It's a common thing for a francophone to say that "tu pas au village?" when he or she hears that one is going to Bamenda for holidays. This may be because many anglophones usually say that they come from Bamenda even when they are from Nwa. Far from that, very few francophones who have never been to Bamenda sometimes underestimated the greatness of this capital city of the North West Region, Cameroon.
If you ask me to make a demographic and beauty classification of the ten regions of Cameroon, Bamenda will be third behind Douala and Yaoundé.
In terms of political will, courage and strength, I'll place Bamenda on the second spot. Mr Biya once said that Bamenda is his second home. Other politicians know the impact of Bamenda thanks to the emergence of the strongest political opposition party( Ni John Fru Ndi's SDF Party in the early 1990s) to the now 34 years old Biya's lion seizure of the political terrain of Cameroon.
Local artists such as Petit Pays and Longue Longue cannot record an album without mentioning Bamenda. In responds to the corrupt nature of the country, Longue Longue in one of his song lyrics wrote that Bamenda make wuna no leave me, because if wuna leave me white man go kill me. The late music icon Kotto Bass sang Yes Bamenda because he believed in the strength of the sons and daughters of the city.
For God's sake Bamenda has a City Council not a Municipal Council.
Dear francophone brothers and sisters, be wise.
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