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Biya on granting special status to Anglophone regions

2019-11-25
No: 457

Biya on granting special status to Anglophone regions.

The Paris Peace Conference offered an opportunity for President Paul Biya to come clean on the Anglophone Problem. He told a panel discussion that he was ready to bend over backwards and give the Anglophone regions a special status as contained in Section 62 of the constitution in order to preserve the unity of the nation. Following is a translated version of his intervention:

It is difficult to narrate the history of my country. Mr president the history of my country is complicated. We were first a German colony, Germany lost us after the first World War and the colony was shared between Great Britain and France. My country was divided. One part was colonised by Britain and the other by France. It resulted in the juxtapoxition of cultures and civilisations which has made things very delicate. We have done everything  to make the two languages equal; English and French but mentalities, the Educational system, the judicial system are different.  We are having a conflict which we are solving right now so as to give a special status to the area of my country which was colonised by the British but they remain in the unity of the nation. That is the problem we are trying to solve. We had the possibility of integrating them directly into the French system which was that of the majority that is 80 percent but I think countries want to affirm their identity. That is why we have put in place a Special Status which recognizes the specificity of the Anglophone zone but they remain within the territorial integrity of Cameroon. But it is giving a lot of problems.