The number of broadcasters surged following the liberalization of the media in Cameroon, and almost all of them operate precariously under "government tolerance" but without licenses.
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Journalists from across this key country gathered to debate media ethics, corruption, gender challenges and election coverage in our most recent conference in Freetown.
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Cameroonian journalists worked together on topics of media corruption, religious tension, social development and journalistic freedom and independence at our conference in Bamenda.
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The Archbishop Emeritus of Douala, Cardinal Tumi, says with the Biya's 'fraudulent' 6th victory, there have been no trustworthy elections in Cameroon for more than 50 years.
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In local Ugandan parlance, Christmas is "eaten". One of my spiritual mentors says of the so-called festive season, “We feast when we should be fasting”.
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Oluwatoyosi Ogunseye won a CNN African Journalist Award for her heartbreaking investigative story on abysmal conditions at a Nigerian children's hospital.
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S. Dji, a young Cameroonian entrepreneur, says she is living proof that faith in God alone can cure HIV. Health workers, however, prefer a program of faith plus antiretrovirals.
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In Cameroon, many believe that epilepsy is contagious and caused by witches, and so victims of the disease try to keep it hidden.
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One Friday afternoon, we received yet another visit from state security operatives in my newspaper's offices. But this visit was different.
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Yasser Khalil, a 38-year-old researcher and journalist, joined the January 25 revolution in Cairo. This summer he flew 5000 miles to hear new ideas about religious equality to take back to Egypt.
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