T. Snowsel Ano-Ebie
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T. SNOWSEL ANO-EBIE is a Broadcast Journalist, News Editor and Programmes Supervisor with the Cameroon Radio Television CRTV where he has worked in Yaounde and Douala for more than ten years. He is also moderator of the Cameroon Human Rights Journalists Group; an active member of the Cameroon Association of English Speaking Journalists, CAMASEJ; and an active member of the Cameroon Union of Journalists, CUJ. Born in Yaounde, Cameroon as the third child to the family of STANLEY ANO-EBIE and ESTHER ANO-EBIE, SNOWSEL SNR. was educated at Government Secondary School Buea, Government High School Mbengwi and the University of Buea. He was trained as a broadcast journalist at the CRTV Professional Television Training Centre in Ekounou, Yaounde. He also received bilingual training in French and English from the Douala Linguistic Centre. As a journalist, SNOWSEL is driven by the spirit that \\\"the public has the right to know\\\" and inspired by the observation that \\\"one cannot NOT communicate\\\". He is commited to become an \\\"informed\\\" and effective manager, a commitment deeply embedded in his education, expirience and ambition: \\\"After a long and critical study of the Cameroonian situation, I have come to the conclusion that Cameroon can only come out of the doldrums when well-trained and informed managers are called upon to manage our national life and social institutions\\\". This is the kind of manager who will \\\"determine that our social institutions serve us well instead of squandering our talents and resources\\\". This is the kind of management T. SNOWSEL ANO-EBIE has chosen to devote his life to.
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This article seeks to explain why many people have adopted the culture of wearing suits in Cameroon's capital Yaounde. It delves into how the people go about cleaning their suits, and explores the big business that is operating around this activity.
In spite of the recent overwhelming success in the placement of Cameroon Government Investment Bonds, better known in French as "Emprunt Obligataire", to the tune of 200 billion CFA francs, the Financial Markets Commission of Cameroon led by Chief Theodore Edjangue, is not satisfied with the overall performance of the market. Another issue is generalized ignorance on the existence of a structured financial market in Cameroon.
After toying with multi party politics for twenty years since 1990, the Republic of Cameroon is fast becoming a "democracy" with no political parties. The trend at which political parties are disappearing, coupled with the fact that the two or three that have weathered the storms have lost key members in publicized and low-keyed resignations is clearly pushing Cameroon towards a "no party democracy". There is a wave of resignations in the leading opposition party the Social Democratic Front SDF.
The state of Cameroon is coming to terms with the death of a journalist who passed on while in government detention. Mr Bibi Ngota and two other colleagues were arrested and detained without trial for about two months, because they attempted to probe into alleged corruption involving top government officials. Following the death of Bibi Ngota in detention, so much has been said as the government desperately tries to save face.
In the Republic of Cameroon, many former members of government and general managers of state owned companies have been arrested and imprisoned in what has been termed “Opération Epervier”. Unfortunately, this campaign has quickly been associated with a ploy by the government to vitimise some citizens. At the end of the day, it is clear that the instigators of “Opération Epervier”, only give a bad dog its name and then hang it.
The fundamental question of how much power the media can display in country like Cameroon has been around since the return to multiparty democracy in the 1990s. The power of the media and the power of media actors like journalist are two different things. While the media represent so much power, the jouirnalists are only feeble facilitators of communication who are not feared or respected by many people. Hence the question, "who fears journalists in Cameroon?".
The Republic of Cameroon has faced many problems during the regimes of its first two Heads of State. After carefully observing the Cameroonian scene over the years it is clear that most of the problems are are result of Management failure. This article examines why Cameroonian Managers fail, identifying poor training, inadequate experience and subjective selection methods as the main reasons for this failure.
