Events agenda

  • 2009-09-08
    International Literacy Day
  • 2009-04-24
    SIL Cameroon site goes live!

Diversité culturelle et Internet multilingue en Afrique

La SIL a été invitée à intervenir lors la conférence internationale des ingénieurs organisée par l’Association des Ingénieurs Diplômés de l’Ecole Nationale Polytechnique de Yaoundé. Les travaux de cette conférence se sont tenus à l’Hôtel Hilton et étaient placés sous le thème « Diversité culturelle et Internet Multilingue en Afrique »...

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Bonne année 2010

Au nom de tout le personnel de la SIL et en mon nom propre, je saisis cette opportunité pour vous adresser nos sincères remerciements et toute notre gratitude pour votre collaboration dans le cadre de la mise en valeur de nos langues nationales et de l’éducation multilingue au Cameroun...

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Happy and blessed New Year

On behalf of all the personnel of SIL Cameroon, I would like to take this opportunity to express our sincere thanks and gratitude to you for partnering with us in supporting language development and multilingual education in Cameroon...

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SIL Research Featured at JERSIC 2009

The Cameroon Ministry of Scientific Research and Innovation has just organized the second edition of the JERSIC “Week of Excellence in Scientific Research and Innovation in Cameroon”. This is a national and international opportunity given to different researchers working in Cameroon to show to the public their results...

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New Translation Training Put to the Test

The Bamenda Regional Office of SIL Cameroon hosted a brand new course - Training in Exegetical Principles (TEP). The goal of this course was to teach students from Aghem, Babanki and Pinyin languages, three languages spoken in the Northwest region of Cameroon skills in exegesis which they could then apply in their language work...

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Good News Spreads—Nzime to Njyem!

The Nzime New Testament reached East Cameroon in 1998, but was little read. However, once the organization “Faith Comes By Hearing” recorded the New Testament and made it available on solar-powered digital players called Proclaimers, the Nzime gladly received God’s message...

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Another Cameroonian language now standardised.

The Mmala Language Committee composed of Bébiyémé Nkono Raymond, Kiolé Frédéric, Ombiono Jean, Akegni Moïse, Babissakana Bossé and Batabak Jean-Marie, met in Yaounde with SIL linguist Ginger Boyd to revise the Numala Orthography Guide...

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Lance & Abby to the Ndop Plain!

The news has been traveling among our SIL colleagues and our friends and family in our home country: we are going to do language development work on the Ndop Plain! This has been an exciting and long awaited development in our lives and careers...

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Akwaya Church Leaders consider mother tongues

"Does Bible translation and literacy have a role to play in the vision of the churches of Akwaya?" This was one of the important questions addressed by church leaders and SIL representatives in the remote town of Akwaya, South West Province, on February 7th this year...

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New Personnel to the Mbedam language in the Far North Region of Cameroon

SIL is pleased to announce that Philip Burgess has been assigned to do linguistic work with the Mbedam language in the Mokolo Subdivision, Mayo-Tsanaga Division, Far North Region of Cameroon. Although Philip is newly assigned to this project and is new to linguistic work in Cameroon, he is not a newcomer to Cameroon- he has already spent more than 16 years in Cameroon...

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Triennial Conference of SIL Cameroon

From April 14-21 SIL Cameroon held its 17th Branch Conference. This is a triennial event that brings the members of SIL Cameroon together from all over the country to celebrate progress and to think through progress for the future...

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The Executive Director of SIL International visits Cameroon

From April 2 – 6, 2009, SIL Cameroon had the privilege to welcome Mr. Freddy Boswell, the Executive Director of SIL International. This was the first visit of Mr. Boswell to Cameroon. He met with the leadership team, the executive Committee and with the personnel of SIL Cameroon...

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SIL International President visits Ejagham area in Cameroon:

Background: Dr. John R. Watters, President of SIL International, and his wife, Kathie Watters, worked with various speakers of the Ejagham language community from 1974-1989 to develop a written form of their language...

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Minister of Basic Education Visits KEPP Classroom

The Cameroon Minister of Basic Education, Mdm. Haman Adama, visited
one of the Kom Education Pilot Project schools on 01 February 2008.
The Minister, en route to Foundong where she participated in the
celebration of Bilingualism Day, took time out of her busy schedule to
visit the Multilingual Education class at G...

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Annual Report 2008 Off the Presses !

YAOUNDE - After weeks of hard work the Annual Report 2008 came off the SIL presses. Colorful and loaded with information this report presents a year of SIL activities. This year's theme is Connecting People through Language...

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Multilingual education in Cameroon: It works

Cameroonians often seem to focus largely on what is done in neighboring countries. Sometimes, this is they don’t know about the great things happening within Cameroon. For that reason SIL Cameroon organized a four-day visit to the Kom education pilot project in the Province of North West, Boyo division where people from eight different governmental ministries were presented...

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International Literacy Day 2008 in Cameroon

"Literacy is the best remedy." That is the theme of the 42nd Edition of the International Literacy Day 2008, which was celebrated on September 8th, as it’s done every year. The national celebration for Cameroon was held at Ebolowa, the provincial capital of the South Province, 150 km from Yaoundé...

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Bafut proverb

You are throwing water on a water frog's back. You are throwing water on a duck's back.

Meaning