Title: Our Man in Cameroon (
Cameroon)
Status: Inactive
URL:
http://ourmanincameroon.com/
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Gout in Cameroon - 02/Jan/2012 05:01 - 4505 days ago
Hi Fellow Aid Workers, Well . . . it turns out a LOT of the relief-workers in Cameroon apparently have gout! I’ve receiv...
Welcome to Our Man in Cameroon - 07/Sep/2011 01:56 - 4622 days ago
This site is dedicated to all the positive spirits in the world who are working to help the people of Cameroon....
Six months after Cameroon - 11/Mar/2010 03:24 - 5167 days ago
I was prompted to write this after I read the following poem posted by a fellow VSO volunteer.
I knew her in my time in Cameroon...
Leaving Cameroon is proving trickier than I thought - 11/Sep/2009 17:55 - 5348 days ago
NB: My time in Cameroon is now over. This is the first post of two summing up my thoughts.
With two months to go in Cameroon a...
Some final thoughts on VSO - 27/Aug/2009 14:03 - 5363 days ago
The important thing that you need to know is that what I am about to write is inexcusable, from VSOs point of view, but not a re...
While you wait - 24/Aug/2009 19:17 - 5366 days ago
This shaky one shot video was taken by a colleague and given to me as part of a whole stack of other recordings that he wanted m...
The leaving of COPAAP - 22/Aug/2009 12:29 - 5368 days ago
As predicted there was no way of getting through the leaving do without wearing traditonal dress.
The event, as always,s started...
Corruption *IS* killing Cameroon - 19/Aug/2009 14:26 - 5371 days ago
During a wider discussion on whether corruption can ever be excused, or even in the case of corrupt cop versus “rich suv ...
A Country Tale - 18/Aug/2009 11:22 - 5372 days ago
Recently I had cause to spend a rare night outside of Bamenda and stay in rural Babessi.
Travel isn’t so much hard in Cameroon...
My Cameroon soundtrack. The songs that kept me sane - 12/Aug/2009 09:47 - 5378 days ago
It was only seven years ago that I set out on a “year off” armed with only a dozen CDs and a Discman.
We’ve co...
Save money. Save the planet. Save souls back home (if you must). - 07/Aug/2009 15:25 - 5383 days ago
Things that make me angry….
How about this? In the supermarket in downtown Bamenda today were 30 -40 young Americans all w...
Badfellows in Cameroon - 31/Jul/2009 09:14 - 5390 days ago
There’s a scene in the movie Goodfellows where the gangsters take over the business of a “defaulting” customer...
And just like that–the sun comes out - 28/Jul/2009 07:52 - 5393 days ago
Strangely, after the lowest of low points yesterday – this morning I did a jig of delight.
I don’t want to make this sou...
On loneliness - 27/Jul/2009 13:12 - 5394 days ago
On occasions when I’ve complained of boredom via this blog or on Twitter the responses are full of suggestions.
They usually r...
Stormy weather–keep rainin’all the time - 24/Jul/2009 10:11 - 5397 days ago
We’ve now reached the part of the year where rain dominates everything.
I’ve lived in tropical countries before that have a ...
A face that won’t lie - 20/Jul/2009 23:51 - 5401 days ago
Yes, just sometimes I struggle with the long speeches and the long list of speakers that are common to Cameroonian events.
...
Of worms and cake - 20/Jul/2009 15:01 - 5401 days ago
Fellow Volunteer(FV): I wish there was more cake in Cameroon.
Me: We had cake just the other day – with coffee.
FV: Yeah, th...
The sunshine and the rain of Bamenda - 15/Jul/2009 16:01 - 5406 days ago
I pieced this huge panoramic shot together using Photoshop Elements.
It’s not until you look more closely on the larger ve...
It’s all gone a bit Exorcist - 14/Jul/2009 06:47 - 5407 days ago
I’m not sure how The Eden has passed me by until now – its website describes it as: one of the foremost English lang...
Slo mo movie lauch - 13/Jul/2009 08:42 - 5408 days ago
There are a number of events that I have attended in Cameroon that I haven’t ended up documenting here.
In the past I’ve wri...
Achu soup–only the strongest survive - 09/Jul/2009 09:59 - 5412 days ago
It’s says a great deal about the access to internet in Cameroon that I’ve found it hard to find information on the m...
VSO blogging–goldmine mined - 02/Jul/2009 14:18 - 5419 days ago
No sooner had I written the last post when I received a comment from Dave.
Dave’s a VSO volunteer in Namibia and the man ...
Blogging, not PR, tells the whole story of VSO volunteering - 02/Jul/2009 12:10 - 5419 days ago
I can recall first bringing up VSO’s inability to make use of the hundreds of worldwide blogs almost five years ago.
I was...
The cost of doing business in Cameroon - 29/Jun/2009 09:54 - 5422 days ago
So we launched COPAAP Okadas (motorbike taxis aimed at generating funds for our NGO – see here).
There was a brief couple of w...
We are all complicit in corruption - 27/Jun/2009 10:22 - 5424 days ago
If there’s a recurring theme to this blog, beyond my expat whining, it’s …what’s to be done about Camero...
It’s not always Cameroon’s fault - 25/Jun/2009 14:48 - 5426 days ago
I’ve found that one of the hardest expat lessons to learn is not blaming your host country for everything.
Because frequently ...
Afrigadget! - 21/Jun/2009 17:13 - 5430 days ago
I thought I’d make this my contribution to the Afrigadget files – although I’m sure it has probably featured a...
My thoughts exactly - 20/Jun/2009 07:48 - 5431 days ago
Remarks by the US Ambassador to Cameroon, Janet Garvey, to the American Chamber of Commerce – Tuesday, June 9, 2009
…...
Huffed–A circumcision update - 19/Jun/2009 09:03 - 5432 days ago
Firstly, I thought it was high time that the picture on the right appeared on this blog. It’s been around the world since...
It’s mango season - 16/Jun/2009 14:41 - 5435 days ago
And rainy season too.
...
The future for international NGO communications - 14/Jun/2009 14:12 - 5437 days ago
Just put up a new post at Our Man on Planet Earth that might have been equally at home here.
It essentially deals with the scena...
The Bamenda VSO family - 13/Jun/2009 16:24 - 5438 days ago
Was just posting these pics when I realised that these five VSO colleagues of mine, all based locally, are all from different ...
What Role for the Diaspora? - 13/Jun/2009 15:42 - 5438 days ago
An interesting piece from Samira Edi a snippet here:
Above all, there is no chance of enforcement of the laws in Cameroon. The c...
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