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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.
Bakwerirama
Spotlight on Bakweri Society and Culture. The Bakweri are an indigenous African nation.
Bate Besong
Bate Besong, award-winning firebrand poet and playwright.
Bernard Fonlon
Dr Bernard Fonlon was an extraordinary figure who left a large footprint in Cameroonian intellectual, social and political life.
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.
France Watcher
Purpose of this advocacy site: To aggregate all available information about French terror, exploitation and manipulation of Africa
George Ngwane: Public Intellectual
George Ngwane is a prominent author, activist and intellectual.
Jacob Nguni
Virtuoso guitarist, writer and humorist. Former lead guitarist of Rocafil, led by Prince Nico Mbarga.
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.
Nowa Omoigui
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.
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.
Simon Mol
Cameroonian poet, writer, journalist and Human Rights activist living in Warsaw, Poland
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.
Tunduzi
A West African in Arusha at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda on the angst, contradictions and rewards of that process.
Dr Godfrey Tangwa (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
Prolific writer, social and political commentator, he was a professor at University of Buea and University of Botswana. Currently he is Head of Publications and Dissemination at CODESRIA in Dakar, Senegal. His writings are socially relevant and engaging even to the non specialist.
Ilongo Sphere: Writer and Poet
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.
Scribbles from the Den
The award-winning blog of Dibussi Tande, Cameroon's leading blogger.
Enanga's POV
Rosemary Ekosso, a Cameroonian novelist and blogger who lives and works in Cambodia.
GEF's Outlook
Blog of George Esunge Fominyen, former CRTV journalist and currently Coordinator of the Multi-Media Editorial Unit of the PANOS Institute West Africa (PIWA) in Dakar, Senegal.
The Chia Report
The incisive commentary of Chicago-based former CRTV journalist Chia Innocent
Voice Of The Oppressed
Stephen Neba-Fuh is a political and social critic, human rights activist and poet who lives in Norway.
Bate Besong
Bate Besong, award-winning firebrand poet and playwright.
Up Station Mountain Club
A no holds barred group blog for all things Cameroonian. "Man no run!"
Bakwerirama
Spotlight on the Bakweri Society and Culture. The Bakweri are an indigenous African nation.
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.
Bernard Fonlon
Dr Bernard Fonlon was an extraordinary figure who left a large footprint in Cameroonian intellectual, social and political life.
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.
Canute - Chronicles from the Heartland
Professional translator, freelance writer and a regular contributor to THE POST newspaper. Lives in Douala, Cameroon

Thomas Jing

“A magnificent people, the Zulus. They convert our bishops, beat our generals and write ‘finis’ to a French dynasty,” British Prime Minister, Benjamin Disreali, once remarked. At the center of this declaration, stand two great kings: Shaka (1816-1828), the founder of the Zulu nation, and his nephew, Cetewayo (1872-1884).

To trace the life of Cetewayo, let us begin with Shaka, the uncle he greatly admired and sought to emulate. Shaka was betrayed by one of his half-brothers, Dingane (ca. 1795-1840), who connived with another brother, Umthlangana, and Shaka’s own advisor, Mbopa, and had the king assassinated. Dingane obtained the throne in 1828 and faced a similar fate when his half-brother (Shaka’s as well), Mpande (1840-1872), teamed up with the Boers to have him overthrown and eventually killed. With the death of Shaka and Dingane and the rise of Mpande, the setting was ready for Cetewayo.

Continue reading "Cetewayo: The Zulu King the British and French Will Live to Remember" »

Emil I Mondoa, MD

The first time I heard James Brown was in 1968, belting out, "I'm black and I'm proud" with a chorus of children no older than myself. God knows we needed to hear that, us African children all over the world. Brown's music immediately appealed to young people worldwide as the hippest, baddest, funkiest sound ever, totally in a class of its own. Some parent types disparaged the sound as "noise", because they could not find coherence in the lyrics, but they could not help but move their bodies to the infectious beat. James Brown was such an innovator that to many of us, there are two kinds of pop music: music before and music after JB. People who did not did not experience that transition, might hear a lot James Brown innovations in pop music and not realize it. Trust me, James Brown, the avatar of funk changed everything.

In traditional western music, melody leads rhythm in defining music. Brown's innovation is a quintessentially African idea, that rhythm can and does lead music. This idea, packaged professionally, backed by a crack band and spiced with disciplined and unprecedented energetic floor performances propelled him to world wide superstardom in the 1960s-1970s. His impact on popular music on the African home continent is everywhere to be found for those who know how to look.

Excellent Tribute Video from James Brown's 2006 Induction to the UK Hall of Fame: