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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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So This is How it Starts?

Socio-political Commentary on Cameroon

When you watch Hotel Rwanda, one of your first thoughts is: this story is incomplete. How did they get there, that early scene? How do a people get to a point where it is ok to order machetes for killing other human beings they had lived with, worked beside, bought from, and sold to? In […]

October 4, 2017 / 4 Comments
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Takeaways from ‘The Struggle’

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I recently wrote a piece for This is Africa on the lessons my experience of living under the Internet ban left me with. You can read the piece here The internet ban was just a fraction of this protest, however. This ‘struggle’ which has gone on for over seven months experience has marked me in […]

May 23, 2017 / 2 Comments
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