Video: Douala University under-resourced; a national shame!

The only university in the commercial capital of Douala, the University of Douala which was founded in 1977, has seen no development for many years but a growing number of students making the situation worse.

The university has around 40,000 students, 600 teachers and around 600 administrators and collaborators all occupying the current structure established in 1993.

One of the six public universities of Cameroon with six campuses located in the city of Douala, the University of Douala's biggest lecture hall located at the main campus, Campus Bassa "Cité SIC" neighbourhood, cannot even contain half of a class of students of the Legal Science department of the University.

A video capturing the inconveniences students face at the University during a lecture has gone viral on social media as students are seen seated in their numbers outside the already filled hall.

Some didn’t even get seats to sit on while they manoeuvred ways of taking notes on their feet. Lectures would have been skipped if not for the benefit of the public address system used by the lecturer to reach the hearing of the unfortunate lot lurking outside the hall.

Aside the huge number of students expected to pack themselves into the lecture hall, the state of the hall and other facilities on the university campus are disturbing. They hardly get painted neither do they get the best of maintenance including the desks and apparatus used by students.

The questions running through the minds of people is, what at all is the management of the University of Douala led by the Vice Chancellor, Dieudonne Oyono, doing about the situation?

Is the government aware of this shameful torture students are made to go through as a result of no fault of theirs?

Is the nation waiting for a disaster before age-old solutions are implemented to make the Cameroonian education system a world class one?

These questions and many more need feasible answers as soon as possible to avert any untenable problem in the education system of Cameroon. The future generation also deserves better and parents need value for their money invested.

Watch the video of the situation at the University of Douala below: