Its no doubt, Cameroon as a country is plaged with many challenges, from ineffective governance, to curruption, etc And its understandable that the idea of seperating from Cameroon would sound appealing to those who are tired of all the suffering and bottlenecks to progress that Cameroon offers, but could it also be utopia?
One thing, Separatists forget is that, If Independence happens right now, they will be inheriting Cameroonian Institutions, which if can at all be changed will be a very slow process. hence even if independence came, "Ambazonians" would still suffer for some years under ineffective, corrupt and incompetent hands.
Secondly, even if "Ambazonia" gained independence today, It would not have enough financial resources to handle the country. Cant rely on oil, It does not have investment to exploit it, and even if we did, it wont feed the whole country. Government poverty will make things even harder for the people for minimum 10 years and that is if the first government is strong and capable enough
But instead, if the war is put on hold, and all these energy is put towards reforming Cameroon, and making the English Speaking zones more economically powerful, we can guarantee 2 things, that in the future if at all we need independence, we will be going away with good institutions, and a stable economy to begin with.
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