AFRICAphonie

CELEBRATION OF 2014 WORLD PRESS FREEDOM DAY: AFRICAphonie Advocates New Laws on Press Freedom and Access to Public Information in Cameroon

Within the framework of enhancing Press freedom and access to Public information in Cameroon, the international Civil Society Organisation, AFRICAphonie, supported by the British High Commission-Cameroon, recently carried out a project titled “Press Freedom and Policy Advocacy in Cameroon”.

The 2013 Project provided forums (workshops) for journalists to advocate change in certain grey areas of Law No. 90/052 of 19/12/1990 relating to Freedom of Mass Communication in Cameroon as well as Law No. 96/04 of 04/01/1996 supplementing and completing certain provisions thereof, to better expand press freedom, deepen journalistic quality and responsibility, improve the impact of government-media relations and enhance media effectiveness in serving public interest.

Cameroonian Cultural Industries: Potentials and Promises

By Mwalimu George Ngwane (Originally published in Cameroon Tribune, October 31, 2007)

'Only those nations which are culturally solid ever indelibly influence the course of history’ - Professor Kountchou Kouomegni former Minister of Information and Culture)

The three main links that constitute the Cultural Industry chain are Production, Promotion and Consumption. These links represent the culture triangle needed to energise an industry whose aesthetic nature and artistic values mirror the essence of human civilization. Attempts by both civil society actors and governments have aimed at transforming Africa’s indigenous culture from mere populist folklore to a national character.