Journalists celebrate Press Freedom Day amidst heavy govt crackdown

By Wifah Jennyhans Nde Press freedom could be defined as the right of journalists or media organs to publish information without government censorship or control. Its practice started centuries back in the U.S and later spread across the world. The existence of press freedom in Cameroon is a bleak reality. It is finely inscribed in the constitution of the land but the practice of which is a nightmare particularly to those who practice the profession, journalism. As Gwain Colbert a journalist in Bamenda puts it, ‘the law allowing press freedom in this country is finely crafted and abandoned in the…