What may not be so obvious about Cameroon’s three-year-old conflict is the malaise at the heart of the country’s 60+-year-old crisis:
“The Anglophone Identity Crisis”
The Merriam-Webster dictionary defines the word ‘anglophone’ as consisting of an English-speaking population especially in a country where two or more languages are spoken.
Considering English is one of the world’s most popular languages, it’s no surprise that there are millions of anglophones in the world — from Cameroon to Kenya to Canada and even as far away as Antarctica.
If there’s general agreement on the definition of the word ‘anglophone’, why the fuss about anglophones in Cameroon?
Contents
- The Puzzle Of A Word
- The Origin Of Split Personalities
- A Whole New Meaning
- Social Profiler
- Blessings & Curses
- Rude Awakening
- Fifty Shades Of Denial
- A Hard Look In The Mirror
The Puzzle Of A Word
Here’s the big deal: there is a disproportionally high correlation between the word ‘anglophone’ and Cameroon. A simple query of the word using any…
