Daily Brief — September 8, 2026
Martin Luther King Jr. on the reach of injustice, and a short look at what makes the Universal Declaration of Human Rights so important.
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Killian Tubuo Nkwain
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When Youths Take on Leadership Roles in a Click-and-View Rush Era
Read →: When Youths Take on Leadership Roles in a Click-and-View Rush EraThe greatest force for change across Cameroon today is not money, machinery or institutions. Change in this Central African country today is being driven mostly by the power of its…
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The Power of Small Kindness: How Everyday Acts Strengthen Democracy and Human Rights
Read →: The Power of Small Kindness: How Everyday Acts Strengthen Democracy and Human RightsWe usually think of governments and international organizations as giant machines responsible for ensuring a smooth running of the society. Which, of course, is true. However, there’s a key component…
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Love is Silver, But Respect is Golden
Read →: Love is Silver, But Respect is GoldenIt was at a Total Station in Molyko, Buea. Four guys in their late 20s and early 30s formed a circle round a pub table, each with a drink in…
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Access to Electricity and Internet as Fundamental Human Rights
Read →: Access to Electricity and Internet as Fundamental Human RightsIf there’s any such thing as a window to the world, then it should be the Internet. To look through this window we need power, and that power is electricity.…
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Post Electoral Protests in Cameroon
Read →: Post Electoral Protests in CameroonOn 27 October 2025, the Constitutional Council (CC) declared Paul Biya the winner of the 2025 presidential election in Cameroon. The streets of Yaounde as well as other cities were…
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When Democracy Fails: Lessons from Cameroon’s Broken Promise
Read →: When Democracy Fails: Lessons from Cameroon’s Broken Promise“Democracy does not die in a day; it dies each time the people’s voice is ignored.” Democracy at a Crossroads I called my friend in Yaounde to find out how…
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The Power of a Single Vote
Read →: The Power of a Single VoteImagine living in a community where electricity is considered luxury and no one even dares dream about it, portable water is not a topic of conversation, there’s no elementary school…
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How War Erodes Humanity and Takes Us Years Back: The Situation in Belo and the English-Speaking Part of Cameroon
Read →: How War Erodes Humanity and Takes Us Years Back: The Situation in Belo and the English-Speaking Part of CameroonI arrived Belo at about 3:05 p.m. The sun was bright. People of every age filled Three Corners, moving in all directions as trade pulled them along. It was Friday,…
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Ten at the Tapping Trees
Read →: Ten at the Tapping TreesI grew up in a small CDC camp called Kompina Camp II in the Littoral region of Cameroon where electricity and portable water weren’t things we even dreamed of. My…
