I Wouldn’t Hesitate to Accept an Ambazonian Nationality – Patrice Nganang
Stony Brook University Professor and prize-winning novelist Patrice Nganang has expressed his readiness to accept an Ambazonian Nationality, if given the opportunity. He made this known through his reaction to a comment made by an Ambazonian, on the Facebook Platform of Mark Bareta, CEO of BaretaNews.
BaretaNews, had reported the hasty released of the New York-based CameroUnian novelist from Mr. Biya’s gulag; followed by the confiscation of his La Repulique passport and indefinite expulsion from the country. While reacting to the news story, an Ambazonian made the following:
“We can give him an Ambazonian nationality if he wants. Ambazonia is a land of freedoms.”
Replying to the above comment, after arriving his base in New York, Patrice Nganang, noted that:
“I will happily take it. Thank you for what you all did! Many thanks and may God bless the fight. Always know that I am with you and on your left. I am writing this from my home in NY – as a free man, awaiting that passport, thus. Many thanks, again.”
Worthy of note is that, the literature guru had been arrested on December 7 as he tried to board a flight to Kenya, at LRC’s economic Capital of Douala. He was accused of insulting and threatening the life of the colonial President, Paul Biya, on Facebook. However, it is generally believed by the public that he was being witch hunted for scripting a reprimand in the Paris-based magazine, Jeune Afrique, on Biya’s mismanagement of the Ambazonian Revolution, through the use of excessive force.
Nganang, was recently discharged from the Yaoundé Court of First Instance, and freed from the Kondengue Central Prison. This was after purported pressure from the Trump administration, through the US Embassy in Yaoundé.
James Agbor, BaretaNews Political Analyst.
8 comments
Patrice Nganang has been living in the US for years. He knows well the concept of true democracy. Our heroes in Kondengui took him as a brother. So let him welcome as an Ambazonian honours.
We feel sorry fir hus hardship, absolutely, NO Ambazonian citizenship fir a foreigner. No Ambazonian nationality for him and that is non negotiable. Just because a Bamileke or bassa reader commented none sense on BN does not mean that comment represented us. We sheltered his country prople in the 50s and 60s and they stabbed us in the back. Nganang is a camerounese and he should live with and accept that fact and fight for his country Cameroun. Tell him to forget about Ambazonia or our nationality and that we don’t need him or other Camerounese like him. This is the comment that counts. Not the one he read. This is not a free for all. Again, sorry for his pain and he should work it it with Cameroun.
Some of you people must not be naive trying to give him SCs status and feeling sorry for him, this is the type of attitude where SCs people find lrc trampling over them, what has Patrice contributed to this struggle? if he was not fortunate to be in US he would be like all the other francophones who are happy for the killings of so called dogs as they say,again out hero mancho and the others are lamenting in the same rotten jail longer than him, personally he is a francophone of the same bad blood of volonikz biya,if he was living in France he would not have written that article which landed him in jail,some SCs needs to toughen up! Patrice generous contribution to Ambagov is waited & welcome to show his solidarity
Brothers I don’t like that tribalism you promote. Anglophones are not better than francophones. To live for 56 years in submission doesn’t mean that we are better people. I don’t want to live in an Ambaland ethnical cleaned like Bosnia. This hate don’t make us better than the oppressor regime. Look to US America. People came from all over the world to form it. If you share the values and you obey the constitution you are free to live within. The same shall apply to Ambaland.
I like that my brother.
Absolutely true you most not be born within Ambaland.If we advocate for liberty then we should practice it.Multiculturalism is acceptable in Ambaland and i don’t thing Nganang it exempted.let move on brothers and sisters.
All of you talking that Ambaland for all crap must gave camerounese blood inside you somewhere down the line and that is making you anxious. No pure ethnic Ambazonian thinks like you and you constantly going on the defensive each time this topic comes up when we fight for our ancestral land has been noticed numerous time and shows that you are not comfortable with your foreign or half blood status. That is your problem.
I watched this space when nganang was arrested and there was no article about him here until he was released .
But Nganang said that during his questioning by the police all the questions put to him was about what he was doing in North west for two week that he was in cameroun , litte was ask about his insult to biya .
Meaning he was sympathetic to your struggle. he care so much that he left the US to come see for himself what was going on with you People .
But it is only when he said this ” I Wouldn’t Hesitate to Accept an Ambazonian Nationality – Patrice Nganang ” that you rote this article .
judjing by the comments above , it is sad to hear the “amba people ” talk – so seem so cruel even to someone who clearly almost paid the highest price for you ( he could have been killed there in prison )
In french that hate myself ,there is a saying that goes : “on ne sait jamais qui sont nos amis ”
meaning : ” IT is sometime suprising who are our freinds ”
It is a pity that you can go so low .
Shame on you .