By Kini Nsom & Nformi Sonde Kinsai
The Chairman of the Cameroon National Salvation Front, CNSF, party, Issa Tchiroma Abdoubakari, has disclosed that he studied English while in detention.
The former Minister of Transport made the disclosure in a chat with The Post in Yaounde, June 17.
Tchiroma, whose political party is barely a year old, narrated that in the wake of the 1984 foiled coup plot, he, like other brothers of the northern provinces, was picked up and jailed for over seven years on allegations of his involvement in the coup.
He said even though it later turned out that he was innocent; he gained enormously while in detention for he used the period, with the support of his wife who brought the literature to prison, to study the English Language.
Tchiroma noted that English is widely spoken across the world and urges Cameroonians to strive to be truly bilingual.
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There seems to be a good English school in prison. Paul Biya would be a deserving student.
Posted by: Ma Mary | Friday, 20 June 2008 at 09:06 AM
Very annoying that Tchiroma has studied English. I wish him a heavy Francophone accent and perhaps Mr Biya can appoint him Ambassador to London.
Fact: Francophone extremist Paul Biya who craves for a French speaking zone in Africa, has never appointed an Angloiphone as Ambassador to the UK.
The proud Cameroonian community here continues to be served by heavily accented Francophone bosses who share little with the population and have no ability to read an English newspaper.
Posted by: Kumbaboy | Saturday, 21 June 2008 at 12:27 AM
Immigration in France is tight these days. I will see where those block-headed Francophones in Cameroon would take their french to. IDIOTS!!
Posted by: UnitedstatesofAfrica | Saturday, 21 June 2008 at 03:39 AM
Hahahaha Kumba boy.
It should sound like a reminder to the rest of Cameroonians that an Anglophone(put it this way a Southern Cameroonian) has/will never be an Ambassador to Australia, Nigeria, UK,US, Canada, Liberia, Sierre Leone, Ghana etc in short in any Common Wealth country.
Posted by: massamoyo | Saturday, 21 June 2008 at 02:47 PM
The anglophobic nature of the Paul Biya regime is a mere expression of the handicap of his generation.
They would love Cameroon to be known as a Francophone country "Cameroun". This great country is nothing but Francophone.
Posted by: Tekum Mbeng | Saturday, 21 June 2008 at 04:30 PM