How MBOSCUDA Ambitious Project To Bring Mbororo Youths To The Limelight Through Sports, Has Started Paying Off

MBOSCUDA now accompanies Mbororo youths in different sporting events like athletics, volleyball, handball, football among others.

  The association launches a programme on: “How To Empower Women Leadership Through Sports”

The spectacular performance of Mbororo youths in the male category of the 30^th edition of the Mount Cameroon Race of Hope in Buea, Southwest Region of Cameroon on Saturday, February 22, 2025, was not an accident. It was also not for nothing that the President General of the Mbororo Social, Cultural and Development Association, MBOSCUDA, Adamou Ahmadou, accompanied by some members of the national bureau, travelled to Buea for this year’s Mount Cameroon Race of Hope, where they were received by the President of the Southwest Branch of MBOSCUDA and some of his close collaborators. So also was the very active presence of the dance group of excited Mbororo youths of Buea  (MBOSCUDA – Buea) at the Molyko Stadium (Buea) for that  30^th edition of the Mount Cameroon Race of Hope, not just  to animate  the crowd.

25 Mbororo Athletes Participated At This Year’s Mountain Race

MBOSCUDA has been implementing a plan it adopted to accompany Mbororo youths in sports, in a bid to among things bring interested Mbororo youths to the limelight as well as empower them, through sports. By this, the Mbororo  youths will demonstrate that they can also contribute to bring honour, pride and joy  to their different villages, Divisions, and regions, where they are a times unfairly treated by some ‘indigenes’ as strangers, wanderers,  a homeless people, or even as foreigners.

The presence of MBOSCUDA’s officials in Buea for the 30^th edition of the Mount Cameroon Race of Hope on February 22, 2025, was in line with the association’s project to accompany Mbororo youths in sports. After encouraging and motivating those Mbororo youths interested in athletics, especially the mountain race, to work hard, it was time for MBOSCUDA to accompany them to the competition. According to the President General of MBOSCUDA, a total of 25 Mbororo youths, with a majority from the Northwest Region, travelled to Buea for the 30^th edition of the Mount Cameroon Race of Hope. For this year’s race, all the Mbororo athletes were male. The Mbororo dance group of Buea was not only at the Molyko Stadium to animate, but as to well encourage and celebrate the athletes.

 The Results Were Very Positive

Come to think of it, that according the information posted on MBOSCUDA’s Facebook page, in the senior male category of the Mount Cameroon Race this year, all the first three athletes that occupied the podium, were Mbororos. MBOSCUDA aptly put it on their post as: “A 100 % Mbororo Podium”. The winners were: 1^st – Usheni Hassan. 2^nd – Ali Mohamadou. 3^rd – Abou Ahmadou.  In the junior male category, the first and second positions on the podium were occupied by Mbororo athletes. They were: 1^st – Sali Suabu. 2^nd –  Zakaiyahu Ibrahim.  They only missed the 3th position which was occupied by Kari Seth Bolack.

The great victory by Mbororo youths at the 30^th edition of the Mount Cameroon Race of Hope was unfortunately not noticed by many people, perhaps with the exception of the case of Usheni Hassan, because as champion of the senior male category, he was interviewed by many media organs, and he proudly identified himself as a Mbororo youth from Bui Division of the Northwest Region. The media just presented all the Mbororo youths who mounted the podium as winner in the senior and junior male categories of the Mountain Race,, as Northwest athletes. Of course MBOCUSDA was quite happy with the fact that the total of five Mbororo youths that mounted the podium in  the senior and junior male categories, and which the association said were precisely from Bui and Donga & Mantung Divisions, brought honour, pride and joy to their region, the Northwest.  MBUSCUDA in its Facebook page also said that the tears that the Mbororo community had been shedding, following deaths of their members, were wiped off by the great joy brought by the great victory of the Mbororo athletes at the 30^th edition of the Mount Cameroon Race of Hope.

 The Natural Factors That Contribute To The Victory Of Mbororo Athletes At The Mountain Race

Meanwhile speaking to CRTV, the champion of the senior male category of the Mount Cameroon race of Hope, Usheni Hassan, noted that Mbororos who are generally involved in cattle rearing live, generally live on hill tops with their cattle, and so their activities take them up and down hills on foot, each and every day. He said Mbororos are thus used to climbing and descending rough hills on a daily basis, and so though the Race of Hope is on a mountain and not a hill, the Mbororos athletes easily adapt to  climbing and descending the mountain, that the other athletes who are from townships.

Usheni Hassan said another advantage that Mbororo athletes have in the mountain race, is that they live mostly on hill tops where it is generally cold, and so though the mountain is much colder, Mbororo athletes easily adapt to the cool on the mountain than others. As regard the training, Usheni Hassan said he trains in his native Kumbo, Sub –division, and that   his trainer is a former champion of the Mount Cameroon Race, Joseph Wirba.

Usheni Hassan disclosed that he is into cattle business. That is, he buys and sells cows. He said he also does farming. The money he received for being champion of the 30^th edition of the Mount Cameroon Race of Hope will thus increase his capital in the cattle business.

Empowering Women Through Sports

Meanwhile asked whether MBOSCUDA was encouraging only male athletes as there were no female Mbororo athletes at the 30^th edition of the Mount Cameroon Race of Hope, the President General of MBOSCUDA, Adamou Ahmadou, told CRTV that it was a matter of taking things step by step, with their project. He said after starting with the male, MBOSCUDA has now launched the female phase of the project titled: How To Empower Women Leadership, Through Sports. He expressed the view that in no distance feature, Mbororo female athletes will start appearing at the Mount Cameroon Race of Hope, and with the same determination as the males.

Meanwhile MBOSCUDA’s on its Facebook page, has launched an appeal to the Government, apparently to the Ministry of Sports and Physical Education, to come to the assistance  of Mbororo athletes, by helping to facilitate things for then to have opportunities to participate in  more national ath