Tuesday, August 21, 2007

Introducing: A White Man or nothing.

Originally, I wanted to name this new blog of mine : A White Man or nothing. But it appears blogger doesn't accept the characters I wanted to use. This is not a stunt to annoy sensitive souls. Well the motto that I have chosen won't help matters, I know. But, I will make it known all the same. The motto of this blog is: The truth , bluntly exposed. Even though I enjoy provoking,presently , I was not.I simply wanted to give this new blog her afore mentioned name because, names have great significance and hence, I tend to be meticulous when it comes to naming ceremonies. This blog will be light but not frivolous, that is, as far as the topics to be handled there in will be concerned. More, this blog will reveal a part of me not known .. But why did I desire to give this my new medium of communications such a name mentioned above?

It is because, this blog will focus on a true story that, I have decided to serialize here on. The story is about the obsession of a French-speaking Cameroonian girl to get married to a White man. It is also about political corruption and the abuse of power. But getting married to a White Western European or North American, is a dream I formerly thought was the panacea of African girls, and in some occasions, with the tacit support of their parents. But in the course of my job, I have traveled the length and breadth of the world: developed as well as developing or refusing to developed regions. Strangely, I have come to discover with shock, I must confess that, the dreams of most French-speaking Cameroonians girls with their African sisters : black or white and as I said earlier and I must insist, that, in some occasions, with the support of their parents, is to get married to a White Westerner, that dream, is a dream or desire, also shared by most parents and their daughters in most third world countries around the globe. Why? Read the unfolding story to get your answer. But I will conclude this new post by adding that, traveling is truly learning. I have learned and discovered many things in the course of my traveling.