Paul Biya's Presidential Win in Cameroon Heightens the Ambazonia Crisis
Paul Biya isn’t a monarch, but he sure acts like one. The second-longest-ruling head of state in the world, 85-year-old Biya just won a...
Special Report from Cameroon: Why have schools been closed for a year in Anglophone-minority regions
Photo: Alberto Vaccaro I remember Friday 18th November 2016 very clearly. The principal of my school gave his daily morning announcements...
How supporting women's soccer in Cameroon promotes peace for entire communities
A common sight during the late afternoons or weekends in villages and cities across Cameroon is that of boys playing soccer. In 1863, the...
Empowerment and interviewing the fon (king) in the village of Bawock, Cameroon
In August some of our Advice Project teen journalists from Cameroon and the USA attended the Bawock Empowerment Conference in Bawock, a...
Building Roads and Ending the Harmful Traditional Practice of Widow Rites in Bawock, Cameroon
A war broke out in 2007 between the villages of Bali and Bawock (Cameroon) over ancestral land rights. Bali, with over 50,000...
Premiere of HIDDEN TRUTHS at the Millennial Empowerment Conference (*WATCH NOW ONLINE*)
(VIDEO BELOW!!) In 2015, two of our second-year Advice Project teen journalists - Shneider Remi Adams and Gaelle Mambo, from Bamenda,...
Advice Project Media Spotlight: Fomuso Blessing Nabila
The Advice Project’s Cameroon Program Director, Fomuso Blessing Nabila, is heading into her third year leading an Advice Project media...
Uppity Witches collect pads to break menstrual taboos in Cameroon
This year students in Advice Project Media's Uppity Witches class studied witch hunts in Papua New Guinea, Europe, Tanzania, Cameroon,...
Gender and Conservation Issues in Cameroon
While in Cameroon to lead an Advice Project workshop and to be a speaker at the annual MEC conference, I spoke with hundreds of people to...
2015 Millennial Empowerment Conference (MEC)
Melissa was invited to give a keynote talk at the first annual Millennial Empowerment Conference (MEC) in Bamenda. Organized and hosted...
