Bambili youths shut down businesses

Bambili youths Shut down businesses in Protest over land tussle.

          By Lum Precious 

Businesses have been temporarily brought to a halt in bambili by some angry youths with clubs.

Closed shops 

 This is due to a land dispute that resulted to the burning of houses, butchering of people's hands and legs by armed men.

   Businesses were shut down as a result of a protest and strike action by the angry masses of Bambili.

 The injured person's were rushed to the hospital meanwhile others ran to the Fon's palace for protection.

The angry masses conveyed on 3Corners Bambili in a protest action to express their anger and grievances.

Angry youths protesting

 This drew the attention of the Division Officer, Massango Metougue Narcisse who came to revamp the issue with a speech to calm the people down

   In his speech, the DO assured them that he was going to look into their case by investigating " it is a rather unfortunate thing but the method we are using is the wrong method. The best way I can advise you is to calm down and go home. I am waiting for the SDO's go ahead to get to the scene and investigate". The D.O emphasis.

D O addressing the angry youths 

   He further goes ahead to say " I no want hear say they lock store. If wuna want stay for junction, I no get me problem but make people them continue with their activities".

It is worth noting that the people had gone to the DO on a number occasions to complain on the invasion of their land.However, this dispute draws back from 2016

Pidgin on campus in UBa

 PIDGIN; THE ORDER OF THE DAY IN THE UNIVERSITY OF BAMENDA.

            By Lum Precious

Conversations in Pidgin while in lecture hall

University students have failed to exercise the use of the English language on campus as a primary language in an Anglo-Saxon university. 

Pidgin out of class

These students have made it a habit to discuss and interact in pidgin while on campus. Seen on the streets, on campus and in lecture halls, students converse in pidgin English before or even after lectures. Pidgin English has become the most used language by almost every individual on campus. 

After class conversation in pidgin

Despite in an Anglo-Saxon university, these students say they prefer to speak in pidgin reasons being that, it is the language they are comfortable and versed with while amongst their peers and friends. after observing these behaviors, in a quest to find out the raison d’etre for students’ choice of pidgin, I caught up with some interesting reasons and how this pidgin English has affected and is affecting them

Yannick Awa is a first-year master’s student in the department of management and he denotes that “pidgin is common because it is a language that students do not only speak in school but also out of school. So irrespective of the campus they will always speak in pidgin. You can find most of them speaking in English only when they are in class or when they are talking to higher authorities or lectures”. He continues to say that, “pidgin can affect students English in that they will be find it difficult to carry out a presentation in front of their peers fluently and not in pidgin English” 

Meanwhile Ambe Bless a student from the faculty of science reveals that “I cannot respond to someone who speaks in pidgin in English; it makes it look like you are too pompous and you know too much, thereby belittling the person”. As a reminder of how it affects their expression in English, Bless depicts that “if you speak pidgin too much, at some point, it becomes part of you. In some interview or any important conversation where you are required to speak in English and you cannot, then you may loose whatever opportunity that was available” he says.

Ironically, though these students have confessed their love for pidgin, it is worth noting that they are versed and familiar with the repercussion that comes with speaking pidgin. Though pidgin destroys our fluency in English, it is important to just understand the language because it is a form of communication in the suburbs to pass across vital information

UBa: CADS level 500 introduced to blogging

 UBa: Cads Level 500 introduced to Blogging.

    By Lum Precious

Final year students in the department of communication and development studies (CADS) have been schooled on the creation and maintenance of a blog.

Practical session on blog creation

This took place in an online communication class over the weekend, supervised by Dr.Manzie Vincent and assisted by Ngong Song Jean Marie.

These students assembled in their numbers at PBA 03 in the University campus not only to fulfill the condition of attending the class but with the determination to be a blog owner at the end of the class.

Many were faced with the challenge of network failure which hindered them from creating a blog post but they were able to take down every step so as to create their blogs back at home.

At the end of the class, these students were able to gain the objective of the class which is to help them incorporate writing,editing, fact checking and sharing of contents through their blog post.