Le Cameroun c’est le Cameroun

Le Cameroun c’est le Cameroun, 2014
HD 16:9, coulor, sound, 14 minutes

Excerpt from the soundtrack :

• When we say : « Cameroon is Cameroon »,
• Yes, yes…
• What does the philosopher say about this ?
• The same ! He says it’s a tautology. And it’s the refusal… It can be serious, it is a matter of common sense, it means that, well!… We can’t do anything and everything.
  We can’t change a piece of wood into… hum! A gold bar ! This sort of alchemical understanding of the world is over. This also means that, when we compare Cameroon to other countries, « Cameroon can only be Cameroon ». A thing that would only be itself doesn’t mean anything. Even God who we believe to be an absolute being… But we are plurality. We wonder whether it’s a common or a proper noun. Nothing from our human experience is such… that it can define and understand itself on its own.