The Anglophone Side of the Anglophone Problem and Crisis in Cameroon

January 27, 2021

Kijem

Greener Journal of Social Sciences

Vol. 11(1), pp. 1-4, 2021

ISSN: 2276-7800

https://gjournals.org/GJSC

The Anglophone Side of the Anglophone Problem and Crisis in Cameroon

Kijem Joseph Yuh (PhD)

ARTICLE INFO

ABSTRACT

Article No.: 012521013

Type: Short comm.

This work is an attempt to show that, paradoxally, Anglophones in Cameroon constitute part of their own problem. In this country, Francophones and Anglophones have not concretely succeeded, so far, to overcome their common major problems (constitutional, institutional, social, cultural, linguistic, etc.) inherited from the union between the two parts of Cameroon (former Southern Cameroons and former East Cameroon). A very insidious dimension of these problems is what I refer to as the Anglophone side of the Anglophone Problem, a problem which has unfortunately developed into bloodshed. The said side comprises issues relating to the Public Service, life within the armed forces, politics, life in trade unions and other associations and institutions, the Bilingualism Week and the current Anglophone Crisis which is rocking Cameroon. There is urgent need for Cameroonian Anglophones to come together and handle the said problem and crisis judiciously, else it shall soon be too late.

Accepted: 25/01/2021

Published: 27/01/2021

*Corresponding Author

Kijem Joseph

E-mail: yuh750@ gmail. com

Keywords:

Anglophones Francophones Problem; Public Service; Armed Forces; Trade Unions; Bilingualism; Week Crisis

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BIBLIOGRAPHY

A) Books

1) Jean-Marie Denquin, Vocabulaire Politique (Que Sais-Je ?), Paris, Presses Universitaires de France, 1997

B) Articles

2) Mokum, N., “We (Anglophones) May Have Been Betrayed!”, The Guardian Post, Yaounde, 17 March 2019

Sinior, S., “Anglophone Crisis: Tears and Tongues of Victims”, Cameroon Panorama, Buea, Buea Catholic Printing Press, June 2018

C) Legal Instruments

3) 1996 Cameroon Constitution

D) Other Instruments

4) A Secret Memo Written by Bernard Fonlon on the Malaise in the Cameroon Federation.

Cite this Article: Kijem JY (2021). The Anglophone Side of the Anglophone Problem and Crisis in Cameroon. Greener Journal of Social Sciences, 11(1): 1-4.

Journal Name : citation_journal : Greener Journal of Social Sciences

Publication Status/Date : usp_status_date : 27/01/2021