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

Monique's Musings

December 26, 2017

Attending the 2016 African Feminist Initiative Conference

I had the honor of having my abstract selected for my participation in the inaugural African Feminist Initiative Conference at Penn State, USA. The conference held […]
December 26, 2017

Why I am Not “Here” for TB Joshua’s Ministry

    I was asked in a recent interview what I blog about. My response: Whatever is trending on my mind at the moment. In that respect, […]
November 13, 2017

What Chapter of Life are You On?

The practice of giving themes to a year is not a new one, it has been customary for many people across the world for ages. In […]
October 4, 2017

So This is How it Starts?

When you watch Hotel Rwanda, one of your first thoughts is: this story is incomplete. How did they get there, that early scene? How do a […]
August 25, 2017

Happy Birthday Musings!

On this very date, in the year 2012, Monique’s Musings was conceived in a hotel room in Nigeria. I was returning home via Calabar from the […]
July 15, 2017

What I Wish I Could Tell my Younger Self About Depression & the Things I Still Need to learn.

In Cameroon, you can be depressed for months without your roommate or neighbor being aware. Most likely this is not something limited to Cameroon, depression- emotional […]
June 22, 2017

Nude Pics, Sex Tapes and the Things We’re Not Saying

Nude pics? Sex tapes? Revenge porn is trending in Cameroonian social media spaces. For us, it’s a fairly new phenomenon. In a country where sex talk is […]
May 23, 2017

Takeaways from ‘The Struggle’

I recently wrote a piece for This is Africa on the lessons my experience of living under the Internet ban left me with. You can read […]
April 27, 2017

Pssss….I hope you know I’m a Christian

I’ve been downcast since Sunday. What started as self-disappointment over my inability to capture what I need to say properly in writing has evolved into a […]
March 17, 2017

No-Internet Cameroon: Two months on

On the evening of 17th January 2017, two regions in Cameroon- one of which is my permanent domicile- were indefinitely cut off from internet access. Today […]
February 12, 2017

What’s happening in Cameroon? Learning, I hope

On the 10th of October 2016, Lawyers in two out of ten regions in the country went on strike/industrial action, after giving the government fair warning […]
January 24, 2017

The Silent Majority

August of this year shall make five years of my blogging here on Musings. It was in August of 2012 during a trip to Nigeria for […]