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Introduction

Hello 👋,

Steem greetings to y'all in this beautiful Community of @Steem4Nigeria. I hope y'all are doing perfectly well. It's an honor to be creating my first article in this community today. I'm also honored to participate in this engagement challenge contest / S2W4 in this community which is talking about "Your dream about Steem/Steemit in your country". It Is the last week of the engagement challenge

1. How well is Steemit known in your Country? Do you think it's popular enough or there is a need for more publicity?

Well, before talking about steemit, let's look at how far my country know about cryptocurrency in general.

Cameroon was one of the countries in Africa that initially wanted to adopt cryptocurrency as legal tender in 2021. However, all this had to change as as crypto currency was officially ban in the CEMAC zone as Cameroon is one of the Countries in the CEMAC zone. This decision was as a result of the heavy crypto downfall last month of May 2022 and the decision was taken so as to guarantee a financial stability in currency and preserve customer deposit

Though with this band, a majority of Cameroon population are not even Involved in crypto currency. Just about 20% of the total population of about 26 million people know about cryptocurrency.

Coming to steem/steemit, Cameroon has just one community which is well known ( @steem-cameroon). And in this community, we have about 2k + subscribers. Inside this 2k + subscribera, just about 1.5k people are from Cameroon

This is to say that, out of a total population of over 26 million people, just about 1,500 people have known about steemit. Out of this 1,500 steemit subscribers in Cameroon, just about 50 + are active now.

This is to conclude that more than 96% of Cameroonians doesn't know about steemit which is really bad.

Out of this 1,500 subscribers, about 1,300 are from Northwest region alon and just about 200 are from different regions most especially South west and West region

It means that out of 10 Regions in Cameron, just about 3 regions have known about steemit. 7 regions haven't known about steemit

There is high need to sensitize about steemit to the general population of Cameroon so that it reaches across all the 10 Regions of Cameroon

2. What are the ways you think the promotion of Steemit can be more effective in your Country? This can include special projects you have in mind.

As I earlier said, steemit haven't been known by a mass population of Cameroon. This is because we haven't been able to promote steemit in so many ways. I believe if steemit is promoted In my country, a majority of the population will embraces themselves and become full or part time Steemians. So below I will be highlighting several ways by which we can do to promote and sensitize about steemit in my country Cameroon

: If we use Radio and Tv means to Promote steemit in my country Cameroon, I'm pretty sure that alot of people will know about steemit across all regions in Cameroon. Why I say so, is because a good number of people in Cameroon listen to radio news most often and it's because of this current Anglophone crises that has caused alot of people to start listening news from the radio on daily

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: I believe if people hear that we support the poor, needy, helpless, orphans and disable people via steemit, a majority of people will love to join the platform. This is one of the most important means of Promoting steemit in my country and I will be working on this project of charity Support so that it can start running smoothly in my country

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: I believe creating a Steemit literacy center where we can be mentoring, training, recruiting and retaining Steemians will help bring in a hand full of Steemians on board and even help rise up the doorman Steemians. It's bad that Cameroon don't have any Steemit literacy center as of now. This is another project I'm highly working on now with @beeeze.com and @ebuahsang1. We are planning to launch a Steemit literacy center in Bambili which happens to also be the University area. We will open an office where we will be mentoring and recruiting Steemians on daily, weekly and monthly basis

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: I believe this is one of the most effective ways of attracting and recruiting people. It was through a Steemit Seminar that I finally became active on steemit and since then, my life haven't been thesame as I have been able to build my self very well in this platform. When I signed up to Steemit, I could be active but since I attended the first and only steemit seminar that has ever been held in cameroon, I learned alot from there. So I believe If all steemcameroon country representative start organizing seminars or Normal meetings, it will help bring in alot of Steemians on board because when we gather in a meeting and talk face to to face, so many will be motivated.

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: another good way of making Steemit reach out to a hand full of the Cameroonian people. We are over 26Million people and over 20 Million are on social media. So promoting steemit on Social Media will be another good way of helping to spread the good news of steemit to alot of people in my country

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3. Do you think Steemit would be adopted more in your country if the points you listed above are implemented?

, steemit will be adopted more in my country if all the above points are implemented and I am 100% sure that if we all Cameroonian Steemians carry out this Activities like Steemit will be booming in my country because I know my country very well like a book.

Why do I say so? I say so because there is high level of unemployment in my country. More than 75% of the entire population are unemployed and are seriously in search of something doing. So telling them about steemit and implementing all the above points will help alot of people in my country

4. How have you contributed your quota to the development of Steemit in your community?

I have been in Steemit for over 1 year now and I can say that I have been trying my possible best in bringing in people in this platform. Some are still active now while some are dormancy due to so many reasons which I understand very well why some can't be active but hopefully with time, they will become active again after passing through their situations

My journey in Steemit began as I was able carry out steemit sensitization around the whole of Bamenda Town as I was walking and pasting steemit flyers and posters as can been see in this post

_{carrying out steemit sensitization last year}

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I have also been involved in carrying out steemit sensitization in bambili around the University of Bamenda which I was able to spread the good news about steemit to a lot of students

_{carrying out steemit sensitization at the University of Bamenda}

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I have been able to also promote steemit on my social media accounts most especially WhatsApp, Instagram and Facebook as can be seen here which has yielded me fruits along the way

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I have also been able to recruit so many of my best friends into this platform and they are doing exceptionally well most especially @wyzcekunited, @rafk and @tangwe-rene. I have also been able to raise back alot of dormant Steemians to become active members again

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In my country #Cameroon, I was one of the earliest people to complete my achievement task and was verified pro newcomer. With this, I understood very well about steemit and I was so helpful in guiding alot of Steemians, both new and old in their achievement task. Enfact, a majority of Cameroonian Steemians always come to me to seek my guidance in achievement task and also how to be successful in Steemit even when I am not the one that recruited them

Conclusion

Thanks so much for your time everyone, I will end here by inviting my dear friends @tangwe-rene, @tenguhatanga, @rafk, @wyzcekunited, @monjuapollonia and @echamroland to come and participate in this amazing contest by telling us about your work and Steemit

Much regards : @chiabertrand