Woman's Day in Cameroon
Americans don't celebrate Woman's Day. Closest we seem to have is probably Mother's Day, but at least that is somewhat of an accomplishment. You have to at least try to be a mother. Or try in order to be a good one. It's OK though; Cameroon really needs a chance to celebrate women. Even if they are born that way. Woman's Day starts off with a parade. That's par for the course as every holiday in this country starts out with a parade. Normally whatever groups you might be in march together in front of a grandstand where all the notable important people sit (comme moi) and everyone who isn't important or marching gathers nearby to watch. For Youth Day (congrats on being born!) most people march with school clubs or just their schools in general. Mbakaou is pretty small so there usually aren't many marchers, but Woman's Day had only thirty. There are more than thirty women in Mbakaou of course, but you are sort of socially required to buy