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    AFRICAphonie is a Pan African Association which operates on the premise that AFRICA can only be what AFRICANS and their friends want AFRICA to be.
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    Spotlight on Bakweri Society and Culture. The Bakweri are an indigenous African nation.
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    Dr Bernard Fonlon was an extraordinary figure who left a large footprint in Cameroonian intellectual, social and political life.
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    Website of the Literary Award established to honor the memory of BERNARD FONLON, the great Cameroonian teacher, writer, poet, and philosopher, who passionately defended human rights in an often oppressive political atmosphere.
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    Purpose of this advocacy site: To aggregate all available information about French terror, exploitation and manipulation of Africa
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    George Ngwane is a prominent author, activist and intellectual.
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    The refreshingly, unique, incisive and generally hilarous writings about the foibles of African society and politics by former Cameroon Life Magazine columnist Martin Jumbam.
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    Professor of Medicine and interventional cardiologist, Nowa Omoigui is also one of the foremost experts and scholars on the history of the Nigerian Military and the Nigerian Civil War. This site contains many of his writings and comments on military subjects and history.
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    A UMI (United Media Incorporated) publication. Specializing in well researched investigative reports, it focuses on the Cameroonian scene, particular issues of interest to the former British Southern Cameroons.
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    Cameroonian poet, writer, journalist and Human Rights activist living in Warsaw, Poland
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    Victor Wacham Agwe Mbarika is one of Africa's foremost experts on Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs). Dr. Mbarika's research interests are in the areas of information infrastructure diffusion in developing countries and multimedia learning.
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    A West African in Arusha at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda on the angst, contradictions and rewards of that process.
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    Renaissance man, philosophy professor, actor and newspaper columnist, Godfrey Tangwa aka Rotcod Gobata touches a wide array of subjects. Always entertaining and eminently readable. Visit for frequent updates.
  • Francis Nyamnjoh
    Prolific writer, social and political commentator, he was a professor at University of Buea and University of Botswana. Currently he is Head of Publications and Dissemination at CODESRIA in Dakar, Senegal. His writings are socially relevant and engaging even to the non specialist.
  • Ilongo Sphere: Writer and Poet
    Novelist and poet Ilongo Fritz Ngalle, long concealed his artist's wings behind the firm exterior of a University administrator and guidance counsellor. No longer. Enjoy his unique poems and glimpses of upcoming novels and short stories.
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    The award-winning blog of Dibussi Tande, Cameroon's leading blogger.
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    Rosemary Ekosso, a Cameroonian novelist and blogger who lives and works in Cambodia.
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    Blog of George Esunge Fominyen, former CRTV journalist and currently Coordinator of the Multi-Media Editorial Unit of the PANOS Institute West Africa (PIWA) in Dakar, Senegal.
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    The incisive commentary of Chicago-based former CRTV journalist Chia Innocent
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    Stephen Neba-Fuh is a political and social critic, human rights activist and poet who lives in Norway.
  • Bate Besong
    Bate Besong, award-winning firebrand poet and playwright.
  • Up Station Mountain Club
    A no holds barred group blog for all things Cameroonian. "Man no run!"
  • Bakwerirama
    Spotlight on the Bakweri Society and Culture. The Bakweri are an indigenous African nation.
  • Fonlon-Nichols Award
    Website of the Literary Award established to honor the memory of BERNARD FONLON, the great Cameroonian teacher, writer, poet, and philosopher, who passionately defended human rights in an often oppressive political atmosphere.
  • Bernard Fonlon
    Dr Bernard Fonlon was an extraordinary figure who left a large footprint in Cameroonian intellectual, social and political life.
  • AFRICAphonie
    AFRICAphonie is a Pan African Association which operates on the premise that AFRICA can only be what AFRICANS and their friends want AFRICA to be.
  • Canute - Chronicles from the Heartland
    Professional translator, freelance writer and a regular contributor to THE POST newspaper. Lives in Douala, Cameroon

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DINDZE

Did MACACOS FINALLY PAY THE ADJUSTED TAXES THAT WERE REDUCED AFTER TAX DISPUTE.Just to emphasise that the procedure of audit was regular-very regular.The taxation system in Cameroon is declaratory.Audits come in periodically to ascertain the sincerity of the declarations.Were the accounts of the company blocked in the course of recovery?This is a very effective way of recovering taxes.Your bank is obliged to debit your account to the benefit of the state.

Martin Jumbam

Hi Dindze, from your reaction, I see that you're a tax man yourself, one of Saint Matthew's successors! You see, when I took over the leadership of MACACOS, our Cardinal Archbishop Christian Tumi gave me two firm orders. First, never to give a bribe or ask for any. Two, to always ensure that all legal taxes to the government were paid, and on time. So, a tax assessment was nothing new to us. However, our contention was that this particular tax assessment was launched with a very different objective. The then Honourable Minister Polycarp Abah Abah made it clear that his objective was to close down our company that was printing papers that were hostile to him. He was merely using his position as a government minister to settle a score with us. Unfortunately for him, and fortunately for us, he ran up against an immoveable wall called Christian Cardinal Tumi, who was determined to keep the company running and save the jobs of over 67 Cameroonians. What Abah Abah wanted to do in a very subtle way, and through his tax proxies, was to achieve what the other members of the Biya oligarchy, notably Koungou Edima and Jacques Fame Ndongo, had tried and failed through a frontal attack of Cardinal Tumi. He was out to destabilize Cardinal Tumi's social work, which provides food for numerous Cameroonian families. The latter gentlemen -- ministers Koungou Edima and Fame Ndongo -- had tried, each in his own way, to floor the Cardinal Archbishop, provoking clashes, the echoes of which reverberated around the world. Each of them was forced to back down and out, for Cardinal Tumi stands his grounds when he's convinced of what he's doing, come rain, come shine.

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