One person has been killed and around 100 people arrested after demonstrators clashed with security forces in an English speaking city in Cameroon.<br /><br /> The protests arose out of strikes by both teachers and lawyers who say French is now dominating schools and courtrooms in Bandema.<br /><br /> Some protesters also blamed France, which used to rule the francophone part of Cameroon as a colony, for the apparent language bias.<br /><br /> “What we want is for France to back off. They should leave our system. We have a proper means to organise our educational system, we have proper means of our health system, it is our time of freedom,” said one protester.<br /><br /> Cameroon has ten regions, eight of them speak mainly French and two mainly English, and that mirrors the country’s colonial history – Britain ruled the anglophone region and France the francophone region before they united to form an independent Cameroon.<br />
