Beyond Celebration Rethinking Women’s Day in Cameroon
Many women working in informal or semi-formal settings have no guaranteed maternity leave, no income security, and no access to social protection
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The Peter Essoka prize: To celebrate journalism excellence, we must have the hard talk
One reporter I never met but keep hearing about is Sylvanus Ezieh of The Guardian Post newspaper. Based on stories
AGM, Awards and Alcohol (or the lack of it): Reflections from Limbe’s night of journalism
A night meant to close the CAMASEJ AGM became a mirror, reflecting the discipline, tensions, humour, excesses, and quiet lessons of a profession that knows how to argue, organise, and celebrate in equal measure.
Money Is Not Trash; In Damaging Our Currency, We Damage Ourselves
Every damaged banknote tells a story of neglect. Every now and then, we end up with thorny andtwisted banknotes. This
Open letter to ENEO Cameroon
Living conditions are already deplorable and not having electricity and going months or years without it sets hearts apart.
Beyond the Pink ribbons: Living and fighting breast cancer in Cameroon
According to the Public Health Ministry, in 2022 alone, breast cancer claimed 2,285 Cameroonian women – more than five every day.
Women confess ‘dying’ in silence in matrimonial homes
“I cook, clean, and smile in public. But inside, my fidelity and commitment to stick to my partner sometimes feel like it hangs by a thread”
Voting, but not yet equal: Cameroon’s disabled voters ask for more
The point of satisfaction, “is when we can walk into a polling station and cast a vote seamlessly like any other person”
[Ink in Charlie’s blood: Le decryptage – IV] Unprotected witnesses: When the wolves come for the press
With the news business as the warfront, the reporters remain the first to take the bullets and the last to eat or at least, be adequately protected.
[Ink in Charlie’s blood: Le decryptage – III] Exile, booze and bold truths
“There was a palpable sense of distrust, and I often felt like an outsider, especially as an Anglophone journalist in a predominantly Francophone environment.”