Professor Carlson Anyangwe gave an interview last month to La Nouvelle Expression (LNE) that was published online on Wednesday November 12.
Below is the full English language text of the responses given to the LNE reporter, Mr. Omer Mbadi Otabela.
1- In what terms can the anglophone identity problem in Cameroun be defined?
The question you have just asked appears to suggest that there is a community of people known as ‘anglophones’ who happen to find themselves in the French world of Cameroun Republic and who are suffering from an identity crisis. Cameroun Republic is of course the former French Cameroun which achieved national independence on 1 January 1960. I am not aware that there is within the frontiers of that country a community of people known as ‘anglophones’ and who now have an identity crisis. There are many citizens of Cameroun Republic who are proficient in English as a second language. You may speak of them as ‘anglophones’ but I very much doubt that they have an identity problem in their country.
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