Elizabeth Mosima
20 November 2008
Being a student in Cameroon does not only consist of receiving lectures, carrying out research work with the aim of passing exams at the end of the year and obtaining end of course certificates.
It is also having knowledge of the socio-economic, political and historic potentials of the society. It is for this reason that a two-day interdisciplinary colloquium under the theme "Yaounde Capital City" opened at the amphi theatre 700 in the campus of the University of Yaounde 1 yesterday.
The colloquium is organised by members of the club of the department of History-Geography-Archaeology (CHGA) in the Faculty of Arts Letters and Social Sciences.
It aims at showing the cultural, touristic, economic and political potentials of Yaounde with the view of endowing the capital city with identifiable characteristics.
According to the President of the club, Alvine Assembe, the colloquium is organised because it has been noticed that the town of Yaounde is not well known despite its rich potentials.
"Yaounde is the locomotive of the Central African Region and the political capital of our country. We thought it wise to portray the town at a scientific level," she said.
Speaking during the opening ceremony, Professor Marceline Nomo, Technical Adviser in the Ministry of Higher Education, said the colloquium is an ideal forum for collaboration between students and lecturers.
According to her, the forum will equally offer students an opportunity to pursue the importance of the Bachelors Masters Doctorate programme (BMD) that seeks to promote the learning of interdisciplinary courses in Cameroon State Universities.
At the end of the colloquium, it is expected that the town Yaounde will be better known, while participants will come out with a multidisciplinary declaration which will serve as a reference on the capital city. This, according to the president, will serve as a reference document to all persons who want to improve their knowledge of the capital city.
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