized egos. In the final analysis, it is a misfortune to have only a nation of learned people, of those who “know” everything about everything. Such a people has a head full of delusions and a body mired in the stains of indignity….
MK’s THOUGHTS N° 061-2025 To destroy a nation, you attack it at its roots, stump it up, destroy its historical and intellectual landmarks. The tools used are the denial of indisputable historical facts, the revisionism of historical tragedies and the extinction of emblematic figures who light the way. To survive such attacks, the nation must…
MK’s THOUGHTS N° 041-2024. Without forgetting them in the slightest, we must stop lamenting our historical misfortunes and work to ensure that they never happen again. It is only through power that we can demand apologies and even reparations from the perpetrators. States have no moral conscience. When they feign contrition, it is because their…
MK’s THOUGHTS N° 021-2024. Our cultural renaissance will lay the foundations for our renaissance in all other areas. At the heart of this cultural renaissance lies the spiritual renaissance; it is only possible if it is uninhibited, self-confident, and not conceived as a new religious imperialism. It is a rehabilitated African spirituality, claiming no monopoly…
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…
MK’S THOUGHTS. A proverb says: “Just because someone calls you a pig doesn’t mean you have to run and lie in a pigsty”. This is exactly what we do when we accept dictatorship as inevitable. We have the power to say NO to dictatorship with our ballot paper. MK’s THOUGHTS N° 002-2024 Change for a…