On the International Day of People with Disabilities (3 Dec) campaigners across Africa are urging their governments to ratify a new human rights treaty which could transform disability rights.
English By Moki Edwin Kindzeka Share on Facebook YAOUNDE, CAMEROON - Scores of blind people protested Monday in the West African nation of Cameroon to mark World Braille Day and call for more books and teachers who can use the system of touch reading and writing for the blind. Blind and visually impaired people blame the lack of braille books and teachers for their lower levels of education and struggles to be independent.
Forty-one-year old Jean Pascal Somb Lingom lost his sight to a measles attack when he was eight years old. Lingom says since he became blind in 1998, nothing much is changing and little attention is paid by the government to visually impaired persons in Cameroon.