Cameroon - Anglophone crisis: Nicoletta Mariolini, Swiss Federal Delegate for Plurilingualism, arrived in Yaoundé to share her experience with the Peter Mafany Musonge Commission.
Created to resolve one of the claims of the English-speaking minority in Cameroon, the National Commission for the Promotion of Bilingualism and Multiculturalism (CNPBM) is drawing on the experience of Switzerland, a country with four official languages.
On Monday 22 January 2018, Nicoletta Mariolini, Swiss Federal Delegate for Plurilingualism, begins a one-week official working visit to Cameroon. A great figure in the practice of multilingualism, Nicoletta Mariolini is the host of the National Commission for Bilingualism and Multiculturalism (CNPB).
Created on 23 January 2017 to resolve one of the claims of the English-speaking minority in Cameroon, the CNPBM, chaired by former Prime Minister Peter Mafany Musonge, wants to draw on the Swiss experience to achieve its goal.
Switzerland, a central European country, has the distinction of having four official languages, namely German, French, Italian and Romanche.
Nicoletta Mariolini, Swiss Federal delegated to multilingualism is invited to share the experience of his country in the management of multilingual and multicultural societies with the authorities of Cameroon, a country with two official languages, French and English.
On this occasion, "CNPBM President Peter Mafany Musonge and some senior officials of the CNPBM will hold a working session with the Swiss Federal Delegate on Monday, January 22 at the headquarters of the National Commission for Bilingualism and Multiculturalism in Yaounde. The exchanges will focus on the possible areas of cooperation to meet the challenge of strengthening national cohesion and the promotion of living together between the different cultural and linguistic communities of Cameroon, "said a statement from the CNPB reached our editorial.
Source: CIN