Godfrey Tangwa AKA "Rotcod Gobata": AN OPEN LETTER TO MR. KOFI ANNAN

Tangwa at a glance

Acting Credits

Conception & Design

Jimbi Media Sites

AFRICAphonie
AFRICAphonie is a Pan African Association which operates on the premise that AFRICA can only be what AFRICANS and their friends want AFRICA to be.
Bakwerirama
Spotlight on Bakweri Society and Culture. The Bakweri are an indigenous African nation.
Bate Besong
Bate Besong, award-winning firebrand poet and playwright.
Bernard Fonlon
Dr Bernard Fonlon was an extraordinary figure who left a large footprint in Cameroonian intellectual, social and political life.
Fonlon-Nichols Award
Website of the Literary Award established to honor the memory of BERNARD FONLON, the great Cameroonian teacher, writer, poet, and philosopher, who passionately defended human rights in an often oppressive political atmosphere.
France Watcher
Purpose of this advocacy site: To aggregate all available information about French terror, exploitation and manipulation of Africa
George Ngwane: Public Intellectual
George Ngwane is a prominent author, activist and intellectual.
Jacob Nguni
Virtuoso guitarist, writer and humorist. Former lead guitarist of Rocafil, led by Prince Nico Mbarga.
Martin Jumbam
The refreshingly, unique, incisive and generally hilarous writings about the foibles of African society and politics by former Cameroon Life Magazine columnist Martin Jumbam.
Nowa Omoigui
Professor of Medicine and interventional cardiologist, Nowa Omoigui is also one of the foremost experts and scholars on the history of the Nigerian Military and the Nigerian Civil War. This site contains many of his writings and comments on military subjects and history.
PostNewsLine
PostNewsLine is an interactive feature of 'The Post', an important newspaper published out of Buea, Cameroons.
Postwatch Magazine
A UMI (United Media Incorporated) publication. Specializing in well researched investigative reports, it focuses on the Cameroonian scene, particular issues of interest to the former British Southern Cameroons.
Simon Mol
Cameroonian poet, writer, journalist and Human Rights activist living in Warsaw, Poland
Victor Mbarika ICT Weblog
Victor Wacham Agwe Mbarika is one of Africa's foremost experts on Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs). Dr. Mbarika's research interests are in the areas of information infrastructure diffusion in developing countries and multimedia learning.
Tunduzi
A West African in Arusha at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda on the angst, contradictions and rewards of that process.
Dr Godfrey Tangwa (Gobata)
Francis Nyamnjoh
Prolific writer, social and political commentator, he was a professor at University of Buea and University of Botswana. Currently he is Head of Publications and Dissemination at CODESRIA in Dakar, Senegal. His writings are socially relevant and engaging even to the non specialist.
Ilongo Sphere: Writer and Poet

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AN OPEN LETTER TO MR. KOFI ANNAN

(THE POST, No. 0172, May 12, 2000)

Welcome to Kamerun, but don’t tell us no problem exists

Welcome to Kamerun, Africa in miniature, as we love to call it! (I am using the German version of the name of this our rough triangle quite purposely, for the obvious reason that it brings to mind the historical explanation why such strange bed-fellows as Anglophones and Francophones ever thought they could join together and build a single united modern nation. This German name of our country also helps to cover, the way banana leaves may cover a mess, so that the eyes would see only the termites, the very embarrassing fact that the name ‘la Republique du Cameroun/the Republic of Cameroon’, as it is today, signifies either a unilateral act of secession from the bilateral experimental union just alluded to, or an act of annexation and assimilation of one partner by the other. As Secretary General of the United Nations, you are surely familiar with all this, aren’t you?).