Monique's Musings

April 26, 2019

What Lesson Are You Learning Now?

Dear Christian Bro/Sis, Consider this: the Christian’s life is part prep school, part boot camp. We’re being groomed, pruned, molded and made ready for life in God’s […]

February 14, 2019

5 Love Poems From Me to You

As the people all over the world muse on love (genuine of commercialized fluff) on this Valentine’s Day, permit me share with you some of my […]

October 11, 2018

…And that is the story of how I became a Christian.

Hello, I’m Monique and today, 11th October 2018, makes me twenty-nine years old. I added an About My Faith page to this blog at the start […]

August 9, 2018

Undoing a Culture of Shaming

How do you write about being ashamed of what you are to be proud of? I will try. *** A few weeks ago, a friend and […]

July 22, 2018

How a Reading Challenge Led to a Lifestyle Change…

Somethings we know, but don’t know. You know? Like we all know we could do more if we spend the first hour of our day effectively. […]

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 […]

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. […]

June 27, 2016

MTN Nights: A Love Story

It all began with an MTN Cameroon deal, Free SMS Nights, which enticed customers to give up their sleep for seven hours of toll free messages. […]

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 […]

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 […]

February 27, 2014

An Open Letter to Cameroonians…

Dear fellow Cameroonian, How are you? I hope fine, though I doubt it. I doubt it because I hear you grumbling all the time. One of […]