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

Monique's Musings

August 31, 2023

A Conversation with Nayah Ndefru

A few months back, I had a conversation with Nayah Ndefru on her Podcast “Breaking the Code” where she gathers her networking to discuss breaking the […]
September 30, 2018

What is happening Cameroon? II

Dispatches from home read like material for a great historical fiction manuscript. You easily imagine the Whatsapp voice-notes with either news of military abuse of power, […]
June 9, 2018

The Employment Problem Cameroonians Are Not Talking About

When we think of employment issues in Cameroon, we often think of the unemployment and how graduates can go for years looking for suitable work. We […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]