đšđČ A look at Cameroon's language divide
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- Äas pĆidĂĄn 3. 02. 2018
- In Cameroon, there is an English and French-speaking part of the country. The division started when the English-speaking Southern Cameroonians said they were not represented in or respected by the French-speaking government. Southern Cameroonians have been calling for independence, so they can create their own country, a place they call Ambazonia.
The government responded with a crackdown on the internet, travel, and continued raids on northwest and southwest parts of the country. It is unclear just how many people have died so far. In the last year though, the situation keeps getting worse.
Just last week, Nigeria extradited 47 Cameroonian Anglophone separatists. They have now been sent back to Cameroon, where the government has described them as "terrorists". Among them was Ayuk Tabe, the president of the interim Southern Cameroons government. Southern Cameroonians are demanding his release, and want to know if the other separatists are still alive.
Al Jazeera's Leah Harding explains.
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I'm no expert but I feel this goes deeper then language, probably a differing culture and sense of nation hood after so many years of being ruled by differing European Empires.
As a black American, I found out through Ancestry DNA that I was 38% Cameroon/ Congo/ Southern Bantu. I was planning on visiting here along with both Congolese counties and later Benin and Togo since I'm also 36% Benin/Togo. I may have to visit Benin and Togo first. I've been watching a lot of this on CZcams. God Bless my people in Cameroon..
European countries are to blame for this. They went into Africa, redistricting and robbing the land and forced people of different tribes to live together under one country. Who gave them the rights to do that. They had already taken millions of Hebrews as slaves. Who gave them ownership of this earth. Look at the chaos they have caused. Look at the pain and suffering. There is no where or nothing safe or sacred from them. The dead can't even rest for them digging them up and testing on them. The entire earrh is collasping due to their desire to play gods. Judgement and recompense is here and it is going to be glorious.
Those comments about Ambazonians fighting for "white man's language" should go back to their books. The Ambazonian revolution is not about language! It is about land and economic resources which France-Cameroon wants by force!
The oniy solution is Southern Cameroon becoming a sovereign state that will be separated from La RĂ©publique du Cameroun because we have suffered a huge amount of time in the past and into the hands of Paul Bartholomew Bivondo Biya and his government we do not want to be a part of treaty with La RĂ©publique du Cameroun Government because UN is the costs of people's dying in this particular country called Southern Cameroon UNITED NATION'S SECRETARY GENERAL SHOULD DECLARE SOUTHERN CAMEROON FREEDOM FROM LA RĂPUBLIQUE DU CAMEROUN BECAUSE IF PAUL BARTHOLOMEW BIVONDO BIYA WAS LOOKING FOR UNITY HE WOULD HAVE NEVER DECLARE WAR ON BRITISH SOUTHERN CAMEROON PEOPLE'S.
Why would anyone fight to use the language of their former slave owners?
french speaking and english speakinh
The president of Nigeria lacks understanding of national, regional or geopolitical governance and diplomacy..I apologise to our brethren in Anglophone Cameroun on behalf of the concious Nigerians
Cameroon is not a place to call home , So ashamed of wat we are facing day by night, pple dieing in their numbers, homes been burnt, children murdered and we call that a home? If your child ever uses an object to hit on u , don't hit back ,find out what he or she needs and give that to thing to the child.
Both Southern Cameroon and Southern Nigeria want referendums
Were they assimilated by the colonial powers
I love ur program madam, keep up the good work.
WTF is wrong with humans? First it was Race, Religion, and Regions! Now its language???
It should be understood we have tolerated enough from one sided Gov't of La Republique. We came into the union as equals, but it has long proven that we 've been taken for fulls if not why is it that the name we meet them with was La Republique du Cameroon while we were call Southern Cameroon. Coming together the name used now in the union is La Republique du Cameroon. Meaning that the union is no more. Who is stupid here?. It's us the Southern Cameroonians. The UN Sec General Gut ores came to Cameroun during the pick of the crisis, he meet Paul Biya in secret talks for 4 hours without any person even the Press was not allowed. He came out and took along a gift of golden statue from Biya. Since he left Cameroon, he's been quite about the issue as Paul Biya calls us terrorist, killing our people in thousands, burning down villages, more than 50 thousand of our people are refugees in Nigeria and else where. Meanwhile documents in the UN Office are showing that there were 2 Cameroons which should ever remain a Federal system but they deliberate chained it to La Republique. Yet the UN don't care to ask questions, why the change and how did it arrive to a one sided show?.
Paul watch out the world is watching.
al jazeera is a fake news channel its a territorial war in ambazonia not language.ok there are 2 seperate countries southern cameroons isnt seeking independence. its already independent since 10/01/1961 and have international boundaries and anthem capital parliament cameroun got her independence on 01/01/1960 with its boundary seperate from southern cameroons cameroun used its military to invaded southern cameroons in 1961. no treaty had ever been signed by the two. its simply one cameroun have an arny and decided to invade another cameroun without an army. the solution is restoring southern cameroons independence its not seperation since none is a part of the other.
Youâre too lazy to read books or youâre just a poor reporter. Thereâs no language devide I in cameroon. Thereâs a territorial violation in which case East cameroon has invaded and occupied southern cameroon, AMBAZONIA an independent state internationally recognized and with full sovereignty.
I thought multi lingual was suppose to be great? Lol
Free Ambazonia
It's shame.