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The goals and overall philosophy of education in any nation is the pre-requisite to the formation oflanguage policy and planning for education. Language generally is always a crucial phenomenon and itbecomes more crucial and controversial when it has to do with formulation of policies in education(Dada, 2005) part of the reason for this is simply because most of the language problems in manyAfrican countries are colonial legacies. The language problem is even volatile in some Africancountries like Cameroon and Nigeria. As it is going to be expanciated in this write-up, both Cameroonand Nigeria are linguistically fragmented countries. This has affected the language policy and planningfor the education of the two African countries (Oyetade, 1995).

The meaning and definition of bilingualism varies tremendously from one situation to the other. TheWebster Dictionary (1961) defines bilingualism as having or using two languages especially as spokenwith the frequency characteristics of a native speaker; a person using two languages especiallyhabitually and with control like that of a native speaker.