[/media-credit] Cameroon’s Prime Minister, Philemon Yang chairs a meeting at his office in Yaounde.
Put aside your partisan hat for a second and let’s look at the realities over the last few years. It used to be that the Cameroon government did not even have a website. We’ll–the major voice of the government, its radio and television organs, CRTV, are now answering present on the internet.
These communication tools have been there for a while now. It used to be that everything was slow and all you had were the old landlines, old voices, old stories of pride and prejudice.
Now the nation boasts of wireless communities and devices all over the place. It used to be that once you left Cameroon, there was no way you could catch up with your favorite programs like Cameroon Calling, Dimanche Midi, and your beloved TV and Radio shows. Now, you can listen to the video and audio clips of news from CRTV online.
Cameroon is not a perfect nation, to say the least. Most countries, including the mighty United States, have issues.
Meanwhile, to push the winds of democracy forward, Cameroon’s youth have to wake up from their deep slumber and do something. Like, say changing the current political status quo in the country. Change is in the hands of young people.
Are today’s Cameroonian youth lazy? To a certain extent, I’ll say yes. They gripe and complain a lot but do nothing to change the situation. Besides, we need to find the right tools and resources to equip the youth to become much more engaged in the affairs of the nation.
Politics aside, someone in Cameroon knows–deep in their heart, that if they don’t do this new media thing, the train will leave the entire nation behind. To me, that’s a step ahead, not a step behind.
