A celebration is an act of expressing reverence or appreciation. It also involves giving attention to particular issues or events. While celebrating may seem like the least logical thing to do in a conflict area, celebration gives people the power to finish any initiative strongly. Celebration of cultural and religious diversities is a core area in PROCMURA’s mechanisms for promoting freedom of religion for all. Just as Audre Lorde put it in his quote “It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences”. Celebrating diversity remains an integral approach to promoting FORB for all.

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It is widely agreed that many African countries are on the right trajectory as far as peace and development are concerned. But it is also a fact that goes without mentioning that peace and development in many of these African countries, with few exceptions, have been destabilized by conflicts, especially the kind of conflicts emanating from elections that leave people polarized along political, religious, and tribal lines. In most cases, the electoral violence in Africa comes as a result of disputed elections in which lives are lost, property lost and many people displaced.

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The extremism North region of Cameroon is a Muslim-majority area in terms of religious affiliations. The region is a crossroads of trading routes and cultures.

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The Programme for Christian-Muslim Relations in Africa (PROCMURA), continues to embark on its journey of equipping communities and more especially religious leaders among other stakeholders on religious freedom. Religious Leaders are well known to play important roles in raising awareness and influencing attitudes, behaviours, and practices that shape the social values of communities of faith and the general society.

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