Christian Cardinal Tumi, the Emeritus Archbishop of Douala in Cameroon, passed away on April 04, 2021 at the ripe age of 91. He was someone I worked closely with for …
Author: Martin Jumbam
Une pratique courante semble avoir pris racine dans les paroisses catholiques au Cameroun. Lors des fêtes paroissiales, par exemple, il arrive assez souvent que le clergé et quelques laïcs membres …
A common practice seems to have taken root in Cameroonian Catholic parishes. During parish feasts, for example, it is not uncommon for the clergy and a few lay members of …
Lest we forget – AAC II – THE BAMENDA DECLARATION – The Force of Argument, Not the Argument of Force
The All Anglophone Conference 2 (AAC II) The members of the “Anglophone Standing Committee,” set up by the All Anglophone Conference in Buea in 1993, to negotiate constitutional reforms with …
From April 2-3, 1993, we, the English-speaking Cameroonians, from all walks of life, flocked to Buea, the historic capital of British Southern Cameroons, to openly and loudly express our frustration …
The All Anglophone Conference that held in Buea from April 2-3, 1993, culminated in what has come to be known as the Buea Declaration, a historic document that carried, and …
By Dibussi Tande Beads of Memory is the story of Leinteng Basha, a young Cameroonian studying in Madrid in the 1970s. The story starts off like any other about African …
(Revised and reproduced from Cameroon Post # 0062, May 23, 1997) For the past several years, an Italian Catholic organization, the Centro Orientamento Educativo (COE), which has been active in …
Simolen Tala Jumbam “I am a survivor of the Yazidi Genocide, and now I am a refugee. I was a villager who found herself ripped from her life of freedom …
(Revised and reproduced from Cameroon Post, No. 88, November 6-13, 1991, p. 11) The early nineties were knotty times for Cameroon. As the country slowly untangled itself from the suffocating …