Pope Benedict XVI once said, “Music can become prayer.” This reflects his deep appreciation for the spiritual and transcendent qualities of music within the context of Christian worship and personal …
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Mention the name Kenjo Jumbam to most Anglophone Cameroonians, who came of secondary-school age in the 80s and 90s, and the reaction would almost always be: “Oh, he is the …
Ngarbuh ! Ngarbuh ! Ngarbuh ! Je t’appelle une, deux, trois fois, Ngarbuh. Trois fois, je hurle ton nom, oh Ngarbuh ! Et toutes les trois fois, seul l’écho de …
In continuation of my reflection on the principles of managing people by wandering (walking) around and meeting them at their respective places of work, I remember one of my employees …
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 …
A friend of mine lost his son abroad, a very tragic thing, as you would well imagine. We were at the cargo terminal of the Douala International Airport to wait …
On the night of March 8, 2007, English-speaking Cameroon lost one of its most articulate but eccentric, erratic and choleric writers, Bate Besong, more commonly known as BB. He died …
Let me start by owning up. I have never been a card-carrying member of the SDF, nor of any political party, for that matter, even though I’ve always voted for …
There is a beer house overlooking the turbid, heavily polluted waters of the Wouri River in the Akwa District of Douala, Cameroon’s economic capital. To my friend, Andy “Young” and …