A Legitimate Call for Separate Government

Anschaire Aveved, PhD.
Anthropologist and Independent Researcher

Picture was taken during a funeral at the occasion of which successor rights are transferred to a designated male descendant of the deceased, in Bafang in 2011, North-West regions of Cameroon. © Photo by Anschaire Aveved.

Two separate notions on who is an Anglophone have been gathering attention and shaping up against one another since the onset of political unrest in the North-West and South-West administrative regions of the Republic of Cameroon. The first and prevailing notion, especially outside of the country, is that Anglophones are English-speakers of the country’s English-speaking area corresponding to the former British Southern Cameroons.[1]. In the background of this notion is the assumption that Anglophones are the bulk of Cameroonians, wherever they are, who have been presumably educated in English and have thus become, more or less, the bearers of English language and British culture. Common law and the British-inspired educational curriculum have been epitomized by the demonstrations of lawyers and teachers as the expression of that culture and its resilient façade in the country’s political institutions. ​

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