Martin Jumbam

How CRTV Covered the Pope's Visit to Cameroon

By Martin Jumbam

A few days before the Holy Father's arrival in Cameroon, I did what I would, under normal circumstances, not do, that is, take the time to listen to CRTV radio or watch its television.

However, since the Pope's visit was an extraordinary event, it called for extraordinary action on my part; and so I found myself sitting in my office one morning listening to a guest speaker on a CRTV morning French program.

“Lay bridges of social peace and justice among people,” recommends Christian Cardinal Tumi

The University of Buea, in English-speaking Cameroon, prides itself as the only university, among the seven state-run universities in Cameroon, that allies itself more closely with the Anglo-Saxon university tradition. It therefore gives pride of place to contacts, in the form of seminars, workshops and conferences, with universities in the English-speaking world, in Europe, Africa and the Americas. One such contact was the recent (November 2008) conference on “Bridging the Atlantic”, which it jointly organized with two US-based universities: Morehouse College in Atlanta, Georgia, and Purdue University in Indiana. The keynote address, reproduced below, was given by the Catholic Archbishop of Douala, His Eminence Christian Cardinal Tumi.