Cameroon is a highly divided
country along linguistic lines, and authorities of the nation are doing their
best to promote the divide. When it finally explode, probably most of them
would have died and their children living abroad.
Almost all occasions that
bring Anglophones and Francophones together, have become harbingers of what is
known today as the Anglophone Problem. In the just ended All University Games
of Cameroon for example, there were very visible signs of the divide as
manifested in the way officials threated Anglophone participants. It appeared
to have been carefully thought out and orchestrated by Francophones and some
few Anglophones who have no consciences.
During the games, in any
duel between a school from Anglophone Cameroon and a school from French
Cameroon, Francophones officials would do all to make sure their team goes
ahead, most often bending the rules. In one of the quarter finals of female
football pitting the University of Bamenda (UBa) against the University of
Ngaoundéré, for example, as Yaoundé authorities grew surprised at the
collective play style of the Bamenda girls, they appeared resolved to do their
best to make sure Bamenda girls didn’t sail through to the semifinals.
Consider this for example.
The girls from Bamenda scored three goals but they were all canceled by either
the referee on the centre of the filed or his assistants in an incoherent manner.
Sometimes the referee would allow the goal but his assistant would disallow it
and vice versa. In spite of that, UBa girls finally won after post-match
penalties.
Source: Cameroon Journal
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