UBa: STUDENTS GAIN KNOWLEGDE ON COMBATING HATE SPEECH
A two day work shop organized by DefyHateNow in collaboration with the Student and Youths Empowerment Forum(SYEF) was geared towards training students on "Combating Hate Speech Offline and Online for a Peaceful Society". It had as aim to school youths on how to change the society and promote peace, how young people can participate in peace building activities ,how to identify the causes of hate speech, how to combat it and mitigate conflict among socio-cultural divides. Organizer, Bahiru Adamu Bahiru Adamu a student of Higher Teachers Training College(HTTC) in the University and the organizer of the workshop says he is one of the young Cameroonians trained in Yaounde in February 2021 by DefyHate. He also noticed that there is a lot of hate speech in the university. “ after the training in February where we were given the resources in other to come and train other young people in the fight against hate speech, we brought together these participants from differ