By Mwalimu George Ngwane*
Since May 9th 2015 the media in Cameroon have been awash with conversation on what is now simply called ‘The Anglophone problem’. These narratives have been fuelled by the resurgence on this statehood reclaim or linguistic minority issue which based on the Press Release of Common Law Lawyers Conference of 13th February 2016 seems to be getting more radical and volatile. Another Press Release sent to me by the Cameroon Education Forum on 4th March 2016 titled ‘Reflection on the Anglophone sub-system of Education in Cameroon’ justifies the Anglophone marginalisation argument on ‘the role the political systems play in the minority Anglophones’ education structures, processes and outcomes, the growth and economic development, the status differentiation, the social mobility and other factors of the minority Anglophones’.
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