Manyu Solidarity Group UK: Leader meets with Nfon Ekoko Mukete ⁰

The leader of the Manyu Solidarity Group Prince Julian Ebai recently met with the Paramount ruler of the Bafaw Kingdom Nfon Ekoko Mukete in London and there was quite a lot to talk about.

Cameroonian royals often meet up with each other, sometimes at big cultural festivals back home and abroad or formal meetings like this one in London.

Meetings held by Cameroonian royals don’t always get a lot of media attention with photos and speeches, but what happened when Prince Julian Ebai presented the Manyu inaugural magazine to His Royal Highness Nfon Ekoko Mukeke revealed arts of managing relationships between Bantus and Semi-Bantus.

Soter Tarh Agbaw-Ebai is a long standing Cameroonian journalist who has been at hundreds of royal meetings and trips all over Cameroon and in Europe so he is the perfect person to tell our readers everything we need to know about how the meeting between Nfon Ekoko Mukete and Prince Julian Ebai works, and why such meetings are so important.

“In English speaking Cameroon, each community is trying to convince the other to give them support. It might be support to help the needy in villages; it might be to support a candidate in an election or an issue that requires the entire region to speak with one voice. But the Nfon Ekoko Mukete–Prince Juilan Ebai meeting is about persuading the leadership of a great traditional kingdom and its people to help Manyu – to support Manyu.”

“As someone who covered the late Fon Angwafor, the late Chief Endeley including the late Chief V.E.Mukete, I can tell you that when royals meet, because they are face to face, they can get a better sense of what each other thinks about something,” Soter Agbaw-Ebai observed, “and that means they can work out what support areas are possible.

“I think it was indeed a good thing for the leader of the Manyu Solidarity Group UK to have made the trip to London immediately after the festivities in Birmingham to present His Royal Highness Chief Ekoko Mukete the Manyu brochure. Both men-one in authority and the other in waiting looked at each other across the table and may have agreed to work out what’s possible and that meeting can shape developmental policies that will be good for Manyu.”

“And whether that helps the Manyu Solidarity Group’s Mamfe General Hospital Project is not important. What is very important is that His Royal Highness Chief Ekoko Mukete is now involved in a conversation with the Manyu Diaspora in Great Britain.”

By Seseskou Isong Asu

London Bureau Chief

Cameroon Concord News Group