[Lgpolicy] Online Event | 27 November | Forging New Language Policies in Cameroon

[Francis M. Hult via Lgpolicy]

Via LANGPOL...

Save the date: Monday 27 November webinar, 15:00 - 16:30 CET (Amsterdam,
Yaoundé) (this is 10 am in New York; 2 pm Accra and London; 4 pm
Johannesburg; 5 pm Nairobi).

Presenter: Dr Seraphin Kamdem, SOAS, University of London (UK)

This webinar is the last this year of the series organised by the Edinburgh
Circle on the Promotion of African Languages
<https://afrilang.wixsite.com/afrilang> together with the Leiden University
Centre for Linguistics
<https://www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/humanities/leiden-university-centre-for-linguistics>.
See abstract below.

Zoom link (registration not necessary):
https://universiteitleiden.zoom.us/j/63863239013?pwd=THNraXpKM3U5cXRIOU1HSDAvZDM3UT09
Meeting ID: 638 6323 9013. Passcode: pAkt*fW1

Enjoy,

Bert

*Cameroon: 273 local languages, French, English, German, Spanish,
CamPidgin, and many others all together; Forging new multilingual language
policies*
27 November 2023

Cameroon is considered by many as ‘Africa in miniature’ because of its high
diversity in terms of its natural landscape and geography, its human
composition, and especially the many languages making up its multilingual
landscape. However, the language policies borne out of a colonial agenda of
division and exploitation ensure that the local languages are excluded as
languages of teaching from the education system and from most of the public
domains and spaces.

But how has the implementation of language policies inherited from colonial
times impacted the evolution of local languages in their use in education
and public communication?

After giving a brief overview of the multilingual ‘ecosystem’ of Cameroon,
this presentation will provide an account of the development in language
policies in Cameroon, while examining critically the challenges faced in
the actual implementation of some of those policies. The presenter will
also provide some information on some recent grassroots efforts,
educational changes, and advocacy work that are trying to bring about some
significant changes in the Cameroonian educational sectors, in a bid to
bring about more linguistic justice and more empowerment of local languages
so that they can better fulfill their necessary roles as tools and
resources for sustainable development, and for an education system that
does not perpetuate the declining intergenerational transmission of local
languages and cultures.
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