FEICOM upholds living together as institutional norm.

He announced that FEICOM was celebrating this as its second edition, having come a long way in promoting and encouraging workers of the establishment to learn how to live together in peace and harmony. This culture has taken deep roots even before FEICOM joined the United Nations to mark the International Day of Living together.

After making sure this culture in institutionalized at the headquarters, the boss said efforts are now directed at ensuring that the same atmosphere of living together in peace and harmony reigns at the level of decentralized collectivities, that today, represent the regions and councils.

 He stressed the need for all Cameroonians, not only FEICOM staff, to transform the nation´s diversity into a valuable asset that could be used to propel economic growth and all-round national development.

“Diversity is a veritable resource for sustainable development, when properly channeled,” the management stated, harping that when many people talk about living together, the tendency is instead for them to look at the other person, without first of all carrying out a personal assessment.

Whereas, it is this self-assessment that is required for all to imbibe the culture of harmonious living together, because and in order to have a feeling of self-fulfillment in life, one must live for the other. 

Though on the global scene, the United Nations was marking its 50th edition of this day, the management insisted that FEICOM is not lagging behind. Rather, it has, after the celebration of its first edition last year, continued to cover grounds in harmonious living together. 

A film was screened to show how FEICOM exploits the potentials of the different cultural zones that make up Cameroon, to promote living together. From culinary services, to dance, songs and other cultural aspects.

“It is these variety that has earned Cameroon the nickname of `Africa in miniature,” the management said.

Like all Africans, Cameroonians, through music, dance and food, communicate with their ancestors, their God and the whole creation, the boss stated. As management also used the geographical location of Cameroon on the Gulf of Guinea, as another indicator of what makes the country Africa in miniature. 

“Located on the Gulf of Guinea, Cameroon has all the vegetation types that make up Africa – from Savanna, equatorial forest, mangrove, desert”, that are a reflection of the African continent. Adding that all African sociology, cosmology and world view find expression in Cameroon. 

Cameroon´s African expression is also embodied in the tolerant attitude of the citizens, their cosmic nature, sacred nature, that are symbolised in the triangular nature of the Cameroon map.

This article was first published in The Guardian Post Edition No:3662 of Wednesday December 31, 2025