Did Paul Biya Kill His Wife? Revelations Of A French Journalist
In 2011, the French journalist Fanny Pigeaud published "In Cameroon by Paul Biya" (Karthala ed.), A book against the regime against Paul Biya.
The book of the former correspondent of the AFP and the daily Libération had sparked a heated debate in the columns of the local and foreign press.
What is it really? What are the revelations and first-hand information revealed by this journalist? CameroonWeb offers an excerpt on the personality of Paul Biya and the mysteries surrounding his reign of 35 years.
Selected piece:
Who is Biya really, sometimes called the 'sphinx'?
What are the feelings and values that drive it? Nobody seems to have the answers to these questions. Only a few snatches escape from Etoudi's palace, via his collaborators: the president likes, it is said, classical music and Gregorian chants, golf and songo, a strategy game.
What is it really? What are the revelations and first-hand information revealed by this journalist? CameroonWeb offers an excerpt on the personality of Paul Biya and the mysteries surrounding his reign of 35 years.
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Who is Biya really, sometimes called the 'sphinx'?
What are the feelings and values that drive it? Nobody seems to have the answers to these questions. Only a few snatches escape from Etoudi's palace, via his collaborators: the president likes, it is said, classical music and Gregorian chants, golf and songo, a strategy game.
It is also said that he is keen on esotericism and often surrounded by magicians. "Who will live will see," he used to say, reports one of his former ministers.
"You can live very well with a snake in your pocket," he sometimes slips in front of one of his advisers, referring to the many enemies around him. Is Biya a victim of his collaborators, who, as some say,
Unless, as a Western diplomat states, the president knows "everything, and if he does not know, it is because he does not want to know, which amounts to the same thing." Because his remote and distant management does not prevent him from being informed about everything ". Did he really begin the project of democratizing Cameroon or was his opening speech designed to please his fellow citizens and thus better oust his predecessor?
Has Biya been trapped by lobbies surrounding power and prevented from realizing what he had imagined? Is it the episode of the failed coup d'etat in 1984 that paralyzed it? Or did he gradually take to power? The answer is probably in the definition he gives of himself: Biya is a "card jammer". But a fine strategist, master in "the art of managing the immobile", he seems especially jealous of his power, almost absolute, that he never seems to have intended to give up.
"You can live very well with a snake in your pocket," he sometimes slips in front of one of his advisers, referring to the many enemies around him. Is Biya a victim of his collaborators, who, as some say,
Unless, as a Western diplomat states, the president knows "everything, and if he does not know, it is because he does not want to know, which amounts to the same thing." Because his remote and distant management does not prevent him from being informed about everything ". Did he really begin the project of democratizing Cameroon or was his opening speech designed to please his fellow citizens and thus better oust his predecessor?
Has Biya been trapped by lobbies surrounding power and prevented from realizing what he had imagined? Is it the episode of the failed coup d'etat in 1984 that paralyzed it? Or did he gradually take to power? The answer is probably in the definition he gives of himself: Biya is a "card jammer". But a fine strategist, master in "the art of managing the immobile", he seems especially jealous of his power, almost absolute, that he never seems to have intended to give up.
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