By Innocent Chia
As Cameroon's veteran journalist, Henriette Ekwe Ebongo earned her time in the spotlight (March 8th) at the 2011 Women of Courage Awards ceremony at the US State Department - presided over by First lady Michelle Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton - I could not help but think of it as a bitter sweet moment for her.
The award crowns her personal dedication, often at the risk of her life, to a profession that has given her license to stand up for the oppressed and stand up to the oppressor. Even while on US soil for the Awards, stories of threats to her life have been pervasive within the Cameroon online community...springing back memories of Pius Njawe, another Cameroonian voice for the disenfranchised, whose untimely death on a US highway nine months ago was anything but accidental.
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we need women like Ekwe Ebongo who portrays what a real cameroonian looks like .Not an over pompous woman in the name of Chantal biya.we cameroonians just hope that paul biya and his killer tugs would not look for ways to silence her.we fully surpport women like kah walla and ekwe ebongo who are doing their best to give integrity to the cameroonian women and the african woman as a whole.EBONGO EKWE atire shows how organise you are.more grease to your elbows.
Posted by: vally china | Thursday, 10 March 2011 at 02:30 AM
i am a journalist in cameroon and henriette inspires me a great deal used to have her on certain programs and she is so focussed and professional i want to be like her some day tata we love u
Posted by: flora | Thursday, 12 May 2011 at 10:41 AM