tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-52200204352827827022024-03-05T14:09:02.285-08:00Anne-Chantal Besong's BlogExploring the world, raising questions on global issues.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger14125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5220020435282782702.post-53238748232628749832021-10-07T02:37:00.001-07:002021-10-07T02:37:46.873-07:00My Sickled Life: From Weakness To Power With Anne Chantal<iframe width="480" height="270" src="https://youtube.com/embed/V8kdEjninpg" frameborder="0"></iframe>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5220020435282782702.post-14884775417634710282021-06-22T02:17:00.000-07:002021-06-22T02:17:03.865-07:00The house help: My doorway to sin : Taken from a real life story.<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEieQs7_nHqsuA7UtvDYH9azSyyC0GfKnLDAWbJ8KfyTDT0jqHgsstWe7OJxekDdi3s37rU5LVhAFwEff9O6z4pu5ZenVOOn0oe2OgHkvAPjqXK5NNv4RFf4OQUikECJi-OwE0L0yBIwX18/s2048/Black%252C+Red+and+White+Simple+World+Day+Against+Child+Labour+Poster.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1448" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEieQs7_nHqsuA7UtvDYH9azSyyC0GfKnLDAWbJ8KfyTDT0jqHgsstWe7OJxekDdi3s37rU5LVhAFwEff9O6z4pu5ZenVOOn0oe2OgHkvAPjqXK5NNv4RFf4OQUikECJi-OwE0L0yBIwX18/s320/Black%252C+Red+and+White+Simple+World+Day+Against+Child+Labour+Poster.jpg" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #797b77; font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17.6px; letter-spacing: 0.4px;">Sin. It is a word we get to hear in Sunday school, at home and in school.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #797b77; font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17.6px; letter-spacing: 0.4px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;">In those good old days, one's life was directed by the Bible. Our parents raised us up with values and rules drawn from the Bible and we got to know what sin is even before understanding what it truly is. But do we know how we become sinners? That I don't know. The story I am about to tell is that of a young girl, and for this story and to keep her protected I would call her, Mah Nfoh.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #797b77; font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17.6px; letter-spacing: 0.4px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;">*************************************************************************************************</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #797b77; font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17.6px; letter-spacing: 0.4px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;">My name is Mah Nfoh, in my tribal language, it means queen mother and this is my story.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #797b77; font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17.6px; letter-spacing: 0.4px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;">My life has always been filled with action. As a little girl born with a disease that society, medical experts in my country did not seem to understand, I grew up very inquisitive but always in my little world. Well, I related to the world, but I made sure I kept some parts of the world out of my own little world. Why, I know everyone reading would ask, well for my own peace of mind. I did not want anyone looking at me with those eyes they usually do when I get ill or when my eyes become greenish-yellow and my skin gets that yellowish hew which doctors said is caused by jaundice.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #797b77; font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17.6px; letter-spacing: 0.4px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #797b77; font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17.6px; letter-spacing: 0.4px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><br /></p>But my world changed when I turned 6 or seven. I can not really say, my memory is not very clear. But all I know is that I was in class 3 in primary school. That was when we had a new house-<br />help come home with my dad. He was a native of the area where my parents worked and my dad had explained to my mum that his dad had pleaded that my dad keeps him with us, to train him to either get a job or encourage him to go back to school. But for the time being, he was to live with us and help in the house while working as a shopkeeper in the little shop my mum had as a side business besides her job. For my story, I will call him Oratio.<p></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #797b77; font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17.6px; letter-spacing: 0.4px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;">Oratio was good at his work. He was caring towards my baby brother and quick in learning. So quick he started speaking our traditional language and teaching my baby brother to speak. My parents were thrilled and everyone loved Oratio and the effort he was doing to learn, educate himself with the books and teaching my parents were giving him.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #797b77; font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17.6px; letter-spacing: 0.4px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;">But then, there was another part of Oratio, that I later came to discover. A part that turned my life around, left me wondering and asking questions that a child of 6 or 7-year-old should not ask.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #797b77; font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17.6px; letter-spacing: 0.4px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;">I used to love playing with Oratio after school. Being the one who came home the earliest since school for kids my age closed early, I would play with Oratio and my baby brother. All seemed normal. Normal for a little girl to play with her brothers. Yes, Oratio was considered by everyone in my home as a big brother.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #797b77; font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17.6px; letter-spacing: 0.4px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;">I cannot remember how it all started but all I remember is that Oratio started fingering me. Touching here and there, asking me to take a bath with him in the bathroom, things I never did. I kept feeling that this was wrong, but Oratio would explain that it was just playing.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #797b77; font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17.6px; letter-spacing: 0.4px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;">It got to a time when Oratio would want me to touch my baby brother and I would refuse, that is when I had the worst thought in my mind, that this play was wrong. Very wrong. I stopped playing with Oratio and kept to myself at home. Several times I came this close to telling my mum who would notice a thing or two but I would feel like I was evil, I was sinful and I would cry and stay quiet. Oratio tried to get me to play with him several times. I kept him away with a warning that if he ever tried, I would tell my parents and he stopped. Later, my dad sent him away to live in our family home in the village and start a trade of his own. I was relieved, I tucked everything inside me and continued living my life. A life filled with a battle with sickness, stigma, live in a family-like any other. I think I got to forget this painful episode, Or maybe I kind of wiped it from my head so as not to think of it. Hahaha, a selective memory loss I would say.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #797b77; font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17.6px; letter-spacing: 0.4px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;">Years later I learnt what happened to me was sexual abuse. I felt dirty and maybe some of the errors I did in life and in love are because I still felt I was sinful and unworthy of anything good. That what happened was my fault. The fact that I almost got my baby brother into this hurtful spiral made me feel even dirtier. I was a bad kid, I told myself. </p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #797b77; font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17.6px; letter-spacing: 0.4px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;">But then I came to know God and His mercies. When you have seen death several times and woken up to a new day of life, believe me, you learn to trust in the Lord and I did. I asked for forgiveness, I forgave myself and I forgave Oratio.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #797b77; font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17.6px; letter-spacing: 0.4px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;">I think this episode of my life made me be the mother figure I am now to my brother. Always watching out for him, even now when he is an adult.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #797b77; font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17.6px; letter-spacing: 0.4px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;">As I write, I imagine the number of kids like me who have gone through the same and have, like me, stayed quiet. How many adults have had this kind of burden to trail with all through their lives? I ask what can be done in the home to watch over those we bring in to take care of our kids or the people we bring in to help them, whom we consider almost as family. All I can say as a parent is that we need to be watchful and we need to teach our children maybe what is play and what is not play. What signs and actions should be reported immediately. </p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #797b77; font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17.6px; letter-spacing: 0.4px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;">Hmmm(sigh), this is my story and I hope parents reading it will take a look around them, around their kids, and ensure everyone around is really taking care of the kids and not doing something else with them when the parents turn their backs.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #797b77; font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17.6px; letter-spacing: 0.4px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;">Let's be watchful together. Together let us stand up against child sexual abuse.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #797b77; font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17.6px; letter-spacing: 0.4px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFhBjeHTz5uoqmB36mn_6vVXmofB9zkAtxOxNk7QhgFeo2f74PcONFMqVfnItDkRW2PMrDLH5TYJJ4MXjAudS-PsuH1GTxqgZBGeQ3sHQ33FYFf1RUiPt9vx1dBDFvri6Mj5RzrSnQiaw/s960/pink_hand_prints_world_day_against_child_labour_poster_2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="480" data-original-width="960" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFhBjeHTz5uoqmB36mn_6vVXmofB9zkAtxOxNk7QhgFeo2f74PcONFMqVfnItDkRW2PMrDLH5TYJJ4MXjAudS-PsuH1GTxqgZBGeQ3sHQ33FYFf1RUiPt9vx1dBDFvri6Mj5RzrSnQiaw/s320/pink_hand_prints_world_day_against_child_labour_poster_2.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #797b77; font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17.6px; letter-spacing: 0.4px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"> <br /></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5220020435282782702.post-10554147079783089582015-05-02T17:26:00.001-07:002015-05-02T17:26:40.458-07:00SS: The reality of living with Sickle Cell Anaemia<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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I know when a lot of people hear
the initials SS or the full name Sickle Cell Anaemia, they will flinch, some
will raise eye brows and others will be gripped with worry, concern or some
other form of anxiety. And if some day they are told they are SS they will
certainly freak out, wondering what society will say, how they will be treated
by their peers, friends, colleagues, etc.</div>
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But why is this so? </div>
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Sickle Cell Anaemia (SCA) also
known as Sickle Cell Disease (SCD) a genetic disease which affects mostly people
in Africa and in the West Indies and or people with genetic backgrounds from
these parts, has often been looked upon as a mystery disease; with some tribes
attributing it to sorcery, others treating the children born with it with
suspicion or distaste. So many clichés about the disease which are not true but
which over the years have been spread around and accepted by the public as
true.</div>
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So what exactly is Sickle Cell? </div>
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<b>Sickle-cell disease</b> (<b>SCD</b>),
also known as <b>sickle-cell anaemia</b> (<b>SCA</b>) and <b>drepanocytosis</b>,
is a hereditary <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood_disorder" title="Blood disorder">blood disorder</a>, characterized by an abnormality in
the oxygen-carrying <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hemoglobin" title="Hemoglobin">haemoglobin</a> molecule in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_blood_cell" title="Red blood cell">red
blood cells</a>. This leads to a propensity for the cells to assume an
abnormal, rigid, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sickle" title="Sickle">sickle</a>-like shape under certain circumstances. Sickle-cell
disease is associated with a number of acute and chronic health problems, such
as severe infections, attacks of severe pain ("sickle-cell crisis"),
and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stroke" title="Stroke">stroke</a>,
and there is an increased risk of death.</div>
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Sickle-cell disease occurs when a
person inherits two abnormal copies of the haemoglobin gene (S), one from each
parent. Reason why someone with the full disease is said to be “SS”. Several
subtypes exist, depending on the exact <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetic_mutation" title="Genetic mutation">mutation</a> in
each haemoglobin gene. A person with a single abnormal copy does not experience
symptoms and is said to have the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sickle-cell_trait" title="Sickle-cell trait">sickle-cell
trait</a>, otherwise described as being “AS”. In simple terms this means that
person has the sickle genes but does not manifest the full disease. But if he
or she gets married to another person with “AS” genotype, the chances of them
having children with the full “SS” will be 50:50. In the case of someone who is
“SS” that is has the full disease, the chances of them getting more if not all
their children having the full disease becomes greater if they should marry
someone who is either “AS” or “SS”.</div>
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One more thing about Sickle Cell
which makes the paranoia surrounding it greater is the fact that there is no
cure. The only way of preventing the disease is by cutting off the “S” or
sickle cell genes off a patient’s generational bloodline by marriage with
sickle cell free people; those described in the medical term as being “AA”. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is the reason why an electrophoresis is
required prior to marriage to permit would be spouses to avoid getting married
to someone who has the AS or SS genes like them.</div>
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The fact that the disease is
hereditary and that there is no cure,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>should not be a call for alarm. In fact, children born with the disease
can have normal healthy lives with the right amount of exercise, good feeding,
proper rest and drinking of lots of water. Children or people leaving with
sickle cell are just like any other person who gets a cough or a cold. Their
disease is not contagious and having it does not affect their ability to work
or study in any way. In fact a lot of children with this disease are most often
very intelligent.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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I know at this point a lot of
readers will wonder why I say having sickle cell should not be considered as a
fatality, what makes me an expert? Well, my reason for saying so is this is
that for over 30 years I have lived with the disease as I was born with it.</div>
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Reading all about the disease above
would make many people wonder why someone with a disease lots of people are yet
to understand come out in the open and write about it. But to me writing this
piece is to get people, parents, friends, colleagues to know that being born
“SS” does not make people with the disease any different from any one else but
also to sensitize the public on how to react when confronted with others in
their entourage diagnosed with sickle cell anaemia.</div>
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My encounter with the disease
started back in my primary school days when I, two of my brothers and an elder
sister where diagnosed with the full disease while one brother and another
sister had the genes but not the disease. Then very little was known of Sickle
Cell and a family like mine with four children having the disease was
considered a huge misfortune. </div>
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The good thing is my parents never
let that weaken their resolve to make us exemplary citizens. Being pedagogues,
with very strict principles, my parents taught me and my siblings that we were
not different from any other children despite the finger pointing at school. We
were trained to earn everything we had. We were taught that hard work pays; at
a very young age I learnt how to do things lots of normal children my age would
not like doing. I went to the farm on holidays, cultivated cassava, melon,
yams, plantains just to name a few and during school days I walked to school.
Most times the distance was very long but I walked at my own pace and as my
strength will permit me too not because there was no car, but because it was
part of my upbringing.</div>
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The hard parts of living with the
disease were the periods when I got malaria and that triggered intense pains in
my bones, particularly around the joints. Having a C-shaped red blood cell
instead of a circular one meant that during such crisis my red blood cells will
not normally move as a circular red blood cell will and these were the moments
of horror for me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Those where the times when
I learnt to develop a strong faith, in myself, in God. At a very young age I
learnt how to have a strong will, and keep a positive mind frame. Being fearful
never did anyone any good, not even to none sickle cell people.</div>
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The moments of illness where very
expensive then and living in a country like Cameroon where health care is still
very expensive and access to good medical care a problem, my parents learnt to
prioritise on our feeding. Good feeding made up of lots of fruits, vegetables
and lots of water. That in addition to the constant intake of Folic acid,
proper rest and little stress and strain kept all four of us alive and well until
the day one of my siblings died as a result of medical negligence. One secret
about people like me with such a genetic disease is that we should never be
administered glucose as drip. When an “SS” patient gets ill, their health
record needs to be reviewed by the doctor they consult. In most cases it is
advisable for them to have a specialist who knows their health history, in this
way errors that can be fatal are avoided. </div>
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I remember there were days when the
money was there to buy the drugs we needed but the drugs were not available
because the roads were too bad and the cars bringing medical supplies could not
reach the hospitals or pharmacies in the towns we were living in. Those where
scary moments when I came close to death more than once but also when having
parents who did not give up paid off. But presently new innovation in
technology and new medical research has made health care for people leaving
with “SS” a little less expensive.</div>
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For me the worst part of living
with the disease was the treatment I got from some of my school mates
especially while in primary and secondary school. The isolation, the taunts and
later on the analysis by prospecting husbands and their families who would
cross examine me as if my having sickle shape red blood cells automatically
ticked me off the marriage charts. But I learnt to soar above all these.</div>
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Presently as an adult, and a
journalist, I look back at those moments and realise they made me who I am now.
Hard working, strong with experiences that I now share with others, for them to
understand their children or sibling or friends are not witches or wizards as
some people will want them to belief and they are not misfits either. They just
have red blood cells that have a different shape than that of others, period.</div>
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Like any other person with rights,
they need to be loved, to be believed in, to be given a chance to work, to go
to school, <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>to be treated with respect by
their peers or school mates, friends and family. They like anyone else are part
of Cameroon’s future, they are future leaders and their ability to be that has
nothing to do with the type of red blood cells they have but rather the kind of
chances and opportunities given to them by those around them.</div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5220020435282782702.post-47104308999231260932014-04-02T06:19:00.001-07:002014-04-02T08:02:26.128-07:00Chris. Fomunyoh "Je reste optimiste pour le Cameroun, car nous sommes un grand pays et un grand peuple avec plein de richesses matérielles et humaines" - 24-03-2014 - icicemac.com<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5220020435282782702.post-82593648442511740772014-03-31T08:57:00.002-07:002015-03-15T04:02:32.618-07:00Cameroon: Cry the beloved internet<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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In 2010 or some time earlier, the Cameroonian government made a whole show talking of the its newest baby, a project to put up a back bone optical fibre connection throught out the country. I remember that project because I was the news anchor reading the article.<br />
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Many years down the lane and I am wondering what has become of this project. My thoughts switched to this famous back bone optical fibre project after I spent an entire week trying to submit my last Online Networking and Employability Award assignment.<br />
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I do not think I have ever been frustrated by the internet in Cameroon as I was in the past 4-5 days.<br />
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It is not only about the deadline missed but also about the time, energy , efforts and adrenaline spent in the struggle to post a 5 minutes video and send a one page word document.<br />
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It is in situations like this that I see why some countries are termed developing or under developed. The lack of internet connections coupled with the numerous black outs made me appreciate the high speed internet I enjoyed while on campus in Leicester in the UK; and I said to my self <i>"wao!!! see how I used to take this internet for granted, now how I wish I had half that internet speed here and now</i>".<br />
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But as the saying goes "<i>if wishes were horses, beggars will ride</i>".<br />
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I think it is high time the Ministry of Post and Telecommunications thought of looking into the issue of poor internet and even mobile phone networks in Cameroon. Seriously, at this age and time Cameroonian should not be struggling with internet connections. It leaves a sour taste when one has to tell ones course mates "<i>the internet in my country failed me</i>". Ouchhh!!!! what a sad excuse, but an excuse all the same.<br />
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So what else can I do but to cry the beloved internet and the beloved country.</div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5220020435282782702.post-26128050369808212902014-03-31T02:31:00.000-07:002014-03-31T03:31:01.684-07:00Online Employability and Networking Award: Presenting Anne-Chantal Besong: A video<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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This video is a presentation of the skills I have learnt through the University of Leicester's ONE<br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The pygmy. I am certain that for most people when they hear this word they start expecting to see very short human being; Lilliputians of sorts .</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">But the pygmies are not just short persos but are a tribe , one which i discovered had a rich culture and in Cameroon there exists several pygmy tribes. But the most famous are the Baka pygmies.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Famous for their deep knowledge of the forest and their care for it a fame however that is more of bittersweet for them as its has also earned them a bad public image, that of second class or even third class citizens in Cameroon. </span><br />
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I was touched by what these talented people have had to endure all in the name of forest governance and management. Caught between the desire by the international community to protect the forest and the governments desire to blindly please which has led to bad forest laws and policies; the Baka pygmies, I learnt, have had to lose their essence, their home , the cradle of their culture, the forest.<br />
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It was touching seeing how hey have now become shadows of themselves in the documentary entitled "<a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00p4k0k">A cry from the rain forest</a>" , produced by famous BBC journalist Phil Agland. But despite this lose they still hold on the memory of who they are; custodians of the forest. The documentary projection hosted by the British High Commissioner to Cameroon last Friday 14 March and the Baka music performance that followed it put together by the UK charity Global Music Exchange, left all present with a pain in their chests, a pain for the Baka pygmies. <br />
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A few months back I used to hear people say “<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">I have a social media account in order to
network with other people</i>”. To me this meant hooking up with old school mates
and friends, well that is what I saw most people around me doing anyway. So
when I thought about getting other social media accounts I felt like what for?
I do not want to bug my head with so meaning pass words. To me networking
online and selling one’s skills could not be done. With so much content and
chatting who will see me and my skills? How will they know the kind of person I
am without seeing me face to face?</div>
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But later this thought changed as I saw more and more people
whom I respected and considered as role models inviting me to join this or that
social media and when I checked their profiles it looked so professional and I
thought to myself so what do I have to lose?</div>
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But the big bang!!! That finally convinced me that
networking online and em<span id="goog_351436869"></span><span id="goog_351436870"></span>ployability were real and serious and not just some
farce for people to create more social media accounts<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>was the ONE course I later got enrolled into
as part of my MA programme at the University of Leicester.</div>
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When I started the course I was a bit sceptic. I kept asking
myself “how do I apply this knowledge in Cameroon. Won’t other professionals
laugh at the fact that I was trying to sell my skills on the internet?” Then
there was the lecture about having one’s personal brand, I kept on trying to
apply all I was taught and imagined if I was an employer what will convince me
to employ such a candidate.</div>
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The second unit of the course helped answer a lot of
questions, <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I learnt how to better use
the social media tools at my disposal and suddenly saw it less as a chat box
and more as an employment tool. I was even more convinced about what I was
learning when I was given a chance to pre-select suitable candidates for an
internship at my office. Suddenly I saw myself asking questions like; what are
his or her skills, strengths or weaknesses? Where are the examples of how he
has displayed such skills? Etc. That is when I finally realised that having a brand,
marketing one’s self on line was important and it sure works.<br />
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So what next? Now I am enjoying the benefits of the course
and I am an avid fan for online networking and job searching and it is also
paying off. I had interactions with specialists I never knew I could talk to by
creating a LinkedIn account and updating my profile, asking questions. It is
great. The best of all is that right now I have a mentor who believes in my
dream and is guiding me be better at my work and to sell myself better, all
thanks to online networking and employability.</div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5220020435282782702.post-18645842989011014942014-02-18T07:59:00.000-08:002015-03-15T05:23:19.128-07:0050th Reunification anniversary of Cameroon: An anniversary for laughs<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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18th of February 2014, here i was driving to work happy to be on time then <b> BAM!!!</b> , road blocks every where!!!.<br />
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Then i asked myself what was happening, but before all the questions came up from my head I had an answer.<br />
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President Biya was up to something. Ah! I said, he should be going for the celebration of the 50th annivesary of the country which is taking place from the 16-20th of February in Buea.<br />
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But then I started getting annoyed when after several turns I still could not get to work. Now what?!!!! Reunification activities are taking place else where , why should we suffer when we are kilometers away??<br />
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The more I got annoyed, the more funny it all became. Where in the world have we seen the 50th anniversary of a country celebrated three years after the scheduled anniversary? So actually it is the 50th Reunification anniversary celebrated on the 53rd anniversary date!!!<br />
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Hahahahah, what a joke and I confirmed the adage "Impossible n'est pas Cameroonais" meaning nothing is impossible in Cameroon.</blockquote>
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But well, the date has been set, the lone anglo saxon unviersity in the country has witnessed the graduation of its students tossed aside and a whooping FCFA 35 billion of tax payers money<br />
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So what else was I to do but sit in the car and laugh, yes, this is really an anniversary celebration for laughs.</div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">When I had to help my former boss in ensuring that each time he travelled
out of the mission he wrote a blog, in used to find it as easy task but when I
was asked to write a blog in his stead once I did not find it easy. The words
will not just come. I kept asking what I should say.</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Barely a year has passed since then and now if somebody should say I am a
beginner in the area of blogging I am sure those who know will laugh and say
no. But yes it is my first time.</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Dabbling around the blogger interface was not an easy task at first, but <b>thank
God!</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">for the Leicester University Online Networking and Employability course
I am presently taking, it has made things much easier.</span><br />
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</span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">For example when I was setting up my blog I named it <b><u>Announcing the
Commonwealth Games in Cameroon</u></b> but today while looking through the
notes from the first unit I said to myself if I have to use my blog to show my
personal brand to the public, it is supposed to bear my name as title. So I
went to the short video on setting up a blog and I watched it and from there I
found more useful tips like how to change the title of a blog, how to improve
on my blogging experience by changing the background of my blog, choosing
a lay out for my blog, etc.</span><br />
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</span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Writing in reflexive way was another major hitch I faced. I kept asking is
what I am writing good enough. I kept reading and re reading the course
resource on reflexive writing. And I think bit by bit I am getting there.</span><br />
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</span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I have not only learnt how to create a blog and write a blog post or
beautify my blog I also learnt a lot on using my blog not just for work but to
air my mind , write on the things I love, my personal convictions.</span><br />
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</span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I would say that I have gone a long way in becoming a blogger and the ONE
course of the University of Leicester has helped a lot. I am sure with the next
units of the course I would get even better.</span><br />
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inform the public and potential employers of my personal brand another thing I
learnt from the Online Networking and Employability course of the university.
How does one use a blog to talk of one’s self and at the same time attract
potential employers of one’s self? Well may be my first steps as a blogger is
just what it is actually, a first step that still needs to be fine tuned,
perfected in order to become an expert step.</span><br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5220020435282782702.post-49812672247772424402014-02-07T05:01:00.001-08:002015-03-15T04:26:32.470-07:002014 Celebrating a united Commonwealth<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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I clearly understand the need behind this theme, but while sitting at the preparatory meeting i had with other Commonwealth stake holders in my beloved country i wondered; can we really celebrate a united Commonwealth?<br />
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Tough question it is because presently not all Commonwealth countries approve of Sri Lanka and the UK's decision to host the last CHOGOM-Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting there.<br />
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But yes in another way we can celebrate those small areas where the Commonwealth has agreed on unanimously like sports for example. The tour of the Queen's Baton is another.<br />
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The arrival of the silver baton bearing the HM the Queen's Message to all athletes in the Commonwealth landed in Cameroon on the 8th of January.<span id="goog_1746943448"></span><span id="goog_1746943449"></span><br />
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I was at the airport in Douala to receive the three man team bearing it and the three BBC journalists accompanying it to document its journey through out the Commonwealth nations.<br />
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It all seemed very protocolly if i can use that word but
when we all relaxed and got to understand the meaning behind the baton,
it all came down to one thing promoting good governance, respect for
human rights and promoting democracy among all member states of the
gentleman's club.<br />
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The baton spent a wonderful three
days in the two major cities of the country moving from hand to hand
borne by dancers, roller skaters, market women, and school children;
each of them receiving the message on the importance of the Commonwealth
and its values.<br />
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But like all things a la Camerounaise
the President of the republic was not there to receive it contrary to
what happened in other countries, a spite on the Commonwealth or just a
preference for the Francophonie in which Cameroon is also a member
state? Well, one will never know.<br />
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At least Cameroon's
legendary sport spirit did not fail it, the minister for sports was
there to help the country's government save face for not showing as much
interest in the baton's presence as would have been expected for a
country which will be hosting the CPA conference in October this year.<br />
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