EDITORIAL :The reality of October 1

History, it is said, is like a flowing river that carries along on its course any floating object and deposits same into the embracing hands of posterity. Philosophers therefore hold that, history never waits for events. It simply packages them for posterity in the course of which they are recycled back in what now we are about to record as history having repeated itself through the unfolding events which the past two weeks produced. That the Reunification Monument in Yaounde was turned into a celebration ground for the first time on a date that had been forgotten in history simply…