The return of African Americans of Tikar origin has been described as a healing pilgrimage with triple significance for developers, traditional chiefs and the Tikars and African American Tikars themselves.
Firstly, for the promoters of the group “One People One Tikar” this unifying movement born in Manjo in March 201 5, under the initiative of His Excellency Delaure Justin Wanda Delwanda, and some peers,is to play its vanguard role of the defense of the cultural interests of Tikar people so as to use its rich cultural heritage and make it an instrument of unity of all Tikars in the world. It must be able to create a dynamic renaissance likely to mark the return of the Tikar people in the ranks of the big and in this manner recover their trade mark, once hijacked and stolen by dream merchants with dark and ulterior motives to show to the world that the renaissance of the Tikar people is indeed a reality, and that more than ever before, all its children are looking in the same direction each determined to play its role in order to participate in its economic development as well as lay the foundations of a true emergence, which would build on the quest and on the need to improve the living conditions and welfare of Tikar people.
Secondly, the friendly Tikar traditional leaders and elites, and with them all the Tikar people, see in the arrival of their African American children of Tikar origin to the land of their ancestors, first as an immense joy to straighten the course of history, and as an opportunity to right a wrong of humanity, following the slave trade, which was imposed upon them and which sadly saw the best of their children being taken away thus depriving the tribe of not only its wealth but also of its more expensive brave brains, which would have changed the course of their life forever. This is the magical opportunity for the people, through their great surge of heart and sincere love, to show their joy and cheerfulness and to again see those members of their families once considered lost. This is the great sentiment that animates the great Tikar people and which has mobilized them in all 4 districts and all major cities of the plain, for its children who, for the first time, as a delegation, arrived in Cameroon. This and above all, they made the inevitable pilgrimage to all Tikars villages, which reflects the apotheosis and the state of preparations, which is gaining ground every day with an aim of preparing one of the warmest welcomes ever in Tikar land to foreigners who this time happen to be their own children.
On the other hand, justice is done for Tikar leaders who for a long time felt helpless that some sellers of illusions, for their selfish interests at the expense of the Tikar people, were organizing tourist excursions and bringing people to Cameroon considered by some to be Tikars and directing them to discover other cities in Cameroon without ever leading them to the true source of the Tikar people; the plain. It is for this reason that the total alliance of all the people aims to send a strong signal to its usurpers,that time wastage has lasted too long. There truly exist a Tikar people, living in the Tikar plain, with large villages and chiefdoms like the Tikar kingdoms of Bankim, Boitikong, Bandam, Mantis , the Great of Ntchi, Nditam, Ngambe Tikar, Ntem , etc ... it is therefore with a sense of pride and just retribution , that the leaders will welcome their children and be proud to do so.
Thirdly, for those African Americans who returned and discovered the land of their ancestors between June 8th and 21st, 2016, it is the culmination and the finishing of a very long journey that began several centuries ago. It is the answer to all the negativity and acculturation they suffered so much, the lies of the west tending to make them believe that they were hated by their black brothers. Giving this as the reason why they had been sold, thus depriving them of their name, their culture, civilization , history, in short, everything that was likely to make them understand where they left.
This return is a victory for them on several points; This is not only an identity healing, it deserves reinstatement, a new birth and a rooting source and acculturation but also a victory of ancestors. Thanks to advances in science, DNA testing could convince them to rediscover the land of their ancestors and proudly say, I also come from somewhere and I am one of the heirs of the cradle of humanity and starting point of all civilizations. It is with great pride that the African American brothers of Tikar origin walked the Cameroonian soil because for many it is a rebirth and the rising of a new day.
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