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Another interesting theme that the novelist dwells upon is forbidden love between two individuals of unequal social strata. Ngu writes: “The town now caught in the throes of scandal and intrigue, awaited the resolution of the unfolding drama. The fragile bonds of loyalty, love and family faced...
Just because in the course of its implementation since 1961, Cameroon's bilingualism has run into a number of difficulties: the law of the majority has conferred a de facto preponderance on French, despite all relevant constitutional provisions; the promotion of bilingualism has remained minimal or...
You have to NEED to rebuild, otherwise you won’t. There are plenty of parts of Rome still around from 2000 years ago, particularly the roads. But after Rome fell, nobody built another one for well over a thousand years. Because they didn’t need one. Currently we rely on a -mountain...
Therefore the rate of inbreeding is a measure of the sustainability of a population. This study reports the general trends in the rate of inbreeding observed through population analyses of all 215 pedigree dog breeds currently recognised by the UK Kennel Club, over the period 1980 to 2014. For...
Bronze Age spread of Yamnaya Steppe pastoralist ancestry into two subcontinents—Europe and South Asia. Credit: DEMIS Mapserver / Wikimedia Commons The results question older ideas, like the Italo-Germanic theory, which proposed closer language connections between Italic and Germanic languages. The res...
with the overt and covert complicity of France. In that connection Christian Cardinal Tumi, still in his book quoted above, writes (on page 33) that a French diplomat in Rome had told him that France's policy in Cameroon was "to wipe out theAnglo-saxon cultureof the Anglophone minority ...
of tribal groupings that exist in Cameroon, and is regarded by Cameroonians ‘as a major lingua franca… spoken by 50% of the population’ (Kouega 2008: 11). Pidgin is a medium of communication for people who have no first language in common. It functions as a vehicular language, the ...
to obtain higher education and to avail themselves of economic opportunities that are non-existent at home. In the United States of America, it has been branded “living the American Dream”. In theory, the American dream is sweet but there is a painful flipside. In the Western media, Afric...