The ravaging COVID-19 pandemic, whenever it will be eradicated, would have given a quite different perception of some contemporary realities. It is commonly said that if one were to see dead approaching, even the old and handicapped will take to their heels.
It is interesting to notice that while Corona is decimating people at a very alarming rate, people find it so difficult to implement simple gestures that could save their lives.
Washing hands frequently, keeping social distance, covering mouth while coughing or sneezing are simple costless gestures that are fast becoming “forced labour” for some individuals who paradoxically love to stay alive.
Neglecting all calls for a peaceful approach to the crisis in Anglophone Cameroon, Yaoundé tended to justify its ferocious resort to arms by the fact that separatists were depriving citizens of the inalienable right of going to school.
Persons including parents, teachers and students have been subjected to the cruelest of treatments because school was boycotted. Arguments pointing out security concerns as deterring factors against school return have at no moment been given favorable hearing.
People have to go to school at all cost, appears to be the anthem. Nothing should stop children from going to school, we have religiously been told. It had almost become gospel truth until mister whatsoever was born in Wuhan China.
Without any hesitation or “glissement”, all schools from kindergartners, through nursery, primary to graduate and post graduate; lay private, confessional and public alike are closed down.
How did this inalienable status just evaporate in the twinkle of an eye? The first and foremost answer is that it existed only in the egos of our reigning tyrants. Before human life there is no inalienability. You can’t unleash genocide on a people on the pretext of defending inalienable education. It isn’t logical at all!
How we came about this U-turn on education super importance is in itself explained by the other headache of a preoccupation, our integrity. It will appear our masters made us see that since they themselves called off schools, Copying is at times a method of learning, but copying partially or wrongly is dangerous!
After closing schools and other activities let’s proceed with more positive and thorough actions.
Let’s copy completely!