Toilsome Task of Taming Obscene Music

[Cameroon Tribune] Joseph Tangwa Fover, the Senior Divisional Officer, SDO for Mifi Division in the West Region, on November 2, 2015, banned the song, “Coller la petite,” by the young Cameroonian artiste, Franko. The title of the song, literally translates to “Cling to your girlfriend.” The SDO’s decision is only one in a series of efforts in Cameroon to stop the promotion and glorification of lewd or obscene music. Proponents of such a ban argue that such music corrupts morals as it tends to portray sex in a crude and offen