Calixthe Beyala opposes deployment of American troops to Cameroon

The writer through her Facebook account posted her disagreement with the deployment of American soldiers to Cameroon to help fight against Boko Haram.

On the day the deployment was announced, she titled her post: "CAMEROON: CHRONICLE OF AN ANNOUNCED recolonization THROUGH AMERICAN MILITARY PRESENCE".

The Franco-Cameroonian novelist protested against the decision of the authorities of her country of origin, to accept the announced deployment of 300 US military in northern Cameroon. "We talked about it, it's done. Cameroon has just come back into the colonial era, with the presence of foreign military in Garoua. Um Nyobé and fathers of independence must be turning in their graves. They left us a great country, a country standing tall ... And I was proud to be a child of independence; and I was proud that I did not experience colonization thanks to the sacrifice of these men ... "

She continued: "Now I wake up with a hangover. Yes, I went to bed and I woke up colonized in freedom and probably soon enslavement. I will leave my descendants a colonized country, big shame! I will leave to future generations the indignity which had spared me. I'll leave a land where American soldiers will hurt and kill people everywhere, as their habit, to violate and burn as usual! I will leave descendants a country where drones will fall to kill innocent victims in schools, hospitals and houses and they will explain that they are merely collateral damage!".

To conclude, a bruised and shocked Calixthe Beyala added: "I will leave future generations a world where foreign soldiers bombard, commit barbaric acts to be blamed on terrorists, I will leave my descendants a world where they will be enslaved with the blessing of lost African men, and whiners who believe that God will free them! I will go away with a heavy heart and with sadness. "