It is 7:30 in the morning of January 1, 1993. Christian Cardinal Tumi, the Archbishop of Douala in Cameroon, has summoned his Christians, and all men and women of …
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Each year, when the Muslim Feast of the Ram comes around, I always remember the day I offered Holy Mass for a Muslim pilgrim, praying to God to protect and …
“Tout être vivant qui se meut vivra partout où le torrent coulera, et il y aura une grande quantité de poissons; car là où cette eau arrivera, les eaux deviendront …
Maya Angelou, the American poet, memoirist, and civil rights activist (April 4, 1928 – May 28, 2014), once said, ‘The ache for home lives in all of us, the safe …
During the Christmas Day Mass at Saint Mary’s Parish in Gilroy, California, the presiding priest delivered a homily that has since found a home in my heart, soul, and mind. …
The renowned Nigerian writer and author of the novel “Things Fall Apart,” Chinua Achebe, often said, “If you don’t like someone’s story, write your own.” He was expressing his discontent …
I am a believing, practicing Roman Catholic and, like many people of my faith, I have a favourite prayer method, the “Lectio Divina,” a Latin term for “divine reading” or …
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 …
Ngarbuh! Ngarbuh! Ngarbuh! Three times I call your name, Ngarbuh. Three times I shout out your name, oh Ngarbuh! But three times only the deep echo of your silence bounces …