Youth Leaders, Influencers in Talk Peace South West Cameroon: A Training in Media and Information Literacy.

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 By Wirnkar Melony Joseph 

Youth leaders, Youth associations, Influencers, Medias and Young Women associations drawn from the South West region Cameroon met in Limbe on the 18th - 22nd of April 2023. To attend a training program in Media and Information literacy. 10 Youth Leaders of South West Region actively participated in the TALK PEACE Project organized by CFI French Media Development Agency in partnership with Association Fondation Conseil Jeune and Adisi-Cameroun.

Group photo of participants 

Nowadays, information manipulation, fake news, misinformation, disinformation, mal-information and online hate speech have made it difficult to get reliable information on social media platforms like Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, WhatsApp. Putting this into context, the present conflict in the North West and SouthWest regions have seen the use of social networks and digital tools to manipulate information in order to start panic, fear, confusion in a large audience. Thus, media, information and digital citizenship education actions will provide the population with adequate responses and a new online behavioral change. The Talk Peace project aimed at equipping young people who are the main users of digital tools, online platforms and encourage youths to take an active part in reducing tensions by learning reliability and calming information publishing techniques responding to misinformation.




For four days,  lessons and practical exercises were shared on the following

  •  Understanding media and information literacy

  • Understanding the problems and components of information and media literacy

  •  Understanding mechanism of production and circulation of information on social media

  • Know the responsibility of influences

  •  Definition of the concept of information disorder

  •  Causes of Misinformation and 

  • Mastering the concepts of freedom of expression, its limitations and hate speech online and offline

Youth leaders


The training  was one of the best experiences I’ve had in terms of media and information literacy . It was extremely edifying; what I enjoyed was the fact that everyone was given an opportunity to share their views and experiences during the group sessions enhanced brainstorming/idea sharing among participants.

We need more such educational and uplifting programs for young people.

Group photo 

Equipped with such skills, we are charged to educate others and act to counter any hate speech or fake news we find in our communities to avoid the harm and disaster that comes with it.

Training Session

Congratulations to all the trainees and Special thanks to our EMI trainers YENE Ernest and Ngo Ndengha Ndengha Josephine Eliane.

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