The Advocate Cameroon

By ShingTimothy M In an effort to promote peace and reconciliation in Cameroon, the international human rights organisation Network of Human Rights Defenders in Central Africa, best known by its French acronym REDHAC have organised an inter community dialogue across the country.   The inter community dialogue according to the organisation is to brainstorm ways to bring back peace and reconciliation in Cameroon in general and the Northwest and Southwest regions in particular. The meeting took place in Buea Southwest region on the 21 st August at the conference hall of the Pan African University Institute for Development; bring together traditional rulers, religious leaders, opinion leaders, human rights advocates, youths, women and vulnerable people from across the ten regions of the country.   This inter community dialogue session was organized to get the views of Cameroonians from all parts of the country to see how the crisis can be stopped in the two regions, said th...

By Ojong Joseph Ojong 15 beach workers have been kidnapped at Ekok, a boarder town with the Federal Republic Of Nigeria  by unknown gunmen at the early hours of August 27. Kidnappers are requesting for five millions  francs for ransom An urgent security meeting is going on to discuss  the issue. Most of those kidnapped are.Nigerians. This is a developing story

 The Colbert Factor This reflection is inspired by the fact that despite mounting jurisprudential evidence to the effect that chiefs, monarchs, and even supposedly democratically elected leaders across the African continent would want to stay in power till death do them part, even when they are found grossly wanting in leadership, the Mukete royal family, and by extension, the Bafaws of South West Cameroon recently stood out as the shining city on the hill, with centenarian Mukete willingly abdicating the throne for quinquentinarian Mukete to take over.   It is the more informed by the fact that since elections in Africa continue to give Western-inspired democracy a bad name, the smooth transition engineered in truimphant detail by the Mukete dynasty in Kumba, could be a unique opportunity for Cameroonian and African intellectuals to relaunch across-the-board conversations on consensual democracy or Africanized democracy as a means of enabling Africa market its own brand o...

The Colbert Factor This reflection is inspired by the fact that when in the 90s, renowned University don, Godfred Tangwa, under the pen name   Rotcod Gobata published his unputdownable   book entitled 'The Past Tense of Shit', being a collection of prophetic reflections serialized in The Post newspaper on the travails of Anglophones and what could befall Cameroon if nothing was done, many thought his objective was just to test the linguistic competence of experts over the unsettled quarrel of whether the past tense of 'shit' was 'shat' or 'shitted', not knowing that the past tense could as well be 'death', as in the case of the gendarme officer who died a fortnight ago in Douala after shitting at Finex travel agency and lacking a 100 FCFA to pay for the service. It is the more informed by the fact that when former Bamenda City Delegate dismissed media inquiries on the urgency for public toilets on its Central Business District   on grounds that...

  To anyone familiar with the social media landscape in Cameroon, Arrey Echi is a household name. Growing up as a child was not a bed of roses, especially living and schooling in a community where no special attention is given to people with disabilities. As a child, Arrey Echi was diagnosed with sickle cell anemia, which is said to be the most severe form of the disease. Before finishing primary school, she lost her hearing, which has affected her speech. In addition to a life-time genetic disorder she had to deal with, facing stigma from society, like most people living with sickle cell marked her childhood. But that did not stop her from “speaking” but this time around through writing. It all started with a blog, then advocacy and today she leads an association: Joy2Endure Foundation. The graduate of the University of Buea is based in Yaounde where she works and lives independently, after her family reluctantly decided to give her some breathing space. The award winning internat...

  By Jude Atem   A mathematics teacher of GBHS Bafoussam Rural Kena whose name we got as Aloysius Kwando Odi is said to be in double trouble. The teacher who hails from Eshobi Village in Manyu Division, South West Region of Cameroon Was kidnapped sometime in late July by separatists fighters who are anti school resumption in the restive Anglophone Regions. After spending days in the bush with separatist’s fighters, Aloysius Kwando Odi is reported to have disappeared from his kidnappers by yet to be understood means. News of his Kidnap had spread like wildfire in the village and had attracted Military operatives to the matter. When he was spotted in the village after his escape, the military also got wind of the information and launched a man hunt for him. The reason for the manhunt according to security information is for him to take them to the hideouts of the separatist’s fighters since he had spent some days in their company. Seeing that he is no longer safe...