"Your Language is the most precious element in life that still includes all major values of your ancestors. What does that mean for your children, and your grandchildren and their future?"

HIV/AIDS was speaking my mother tongue

Some years ago my elder brother passed on after a long illness. According to tradition, his immediate follower inherited his wife. He too passed away. Later on, the implicated woman accused of witchcraft died too...

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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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Bafut proverb

If you catch the young one of the animal you will see the mother.