20/05/2026
🇨🇲May 20: NATIONAL UNITY IN THE MIRROR OF OUR TRUTHS.
Beyond the parade, listen to the distress of a people out of breath.
This year, the National Unity Day cannot be satisfied with ceremonial faces and agreed speeches. It must be the moment of a lucid diagnosis of the state of our nation and, above all, of the psychological state of its children.
For too many years, our brothers and sisters in the Northwest and Southwest regions have been going through a deep crisis that is bruising our social fabric. Unity is not decreed, it is lived and felt. It is time to recognise that the pain of some is the pain of all.
It is not just a distant conflict or a political statistic; it is an open wound that bleeds in every Cameroonian home. Years of tension, mourning, forced displacement and economic insecurity have worn out the bodies. Chronic fear, anxiety for loved ones and the spectacle of violence have installed a silent but devastating trauma. The Cameroonian people are psychologically exhausted from having to pretend that "everything is fine" while the anxiety of the next day has become everyday life.
How to celebrate unity when the mind is overwhelmed by grief, mutual distrust and the feeling of a never-ending night?
One thing is clear WE ARE EXHAUSTED!
This exhaustion is reinforced by our own invisible barriers. The persistent complex of the Francophone community with regard to the English language and Anglo-Saxon cultures is no longer just an academic brake, it is a dividing wall, but bilingualism is not an option, it is our strength. Diversity is not a threat, it is our wealth.
It's time to overcome blockages and apprehensions. Opening up to the culture of the other, learning one's language: it means taking a step towards authentic and real national integration.
Cameroun will not rebuild itself with slogans, but by bandaging its sick minds and broken hearts by our actions.
• May this May 20 be our ultimate starting point to our second nature ❤️.
Happy Unity Day to all the Cameroonian 🤝🏾🇨🇲