AFRICAN WOMEN’S DEVELOPMENT FUND CALLS FOR PROPOSALS
The current call is opened from 18th June to 31st July 2014. Applicants are to send in proposals with innovative but effective strategies to address issues relating to the specified focus areas under the various listed themes: The areas of focus are as follows: Women’s Human Rights (WHR) In the […]
Cameroon , toilet outage and its deadly effects
The Bamenda Main Market (in the city where I live) has approximately 5000 traders occupying about one thousand shops. The traders in the market and the thousands of people who shop there have access to just four toilets provided by the local council. Some inner city apartments don’t have toilets […]
Vacancies at Association Camerounaise pour le Marketing Social (ACMS)
Association Camerounaise pour le Marketing Social (ACMS) is an affiliate and platform of Population Services International, with programs in malaria, reproductive health, child survival, safe water, diarrhea, and HIV prevention and treatment. PSI/Cameroon promotes health products, services and healthy behaviors that enable low-income and vulnerable people to lead healthier lives. […]
Job Announcement – HIV Trainer Consultant
The United States Peace Corps Cameroon is recruiting Training Consultants for use on an as needed basis.The position requires a great degree of energy, flexibility and creativity and includes traveling to remote locations within Cameroon sometimes to deliver training. Responsibilities The Training Consultant is required to facilitate workshops and other […]
22 African Women Writers selected by the African Women’s Development Fund to Participate in a Creative Non Fiction Writers Workshop
The African Women’s Development Fund, (AWDF) is pleased to announce that after a competitive application process, 22 African women writers have been selected to take part in its first creative non-fiction writer’s workshop. This is the first of a series of workshops intended to give African women writers the space, […]
AWDF seeks a Communications Consultant
The African Women’s Development Fund (AWDF), a grant making foundation based in Accra, Ghana requires the services of a Communications Consultant who will work with the Communications Specialist. The Communications Consultant may either work out of AWDF House in Ghana or virtually […]
Maya Angelou -In & Out of time
The world has lost a phenomenal woman, poet, actor, and activist .Maya Angelou. Her words and work are an inspiration. I watched Madea’s Family Reunion and was inspired by the recitation of a beautiful poem – In and Out of time. As we mourn/honor Maya Angelou, I share this with […]
UN Women, Civil Society Advisory Group Joins ‘Bringbackourgirls’ Campaign
By Leocadia Bongben Cameroon United Nations Women Entity for Gender Equality and Empowerment of Women and their Civil Society Advisory Group has added their voice to the global campaign for the release of the kidnapped Chibok girls. Boko Haram, an Islamic sect preaching against western education and instilling terror in […]
Erykah Badu traces roots to Cameroon
Erykah Badu traces roots to Cameroon
Mussa | May 26, 2014 | Woman eh | No Comments
baduErykah Badu recently took a DNA test to determine the country and even tribe where her ancestors came from. The test results prove that she is from the Bamileke tribe of the West Region of Cameroon.
Erykah Badu aka Badoula Oblongata; aka Sara Bellum; aka Maria Manuela Mexico; aka Annie the Alchemist; aka Fat Belly Bella; aka DJ Lo Down
Time to educate Cameroonian men about women’s rights
This article was originally published by Thomson Reuters Foundation on Fri,20 April 2012. Author: George Fominyen Men have to be involved in efforts geared at ending violence against women in Cameroon, the head of an association working with males to end violent and aggressive behavior against women, has said. […]