Their words

“The Union of the Peoples of Cameroon says out loud what the majority, the vast majority of Cameroonians say under their breath.”

Source: Observations devant la Quatrième Commission de l'Assemblée générale des Nations unies, New York, 17 décembre 1952, in Le Problème national kamerunais, textes réunis et présentés par Achille Mbembe (L'Harmattan, 1984), p. 178

Context Answering French claims that the UPC spoke for nobody, the party's general secretary told the UN Fourth Committee why a banned movement could still be the majority's voice; he was hunted down and killed by the French army six years later.

Ruben Um NyobèCameroon · 1913–1958

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