Francophones make nonsense of Anglophone Crisis after failing BAC Exams

Francophone students resident in the North West and South West Regions of Cameroon who failed the 2017 session of the Baccalaureate (BAC), Examinations, have attributed their failure to the Anglophone Crisis.

Their performances this year dwindled drastically as compared to the past years.  

But their criticisms have termed by many Anglophones as ridiculous because according to many Anglophones who spoke to Cameroon Concord, Francophone students were not prevented from going to school in the wake of the Anglophone Crisis.

“Francophone Students who are based in the North West and South West Regions were going to school unperturbed. This is was an Anglophone Problem and we did not want to drag our Francophone brothers into it. Even though it was provocative at times, seeing their children going to school while ours were at home, we could not do anything. So they should stop blaming the Anglophone Crisis because they effectively went to school,” one of our respondents, who refused to be named, stated.

According to statistics of 2017 BAC results, the Northwest Region recorded 44.14 percent pass in 2017 as compared to 52 percent in 2016, while the Southwest Region recorded 41 percent pass in 2017 as opposed to 60 percent pass in 2016.

Other Regions with very poor results are the three Northern Regions.