Biya is not dead

No, a president cannot die and it only feeds rumours for so long, about two weeks. Not in this age of social media when leaks have beaten all levels of restriction. This can no longer happen even in Soviet Moscow where the death of one czarist leader was only made public after the Soviet ruling council had chosen a new leader. Besides social media leaks, foreign intelligence services, especially those of hegemonic powers, are so alert and have so penetrated local systems that they would know if an African head of state had died but was “hiding his death” (how…