Anglophone Crisis: Lecturer makes history at University of Yaounde I

A lecturer at the University of Yaoundé I has surprised his students with a question in English.

According to a certain student of Mathematics from the Faculty of Sciences, they were taken unaware on Thursday by one of their lecturers who set one of his questions in English for the first time. It was during a test for 20 marks when the students surprisingly found the last question for 4.5 marks in a different language, not French. 

Even though our source claimed that it was due to the simplicity of the question, there is every indication that the lecturer was influenced by the recent wave of reforms sparked by the unrest in Southern Cameroons.

Since the creation of the National Commission for the Promotion of Bilingualism and Multiculturalism, there has been a complete change of attitude by Francophones who try on a daily basis to coin broken sentences in English.Thursday’s action came on a day when the members of the commission were officially taking office.

Our source however said some lecturers do set their questions in English.