By Kanute Tangwa aka K(c)anute Tangwa

You are first and  foremost from an ethnocultural or ethnolinguistic sphere before being a Cameroonian/

A colonial construct, which you can’t wish away, Anglophone or Francophone before being a Cameroonian/

You are invariably TWO in one/

* A culturo-political duality: ONE country, TWO persons in ONE.

You are a Cameroonian because you are a true son or daughter of an ethnoculturo-linguistic sphere/

While appreciating and tolerating the Otherness of other Cameroonians/

You exhibit where you come from by espousing the culture, mores, tradition of your sphere/

Not the repugnant aspects of your culture/

Such as/
* Exclusion
* Discriminatory stigmatas like WE and THEM,OTHERS

While appreciating and tolerating the culture, tradition and mores of the Other/

Now that you are fully conscious of your micro identities (ethnoculturo-linguistic spheres and Anglo-Francophoness /

You can live and think Cameroonian through official bilingualism/

Through mastery of our histories and OUR HISTORY/

* Drawing from our histories and OUR HISTORY common collective republican values of living together.

Through intermarriage/

Through the institution of a national lingua franca/

For language can build, innovate, break barriers, build bridges and elevate/

For language can destroy, blow up bridges, build barriers/

For language is the vehicle of thought processes, social cohesion and motor of development.