Migration narratives are highly influenced by the promotion or discreditation of societal values and the manifestation of specific mentalities in countries of origin. This phenomenon can be conceptualised as a ‘moral economy of departure and return’. Consequently, Chapter 3 is dedicated to a detailed analysis of Cameroonian self-perceptions, social relations, and internal conflict lines. Key research questions that guide the inquiry in this chapter are: How do Cameroonians narrate their country? Where and how do they feel like they belong? And how do these processes of inclusion and exclusion influence migration decisions? Common sense phrases such as Le Cameroun, c’est le Cameroun [Cameroon is Cameroon] or On va faire comment? [What are we going to do?] thereby reveal crumbling national narratives, crisis as the structuring social narrative of the Cameroonian society, and hustling as omnipresent survival strategy.