September program
Construction of the development and modern cultural reflection of youth
Objective : Encourage a renewed interest in reading, writing and digital culture among young people - Sheet 9
Origin of the reflection
As in the rest of the world, Black Africa is going through a period of great change. These changes are taking place in socioeconomic fields and affect their way of life and thought.
Among all the changes that the African continent is experiencing, in particular Cameroon, the most remarkable seems to be its passage from oral tradition to writing; passage which was not carried out smoothly and without damage because it was too hasty, without transition.
At present, we are witnessing an increasingly significant decrease in oral communication in favor of that of writing and digital culture which almost never does without oral, written or communication skills. reading of the text published online. The popularization of writing now passes through these three factors (oral, reading, writing), thanks to the prodigious development of education, and the current of literacy which creates in Cameroon a society where the need to read a publication , a work or to create it is more and more felt. We recall that in 1970, when one of its Member States and the Organizations concerned to join forces with concrete initiatives in the joint enterprise. In particular, it invited them to promote the writing, production, circulation, distribution and publication of works of oral and written expression, to develop literature, production and publication policies that take into account the role particular of the book. In 2020, the RPLPE-C almost 50 years later was born.
The organization AGCE today through this cultural development tool which is the RPLPE-C framework, supervises young people seeking to engage in self-employment, smaller associations, self-entrepreneurs and supports them towards a career in literature (Publishing, digital book and paper) to use free publishing models offered by the RPLPE-C / AGCE as well as existing publications on the organization's multi-service platform, to leverage, and offer their publication to the public in an expensive way, using as a distribution model, digital bookstores to be printed by the end user, in the transmission of knowledge and the stimulation of writing ideas among young self-employed people in cities, rural areas and slums, cultural and socioeconomic groups for local development and literacy in Cameroon. Thus, time has passed, years have passed since, that is why we are entitled to ask the question, where is Cameroon today, a full member of Unesco, in terms of policy of promotion of books and reading?
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Encourage a renewed interest in reading, writing and digital culture among young people - Sheet 9
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Steps
In 2017, the AGCE organization, through its policy of combating poverty in all its forms, aimed to encourage the public and more especially young people to develop frameworks for personal publication in self-employment, to appreciate this that there is better in thought, wisdom and practical technical literature, arousing the desire for development through reading, writing and digital culture especially among the most vulnerable groups, women and children in rural areas and slums.
The organization of a development policy and training implementation frameworks which are closely linked to the development of a young person, especially in Cameroon, are common by putting the practical techniques of creation and publication of the simple book to the homothetic digital book or further enriched or increased within everyone's reach.
Since 2017 - 2021, the RPLPE-C allows young people willing to self-employ in the literature and digital and paper book publishing sector, with a basic culture linked to this art, to keep or imitate a number of characteristics of the paper book when writing, editing, publishing and selling the books at low cost and, in general, in ensuring that the International Year of the book, or an "International Year of Reading also for Cameroon."
The results
To satisfy the taste for reading and knowledge through writing, and to obey the order of Unesco, it is a question of putting within the reach of the Cameroonian populations in particular and Africans in general, tools and supports making books an essential element in the development of local and foreign populations in the country.
Reading is likely to respond to the threefold desire: to flourish, to learn and to relax, even more it is the activity of an avant-garde spirit of socioeconomic precaution and self-employment. Young Cameroonians who must create and develop physical and digital activities, have recourse to aesthetic concerns, knowledge, activities that relate to the written and oral literature of African cultures.
And it is the same with the instrument of communication most indicated in the development of a modern society, literature, writing and instrumental digitization, that the RPLPE-C in its framework of youth education , transmits a culture of the written mind, in daily oral activities.
This, in fact, called the RPLPE-C in 2020, to set up an action plan for the placement of young people in the activity of writing and careful editing of book manuscripts as self-employment, to employ and develop a digital library network on the organization's multi-service platform, from which public and private reading books, technical and practical offer their service to young self-entrepreneurs, disadvantaged, mentally disturbed by events of social and family life, lovers of spiritual and scientific curiosity, including school libraries.
The teachings
It should be noted that in Cameroon, only the libraries of diplomatic representations fulfill the mission of training, information and leisure in favor of the promotion of reading and the writing of cultural and socioeconomic educational works. As a vehicle for foreign cultures, these embassy libraries adapt very poorly to the real needs of the Cameroonian public; hence the existence of a certain mismatch between the objectives they hope to achieve and the major concern of the Cameroonian population, in particular, of the most vulnerable layers which are, women and children, it is time to give back a new lease of life for our cultural heritage.
During the year 2021, the RPLPE-C / AGCE information systems for documentation were modernized on the multi-service platform of the AGCE organization, by the GAJV-SC / AGCE group and the RPLPE-C group / AGCE, in many activities under development in the organization of this Framework, they are considered as production establishments of cultural and socio-economic services, even useful for the youth, associative activities for which measures regarding their promotion are taken and are not relegated to the background. No group structure of the AGCE organization is set aside in the development process, to promote their development. Despite Unesco's recommendations, in 1984 how many African countries still do not have a functional national library, meeting the expectations of the masses; central archive repository, well-structured documentation centers?
How many consider the training of qualified personnel in the matter as lost money, money that could have been used for something else more useful, such as training executives in social economy, in agriculture (green gold and the backbone of Cameroonian economy) and why not in central administration or in tourism? However, the economic and social development of the country cannot be done without information. This is why, leaders, populations, groups, associations and companies in Cameroon and Africa should be aware of the fact that it (information) is also necessary, useful to all and plays a role as important as education for the development of youth, a population, a society and Cameroon. And for that, we have to give ourselves sustainable means to achieve this within the next 5 years.