Asanda-Jonas Benya speaks with Eileen Manka Tabuwe Akwo
In this interview, Asanda-Jonas Benya (AB) speaks to Eileen Manka Tabuwe Akwo (EA), a scholar and feminist activist based in Cameroon. Since the war in Cameroon broke out in 2017, Eileen has been active in women’s peacebuilding activism in the South West and North West Women’s Task Force (SNWOT). Below, she takes us through the work that women have been doing to bring about peace in the country. The background to the mobilisation efforts of the SNWOT women can be traced back to the “Anglophone Crisis” which started in 2016.
This crisis was sparked off by a series of protests by Anglophone lawyers against the appointment of a majority of Francophone magistrates to Anglophone courts. Anglophone teachers later joined these protests to demand reforms, especially regarding the educational system.
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