🇨🇲 When Injustice Becomes the Law, Resistance Becomes a Duty.
Hi guys, accept steem greetings from Cameroon, a nation blessed with diversity of languages, cultures, faiths, and dreams interwoven like the threads of our flag. Yet beneath this beauty lies a truth we can no longer ignore because too often, injustice has become part of our daily reality. From the farmer who loses his land without compensation, to the young graduate job-hunting for years, to the citizen silenced for speaking the truth to the system, which is meant to protect us, sometimes becomes the very force that oppresses us.
When injustice becomes the law, when corruption replaces accountability, when power speaks louder than the people, resistance becomes a duty. Not resistance through violence or destruction, but through conscience, courage, and collective awakening.
Our history reminds us that silence has never brought freedom. From the days of colonial rule to the struggles for independence, Cameroonians have always risen when dignity was denied. The names of those who stood firm from activists and journalists to teachers and students echo through time as proof that courage is part of our national DNA.
However, resistance today takes different forms; it can be a teacher refusing to demand bribes from students, a police officer choosing integrity over extortion, a journalist daring to report the truth, or a youth using art, poetry, or digital platforms to call for transparency and justice. It’s in the small, brave acts that reclaim our humanity.
To resist injustice in Cameroon is not to hate our country, it’s to love it enough to demand better. True patriotism is not blind loyalty, it’s holding our nation to its highest ideals: peace, work, and fatherland not just as words in a motto, but as lived realities.
We must resist the normalisation of inequality. We must question why public funds never reach the public good. We must challenge why speaking truth is treated like rebellion, and why demanding justice is labelled defiance. Our silence cannot build the future we dream of.
Resistance begins with awareness, grows through solidarity, and triumphs through persistence. Every voice matters the market woman, the motorbike rider, the civil servant, the artist, the student, the diaspora Cameroonian. Together, our collective courage can turn resignation into reform.
Because when the law fails to protect the people, the people must protect justice. And when fear becomes the language of power, unity must become the voice of the people. Cameroon’s future is not written by those who rule, it is written by those who refuse to give up on what is right.
It's been over 40 years of bad governance, corruption, embezzlement, tribalism prevails over competence and the people’s voice does not matter, and the people are tired of the injustice and are demanding change.
NB: All images from my WhatsApp work group Monitoring and observing electoral violence in Cameroon.
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Saludos Amiga,
Todas tus palabras me llenan de emoción, trae a mi corazón sentimientos encontrados, ya que en nuestro país se viven situaciones similares con la diferencia que nuestro pueblo está oprimido y aún tiene miedo de salir a defender sus derechos.
Estan viviendo una situación muy tensa, espero puedas encontrar y guardar provisiones para su familia.
Dios los cuide, que se mantengan sanos y salvos, usted, su familia y todos los inocentes.
Bendiciones!!
Gracias por el Apoyo,
Que te encuentres muy bien!!
This kind of acts can make us very disappointing to the Country. We are the same situation Ma'am @chant. Journalist shared some untruthful news instead sharing those reliable one, some of the police are protecting big syndicates, drug lords and drug users and most of all the big issue about corruption.
Keeping silence cannot be helpful and cannot achieve justice instead we must voice it out and express our feelings about the anomalies happend to our Country. For me, All I can say is the Law is for Poor people only, those rich people especially the politicians are untouchable even if they did something wrong. It makes us very sad.
Thank you very much Ma'am @wirngo. ☺
Upvoted! Thank you for supporting witness @jswit.
This is really a disappointment to the citizenry, how can this happen to a nation that needs that is talking about peace every day but yet there's no Peace
Why is Election becoming a method to discriminate people from exercising franchise,Ma'am I really feel your pains,I think it only God that will judge those that are behind this.
Sorry for this
This is painful,the law supposed to guide us but now everywhere is injustice, it's only when a case is personal you quickly see judgement, imagine what is going on in a nation.
May God show love and have mercy to his people.