In the final part of my reflection on blood donation, I bow to the memory of the victims of the Kenya Airways tragedy that struck our land a few years …
Category: Musings
The word ‘retirement’ began to make inroads into many Cameroonian homes in the nineteen eighties when the Cameroonian civil service began to lay off government workers in great numbers. First, …
Some years ago, I spent several hours at the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport in Nairobi on my way home from a business trip to India. As I sat in the …
Does “The Image of the African Leader as an Animal: The case of Paul Biya of Cameroon,” not sound like a lovely topic for an M.A or Ph.D. thesis in …
My friend, Andy – the one who always beams a broad smile whenever anyone calls him “Andy Young” – and I were sat in one of those countless off-licence bars …
(Reproduced from Campost, No 212, April 6-13, 1994, p.4). My good friend Andy ‘Young’ went to one of our favourite chicken parlours in downtown Akwa, Douala, the other day and …
(Revised and reproduced from The Post of September 10, 1996). The title of my reflection, “The pauperisation of the Cameroonian civil servant,” sounds like a very intellectual concept, doesn’t it? …
(Revised and reproduced from Cameroon Tribune, Tuesday, April 21, 1987). The University Centre for Health Sciences, the school of medicine of the University of Yaounde in Cameroon, commonly known by …
(Revised and reproduced from Cameroon Tribune of Friday, January 15, 1988). When this innocent, comical piece first appeared in the English edition of Cameroon Tribune of Friday, January 15, 1988, …
(First appeared in Cameroon Tribune of Friday, February 6, 1987). President Paul Biya’s call to the Cameroonian intellectual community to reflect and advise him on just what future we intend …