The Profile of the Main Opposition Candidate Is Issa Tchiroma Bakary a Distractor or a Liberator? By The Afrisocrat Political Desk | 2025 Presidential Election Special Early Life & Education Born on 10 September 1949 in Garoua, northern Cameroon, Issa Tchiroma Bakary grew up in a respected family where his father served as an advisor to the Lamido. This upbringing instilled in him deep values of responsibility, discipline, and service to the community. After early schooling in Douala, he pursued technical training in transport and materials engineering before traveling to Paris. At the University of Paris (Jussieu), he prepared for a PhD in mathematics before redirecting his focus to mechanical engineering at ISMCM, graduating as a railway engineer. Returning home, he worked at Regifercam in Douala, embodying the discipline and pragmatism of a technocrat committed to service. Imprisonment & Political Rise In...
CAMEROON IS NOT A COUNTRY, IT IS A BUSINESS — AND THE PEOPLE ARE THE PREY In Cameroon today, the people are not treated as citizens — they are treated as prey. And the predator has a name: Paul Biya. For more than 42 years, Biya has ruled not as a servant of the people, but as the business owner of a colonial company called Cameroon. Every sector of national life — from oil and timber to education and elections — is treated not as a public trust, but as private property to be exploited for profit. The Colonial Blueprint Cameroon was never designed as a true nation. It was carved up, sold, and traded by colonial masters who saw not a people, but a marketplace. After independence was declared, colonial powers imposed presidents who would act as managers of their business interests. The constitution, the army, the parliament, the judiciary — none of these institutions were built to serve Cameroonians. They were built to protect the business structure, ensuring that wealth and ...