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Monique Kwachou

Welcome to my digital corner of the web. This is a space for thinking, writing, remembering, and speaking in public. Whether you are here to read, research, or collaborate, the door is open.

“How is Home?” You Ask

Socio-political Commentary on Cameroon

Since returning home early last month, nearly all my conversations begin with the same recurrent question; how is Cameroon/home? Roughly eight weeks later, I still haven’t found a suitable way to reply. I say: “It’s just there”.                It’s just there as in; it is how I left it, except […]

January 28, 2019 / 3 Comments
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No-Internet Cameroon: Two months on

Socio-political Commentary on Cameroon

On the evening of 17th January 2017, two regions in Cameroon- one of which is my permanent domicile- were indefinitely cut off from internet access. Today marks two months. The government claims it “had to take drastic measures to curb the spread of false information and extremist messages”. This could be debated. However collectively punishing […]

March 17, 2017 / 0 Comments
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What’s happening in Cameroon? Learning, I hope

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On the 10th of October 2016, Lawyers in two out of ten regions in the country went on strike/industrial action, after giving the government fair warning in 2015. For two weeks they sat home and did nothing. No one paid them any mind, in fact the Minister of Justice insulted them. They took permission to […]

February 12, 2017 / 9 Comments
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The Silent Majority

Socio-political Commentary on Cameroon

August of this year shall make five years of my blogging here on Musings. It was in August of 2012 during a trip to Nigeria for Chimamanda’s Farafina workshop that a friend of a friend, Martin Takha first introduced me to the world of blogging. Helping me with everything from the Gmail account to deciding […]

January 24, 2017 / 1 Comment
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