Anglophone Problem takes center stage in Yaounde public debates

The population of the nation capital, Yaoundé has refused to remain indifferent to what is happing in the Anglophone Regions of the North West and South West. The debate of problems posed by Anglophones through Teachers Trade Unions and Common Law Lawyers have taken central stage in private audio visual media organs, offices, schools, taxis, transport vehicles, streets and bars with people expressing mixed feeling.
Listening to a private radio station in Yaoundé based at the Essos neighbourhood, Magic FM 100.1 last week in its interactive call in programme “Magic Attitude” anchored by its Chief of Station, Jules Elobo, one could hear some listeners acknowledging and supporting the Anglophone course as genuine while others simply claimed that Anglophones just like Francophones also have problems.

Another spot that produces heated debate on the Anglophone problem has been newsstands scattered all over Yaoundé where readers on daily basis analyze headlines of newspaper. Some newspapers vendors in the nation capital confided in The SUN that ever since the strike began, Anglophone newspapers are being given a lot of consideration as readers want to get the latest happenings in the North West and South West Regions.

As the deadlock between the government and the Anglophone Consortium persists, some Francophones have objectively been admiring Anglophones for the courage to stand up for their rights unlike some of them who prefer to grumble in silence.
From the reactions and counter-reactions observed, keen observers are asking the government to be proactive and tactful in solving the Anglophone problem for fear it may contaminate the Francophone regions of the country.

The Sun