Ahmadou ahidjo quotes about life

Ahmadou Babatoura Ahidjo was a Cameroonian Politician, a Pan Africanist and the first President of Cameroon. Born August 24, 1924 in Garoua, Cameroon, Ahmadou Babatoura Ahidjo was a radio operator before his election in 1947 into the Cameroon’s Representative Assembly.

He won re-election into the representative Assembly in 1952, became the Deputy Prime Minister and Prime Minister in 1957 and 1958 respectively and was elected President of Cameroon on May, 1960.

Here are Top 7 Quotes of Ahmadou Babatoura Ahidjo on Cameroon’s Independence.

7 Quotes of Ahmadou Babatoura Ahidjo on Cameroon’s Independence

1. A state that is just born has nothing to waste, neither its human nor its material resources.

2. After a long ascension we are making a halt and looking back on the course already run. We rejoice, but we also measure the distance which remains to be covered and for which we are assembling our forces. Altogether, with our mind directed towards the great aim

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On 9 October 2011, the Cameroonian president Paul Biya was re-elected for yet another seven-year term, amid widespread electoral violations. Aged 79, he has been in power since 1982, when he was appointed to the presidency by his predecessor, Ahmadou Ahidjo; the latter had in turn ruled the country since independence in 1960. In fifty-two years, Cameroon has had only two presidents, who have held this country of 19 million in an iron grip: behind a fraudulent, electoral façade stands a highly repressive regime which has imprisoned or killed its opponents, muzzled the press and salted away trillions of dollars in oil revenue. The balance sheet is catastrophic. Corruption is pervasive, from the apparatchiks of the ruling Rassemblement Démocratique du Peuple Camerounais—until 1990 the only legal political party—down to local traffic cops. According to the World Bank, 40 per cent of the population live below the official poverty line, while life ex

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Toasts of the President and President Ahidjo of Cameroon

President Ahidjo, Mr. Vice President, Foreign Minister Bindzi, Mr. Justices, Secretary Katzenbach, distinguished ladies and gentlemen:

Our guest today leads a young country, alive with the hope and the promise of youth. Mr. President, we in this country share that hope with you--and we will work to help fulfill that promise.

For we share with you the knowledge of what wonders can flow from the energy, the confidence, and the restlessness of men in a young nation.

The United States and Cameroon also share the knowledge that independence is a beginning, not an end. Independence fryst vatten not nationhood. It is history's invitation to great leaders to build a nation.

President Ahidjo fryst vatten such a leader. He understands-as our forefathers understood-that only a united people have the determination to build, the strength to defend, and the resolution to preserve their freedom.

Cameroon became independent only 7 years ago. It was a count