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October 12 poll: Project C pens open letter to Cameroon’s leaders, media, women, traditional rulers, business leaders.

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Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, esteemed alumni, journalists, business leaders, and women of Cameroon,
The moment of decision is upon us. Across our history, traditional leaders, educated alumni, courageous journalists, visionary business leaders, and women of strength have always shaped nations. Today, Cameroon stands at a similar crossroads.

Lessons from History: Traditional leaders guided transitions in Ghana, South Africa, Botswana, and Nigeria; alumni networks at Cape Town, Warsaw, and Ghana proved that education creates responsibility; journalists in the Philippines, Eastern Europe, South Africa, and Tunisia defended democracy with truth; business leaders in South Korea, Chile, Ghana, and Eastern Europe drove stability and prosperity; women in Liberia, Chile, the Philippines, and Sudan showed that when women unite, nations change. They honored their heritage. Now we must honor ours.

The Urgency

This is not just another election—it is a referendum on our future: Will traditional rulers remain silent or guide their people? Will alumni use their education for personal comfort or national service? Will the media choose cautious silence or courageous truth? Will business leaders accept stagnation or demand transparency? Will women remain sidelined or claim their power for their daughters’ future?

The choice is binary. Silence sustains the status quo. Courage builds a new Cameroon.

Our collective call to action

Traditional leaders: convene councils, guide your people; alumni: mobilise networks for civic education; journalists: report fearlessly, serve citizens; business leaders: vote and advocate transparency; women: organise, mobilise, and lead.

Our Shared Legacy

History will ask: Did Cameroon’s leaders and citizens act with courage, or did they abandon their responsibility?

True leadership is service across generations. Knowledge without service is corruption. Journalism without courage is complicity. Business without engagement is weakness. Women without action accept the limitations of their daughters.

The time for courage is now; the time for stewardship is now; the time for unity is now! For our ancestors, our children, and our nation, let us choose leadership, courage, and change.

For full details of the letters

Visit Project C @ www.projectcameroon.com