[2][3] Both male and female same-sex sexual activity is illegal in Cameroon and LGBT people face prevalent discrimination among the broader population.

[5] In 1921, German ethnographer Günther Teonmann quoted a local calling homosexuality a "national custom"[6][7][8] among the Bafia people in his book Die Homosexualität bei den Negern Kameruns.

He later on described the three stages of life of a Bafia man, namely:[9] Kiembe boys were prohibited to have sexual and social contacts with prepubescent girls at the risk of being tortured or enslaved; there was a fierce competition to get the available women.

[12] In May 2005, 11 men were arrested at a nightclub on suspicion of sodomy, and the government threatened to conduct medical examinations to "prove" their homosexual activity.

[14] One of these, Jean-Claude Roger Mbede, was arrested by security forces for sending SMS messages to male acquaintance and sentenced to three years' imprisonment at Kondengui Central Prison.

[17] In November 2011, a Cameroonian court convicted two young men who had been arrested for homosexuality outside a nightclub based solely on their appearance and behavior to five years' imprisonment.

The presiding judge stated that the way they spoke and their having worn women's clothing and ordered a cream-based liquor was sufficient evidence for homosexuality.

[21] A gay Cameroonian man was granted the right to claim asylum in the United Kingdom due to his sexuality in early July 2010.

"[22] In August 2011, a gay Cameroonian man was granted temporary immigration bail from the UK Border Agency after Air France refused to carry him to Yaoundé.

[27] The US Department of State's 2010 Human Rights Report found that homosexual people "generally kept a low profile because of the pervasive societal stigma, discrimination, and harassment as well as the possibility of imprisonment.

This sparked backlash in the nation and most Cameroonian users on Instagram had lots of comments in shock and disbelief as they would believe she would be imprisoned or if her father would defend her, the president still has not publicly stated his opinion on her sexual orientation, but this also had sparked a hope for the LGBTQ+ community in Cameroon and had given them some hopes that it will change the nation's anti-LGBTQ+ laws and to give courage to LGBTQ+ Cameroonians in coming out.