All Africa (Free subscription) | 06/12/2009
The Cameroon Association of English Speaking Journalists, CAMASEJ, is aiming high with the new executive taking some laudable steps to keep the association on the move. The new executive led by the president Tricia Oben was in Bamenda over the weekend for its first national executive meeting just one week into office.
PostNews Online (Free subscription) | 05/24/2009
Review by Fatou A. Minah Susan Nkwentie Nde. Second Engagement (Paperback). Bamenda, Langaa Publishers, 2009. 208 pages. This second novel by a high school language teacher in Buea in Cameroon (in the heart of Africa) is a journey through the...
PostNews Online (Free subscription) | 05/21/2009
Originally published in Museke (South Africa) Born in the politically radical city of Bamenda in Cameroon in 1981, Wax, aka Nde Ndifonka, has made a mark across the African continent as one of Africa’s influential youngsters, excelling as a social...
All Africa (Free subscription) | 05/07/2009
Bamenda I( Mezam): The government of Cameroon has as one of its major objectives to alleviate poverty and to improve the livelihood of its citizens. Owing to the fact that the informal sector occupies about 80% of the Country's economy but contributes less than 10% of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP). The government put in place some structures to help improve efficiency of actors in this sector. Consequently,...
All Africa (Free subscription) | 04/23/2009
Bamenda, Cameroon - "English-speaking," I have learned, is a relative term. When we first arrived in Bamenda six days ago, I was excited to be in a region of Cameroon where language would be less of a barrier to interacting with the locals. Then we went out to Bamenda's most posh restaurant--we're still talking fluorescent lighting and 3,000 CFA ($6) entrees here--and I got a reality check....
All Africa (Free subscription) | 04/02/2009
Rufus had consumed excess of palm wine and 'kitoko' hours before his church wedding. Last weekend, petals of flowers and balloons of assorted colours glittered and dangled at the courtyard and corridors of one of the municipal councils in Bamenda, announcing the eminence of a great wedding. Thereabout, groups of expert traditional dancers spoiled their faces ululations, charged from angle to angle...
All Africa (Free subscription) | 03/17/2009
The Bamenda Ecclesiastical Province has the advantage of having received the early Pallotine missionaries. From Douala where the first team, led by Father (and later Bishop) Henry Vieter set foot in 1890, several out-stations were created within the next 20 years. In today's Bamenda Church province numerous relics exist and many other structures built between 1890 and 1910 are still in use today.
All Africa (Free subscription) | 03/17/2009
The Bamenda ecclesiastical province (which today comprises Bamenda, Buea, Kumbo and Mamfe) has its history apart. As early as June 12, 1923, it was carved out of the Apostolic Vicarate of Cameroon to become the Apostolic prefecture of Buea. On March 15, 1939, was raised to an Apostolic Vicarate. On April 18, 1950, it become the Diocese of Buea . It is Buea which has given rise to the Archdiocese of...
All Africa (Free subscription) | 03/12/2009
History has it that Bafoussam became the headquarters of the West Province (now Region) in 1963 replacing Dschang in that status. At that time the town enjoyed the status as a road junction town which served as a melting-pot for travellers to Yaounde, Douala, Dschang, Bamenda and Foumban. It was not long when the town developed to become considered as the third city after Yaounde and Douala.
All Africa (Free subscription) | 03/03/2009
Minister of State, Marafa Hamidou Yaya commissioned Abakwa boy, Ndumu Vincent as Government Delegate.
All Africa (Free subscription) | 03/03/2009
Vincent Ndumu, pioneer City Council Delegate talked about his appointment.
All Africa (Free subscription) | 02/27/2009
Calm returns after SDO's intervention. Business activities turned at half gear in the Ntarikon, Nwen and Bamenda food market on February 23, 2009 following protests by traders against what they described as "a hike in fines for price control crimes".
All Africa (Free subscription) | 02/23/2009
The United Nations Director of Communications at the UN office in Yaounde, Mrs Anne Nsang, was in Bamenda recently to update Northwest journalists about important events at the UN.
Kouya Chronicle (Free subscription) | 02/11/2009
John Hamilton in Ndop, NW=20 Cameroon Wednesday 11 February 2009 Had my = first siesta=20 today. Didn’t sleep much, but read a bit of an ancient Alistair = McLean which=20 I liberated from the Bamenda Guest House. We all went and lay down = being=20 pretty tired after a few hours in the middle of the day in Ndop town = at=20 National Youth Day. [...]
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