Foa.com Lilia Kilburn An ethnographic approach to understanding extant barriers to the integration of debating societies from developing countries into the global debating community. On November 6th, 2012, I picked up a copy of one of Cameroon’s leading Anglophone newspapers and spotted the following headline: “As Americans Reelect Obama, Cameroonians Celeberate [sic.] Thirty Years of Paul Biya.” When I asked the newspaper vendor whether the publishers were making a joke