fulano - “…Problem was the lack of capable brothers…”
I suspect a “lack of capable brothers” is becoming an issue pretty much everywhere.
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The Curious Case of Cameroon in Africa in the World Report
by LaFrancia 16 Replies latest watchtower beliefs
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Vidiot
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Beth Sarim
I know.
No one wants the extra responsibility anymore. And not getting paid for it either..
On top of tne high cost of living....& expenses....
Its just too much these days.
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Vidiot
Passive resistance counts…
…even when the resistors don’t even know they’re doing it.
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careful
According to the article "Languages of Cameroon" on wiki, there are "at least 250 languages, with some accounts reporting around 600." Given how powerful Geoffrey Jackson has become on the GB and his bent for separate language congregations, this is probably the major reason for the oddity that LaFrancia has noted.
Most likely he has convinced the GB to break up earlier-formed larger congs. with multiple langs. spoken in them into smaller, individual separate ones with just one lang. spoken in it.
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fulano
@Careful.
Almost every Cameroon citizen speaks French, or English. So I don’t think the other languages have much to do with it.
” French and English are the official languages of Cameroon. Eight out of the ten regions of the nation, housing 83% of the population of Cameroon, are francophones. The remaining two regions, representing 17% of Cameroon’s population are mainly anglophones. However, the proportion of anglophones in the country is gradually decreasing.”
https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/what-languages-are-spoken-in-cameroon.html
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Journeyman
I think Careful could be on to something there. The Org has become obsessed with more and more localised and niche languages - a look at all their literature releases and the languages they claim on their website shows this. And foreign language groups and congregations are likely to be smaller, but more numerous in countries with many local tribes, languages and dialects, as can apply across Africa.
Although Fulano says that Cameroon is mostly French or English speaking, that World Atlas data does suggest more than a quarter of the population speak neither language, and recent news from Africa shows that the Francophone world there is getting sick of French colonial presence and increasingly rejecting French political and military influence, just as they have from English colonial powers, so I wouldn't be surprised if there were not a corresponding rise in take-up of local dialects and languages, as often happens when culture becomes politicised.
Apart from French and English, the Find A Meeting on the JW website says they have meetings in Cameroon in:
- Douala
- Ewondo
- West African Pidgin
- Cameroon Sign Language
- Ghomala
- Gbaya
- Boulou
- Toupouri
- Awing
Some of them seem to be highly regional - for example, "Awing" only seems to exist in three congregations clustered in the NW of the country. According to Wikipedia the language is thought to have 19,000 native speakers in that region (2001 figures, so could be more now, but still quite a small population).
This article from last summer outlines some of the problems faced in Francophone Africa, and why they are leaning away from France and looking to increase their own independence.
https://www.voanews.com/a/cameroon-meeting-of-french-speaking-africa-lawmakers-decry-instability-foreign-influence-/7633204.html -
Diogenesister
Could it be the reason Germany has way more publishers than Ghana, but a lot less congregations, may be because property is so much more expensive inGermany? Whereas in Ghana they may have congs in places that cost peanuts to build? Just a thought....