Monique's Musings

January 28, 2019

“How is Home?” You Ask

Since returning home early last month, nearly all my conversations begin with the same recurrent question; how is Cameroon/home? Roughly eight weeks later, I still haven’t found […]

December 26, 2017

The MILEAD Experience

In 2015 I was selected as the MILEAD Fellow for Cameroon. The MILEAD Fellows Program is a year-long leadership development program designed to identify, develop and […]

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 […]

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. […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]