(In memory of Christian Cardinal Tumi, the late Emeritus Archbishop of Douala in Cameroon). “Wherever the river flows, every sort of living creature that can multiply shall live, and there …
Author: Martin Jumbam
(First published in August 2016) One of the most challenging things you can do is concentrate on reading a book aboard a bus from Douala to Bamenda in Cameroon, especially …
(First published in the July-September 2021 edition of Summit Magazine) One of my favourite Catholic theologians, Bishop Robert Barron of the Diocese of Winona-Rochester in the United States of America, …
Viktor Emil Frankl, an Austrian neurologist, psychiatrist, author, and Holocaust survivor, says something in one of his books, Man’s Search for Meaning, which I like and latch onto so much: …
A recent story on LinkedIn caught my attention. In it, the author narrates how he had written and published a story in a newspaper in Lagos, Nigeria, featuring a poor …
I recently watched, on the Black Entertainment Television channel (BET), the funeral ceremony of the Great Champ, Muhammad Ali, which took place on June 10, 2016 in his home city …
The other day, I had a pain in my right knee. What started as a small discomfort suddenly took alarming proportions as I could neither walk, nor stand, nor even …
On August 26, 2006, on the twentieth anniversary of Fonlon’s passing, the Archbishop Emeritus of Bamenda, Paul Verdzekov, today of late, reflected on the man Fonlon was as follows: …
(Revised and reproduced from Cameroon Life, Vol. II, N° 7, October 1992, pp.41-43) It’s a rainy and soggy morning in the city of Douala, Cameroon’s economic capital. The day is the 26th; …
I once took my car to a carwash in Small Soppo in Buea. It is conveniently located not far from a bar from where eardrum-bursting music poured out of huge …