The palaver
tree
for educating
the people.
Sapientia Africa is a media outlet designed as a modern palaver tree. What makes it different: most of its writers are its readers. Reading a topic? You can write in it.
Jean René KENMEGNE TCHUENTE
Aurelia Jackie KENMEGNE TCHUENTE
Is tribalism killing us?
Bamileke, Beti, Bassa… We vote for our brother before the idea. Have you ever turned someone away because of their tribe?
Educating the people
through calm debate.
Educating the people through calm debate, historical memory, science and critical thinking. Not a blog: a meeting place, where forgotten history, African knowledge and political debate meet under the same branches.
Any regular, rigorous reader who cites sources and accepts being contradicted.
The Overhaul of Education La Refonte des Enseignements — Pour un modèle panafricain
A school for our own economies, languages and history. Published in English and French: bilingual Cameroon.
The assessment — School against Africa?
Le constat — L’école contre l’Afrique ? 2The common core (ages 6-15)
Le socle commun (6-15 ans) 3Guiding secondary school — From job to work
Le secondaire orientant — De l’emploi à l’œuvre 4Sovereign higher education and the teacher
Le supérieur souverain et le MaîtreWhat we unfold
under the tree.
Five branches. Each is open to your contributions, in English or French: read, then speak up on the topic that matters to you.
Forgotten history
Taking apart the single story: ancient kingdoms, resistance movements, colonial archives, family memories. Documentation, not victimhood.
African sciences
Metallurgy, mathematics, astronomy, traditional medicine, modern scientists: science in Africa did not wait for Europe.
Cameroonian politics
Institutions, decentralisation, youth, living together. Criticism without hatred, proposals without naivety.
Pan-Africanism
A Pan-Africanism that reconciles: trade, languages and shared imaginations between Douala, Dakar, Accra and the diaspora.
Education
Schools, mother tongues, passing on knowledge, critical thinking. Writing for the market trader as much as for the teacher.
Your palaver
A subject, sources, a question. Submit your article: it will be reviewed, then published.
How we
debate here.
Gather what people say. Every subject starts with facts, not opinion.
Check: Allotey, Eboussi Boulaga, Chinweizu and African sources. Without a source, we write “we assume”.
Under the tree, without contempt: in French, English, Pidgin and national languages.
Make the complex simple. Education before audience.
Recently published
Question of the week 3: Is tribalism killing us?
Bamileke, Beti, Bassa… We vote for our brother before the idea. Have you ever turned someone away because of their tribe?
Part 1: The assessment — School against Africa?
Our schools train for economies that do not exist at home. Three disconnections we must face.
Part 2: The common core (ages 6-15)
Mandatory trilingualism, life mathematics, decolonised history and a farming plot in every school.
Part 3: Guiding secondary school — From job to work
Three high schools of equal standing, half classroom and half cooperative, and a baccalaureate that becomes the defence of a real work.
Part 4: Sovereign higher education and the teacher
New chairs for sovereignty, a better pay scale to keep teachers, and a proposed timeline.
Question of the week 2: 50/50 or unity?
Since 2016, our Anglophone brothers and sisters have been asking for justice. How can we reconcile without erasing history?
“I commit to
raising the debate.”
- Write your article in English or French, in the topic of your choice, with your sources.
- The editors review it: they are notified and approve it or ask for changes.
- You get an email with the decision. Once approved, the article is online.