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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

La France de Sarkozy: A New Dawn in Franco-African Relations?

By Teke Ngomba

How will the broader relationship between France and African leaders change? Will African leaders move ahead and re-define the relationship between their respective countries and France?

Many saw it coming- and had waited impatiently for it. Likewise, many had wished it ended as a wishful thinking. But on Sunday, 6 May 2007, it did materialize. Nicolas Sarkozy, 52, son of a Hungarian immigrant and leader of the ruling conservative UMP party in France, finally won the second round of the French presidential elections with 53% of the votes. Mr. Sarkozy defeated socialist candidate, Ségolène Royal, who obtained 47% of the ballots.

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June 04, 2007 in Teke | Permalink | Comments (0)

Technorati Tags: Africa, Francafrique, France, Sarkozy

South Africa/Nigeria: Chastise Not Thy Friend: Tut-tuting a Diplomatic Ethos

By Teke Ngomba (Originally published onAfrica Files)

As the new Nigerian President Umaru Yar'Adua is sworn into office, Teke Ngomba looks back at South Africa's reaction to the flawed elections that swept the new President into Office.

Yar'Adua Taking the Oath of Office in Abuja

In 2005, the journal, International Affairs, published an article by James Barber titled ‘The New South Africa’s Foreign Policy: Principles and Practice.’ In the article, worth quoting at length here, James Barber (2005:1083-1084) recounts, among others that:

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May 29, 2007 in Teke | Permalink | Comments (1)

Technorati Tags: Mandela, Mbeki, Nigeria, Obasanjo, South Africa, Yar'Adua

Nigeria: Of Farcical Elections and the Free and Fair Conundrum

By Teke Ngomba (Originally published in AfricaFiles)

As a perhaps, remarkable transcontinental coincidence, the first round of presidential elections in France took place less than 24 hours after the presidential elections in Nigeria. Even though France, to use the ‘established’ and ‘fledgling’ category noted by Elklit and Reynolds (2005:57), has an ‘established’ democracy and Nigeria a ‘fledgling’ one, for simple-minded, superficial comparative analysis, many are those who thought the conduct of the elections in France and Nigeria virtually at the same time, will at least add to anecdotal ‘evidence’ on how well democracy is faring comparatively in Europe and Africa. And the ‘evidence’, I need not emphasize, was aplenty.