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Dear Readers, Last week I finally completed my Peace Corps service after three years in Cameroon. I left the country Friday night and arrive...

We've got lots of Christmas lights and fake plastic trees up around Buea (seriously) and everyone is wishing everyone else a "Happy...

Just what Cameroon needs: rebels . Busy today trying to wrap things up before Christmas but I'll try to post more on the tortured recent...

VisiCalc: On the bleeding edge of technology After my time at the university in Nanga, I thought I was probably done with the college scene ...

Customer service is a bit of an oxymoron in Cameroon. For whatever reason, most Cameroonians don't get the idea of customer service. Gen...

Recently I came across Scribbles From the Den , the blog of a Cameroonian writer named Dibussi Tande. He posts both original material and al...

There's something surreal about sitting in a little shack in Africa eating an omelet while the TV on the wall is blaring s...

Election day started on a comical note at the office. Two Cameroonian men came into our cyber cafe asking how they could vote for Obama over...

I will never forget that in no other country on Earth is my story even possible. - Barack Obama If you thought I was out of touch wit...

Hello out there to any readers who haven't given up on me and still check the blog in spite of my long absence. As I noted in a previous...