L'Effort Camerounais (English Version)

Njawé’s death creates a media corporation for deceased journalists

By Grace Ongey


Adieu Njawé

The late media icon and Le Messager publisher, Pius Njawé, will be laid to rest in his village Babouantou, near Bafang, West Region on August 7 in a ceremony that will bring together different personalities and the entire media family.

2008 February conflagration still looming, former Presidential aspirant warns

By Jude Abanseka

Dr. Klaus-Peter Treydte

In the event the status quo is maintained, it will not be surprising to see a repeat of the violent strike that plunged Cameroon into an impasse for close to a week in February 2008. A 2004 Presidential aspirant and vice dean in charge of Studies and Students' Affairs, Faculty of Arts Buea University, Dr. George Nyamdi made this assertion Thursday, February 25 in Buea during a Friedrich Ebert Stiftung, FES, Political Dialogue, which held under the theme, "Youth and Nation Building in Cameroon. "

Critical reflection on the International Day of the Woman in Cameroon: What comes to a woman is equal to her strength

By Julia Manka Ambe

On the eve of the 25th edition of the International Day of the Woman, a 16-year old girl was raped at Ntamulung Bamenda. The pain this girl is undergoing is nothing compared to the psychological trauma she would have to endure for the rest of her life.

Celebrating May 20

By Tazoacha Asonganyi
May 20 is an anniversary date shrouded by cynicism. It is the handiwork of Ahidjo for whom "democracy" was anathema and "national unity" a prize he sought greedily. He can be said to have decreed May 20 as a national day single-handedly, without due consideration for the complete history of the entire Cameroon.

Cardinal Tumi’s Book: a clarion call for conversion

Fr. Joseph Dufe OFM Cap.

I was in Kumbo Cathedral on the eve of the ordination, of which my Capuchin community was to carry the lion's share. Then it came to my mind that Fr Henry Peeters (a lecturer of Dogmatic Theology in St. Thomas Aquinas Major Seminary Bambui) had advertised Cardinal Tumi's book to me the previous week just after the Good Friday service. I asked a young boy to check a copy of it for me at the SPES bookstore near the mission garage. He came back to me and said he had been told that copies of it had not reached SPES yet.

The Easter egg in the custom of the Church

Pontianus Tardzenyuy
Easter, feast of the Resurrection of Christ. Although lacking the colourful atmosphere of Christmas, from a purely religious point of view, Easter is the most important festival in the Calendar of the Church. An inspiring time, that all practising Christians first consider the profoundness of their individual relationship with Jesus Christ, then join with others to share in the joyous Easter miracle of the Resurrection.

The International Women's Day: a day of reflection or of debauchery?

Ireneaus Chia Chongwain

The 22nd edition of the International Women's Day has come and gone, recording the highest number of women so far to take part in the event in Cameroon. While this massive participation can be interpreted as an increasing recognition, by women, of the importance of the day in spotlighting their problems, the 2007 edition will equally be remembered as one that registered the greatest incidents of reported female debauchery.

Christianity under Capitalistic assault

Emmanuel F. SANOSI

After the publication of Dan Brown's novel and film version "The Da Vinci Code", which was acclaimed as a literary blockbuster, another documentary "The Lost Tomb of Jesus" by James Cameron recently premiered on the widely-watched Discovery Channel, a novel and documentary that jointly undermine the beliefs on which the Christian faith is founded and anchored.

“Cameroonians should not give up participating in elections” ...Samuel Nola...

Aloysius Agendia Mr

Samuel Nola, Secretary General of the Douala diocesan Commission for Justice and Peace, has said that Cameroonians should not give up participating in elections, while lamenting the timid registration ahead of the upcoming legislative and municipal elec tions.

The tradition of cemeteries in the Church

Pontianus Wirba

Possession of cemeteries is a practice that has its roots as far back as Biblical Period. A cemetery is a sacred place and also a way of expressing the Christian faith. The month of November is a special period of making more visits to cemeteries.