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 …
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The Counselor for Public Affairs at the US Embassy to Cameroon, Mr. Lonnie Kelley, says that Cameroon could reap a fortune from itstourism potential provided efforts are made to curb …
Many retired Dutch men and women, experts in various fields, have joined an association called PUM, with a challenging objective: defeat poverty through work. It is “geared towards fighting poverty …
(Revised and reproduced from L’Effort camerounais No 71, 30 May – 13 June 1997). A film-maker from Angola, Rui Duarte, is a dignified-looking, pipe-smoking, elderly, gracefully-greying, bald-headed gentleman, who was …
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 …
(First carried by Cameroon Tribune of Friday, February 13, 1987). Mention the name Agostinho António Neto in Cameroonian intellectual circles, and a few people may remember that he was the …