Growing up back home, every young Cameroonian’s innate goal is to travel overseas (“fall bush”), return home and improve the living conditions in their community. In every generation, many make it overseas, get sucked away in the very structured and fast-paced nature of life abroad, some stay back at home and become successful businessmen and…
”It is better to go down in infamy than never to go down at all” – Jack Bowman. My brother-in-law’s nickname for me is a sound, the mimicry of a rooster crowing. “Coo-Coo-Roo-Coooo….” He would crow whenever I walk into his house. Most times, I get irritated by it and ask him if he was…
Have you really enjoyed a holiday, say “Christmas” here in the diaspora, like you did back home? Regardless of how long you have lived in the diaspora, don’t we all rush to get that “double-time” or “time and half” on Christmas, New Year and every other holiday we can possibly get? Quite the contrary to…
“If you no know yourself, you go lost-oh” (Burna Boy – JA ARA EH) “We need to find a way to shed our cover, to let go of our ego, to retrieve our original God-gifted selves, to discover the lost treasure of our true persons” (Loretta Brady, Beginning Your Enneagram Journey). Marilyn Vancil’s book, Self…