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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

World Cup Neutrality is Agony

By Lilian

And so it is that in the first time since I started following the World Cup, I find myself without a national team to support at this year’s tournament. For Cameroonians of a certain generation, our World Cup viewing experience took off in earnest during Italia 90 when we beat Argentina in the opening game.

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June 09, 2006 in Lilian's Corner | Permalink | Comments (0)

A Neighbour’s Humble Pie

By Lilian

Empty vessels make the loudest noise. So they say. There are several ways of humbling an indomitable lion that roars its way through the land intimidating dumbfounded bystanders and preying on anything from the Eagle next door to an antelope further out: make the carnivorous cat eat some humble pie! From a list of nine contenders, the Confederation of African Football has whittled down the respective bids to host the African Nations Cup in 2010, to a shortlist of four - Angola, Equatorial Guinea-Gabon (joint bid), Libya and Nigeria. Mozambique, Namibia, Zimbabwe and Senegal were praised for their sustained support of the game, political will and commitment, and then shown the door. Try again next time!

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May 25, 2006 in Lilian's Corner | Permalink | Comments (0)

HIPC Hurray!

By Lilian

After several years when the phrase ‘HIPC completion point’ has become a routine jargon in public discourse – uttered by countless numbers of economic hit men and frequent fliers from the Bretton Woods, recited by nameless ministers and the political elite, regurgitated by an ever confused media – the phrase ‘HIPC completion point’ had become the butt of many jokes.
Wife: We should start shopping for Christmas.
Husband: Did you not know that Christmas has been postponed until after the HIPC completion point?
Buyer: Na how that meat dong dear today so?
Butcher: No worry, e go cheap after we reach HIPC point.