Bernard Fonlon

Bernard Nsokika Fonlon (19 November 1924 – 27 August 1986) was a Cameroonian politician and educationist who worked on the development of bilingualism in Cameroon.

[2] He began his elementary education at Catholic School and Later proceeded to Christ The King College Onitsha, Anambra in 1940 .

He obtained his PhD in Literature at Sorbonne University Paris in 1961[1] Fonlon started his career as an Assistant Classroom teacher in 1940–1941.

He was a committed proponent of Cameroonian reunification, and was later appointed as charge de mission to former Cameroonian President Ahmadou Ahidjo, he was also given an appointment of the Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs in 1964, Minister of Transportation, Post & Telecommunications in 1968.

Fonlon being an educationist wrote series of books including A Case of Early Bilingualism (1963), Will We Make or Mar (1964), To Every Son of Yusuf Amuda Gobir Nso (1965), Under the Sign of the Rising Sun (1965), and The Task of the Day (1966).