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

Monique's Musings

May 29, 2018

The Extravagance of Black Forgiveness

A friend of mine recently asked me why I haven’t written about the situation back home. He said he “wished I was still back home because […]
May 15, 2018

April 2018’s Missing Post II: Doing away with Stereotypes One initiative at a Time

There’s a lot to rant about when it comes to Cameroon. Increasingly heavy militarization and other government mishandling of the problems in the Anglophone regions, the […]
March 8, 2018

Dear Cameroonian Girl, Yes- you really, truly can #PressforProgress

Above is a brief message I was moved to make a few days back. It’s rough, but it captures the feeling I had that morning. The […]
January 18, 2018

Musings on 17th January

The 17th of January will forever hold meaning for me. For one, it’s the birthday of a close friend and founding member of Better Breed Cameroon- […]
December 30, 2017

So… What did 2017 teach you?

Earlier this year, I wrote on the development of the now year-long crisis which has plagued the Anglophone regions of Cameroon. I outlined the emergence of […]
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 […]
December 17, 2016

Imagining My President’s New Year Message- A Christmas Wish

I have been unable to do any real writing for weeks now. Between losing several friends and experiencing a peaceful strike turn into a brutal scary […]