Cameroon: Bilingualism Commission Launches Multiculturalism Day To Promote Cultural Diversity

The National Commission for the Promotion Bilingualism and Multiculturalism, NCPBM, has launched the Multiculturalism Day, a programme aimed at showcasing and valorizing Cameroon’s cultural diversity. The day was launch in Yaounde Friday 26 February 2021.

Bilingualism commission launches multiculturalism day

Speaking while launching the day, the President of the Commission, Peter Mafany Musonge said the commission has declared the last Fridays of every month for the day so as to make the showcasing of our different cultures which falls among one of the missions of the commission.

“…the official policy is to promote multiculturalism, that means understanding our people, coexistence and living together,” Musonge explained, adding that with growing global problems of intolerance and rejection, the initiative will be a perfect way of bringing together and bonding Cameroonians in their diversity as well as preserving these much-cherished cultural values.

Peter Mafany Musonger, President of Bilingualism commission

“…we also know that we have certain traditions within our tribes, ethnic groups and languages which because of external forces, start copying and so on may die. We need to preserve them by starting with a little step with an organ charge to promote the aspect to see how to celebrate Cameroon’s customs and tradition and also expose how gorgeous it is,” he stated.

Musonge disclosed that the monthly Multiculturalism Day, would involve displays of the country’s rich cuisine, traditional values, dress codes, from the country’s over 250 ethnic groups grouped into four cultural zones including the Sudano Sahelian, Sawa, Grass field and Fang-Beti.

“…through the day, the world at large will see the love and attachment of Cameroonians to their culture and will do everything to preseqrve it as well as live in tolerance, understanding and living together in peace,” Musonge said.

By Doh Bertrand Nua