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Monthly Blog/Vlog Posts Recording reality as a Cameroonian woman, Writer, Academic, Advocate, and Believer

Monique's Musings

October 16, 2015

Returning Home Part Two: The Struggle is Real, Everywhere

I’ve been home exactly a month now. Along with the joyous reunions come the far from joyous realities. I’ve spent as much time correcting my fellow […]
August 27, 2015

Returning Home I: Redefining Patriotism

I’m going home!!! Just in case you missed the excitement, let me repeat myself: I’M GOING HOME!  *Insert wide smile here* Then here, insert a wobbly […]
August 9, 2015

Re-Blogging: What is Love

Love is something that often defines the nature of reason. So when I was approached by Girdblog alongside five other writers from all over Africa to […]
July 13, 2015

How not to be the Dreadful Bushfaller/Returnee

Given the comment someone inboxed me I may have written too much on bushfallers already. Bear with me. These are my musings and for the moment […]
July 9, 2015

Self-Trafficking, Modern Slavery or the Wrong sort of Bushfalling

Two years ago around this same month, I had a conversation with a friend. We had only recently met. She had just returned to Cameroon after […]
June 18, 2015

Our Identity and Our shame

The Transracial Trend…  Please have a look at my picture in the about section of this page. Have a good look, read the bio.     […]
May 27, 2015

Men’s Empowerment

I am known for my feminist stance. It seems certain Facebook friends tag me whenever they want me to defend womankind over something (considered indefensible) or […]
April 22, 2015

Rough-drafts: from reading to writing

It was in July of 2003 that I fell in love with novels. Contrary to my mother’s present-day boasts, I was not always the happy member […]
March 2, 2015

Feminist When I Want To Be- The Convenience of our African Feminism

    March is International Women’s Month, I knew I would write something in relation to the women’s movement, a sort of state of the movement speech, […]
February 8, 2015

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways

Somehow, somewhere along the line of modern history February became the month of love. My musings are going with the trend. I was taught the different […]
January 6, 2015

A Happy, Thankful New Year

Hello everyone and welcome back to my musings. I hope you all had a lovely end of year and a good start to this new one. […]
January 6, 2015

Romance Meets Life: RML Woman: Monique Kwachou – Cameroonian Writer, Y…

Reposting this interview I had for a Nigerian blog Romance Meets Life.. Romance Meets Life: RML Woman: Monique Kwachou – Cameroonian Writer, Y…: Monique Kwachou is […]