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

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 17, 2018

The Police Are Not Your Friend, Not Here, Not There, Not Anywhere.

How would you identify a good country? This question or something similar to it has come up in several conversations with friends recently. In the wake […]
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 […]
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 […]
October 4, 2017

So This is How it Starts?

When you watch Hotel Rwanda, one of your first thoughts is: this story is incomplete. How did they get there, that early scene? How do a […]
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 […]