🇨🇲 A look at Cameroon's language divide 

You're right. The British indirect rule gave a lot of autonomy to local governments and chiefs..while the French ruled the majority French cameroon as a forceful colonial-terrorist form government where all powers was with the French central administration. When the Europeans left, the French state got independence in January of 1960, putting in place a puppet politician fabricated by them via rigged elections to continue the colonial exploitation of the locals. Eg..all mineral resources in the French territory was signed off to belong to Paris, who can sell to any other nation. When the British administration ended In the british territory in 1961- these were said not to be viable for as separate nation, but should Confederate with either Nigeria or French Cameroon. They chose French cameroon over Nigeria. Later when oil and other natural resources were discovered in the English(former British) part, the French imposed puppet organized a referendum to abolish the UN-organised one in 1961 and overtook the English regions. This led to systematic exploitation with marginalisation of the English peoples. Almost 60% of the GDP and foreign exchange of the nation comes from oil, cocoa and cash crops from these 2 English speaking provinces, yet they receive less than 8% of the national expenditure budget (2018 budget year). This is the sum of the problem.

Trust me, it goes SO m7ch deeper! TV only shows what they want to show

vale I am white, but I totally agree with you.

Who are the Hebrews you are talking about?

Do you think people would living without lures

Hmmm Those tests can be kinda inconclusive. Lots of ethnicities (if not most of them) go past the countries barriers. Those tests might give a very very general idea about your roots but the truth is you will never know where Ur ancestors were from as most ethincities go past barriers and also coz at the time of enslaved trade there was no Cameroon,nor Togo, nor Congo. But Big ups to you trying to West Africa. Have fun and enjoy it 😎

Carlos Correia Yea they base these tests a lot off of regions and those regional updates can change based off of the updates and DNA enhancements. They're also known to be very accurate. However, non will ever be 100% accurate tho.. I haven't gone yet, and after talking to more black Americans who've traced their roots to these regions, most are planning too. I was however warned to stay away from both Congolese countries( DRC and Republic of Congo). Two mixed couples who had just came back from Cameroon said they loved me but this unrest within the county is real. In fact a Cameroonian even told me to go see Benin and Togo first and let these issues play themselves out. I have other African lineage too but those were my largest percentages..

@@405boy4 I admire the fact that you want to visit your place of origin but presently Cameroon isn't the best place to visit due to the unrest. But however when things become stable you can come visit and you'll love it, the people are friendly and loving and there are nice touristic sites. I'm 100% a Cameroonian. Stay blessed

mary Nanji Yes I daw that. In fact I was on another site and a Cameroonian guy told quite a few of us Black Americans that The country was dealing with a lot of problems. That's unfortunate..

405 BOY go to Ghana 🇬🇭

Ender Deniz ikr? *face palm*

It is more than the issue of language - it is the continue discrimination by the central government over Southern Cameroonians when it comes to power sharing, education, etc. Anyway - these two languages are lingua franca of a country that has 250 languages within it's border. In some countries unfortunately a "neutral" language often not native to the people is preferred to prevent tensions among its varies ethical groups.

It's more than an issue of language

Ender Deniz it's more than just language

IT obviously more then language but both French and English sure were masters that devoured the local culture and killed it. One element was even said in video that the French speaking side giving more favourable stuff to themselves then the English side.

here in Kenya too

Well it's probably more then language, North and South were colonized by different empires with different cultures. They developed differently and went through different struggles. Due to this they are alienated from each other. I'm no expert but I'm willing to believe language is only part of a bigger deeper issue.

Smooth Criminal it has nothing to do with language rather it has much to do with corruption and bad governance.

It's about POLITICS under the cover of race, religion and regions. Think about it.

It has nothing to do with language, this "report" is a joke! Probably propaganda paid by the Cameroonian government

Hamza Hussein the European languages are just lingua francas. That is all.

The problem is there are so many African languages, it's just easier to adopt the colonizer language, which they need to know anyway to attract foreign investment. Probably didn't help that the elites were from or educated in "mother country" and kept government business in the colonizers language. However this common language is probably all they had in common. Unlike in Asia and the Middle East were the continent was already dominated by a certain cultures long before the Europeans, and the America's where the natives were more or less annihilated and or assimilated, Africa was very diverse. Valuing one of hundreds of native languages might have heightened ethnic conflict. One important thing to not is it's probably not just language. Northern Cameroon was a British colony and the South was French and developed differently to a degree culturally and hence feel alienated for more reasons then just differing languages.

They sound like they've beed paid off to do this "report" this is a joke!

🙏🏻❤ This piece of reporting is a joke! She seems to have gotten her "facts" straight from the mouth of Byia himself! So much 💩💩💩 was said in this report!

This has nothing to do with language, TV only works for the bully! Their job is to disinform!

You said it 250 + native so 250 states ? French or English play a crusial role as linga franca

Why?

CA BO it would be better because that will give the country at a higher GDP and more resources to cell and make money for the country but that would be if Nigeria was not corrupt as f***and use the money correctly so if Nigeria cleans up the ACT sure that would be better but as long as Nigeria is corrupt as it is probably not

Rubbish, who is talking of joining with someone again

mrkjsmooth16 the Biafra state has never succeeded in separating from the rest of Nigeria and be on its own, Now you are talking about joining Nigeria bro !!?

Nope, no, nada! Separating from a crooked to join another crooked? bruh