Cameroon: Open Letter to CUJ President

Posted to the web 25 July 2008 Aaron Agien Nyangkwe I am not going to engage in that whimsical habit of heaping congratulations at you. For I know that yours at the helm of the Union of Cameroon Journalists (CUJ) is no golden opportunity for more access to the national hobby: beer drinking. How could that be when you are mounting the rostrum of leadership of CUJ at the most trying times of the journalism profession in Cameroon? Cameroon, I may recall to you, is one of the rare countries in the world where journalism has moved from the fourth estate to the 50th estate. It is a country where every person is a Journalist and none is a Journalist. A country where those that are competent enough to practise the profession abiding by universal classical norms are clobbered or rendered hapless; some have even become what Richard... [read full story]