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

Monique's Musings

August 25, 2016

My ‘Returnee Anniversary’: 15 Reasons I Love My Country

The day was 25thAugust 2001. I was less than three months shy of 12 years old, or as I often reminded people- I was a pre-teen. […]
February 12, 2016

What Day? What Are We Celebrating?

Hey Everyone!Halfway through the second month! How’s 2016 treating you so far? Well, in 2013 I founded a youth development association called Better Breed Cameroon, and […]
January 8, 2016

Yet another New Year Speech and a Proposed New Year Resolution

Happy New Year Readers! Hope you had a lovely holiday season. And what were the resolutions? I hope you made some because we Cameroonians desperately need […]
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 […]
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 […]
July 25, 2014

What We Should Be Investigating…

    As of the 12thof June, the World Cup kept football fans internationally enthralled. To say some people take their football as seriously as an HIV […]
May 22, 2014

The Laudable Series Pt. 1: Bloggers

         When it comes to our own; our country, bodies, opportunities we often dwell on the negatives more than the positive but it is a known […]
March 11, 2014

Musings On Women’s Day

Happy Women’s month!  May we observe the month wisely. In my own little contribution towards the rightful honoring of this month I’m going to share my […]
December 15, 2013

Coming Home

   There is a long standing joke that about Cameroonians who leave the country dusting literally dusting their hands off it and till when they die, […]
October 21, 2013

The Arm-chair Activists

           We see them everyday, at least if you frequent Facebook, Yahoo, Twitter and the like. Calls to action reports about how bad the government is […]
October 15, 2013

We Need New Heroes

News of Georges Bwelle the Cameroonian Doctor nominated for the CNN Heroes awards spurred me to think of our heroes. If someone was to ask me […]
October 8, 2013

A Woman’s Might and Yet Her Plight

   I was helping a friend’s daughter with her homework the other day, and she all of nine years was defining the word apartheid. I had […]