06/14/2026
This is the year I stopped apologising for being proudly African.
I have said this in music. I want to say it directly.
There is a version of Cameroonian identity that has been shaped by what others found impressive — the English, the French, the international. A version where being proudly local felt like settling.
I am done with that version.
Not out of bitterness. Out of clarity. The more I lean into what is specifically mine — the Pinyin sound, the Bamenda story, the North West Cameroon experience — the more universal the response becomes.
Specificity is not limitation. It is the strongest form of universality.
The world does not need another version of somewhere else. It needs the full, unapologetic version of where you actually come from.
Share this if you are done apologising for where you come from. 🌍🇨🇲❤️