In Yaounde the event will take place at the esplanade of the Yaounde City Council as from 10:00 a.m.

Cameroon joins other countries on the continent today to celebrate the 47th edition of the African Women's Day. This year's celebration is placed under the sign of « fighting against the exploitation of women and girls » which is the theme for the sub region. Preparations have been going on nationwide to give the event the pump and pageantry it deserves. The 47th edition was officially launched in Kumba in the South West Region by the Minister of Women's Empowerment and the Family, Marie Thérèse Abena Obama. The launching gave way to a series of activities at the regional levels to mark to the event.

In Yaounde a series of activities have been programmed for the day. According to the official programme the event will take place at the esplanade of the Yaounde City Council as from 10:00 a.m. Some of the major attractions include exhibitions, traditional dances both Cameroonian and foreign, and a fashion parade for African hairdo and African attire. The theme for this year will be addressed through three main topics namely forms of exploitation suffered by women and girls in Africa both in public life and within communities and families, awareness of the countless negative consequences of the phenomenon and government and partners' willingness to develop concrete strategies in finding an appropriate response to the phenomenon. Exploitation refers to the use of a human beings, women or girls in this context for the purpose of making profit. It is reducing this human beings to an object, to a means of achieving one's goals. The result is sufferings notably physical, moral and psychological.

Exploitation is effective wherever the woman and girl are used as a means to satisfy the need or interest of another person, rather than their personal needs and interest. As such the commercial use of women and girls' image in the media, pimping, rape, excessive dowry, forced marriage, the non consideration of women's domestic production, oppressing sexual life and motherhood, discriminatory and unjust sexual division of labour, manipulation of female electorate, food taboos, unjustified at scientific level, buying of economically distress women and girl's conscience and sex by socially and financial well located men etc are illustrations of the most current forms of exploitation in the African context.