This does not mean leaving modern advancements behind, but rather being more audacious: to look into who we truly are and tapping into our traditional values of..
Category: Mbong’s Memoirs
Climate Change gives us the chance to truly decolonize: Will we take it?
If we are to safeguard our very existence, climate change will challenge us to rethink, review, and reinvent the very notion of civilisation and modernity. As delegates..
Who is looking after the interest of Africa’s people in the face of the climate crisis?
In September, Frans Timmermans, the EU Commission Vice President and the man in charge of leading its work on the European Green Deal and the European Climate..
DRC’s forests-for-oil sale reeks of neocolonialism
Behind the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s nationalist rhetoric lie big profits for global energy giants, and hurt for poor Congolese. Forests are losing out to fossil..
In London without you
My old friend Mike often said travelling is a privilege. As a Christian, I’ll have to say, it’s grace, one which I am grateful to have enjoyed…
My fellow African, who do you work for?
2020 was a dark year. As if humanity wasn’t traumatised enough by the fatalities from an evil virus, millions had to watch on their small screens a..
My fellow African, who do you work for?
2020 was a dark year. As if humanity wasn’t traumatised enough by the fatalities from an evil virus, millions had to watch on their small screens a..
My fellow African, who do you work for? (part 3)
Stay at home moms have no agency: I became a cheerleader for women opting to stay home and am loving it! When you’ve been in the workplace..
Why dad said fucken French
Dad didn’t quite swear but most things French took exception. Ironically, dad lived most of his adult life in Douala. Mind you, if the french policy of..
Schola & Beaufils – The wedding
Today is two years ‘jour pour jour’ as my French folks will put it, since our special day but memories are so fresh it feels like yesterday…