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AFRICAphonie, a Buea based civil society organisation interested in Democracy, Culture and Peace,Having listened with attention to the grievances of the workers of the Cameroon Tea Estate in Buea,
Having noticed with empathy their peaceful sit-down strike for the last one and a half months at the premises of the Regional Delegation of Labour and Social Security, Buea, South West Region,
Having seen with compassion, the despicable conditions under which the more than 700 workers have taken ‘refuge’ at the said premises,
Having followed with concern their threat to invite their children to join them in the sit down strike with the attendant consequences that this may have on the peace, serenity and social security in Buea,
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Very few Cameroonians know the history of Cameroon in all its diversity and depth. And with good reason. Most of what passes for “Cameroonian history” in schools is a sanitized version of the country’s history whose sole purpose is to reinforce “state control” and “toe-the-line” concepts such as “unité nationale and intégration nationale. These concepts seek to legitimize the official narrative on the “colonial partition” of the Cameroonian family and the ultimate “reunification” of these long lost brothers and sisters against all odds in 1961 in a “historic burst of nationalism”. Any piece of history which either questions or contradicts this official narrative, or fails to add value to it, is simply ignored or discarded. The result? Many key events and personalities in Cameroon’s pre-colonial and colonial history remain largely unknown and confined to local and ethnic folklore.
There have been many interventions purporting to sensitise communities on the necessity to put an end to the practice of female circumcision, pompously referred to as 'Female Genital Mutilation' (FGM) by development practitioners. 





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