AFRICAphonie AFRICAphonie is a Pan African Association which operates on the premise that AFRICA can only be what AFRICANS and their friends want AFRICA to be.
Jacob Nguni Virtuoso guitarist, writer and humorist. Former lead guitarist of Rocafil, led by Prince Nico Mbarga.
Postwatch Magazine A UMI (United Media Incorporated) publication. Specializing in well researched investigative reports, it focuses on the Cameroonian scene, particular issues of interest to the former British Southern Cameroons.
Bernard Fonlon Dr Bernard Fonlon was an extraordinary figure who left a large footprint in Cameroonian intellectual, social and political life.
PostNewsLine PostNewsLine is an interactive feature of 'The Post', an important newspaper published out of Buea, Cameroons.
France Watcher Purpose of this advocacy site: To aggregate all available information about French terror, exploitation and manipulation of Africa
Bakwerirama Spotlight on the Bakweri Society and Culture. The Bakweri are an indigenous African nation.
Simon Mol Cameroonian poet, writer, journalist and Human Rights activist living in Warsaw, Poland
Bate Besong Bate Besong, award-winning firebrand poet and playwright.
Fonlon-Nichols Award Website of the Literary Award established to honor the memory of BERNARD FONLON, the great Cameroonian teacher, writer, poet, and philosopher, who passionately defended human rights in an often oppressive political atmosphere.
Scribbles from the Den The award-winning blog of Dibussi Tande, Cameroon's leading blogger.
Omoigui.com Professor of Medicine and interventional cardiologist, Nowa Omoigui is also one of the foremost experts and scholars on the history of the Nigerian Military and the Nigerian Civil War. This site contains many of his writings and comments on military subjects and history.
Victor Mbarika ICT Weblog Victor Wacham Agwe Mbarika is one of Africa's foremost experts on Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs). Dr. Mbarika's research interests are in the areas of information infrastructure diffusion in developing countries and multimedia learning.
Martin Jumbam The refreshingly, unique, incisive and generally hilarous writings about the foibles of African society and politics by former Cameroon Life Magazine columnist Martin Jumbam.
Enanga's POV Rosemary Ekosso, a Cameroonian novelist and blogger who lives and works in Cambodia.
Godfrey Tangwa aka Rotcod Gobata Renaissance man, philosophy professor, actor and newspaper columnist, Godfrey Tangwa aka Rotcod Gobata touches a wide array of subjects. Always entertaining and eminently readable. Visit for frequent updates.
Francis Nyamnjoh Francis B. Nyamnjoh is Associate Professor and Head of Publications and Dissemination with the Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA).
Ilongo Sphere Novelist and poet Ilongo Fritz Ngalle, long concealed his artist's wings behind the firm exterior of a University administrator and guidance counsellor. No longer. Enjoy his unique poems and glimpses of upcoming novels and short stories.
Washington, DC - The Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has completed the first review under Cameroon's Poverty Reduction and Growth Facility arrangement (PRGF) and has approved a disbursement in an amount equivalent to SDR 2.65 million (about US$3.9 million) to support the government's economic reform and poverty reduction program. This brings total disbursements under the PRGF arrangement to an amount equivalent to SDR 5.3 million (about US$7.8 million).
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The World Bank on Thursday agreed to cancel $1.27 billion of Cameroon's debt under a global program for the world's poorest countries, despite concerns about corruption raised by bank President Paul Wolfowitz.
The debt cancellation will be finalized once the International Monetary Fund signs off on it at a meeting scheduled for Friday.
Incensed workers of Cameroon Tea Estate, CTE, in Tole, Buea, Sunday, April 23, attacked and damaged a military truck that was about to transport processed tea out of the factory at night.The striking workers clashed with soldiers in front of the factory.
Angry Workers also damaged this building that houses security guards
SDF Chairman, Ni John Fru Ndi has defied the Mfoundi High Court ruling that declared the National Executive Committee NEC of that party illegal Monday, April 24, following a civil suit by Prof. Ngwasiri.The court ruling did not only suspend NEC but rendered null and void all decisions that the organ took after the expiry of its mandate in April 2003.
This is the content of a speech delivered at the 38th Annual General meeting of CAMCCUL that held at the Bamenda Congress Hall, Saturday, April 21.Addressing government officials from the Ministry of Finance and delegates from credit unions nationwide, Shey Nfor appreciated all government efforts in promoting the activities of the credit union league.
Two out of seven auditors who were separately arrested recently for alleged embezzlement of public funds, distortion of facts amongst others, have been released from the Kondengui Central Prison on bail.
The Bamenda population thronged the premises of the Northwest Court of Appeal on Tuesday, April 25, only to be told that a motion for bail for Hon. Fon Doh Gah Gwanyin III of Balikumbat, currently serving a 15-year jail term for murder, would be heard in Chambers.
The Second Secretary at the British High Commission in Yaounde, Ross Mathews, has said the British government does not give any special treatment to Anglophone Cameroon. "We believe Cameroon is one whole country and so we would not make deliberate intervention in one part and not another," Ross, 28, told The Post in this exclusive interview.
24-year-old Mary-Jovita Negeke, First Trust Bank Kumba cashier has been released after serving two years in jail for causing the loss of FCFA 21 million in 2004.Justice Emmanuel Mbando Ngoe of the Meme High Court in Kumba had slammed the cashier a three-year-jail term Monday, April 24, from day of custody or pay a fine of FCFA 250,000 and FCFA 50,000 for court proceedings.
The Mayor of Mbonge Council, Prince Ebako Mutanga, has accused the MP for Meme West Constituency, Hon. Samuel Bokwe Ngoe, for inciting rebellion amongst councillors and CPDM party officials, against him.
Littoral Provincial Delegate of Public Health Geremie Solle has disclosed that the inhabitants of Douala have been living with cholera since 1983.The Delegate said he obtained the information from records in his office.
Bertha Tazi of CCASS Kumba, Meme Division, has been elected Southwest teachers' representative at the GCE board. Tazi beat five other contestants - Patrick Nwolezeh from Lebialem, Ferdinand Enowpal from Manyu, David Akwanga from Fako, Innocent Ashu
Hon. Paulinus Toh Jua has castigated Evaristus Njong, Njinikom Electoral District Chairman, describing him as one of Fru Ndi's agents working to frustrate him at the SDF Convention primaries. He has, however, vowed to crush Fru Ndi at the primaries scheduled for Saturday, April 29, in Fundong, Boyo Divisional headquarters.
I am sure you must be in rhapsodies following the ongoing metamorphosis in the country. But note that whatever is happening now did not come by happenstance. It was a well-calculated move by Louis of Etoudi to quit the stage on a clean slate.
It so happens that creativity is the highest instance of human intelligence at work … this is plain and logical. - AYI KWEI ARMAH History is ever reminding The Present of any society even you shall come to pass away. Tomorrow will be the present; and The Present will be The Yesterday.
The stitches on his left lower lip, the indelible scar on his left fore arm and the bruises on his back, give you an inkling of the ferocity of the battle Gilbert Mbwapeh, 54, a Baka pygmy residing in Ngoyla, East Province of Cameroon, fought with two gorillas.
Mbwapeh:Cooling down after a hot battle with gorillas
From forest nest to a carton in a corner of the Forest Post in Ngoyla Subdivision, a baby chimpanzee emits a shrilling sound. Its 'babysitter,' Simon Pierre Begoume, Chief of Forest Post for Ngoyla, daintily reaches for the carton and takes out the chimpanzee into his arms, cosseting it.
Hon. Paulinus Jua, MP for Boyo, declared on Saturday, April 22, that he does not belong to Hon. Prof. Clement Ngwasiri's camp.Afterwards, the MP was called up to sign a document, which SDF Parliamentarians had signed in March this year, distancing themselves from the activities of Ngwasiri, considered by the SDF as anti-party.
The people of the villages of Bonadikombo (Mile Four), and Mokindi (Isokolo), Kia, Botaland, Wovia and Mokunda in Limbe have called on the Government Delegate to the Limbe Council, Samuel Ebiama Lifanda, to keep the promises of development he made to them.
The General Manager of Beneficial Life Insurance, Eddie Ford Brown, has said the major priority of the company is to pay clients' claims.Brown was speaking at a press conference held at Meridien Hotel in Douala on Wednesday, April 19.
Two pressure groups, representatives of the Union of Parent Teachers' Association, UPTA, and the Cameroon Teachers' Trade Union, CATTU, have begun a campaign to persuade parents to withdraw their children from Government Technical Colleges.
Cameroon has, once again, stumbled in its efforts to benefit from the World Bank-sponsored debt relief programme.When members of the World Bank led by its President, Paul Wolfowitz, approved $37 billion in debt relief for 17 countries in Africa and Latin America, yesterday, April 23, Cameroon did not feature.
The World Bank has launched the Malaria Week as part of activities that would culminate in the celebration of the 6th African Day of Malaria on April 25.
Interviewed By Charly Ndi Chia & Walter Wilson Nana
Former Social Democratic Front, SDF, Parliamentarian and firebrand politician, Hon Andrew Akonteh has indicated that he would only attend the planned May 26 convention of his party if the warring factions of Fru Ndi and Hon. Clement Ngwasiri dialogue and on a common ground before that date.
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