Meet Cameroon's Children Born of War
By Colbert Gwain in Bamenda, Cameroon Photo credit: journalducameroun.com IDP Children in a makeshift concentration center Nain Nasah,15, (not her real names), had closed from school and rushed to assist her mother in Muteff, a village situated in Fundong in the Boyo Division of the North West Region of Cameroon. As is the tradition in the Grassfield areas of Cameroon, female children of school-going age always join their mothers in the farms after school each day. Knowing that it was getting late, Nain's mother had quickly gathered some fuel wood, raw foodstuff and vegetables into a head load and asked her daughter to take them home and start preparing for dinner. As Nain meandered her way back through the forest galleries and farmlands, however, she was forcefully stopped midway home, blindfolded and dragged into the bush by three heavily-armed men twice her age. Initially, she wanted to shout but decided to hold her peace seeing a gun placed on her left ear. "Before t...