Shortly before his death on Good Friday, April 2, 2021, Christian Cardinal Wiyghan Tumi, the Emeritus Archbishop of Douala, Cameroon, paid what was to be his last visit to his home …
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I have had a feeling for sometime now that the rift within the Anglophone community of the Ahidjo-Foncha-Muna days in Yaoundé has not been sufficiently addressed, if it has ever …
Nestor, not his real name, is a taxi driver in Bamenda. I prefer not to mention his real name for fear he might be harassed and accused of supporting secession, …
By Canute Tangwa Thumbing through Martin Jumbam’s MY CONVERSION JOURNEY WITH CHRISTIAN CARDINAL TUMI (2015) brings to the Catholic mind and to any avid reader THE CONFESSIONS OF SAINT AUGUSTINE …
By Douglas A. Achingale* It is often said of well-crafted books that they are usually so enthralling that it would be hard for the reader to drop them until they …
I worked for several years in the personnel department of an oil company. Oil companies in Cameroon, as elsewhere, I guess, do pay their people well, at least by local …
A few months ago, I was asked to speak at a niece’s wedding, on behalf of my family. The Master of Ceremony, a young man in his mid-thirties, dynamic, vibrant …
One of the most challenging things you can do is concentrate on reading a book aboard a bus from Douala to Bamenda, especially with the incredibly bad, pothole-ridden roads, crammed …
J’ai suivi sur les ondes de la Cameroon Radio and Television (CRTV) un reportage poignant et pathétique sur une activité apparemment très lucrative, et en plein essor, notamment le trafic …
I once heard a truly pathetic and heart-rending report on Cameroon Radio-Television (CRTV) about the apparently very lucrative and booming trade in girls from our land to the Middle East. …