In setting such rules, I think the ancestors of Ewondos and the Bulu nations were genius in proactive problem solving. And since most Ewondo girls are physically stronger than their males or eventual husbands, the act of their husbands to beat them, was and is still today meant to ascertain the natural masculine authority at home. The beaten woman must cry out loud and strip herself naked in the public and neighbours will race to cover her nakedness and beg her husband to take her back. He will be proud and happy because, in most cases, it is the Ewondo girls who beat up their husbands. Hence, when an Ewondo male is lucky to fall in love with a weak female, and he succeeds to beat her up, he will throw a party to fete his victory. The Ewondo woman is always happy to be married to real males, in all senses of interpretations. And that culture is still going on today in the Centre, South and part of the East provinces of French-speaking Cameroon.
The White men and their Christianity have tried to stop the ancestral traditions of the Ewondos, but they have failed. Another thing with the Ewondos is that, since they are intelligent and love the White men and their ways of life, they are today one of the best crops of civil servants in French-speaking Cameroon. Third: Risdoh, unlike many other girls, she was well educated and had parents who could send her to school and at any level, provided she wanted to study. Risdoh began her nursery education at a Nursery school located in the neighbourhood of Nlongkak in Yaoundé and she was a promising star. And her mother, Mrs Noako, who was a civil servant in strict respect of Ewondo tradition, wanted her daughter to become another Mrs Tsanga Delphine. Who was Tsanga Delphine? She was a female minister and a currently a novelist, who served as minister under the government of Ahmadou Ahidjo for close to 10 years and briefly under the government of Paul Biya.
Mrs Tsanga Delphine was born in the village of Lomie, French-speaking Cameroon in 1935 and attended the College Modern of Douala, until 1955 and afterwards, left for Toulouse in France, where she attended a medical school. Mrs Tsanga was of Ewondo nationality, hence all Ewondo women who had little girls, wanted their daughters to become like the minister who was the long serving female minister in Ahidjo’s government. In fact, the Mrs Tsanga was not only a beacon or role model to the Ewondos and their greater nation, the Betis nation; she was a role model to all women from French-speaking to English-speaking Cameroons. And Cameroonian mothers knew that, the only way for daughters to realise what Mrs Tsanga had done in a predominantly masculine society that Cameroon is, was through education. Risdoh’s mother encouraged her to study and she finished her nursery education in brilliant fashion and began her primary education and graduated with a scholarship to attend the prestigious Lycee du General Leclerc in Yaoundé. Who was General Leclerc?
He was one of the only real Gaullist soldier. He was born on the 22nd of November 1902 in Belloy-Saint Léonard, Somme region, France and died on the 28th of November 1947 in Colomb-Bechar, Algeria. His real names are Philippe Francois Marie count de Hauteclocque, but he decided to change his name in order to adopt his nom de guerre: Jacques-Philippe Leclerc. In France, he is popularly known as Marshal Leclerc, a posthumous rank, he was bestowed in 1952. Late General Leclerc is the only French military General venerated in French-speaking Cameroon. Furthermore, he seems to be the only French man that, French-speaking Cameroonians seem to admire. He has several edifices in French-speaking Cameroon named after him and he even has a statue in front of the Douala Central Post Office erected in his honour.
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