Blessed Efilo Ngoe

JMC 414


Agendia Aloysius is a Cameroonian blogger who writes on politics, the economy as well as on other social issues. In his latest blog on http://agendia.jigsy.com/entries/cameroon/, Agendia Aloysius exposes President Biya's chat with US diplomat from wikileaks. The chat is focused on politics, security, and corruption and on the impact of economic crisis in Cameroon.

Agendia discloses that Mr. Biya was described to be tired, unfocused and virtually uninformed of happenings in his country by the U.S diplomat. According to the post, the president is seen as a tired leader whose relations with his top ranking officials cannot be guaranteed on trust. In the chat, Biya claims some aspects of government which Agendia tries to prove wrong. Though the post tries to bring out the ills of a government marred by corruption and ignorance, the blogger fails to suggest a way forward for the country.

On his part, Dibussi Tande, a Cameroonian resident in the United States, writes on Cameroon and Africa as a whole. In his website http://www.dibussi.com/2012/04/albatross-affair-profile-of- ephraim-inoni-and-hamidou-marafa-html#more/, Dibussi expounds the Albatross affair in what he titles 'Scribbles in the Den'. In the article, Peeking beneath the Veil of the Albatross, Tande tries to give an insight into the arrests and detention of former PM Inoni Ephraim and former Minister of Territorial Administration, Marafa Hamidou Yaya. Tande describes the arrests as a bombshell which in fact was not unexpected.

He outlines the events leading to the financial scandal that led to arrests pointing out to the fact that t5he arrests may have been far from a mere political affair. According to him, Marafa was ambitious; a fact which he says does not call for support but suspicion in Cameroonian politics.

His post is one that expresses a largess of information and political savvy. If writers write they should however try to give an insight to the future.

Bafaka Students On the Verge of Rural Development by Felicity Besumbu edt by Nembi Alain Eboa and Mbongo Aloysius

The Bafaka Students' Union, BAF.S.U is embarking on two major projects for the 2012/2013 fiscal year. The projects which take roots from the economic ideas of the new regime under President Blessed Efilo WA-Ngoe, are aimed at emancipating the Bafaka student and community from both academic and economic deficiency.

According to the president, these projects,viz the Bafaka Students' library and gardening projects will enable students to undertake their various academic, economic and social schedules in a most convenient atmosphere. "The creation of a students' library is a dream that I've for years had and been longing to see come true", said the president.

BAF.S.U however is undertaking the gardening project as an economic and moral booster to the grander venture. It is hoped that through these developments, the Bafaka student will find education an easy assignment that will require mental abilities for excellence, and will put an end or contribute in doing so to the general plight of financial disablement as a deterrence to academic enhancement in Bafaka Balue, Ndian and in Cameroon at large.

You can visit this link or http://argenlibre.blogspot.com to see some activity on Bafaka Balue or on the Students' Union. You can as well write BAF.S.U through bbafaka@ymail.com or bafsu27@gmail.com to share in the experience.
By Felicity Besumbu

'My Heart' by N.M Roland edited by Blessed Efilo wa-Ngoe

Oh! how sweet is your love,
This love so pure and gentle;
Though before I've said not this.
I can feel this gentle breeze
That your love alone can bring.

I enjoy it most, your love to me;
It calls my heart to you.
When I see your pretty smiles
I fie my melancholy
For you are the Sweet and Nice
That for e'er I pray be mine.

To the winds I testified,
To the raging coasts and all,
Your love that mine has been.
For like a glorious blissful morning,
Your love does make my day.
And like these fairest lilies,
Your smiles make mine for life.

As I know you mine has been,
So I long it be for ever.
For you oh! coastal girl
Are the heart that beats in me.

THE WHEEL HAS BEGUN TO MOVE IN THE BAFAKA STUDENTS' UNION, By Nembi Alain Eboa

The reservations of history are to so many, a kind of bank where knowledge, not only of the good is stored, but also of vice. BAF.S.U has not been left out in this category of people who look into history to cut out the true sizes of their coats.

For over two decades BAF.S.U has come to be working on the line of laxity and merry making, where the blame has always been on the capabilities that for real were of our making. Bafaka Balue students have for so long not benefited from the natural largess of human knowledge, as leaders of the union had not taken it upon themselves to reproduce the underlying thoughts of their minds into material form.

The union had no doubts enjoyed a blissful era when such leaders like Delegate Itoe William, Eric Etongwe, Winnyawoko Motale and Ambrose Nanje were painstakingly trying to form the whole idea of a union. Their ideas were those of forming the basics of a united student body that would grow into a potential building entity for the Bafaka community. It is however sad to say that from the late 1990s, BAF.S.U has suffered in the hands of poor leadership that almost left the union in total ruins.

While this had been the rule in BAF.S.U for the past ten years, the students' union is however witnessing a new phase of things with the arrival of a new and spirited leadership. When he was sworn in for the first time as president on the 1st of January,2011 Blessed Efilo Wa Ngoe promised to make a good president if members of the union were going to be cooperative in the total emancipation of the union. His views on hard work and commitment as the sole means towards self-realization and his total refusal to succumb to corruption, led to his quarreling with LO.BA.S.A top executives and the plot against his office in August 2011. He was ousted against the wish of many from office by a few "powerful" members of the association, who feared that his policies were too harsh for a growing union.

His spirit was however in the veins of the led and his name and ideas kept lingering in the thoughts of the positively minded. Called back to service in December 2011, President Blessed Efilo Wa Ngoe restated his arguments of hard work and commitment, as the sole practical doctrine to lead the union through the hurdles it faced.

In effect, his initially proposed library and gardening projects were reestablished for 2012/2013. With the approval of both the traditional authority and the elite, the Students' Union has begun undertaking the projects. The gardening project in Bafaka Balue is already in process. The students at home and abroad have all pledged their commitment and support to the venture, which is believed will address the needs of both students and the community. The varieties on the ground are quite fascinating given that the Bafaka Balue community has been virtually unfamiliar to some of the vegetable species to be planted, though these had been age-long dream delicacies for these hill settlers.

It is therefore expected that through the efforts of BAF.S.U's new regime and line of action, the people of Bafaka Balue will certainly see the light long foretold in the words of leaders like the late P.L Itoe, J.E Eyalo, N.M.Itoe Nefenda, Chief Massa M. Moleke and the late Hon. Chief Massa M.M Mokube. The hope of the elite has also been raised as the chief, HRH Chief Dr A.J Mokube affirmed during the BAF.S.U end of year party in Bafaka that his trust is on the younger generation to bring Bafaka to deserving heights.

ACTION, A PRICELESS RECIPE FOR BALUE DEVELOPMENT; A paper presented by Blessed Efilo Wa Ngoe on the occasion of the Lower Balue Students' Association (LO.BA.S.A) cultural week holden at Bafaka Balue from August 4 to August 7, 2011 under the theme Morality as key to success.

Yesterday was a day, today is a day and tomorrow will a day be. But days are made to what we ought to appreciate through duty and faith. While we believe that tomorrow will surely come, we still have the duty to make tomorrow a day worth living.

In our quest to develop our personal lives, we engage in a collective action of our bodies, minds and spirits, and whatever becomes the result of our action is what makes us at that time. In our individual lives, we can only be fulfilled when our egos match with our self and environment. Life in a peace-less or war torn environment is no better than death in the fires of eternity. But war or physical mishaps are not the only vices that keep life in the dungeons of shame and dissatisfaction.

An environment plagued by both psychological and physical noises resulting from the refusal by individuals to act when action is needed, to speak when words are to be uttered, to cry when tears need to be shed or to laugh when joy is an order, is the very shackle that binds the forces of self realization and satisfaction to shame.

In a house where there is corn,fire, salt and water, the inhabitants may not be expected to cry for meat because certainly, they would not go starving. But if in that same house people die in starvation perhaps because of a neighbor's strong hand, action then may have been put to question. For as Benjamin Disraeli once said,"action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action", man is bound to preserve his desires with not only the thought of his mind, but also and most importantly, with the touch of his hand.

"We shape our buildings, thereafter, they shape us", said Winston Churchill. Today, I am telling us the same thing and in addition that we can only shape our buildings according to our fitness and choices. What we have today could be said to sufficing and hence worthy of our gratitude by those who "give" us. Yet right within us there is a silent cry of dissatisfaction, a feeling of having been neglected, a strangeness in the very land of our fathers. The cause lies right on these words; we have seen and heard, but have not said or done anything to better things for us. The fate of the Oroko man, the Ndian child and that of the Balue person in particular does not lie on our lips alone, it lies entirely on our action, on work and on commitment. "We can only ascend to the heights of contemplation" according to Pope Gregory I and I comply, "by the steps of the active life", by the act of our hands, feet, mouth, mind and all.

Let us not over burden ourselves with selfish politics and villager-egocentricity,but let us stand together as sons and daughters of common origin to fight the adversities of life; to make for positive ends and to shun shameful vicissitudes. The Balue Student should aim high without forgetting the roots of his start, for there is no head without a tail- though tails are less worth than heads in lay thinking.We should not forget the words of our fathers; "itongi bassussu isa ritaka",in our daily endeavors. Behind our very minds should be the doctrine of collective action through brotherhood and fraternity to gain collective joy- an aspect most greater than individual bliss. For as William Blake puts it, "no bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings",so too should we rely on our collective wills for the betterment of our nation; Balue.

We therefore supplicate the viewership and counseling not leaving out the action of our parents and patrons to run our affairs for a better Balue clan.

To exalt our verve, I give us this from Shakespeare who says,"be great in act as you have been in thought, suit the action to the word, and the word to the action", for as Guru Nanak once said, "there can be no worship without good action".

Agatha Nandoa Itoe epouse Noto is Dead

She died on October 9 2011 at 11:05pm. She was a mother of nine with over 17 grand children.Born in 1949, she got married to Mr Noto Ngoe Michael in 1968. She served as a municipal councilor from the year 1996 to the year 2006. She was a Catholic with a strong devotion to the Virgin Mary. Her last son Blessed Efilo Ngoe is student at the university of Buea.

Mme Noto will always remain in our hearts as a loving mother of all.

Stay On by Blessed Efilo Wa- Ngoe

I love you far than you can think
Why not decide it today?
But it is real

you have to go
It's the road for all of us.
Stay on love, don't go.
No not just yet.