Cameroon’s President Paul Biya, 91, on hearing that US President Joe Biden, 81, has quit the race
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Charles Onyango-Obbo
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Charles Onyango-Obbo
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Journalist I Writer I Futurist I Curator THE WALL OF GREAT AFRICANS (WoGA) facebook.com/WoGA1884/ •Podcaster at @Bad_Natives_Pod
Tororo & Nairobi
Joined May 2009
- Some African Africa experts have demanded I tweet this: "Tell wakina CNN, BBC, when there is chaos in Africa, they have western experts talking about us. Now USA is burning, we wan't our chance too. We are experts on state failure, democratic fragility & regime illegitimacy".
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00:00 - Seeing what’s happened to Alpha Conde in Guinea, I am beginning to understand why Cameroon’s Paul Biya, who’s been strongman for 39 years now, rules his country in absentia from Europe - when the soldiers come, they will not find him home🙃🙃🙃
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