L'Effort Camerounais (English Version)

Politics and Freedom of Choice

By Tazoacha Asonganyi in Yaounde

All politics is about power: the power to shape society to fit individual views; the power to create or deny equal opportunity; the power to facilitate or frustrate the exercise of individual freedoms…; the power to determine the conditions of the exercise of power in all domains of society...

Gabon Misses The Colour Revolution!

By Tazoacha Asonganyi in Yaounde

The travails of the "opposition" since the wind of change blew across Africa in the early 90s have reduced them, especially in Cameroon, to the impotence of numbers: of parties, of media outlets, of trade unions, of associations…

LAMP FOR MY STEPS: The Appalling Absence of the Stitch in Time Mentality

By Rev Fr Giles Ngwa Forteh

Many parts of the world are adorned with monuments which date back to many centuries. Their age and continuous existence, against the abrasions of time, is explained not only by the quality of the material of which they are made and the care with which these monuments were erected, but, more importantly, by a “culture of maintenance and rehabilitation” which, as the modus vivendi and modus operandi of the custodian-generations, have kept these treasures defiantly in being.

Of Expensive Holidays and Uncommon Men

By Tazoacha Asonganyi in Yaounde

While he lived, Charles de Gaulle, whom many of our leaders admire and imitate, wrote and lectured about the public persona of a leader. He highlighted the public reality of life as a statesman and the private reality of life as a husband, father and grandfather.

LAMP FOR MY STEPS:The Words that Fall from Our Lips!

By Rev Fr Giles Ngwa Forteh
In a lifetime, every human person who is endowed with the inestimable gift of speech speaks "tons and tons" of words, whose number and nature depend not only on whether or not those who utter them are wise, disciplined or good-willed, but  on a vast array of  personal and circumstantial factors also.

LAMP FOR MY STEPS:From zero to hero

By Rev Fr Giles Ngwa Forteh
Hero to Zero is the title of a truly edifying and inspiring book by Hedwig Lewis. Setting out with the intention of galvanizing the despondent to explore their latent talents in view of getting the most out of their lives, the author presents a gallery of "heroes", illustrious persons who were either classified as "zero" - not worthy to stand up and be counted, or who started their climb to the summit from a point of total obscurity ( the point of "zero")  - from scratch, with nothing on which to cling and thrust forward (save God's grace), and even nobody to encourage and orientate them.

LAMP FOR MY STEPS:The Holy Spirit and the purpose of his gift

By Rev Fr Giles Ngwa Forteh
Before ascending into heaven, Jesus consoled and strengthened his disciples by renewing the hope-inspiring and zeal-imparting promise of the Coming of the Advocate. 

LAMP FOR MY STEPS:This Anger of Mine!

By Rev Fr Giles Ngwa Forteh
Question many people about their human frailties and the majority will ask you to underline anger, seven times. Many will sincerely tell you that they are irritable and flair up at the slightest provocation, and that their anger can rage, unabated, for days, weeks and even months, causing deep pain, emotional stress and total disorientation of  their being.

LAMP FOR MY STEPS:Whither are we tending?

By Rev Fr Giles Ngwa Forteh
On the occasion of his nomination to the Senate of the United States of America, the venerable Abraham Lincoln on June 17, 1858, delivered his famous "Divided we fall, united we stand" speech.

LAMP FOR MY STEPS

God's purpose in life's trial

By Rev Fr Giles Ngwa Forteh

God does not desire to crush or squash us like little ants, crawling under his mighty feet, as many are wont to think- quite the contrary! The glory of God is man fully alive.