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Muslim cultural displays, where government exercises cultural tolerance in a crisis situation

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Muslim cultural displays, where government exercises cultural tolerance in a crisis situation By Sah Terence Animbom Ever since the crises rocking the two English speaking regions of Cameroon showed its ugly head in 2016, several aspects of the peoples’ culture have been eroded. Cultural displays which used to be a rallying force bringing communities together have been showed the door out by what is now known as the Anglophone crises. This is because; village communities which used to host these cultural jamborees have been severely hit by the socio political crises. For close to three years now, the population of Bamenda and the North Rest Region as a whole has been deprived of several aspects of culture like traditional gun firing, traditional dances, traditional songs and you name the rest. That long period of deprivation was taken care of last Wednesday June 5 th 2019 during the Muslim feast of Ramadan that was celebrated with a lot of cultural displ