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Paul Biya's Presidential Win in Cameroon Heightens the Ambazonia Crisis

Paul Biya isn’t a monarch, but he sure acts like one. The second-longest-ruling head of state in the world, 85-year-old Biya just won a seventh term as President of Cameroon after a campaign rife with controversy. The election results didn’t come as a surprise to the people of Cameroon, although for many citizens, the president’s win destroyed the last vestiges of a silver lining of hope. My country stands on the brink of civil war. Still reeling from its colonial past involv

Special Report from Cameroon: Why have schools been closed for a year in Anglophone-minority regions

Photo: Alberto Vaccaro I remember Friday 18th November 2016 very clearly. The principal of my school gave his daily morning announcements as usual, but he told us that we shouldn’t return to school on Monday, as the teachers would start a ‘’stay at home strike’’ to protest the “francophonization” of the English system of education in Cameroon (more on this later). At first, my fellow students and I thought, “Wow, this is amazing, we’ll have a free day or even a week!” This wa

the THIRD degree: ISSUE 1

EDITOR'S NOTE: Below is the first issue of the 'the THIRD degree', a newspaper written by pre-teen students of the Uppity Witches class at Different Directions in New York, NY. For your convenience, you may also download a PDF version of the paper. Enjoy! ______________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________

How supporting women's soccer in Cameroon promotes peace for entire communities

A common sight during the late afternoons or weekends in villages and cities across Cameroon is that of boys playing soccer. In 1863, the same year as the sport was established by the Football Association of England, soccer was imported to the African continent by British colonists, making it a global, rather than distinctly European, game. Yet it was the British who determined the rules of the game in Europe and Africa. Only men were allowed to play, and the sex-segregated n

Empowerment and interviewing the fon (king) in the village of Bawock, Cameroon

In August some of our Advice Project teen journalists from Cameroon and the USA attended the Bawock Empowerment Conference in Bawock, a village in the Northwest region of Cameroon. Below, Catherine, Shneider, and Gaelle report. GAELLE: Yesterday our Advice Project team went to Bawock to attend an empowerment conference, visit the village's palace, and to also interview the Fon of Bawock, HRH Nana Wanda III. The conference was organized by Marie-claire Kuja from the Marie-clai

Building Roads and Ending the Harmful Traditional Practice of Widow Rites in Bawock, Cameroon

A war broke out in 2007 between the villages of Bali and Bawock (Cameroon) over ancestral land rights. Bali, with over 50,000 inhabitants, quickly crushed Bawock, which had just over 5,000 members in its community. Crops were razed, hundreds of homes were burned to the ground, and the palace of the Fon (King) of Bawock was destroyed. Many of the men of fighting age in Bawock died, leaving their widows behind to fend for themselves. Last year I visited Bawock on behalf of Advi

Premiere of HIDDEN TRUTHS at the Millennial Empowerment Conference (*WATCH NOW ONLINE*)

(VIDEO BELOW!!) In 2015, two of our second-year Advice Project teen journalists - Shneider Remi Adams and Gaelle Mambo, from Bamenda, Cameroon - filmed a documentary about some of the gender-based issues teen girls face in their community. Focusing on child abuse, hawking (the selling of wares in the streets and in markets), rape, and breast ironing, Shneider and Gaelle not only illustrated the problems, but they presented innovative solutions. The documentary, called Hidden

Dear Future Women of Cameroon

Written by Advice Project Media's Cameroon Program Manager, Fomuso Blessing Nabila, to future generations of women of Cameroon: Dear Future Women of Cameroon, I believe you will have advanced very much as a society by the time these words reach you. From where I write in 2016, women are bonded by corruption, bribery, and unemployment, and most of all, by violent cultural practices perpetrated against women and girls. Grandmothers and mothers iron their daughters’ breasts flat

Victim-Blaming of Teen Rape Survivors in Cameroon

In 1993, the United Nations general assembly defined violence against women as any act of gender-based violence that causes physical or psychological harm to women. Rape, for example, which is by definition the attempted or completed vaginal, oral, or anal penetration of someone against his or her will, is one example of gender-based violence that overwhelmingly affects women. According to a United Nations’ survey of crime trends in 2008, the rape rate in my country, Camer