Commonwealth
Week 2001
in Cameroon
Barriers to Overcome
Attempts to overcome language barriers
in a
Commonwealth Northern part of Cameroon
The main communication in the northern region is Fulfulde, the lingua franca of the local people. This doesn't encourage exposure to the wider global world.
Traditional customs, beliefs and religion still discriminate between men and women, the boy child and the girl child. Girls are put into marriage at an early age, locked indoors all day, used as a tool for child bearing and tocook. The place of a Muslim girl is still precarious within this commonwealth country.
Boys are not optimizing their opportunities as most of them shy away from school and formal education to herd cattle within the neighbourhood. Cattle rearing and farming form the main occupation of the people and the only means of subsistence.
Teaching new skills and formal education to the young in this area would enhance the Commonwealth principles and vision in the country. In Cameroon, the Anglophone population fostered the admission into the Commonwealth advocating respect of human rights, promotion of democracy, good governance, the fight against corruption, transparency and accountability in the running of state affairs. Cultural harmonization through education and cross cultural contacts will bring Cameroonians together but it has not always been the case with Northern Cameroon. This region champions the course of illiteracy, underscholarisation, religious discrimination and political divisions.
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