PAUL BIYA OF CAMEROON: Three-plus Decades of Misrule Under an Anachronistic System

Paul Biya, the octogenarian second president of Cameroon has been power for thirty three years, making him Africa's and the world's fourth longest serving head of state. He is the caretaker of a fifty-five year old system put in place by France before it allowed Cameroon to become a member of the United Nations Organization on January 01, 1960.

The French-backed political mafia that Paul Biya is presiding over has created the most efficient election-rigging machinery in the world and the most undemocratic pluralistic country on earth with close to three hundred political parties, ninety nine plus percent of which are appendages of the system. The system created these pseudo-parties with the purpose of validating his electoral charades that are always backed by the foreign powers whose interest he is serving.

In this pseudo-democracy where less than 10% of the voting population get to participate in elections, where Paul Biya does not even bother to campaign, and where political lethargy and political apathy runs high, a culture of deception is mushrooming that would soon snuff out what is left of the progressive Cameroonian values that made the country prominent in the last century.