- The wise men of the Mount Kupe rainforest area are at a loss as to what suddenly unmasked the myth that once made their forest a traditionally sacred, no-go area. Today, the traditional rulers and elders of the land are lining up behind WWF to weed out ruthless poachers and illegal loggers whose nefarious activities are seriously affecting rare tropical plant and animal species. Rich Biodiversity Mount Kupe, in Cameroon's southwest, covers an area of approximately 42km2 with an altitude that ranges from 600m to a high peak of 2064m. The forest is largely made up of evergreens and surrounded by 16 villages and towns with an estimated population of 140,000 inhabitants, predominantly…

- I travelled to the Bali community in the North West Region of Cameroon with the intention of interrrogating rural women's perception of climate change and their reaction towards issues pertaining to climate change are quite interesting. Rural women actually critique issues of climate change like deforestation arguing that deforestation is a means of survival to them. The trees they fell are kept to dry after which they are sold to raise money for basic needs. Some of the wood are used for cooking, constructing houses and even making the beds on which they rest. Plans are underway for governments in the world to plant more trees; these women are disinterested emphasising on the…

- They are the unforgotten mothers, the most hard-working. They are awoken from a deep sleep by the crow of the morning cock. They light their kerosene lamps and go behind the compound to release metabolic material from their systems. Thereafter, they have to begin cooking as early as 5:00 a.m so to have sufficient time to prepare their grand-children for school. They are referred to as grand-mothers, mothers, workers, wives and farmers. They take care of their grand-children as their children must relocate to the city for better jobs and better opportunities. They are obliged by circumstances to play these roles with little or no attention from structure to look into their plights. Most…

- Women constitute the majority of Cameroon’s population making up 60% following the 1985 population census since the 2005 census that was carried out are still to be released. Albeit this majority, very few women actively engage in Cameroon’s politics. Being a patriarchal society, the discursive practices ostracises women from playing key roles in political affairs. Resonant in patriarchal discourse is the fact that women are less powerful and cannot actively engage in issues of the public sphere but have a nexus with the private sphere undertaking unpaid work in the domestic sphere such as child rearing, house cleaning plus cooking. There is the common adage that the woman…

- Politics in Cameroon has predominantly been a male-dominated arena with most women denying involvement as they adhere to the construct that politics is a dirty game without venturing in to it to verify their hypothesis. Prior to 1990, Cameroon was a one-party state with the ruling Cameroon People’s Democratic Party as the shepherding political party. When multi-party politics was introduced in 1990, the thought was that many individuals would join politics and most especially women as this speeded democratization process allowing people to choose the party they would like to join. Democratisation is supposed to make overt political participation, to grant equal opportunities to al…