The crisis in the Northwest and Southwest regions of Cameroon, now four years old, started in 2016 when lawyers and teachers took to Buea and Bamenda’s streets to protest the French language dominating Anglophone courts and schools. The strike action gained public support and turned into a popular uprising demanding
According to Digital 2020 Cameroon, there were 3.70 million social media users in Cameroon by January 2020. The number of social media users in Cameroon increased by 360,000 (+11%) between April 2019 and January 2020. This increase comes with social media misuse, especially on Facebook, where online bullying is rampant.
Protests in October 2016 around the “Anglophone problem” addressing the marginalisation of the specific anglophone cultural, social, educational, and juristic practices in the two English-speaking regions were solely controlled with an intense military presence and security forces. The situation has escalated into an armed separatist conflict. The radicalisation of particular
