Damasus, a Nigerian-born US-based entertainer has since Monday been drawing international attention to the Cameroon case. At a time when many are talking about the on-going Women’s World Cup in France and upcoming Africa Football Cup of Nations in Egypt, she decides to focus on an issue she considers urgent.

“I am not really interested in talking about the soccer match right now. We need to talk about the situation in Cameroon. The country needs help. Have you seen videos of women and babies being killed? I don’t understand how this is okay?”

On Tuesday, June 18, 2019, she questioned the strange silence of the international community in the face of an urgent socio-political crisis.

“I wonder why this Cameroon issue does not have the kind of media coverage that it deserves. This is genocide and we are acting like it doesn’t matter. African leaders keep acting like the presidency is their birth right or inheritance. What the hell? #helpcameroon.”

Stella Damasus tweets further: “I am calling on every organization out there, every media personality, every blogger, everyone who has social media and can type a message. Please spread the word. People are dying, babies are being killed please. We can put a post on our pages and condemn this. #helpcameroon

“If you know anyone who can help, if you have connections with the United Nations or any agency please reach out to them and speak out. If your country was in the middle of this and you had to run for your life, you would want people to speak up and find help. #helpcameroon.”

In what may well be an attack on sit-tight African presidents, Damasus writes: "Is it by force to be president? How do you force people to accept your leadership? That is dictatorship. That is the highest level of illiteracy. Then innocent children have to die for this. When will this end?"