Cameroon Army in Kribi to expropriate lands, 6/10/2021

The Mother of Humanity® Monument Foundation, Inc.
ARK Jammers Connection, Inc.
Land expropriation among the Batanga people in Kribi, Cameroon

The Batanga people of Cameroon live in two regions, the South West where they participate in the the Ékpè 'leopard' Society, the model of the Abakuá (in Cuba), and the Grand Batanga region of South Cameroon, where they are asking for help countering a plan to steal their ancestral lands, including beachfront property they use as fishermen.

Two American organizations, Mother of Humanity® Monument Foundation, Inc. and Ark Jammers Connection, Inc. together with sectors of Cameroonian society are involved in this plan to seize lands from the Batanga for a $200 million African American theme park with the tallest sculpure in Africa as its centerpiece. The donations to build it are expected to come from US celebrities.

The Africa coordinator of the Mother of Humanity project is Christophe Ava, member of the Board of Directors, Mining Federation of Cameroon. Since 2007, he holds the position of Country Manager in the mining company called “Harvest Mining Corporation”, a company involved in oil, natural gas, gold, diamonds and sapphire extraction.  www.lafmc.cm/founder-member?lang=english.

The Director of the project is Adrien A Lang, ITIL, PMP, Cameroon/Beverly Hills, who has worked for the US Department of Defense, the State Department and DARPA, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. The presence of high level US military and the Cameroon mining sector in the project raises interesting questions, given Cameroon's highly colonized status as part of Françafrique, with a long history of French colonial abuses continued by the current Cameroon government. Most recently, French interests seized oil rich lands in South Western Cameroon without paying a dime. How did such a seemingly benevolent project as Mother of Humanity, born out of the 1992 Rodney King LA riots and organized by Black Americans with Cameroonian Americans, become inmersed in such a heavily colonized situation?

The project has already been marred by accusations of land expropriation from vulnerable people in the international media:

"On the other hand, we are a little frustrated because the declaration of public utility has taken a lot of space from the villagers on this side who already do not have enough land. It must be admitted that the port itself had already taken 26,000 hectares. So the populations feel a little cramped, '' says Landry Tsiaga. La construction de "La mère de l'humanité" prend du retard  6/29/2020 Deutche Well.

We can expand on this Deutche Well story with the following recent narrative from members of the Batanga ethnicity:

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6-10-21
Kribi, Cameroon: The army has surrounded the village since 2 a.m. and the populations are kept in their homes. [See photo above.] They do not want this known.

6-11-21

Kribi, Cameroon: The village is not against President Paul Biya and the project is not a state project. It is an independent association created in the USA called Ark Jammers constituted by Cameroonians living in the USA and some African Americans.

So the village was very happy to receive that until two weeks ago that the SDO (Sub Division Officer) went on the field with a big delegation without involving the village or their chief.

A few days later people stated planting borns, cutting the village into two parts. We know that it is a group of people in that administration maybe with some Cameroonians members of that association doing this. Passing over the ministry of land...

So to summarize, the government is not involved in this trouble. The government is now investigating to know exactly what's going on.

The villagers want this to be known out there because it's has been said that the project is financed by African Americans stars like Usher.

The government gave 80 hectares to the project but they took 300 hectares. That's the only problem the village want to solve.

6-15-21

On the subject of Ark Jammers, there is research that shows that this organization no longer has a legal existence. In fact, it has been 3 years since they filed for bankruptcy in the state of Maryland.

The biggest problem of our struggle now is asking the government to hand over our land.
We had a meeting this afternoon and we have created a collective that will lead the proceedings. we just need international NGOs to help us lobby our government.

If you can talk to an NGO that is interested in the problem of lands and minority peoples.

6/23/21

Some politicians are inducing the Mabea who live in the neighboring town of Ebounja II against the Batanga. The Mabea are claiming the lands of Grand Batanga that the project wants to steal as their land. The goal is to validate the Ark Jammers mafia.

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Will Ark Jammers be able to raise funds with US celebrities for a project with hitherto well hidden flaws? Will they be able to change the government's land acquisition strategy?

A look at their Facebook page shows that they tend to parrot Cameroon government lines of attack on traditional societies, calling them "tribal". Such ideas are derived from French Republicanism, where the only identity allowed is that of citizens of a state, something we find across Latin America, including Cuba.

-- Paul Robinson

The Mother of Humanity® Monument Foundation, Inc.
ARK Jammers Connection, Inc.
Expropriación de tierras del pueblo Batanga en Kribi, Camerún

Ejercito de Camerún en Kribi para expropricion de tierras, 6/2021

6-10-21

Kribi, Camerún: El ejército ha rodeado la aldea desde las 2 a.m. y las poblaciones se mantienen en sus hogares. [Ver la foto arriba.] No quieren que esto se sepa.

6-11-21

Kribi, Camerún: El pueblo no está en contra del presidente Paul Biya y el proyecto no es un proyecto del estado. Es una asociación independiente creada en los EEUU llamada Ark Jammers, constituidos por cameruneses residentes en EE.UU. y algunos Afronorteamericanos.

Así que la aldea estaba muy feliz de recibir eso hasta hace dos semanas que el SDO salió al campo con una gran delegación sin involucrar a la aldea ni a su jefe.

Unos días después, la gente declaró plantar nacimientos, dividiendo el pueblo en dos partes. Sabemos que es un grupo de personas en esa administración, tal vez con algunos miembros cameruneses de esa asociación haciendo esto. Pasando por alto el Ministerio de la Tierra ...

Entonces, para resumir, el gobierno no está involucrado en este problema. El gobierno ahora está investigando para saber exactamente qué está pasando.

Los aldeanos quieren que esto se sepa porque se ha dicho que el proyecto está financiado por estrellas afroamericanas como Usher.

El gobierno entregó 80 hectáreas al proyecto pero se tomaron 300 hectáreas. Ese es el único problema que la aldea quiere resolver.

6-15-21

Para el tema de Ark Jammers, hay investigaciones que mostran que está organización no tiene más existencia legal. de hecho, han pasado 3 años desde que se declararon en quiebra en el estado de Oregon.

El más grande de nuestra lucha ahora es pedir al gobierno de entregar nuestra tierra.
Teníamos una reunión esta tarde y hemos creado un colectivo que dirigirá los procedimientos. solo necesitamos ONG internacionales que nos ayuden a presionar a nuestro gobierno.

Si puede hablar con una ONG que se interesa en la problemática de las tierras y de los pueblos minoritarios.

6-23-15

Algunos políticos están induciendo a los Mabea que viven en la ciudad vecina de Ebounja II contra los Batanga. Los Mabea reclaman las tierras de Grand Batanga que el proyecto quiere robar como su tierra. El objetivo es validar la mafia Ark Jammers.

¿Ark Jammers podrá recaudar fondos con celebridades estadounidenses para un proyecto con fallas bien escondidas hasta ahora? ¿Podrán cambiar la estrategia de adquisición de tierras del gobierno?

Una mirada a su página de Facebook muestra que tienden a imitar como loros las líneas de ataque del gobierno de Camerún contra las sociedades tradicionales, llamándolas "tribales". Tales ideas se derivan del republicanismo francés, donde la única identidad permitida es la de ciudadanos de un estado, algo que encontramos en América Latina, incluida Cuba.

- Paul Robinson

Update, 4/2/2023

Du 23 au 25 mars 2023, à séjourné dans la ville de Kribi, une délégation d'afro américains conduite par l'association Ark Jammers. Il s'agit bel et bien de cette association qui a décidé de spolier 300 hectares de terres à Grand Batanga pour l'érection d'un monument alors que l'état du cameroun leur aurait concédé 80 hectares (Réf. la vidéo de leur propagande sur YouTube). Nous avons pu observer le fonctionnement malicieux de cette organisation qui traite avec des pseudo chefs traditionnels qui se réclament du site alors qu'il n'en est pas pas le cas. Le refus de la corruption et de l'injustice des véritables riverains du site ne faisant pas l'affaire des mafieux qui sont repérés à tous les niveaux de l'administration jusqu'au gouvernement; n'ont pas hésité à user des moyens de l'état en l'occurrence les forces de l'ordre pour intimider les populations et les chefs de Batanga.

A l'heure actuel, il est question d'user des moyens forts pour les Batanga opprimés sur leurs terres de mettre un terme définitif à cette escroquerie inédite. Il est sans doute de bon ton que la diaspora batanga saisisse le congrès américain de manière formelle afin que les uns et les autres soient conscients de la situation sur le terrain et le point de réel des populations de Grand Batanga.

From March 23 to 25, 2023, a delegation of African Americans led by the Ark Jammers association — led by Cameroonians in the US — stayed in the city of Kribi, the native land of the Batanga people. This association has decided to grab 720 acres of native land in Grand Batanga for the erection of a monument while the state of Cameroon was to have granted them 190 acres (Ref. their propaganda video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=79JdfcoFVSU). The Batanga people have observed the malicious functioning of this organization which has brought the unsuspecting African Americans pseudo traditional chiefs who claim the site belongs to them when this is not the case. The real owners of the land refuse the corruption and injustice of this illegal business between the Ark Jammers and Government administration, who have not hesitated to use the power of the state, in this case the police, to intimidate the population and the traditional chiefs of Batanga. This is the time for the Batanga people living in the USA to write to US Congress members to alert them to this oppression by US citizens to citizens of Grand Batanga.