Born in Bafang, Cameroon on March 20, 1962. An economist by training, he directs the Institute of Geostrategic Studies in Douala, Cameroon, Geneva, Switzerland, and Tianjin, China. He teaches African Geostrategy at the Higher Institute of Management ISMA in Douala, Cameroon.
“History” published by the Institute of Geostrategic Studies.
History is defined as the narrative of events relating to particular peoples or to humanity in general. Rather, history should be defined as the narrative of conflicts between individuals or between peoples in general. All conflicts arise from the fact that the warring parties do not attribute the same explanation or definition to the same events. They arise to bring out one point of view or interest over another or several others.
Why can humans have multiple points of view on the same fact? Because each person's interpretation of events is intimately linked to their interests at stake. This is why the victim cannot have the same interpretation of history as their tormentor. For a long time, African history was told by Europeans, faithful not to the version of the victims, but to that of their tormentors.
This book attempts to give ninth-grade children the ability to read history based on their own interests in their environment. It is therefore appropriate to answer the following question: What history of Africa should we teach our children, when we know that African interests are incompatible with European interests, and that our relations have always been and will continue to be conflictual?
It is impossible for Africans to see the same history as Europeans. It is therefore difficult for us to designate the violence of the deportations of millions of Africans by Europeans to America, with the same words, the same adjectives or the same nouns like "THE SLAVE TRADE". This is why words like: "NEGRE, NEGROIDE, NEGRIER, NEGROPHOBES, BLACK" etc. have been reduced to the bare minimum in this book. These words do not exist in any African language, and have been used as a humiliation and subjugation of Africans. The history of colonization told by Europeans tries to bring out all the positive elements of the events, but seen from the victim's side, one cannot do good to someone in spite of them and especially by destroying their own culture and reducing them to captivity.
The objective of this book is not only to teach history to the children of Cameroon, but to use the centrality of history to transmit to them, through Critical Thinking, Complex Thinking and Global Thinking, the necessary instruments to take charge of the destiny of all of Cameroon in particular and of the African continent in general.
Finally, a history book where the course of the hunt is not told by Jean-Paul Pougala's hunters.
A small aside that should reassure the author, in 1967, the French singer Chantal Goya achieved enormous success with this song entitled "This morning, a rabbit killed a hunter".