Cameroon: As Happy as a Publisher

In Cameroon, the days of official censorship are gone. Newspapers with scrambled words or blank pages are museum pieces. Journalists are free to write what they want, when they want and how they want it; granted they are backed by facts. However, this new found freedom is having a threat of another type. We are talking about people who deliberately decide to stop the public from having access to some particular published information.

And how is this be possible, you might ask? Well, it's very simple. If you think a certain edition of a newspaper carries information that augurs ill for your reputation, then, simply buy all the copies of the paper from the newsstands. It happened yesterday, it is happening today, and from all indications, it will happen tomorrow.

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