BEAC and Cameroon’s Bilingualism

It is on record that, the last straw that broke the camel’s back about four years ago, over the issue of the marginalisation of the English speaking people of Cameroon, was the annoying issue of having only the French version of the OHADA Law in operation in a bilingual country. This, it would be remembered, seriously angered Common Law Lawyers of English speaking expression. The Lawyers peacefully took to the streets, to democratically express their grievances. The reaction of the Government to this is needless to recount. The entire world knows. It was a nasty and humiliating confrontation of armed…