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 …
Author: Martin Jumbam
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 …
(Revised and reproduced from Le Lien: Nkeng Shalom # 0002 of November 2001). I operate a translation unit in the American Language Center of Douala. To keep it running, I …
(Revised and reproduced from Le Lien: Nkeng-Shalom, # 0001 of July 2001, pp 17-18). Ask any ordinary Cameroonian if they think that we, as a people, can win the war …