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Crew of the Kanjo, winner of Best Web series The work of arts and humanitarian services of sole individuals in the North West region in particular and Cameroon in general have been recognised at the 3rd edition of Camraise Academy Awards, CAMACA. Initiated In 2017, the 2021 edition of the Camraise Academy Awards (CAMACA) Sunday 31st October 2021 took place at the Franco Alliance hall, Bamenda. Taking into consideration the talents found in the grassroots that are untrodden, CAMACA has as aim to identify and promote talents that are hidden in the region and bring to them the opportunity to showcase their talents to the public. Aside from this, it also aims at recognizing the works of individuals and groups already found in society. The Safeguard crew, winner of Best Blog Award Coming this year when the region is still facing difficulties as a result of the ongoing anglophone crisis, the CEO and founder of Camraise Academy, says this has also affected the organization of this year's

The Safeguard crew and the PCC National Peace Coordinator The Safeguard has received the best blogger award in the category of Best Blogger during the 3rd edition of the Camraise Academy, CAMACA Awards that was held at Alliance Franco hall in Bamenda, Saturday, October 31, 2021. During the award ceremony, the founder of The Safeguard, Nji Nelson Chefor revealed that the platform has been in existence for some time now and seeks to promote the works and strides of young people. " The Safeguard has been in existence for one year three months now and when we started, it was mainly to promote the entrepreneurial skills of young people, and recently, the team decided to diversify that particular aspect ", he said. Nji Nelson Chefor, Promoter of The Safeguard Nji Nelson Chefor also revealed that the future of The Safeguard is great especially as its works are being recognized. " The award just comes to recognize the fact that we have been doing something and I want to say that

Workshop Participants And CPS Coordinators As part of measures to spread peace through communication, the Civil Peace Service of Bread for the World organized a 5- day workshop on radio drama production on the theme "Radio Drama: A Veritable Tool for the Promotion of Peace".The workshop which was held at the PCC Synod office in Buea brought together 17 CPS partner organizations from all over the country. Opening the training workshop, the representative of the Moderator of the Presbyterian Church in Cameroon, the National Peace Coordinator, Rev. Nta William Nche disclosed that the workshop is coming at a time when all avenues have to be exploited to preach peace, and radio drama is one of them. During the 5-day training workshop, the participants were drilled on peace, peacebuilding, conflict, history of radio drama, elements of a good script amongst others by Julius Nzang and Achaleke Christian, who were the main facilitators. Cross Section of Participants During Workshop At

Training session Some journalists of all media landscape in Bamenda have come to the end of a two - day training on the theme "Catalyzing Media for Peace and Justice in Cameroon, " Friday July 30 to Saturday 31. Resource persons of the training were Ngala Desmond, Country Manager DefyHateNow Cameroon, Blaise Abong, diplomat and programs manager at AKPC and Eugene Nforngwa, development policy and communication analyst, Director Rainforest Center for Policy Research. The training saw some 25 media personnel from broadcast and print drilled on conflict management, fake news, hate speech, media advocacy and conflict-sensitive reporting. Some Bamenda based journalists during the training At the end of the training, Eugene Nforngwa opined that journalists need to understand that they have a lot of power in what they say and the words they use, the choices they make that can affect a conflict either negatively or positively but more importantly that they use that power to be able

Photo credit: CKA Attendees of the workshop As part of measures to curb the spread of violence in Cameroon’s North West region, the Presbyterian Church in Cameroon (PCC) Peace Work Office organized a one-day workshop on Nonviolence for 21 selected youth from the North West on Wednesday June 23, 2021 in Bafoussam. The workshop is an activity of the Peace Education and Nonviolence in Schools and Communities Project of the PCC Peace Work Office. The project spans January to December 2021 and has support from the German government’s Civil Peace Service (CPS) project Cameroon. It seeks to engage students develop a culture of peace in schools and youth to develop nonviolent attitudes in communities. The workshop facilitation was done by power point presentation, practical engaging exercises, group work and debriefs. The trainees benefited knowledge on the Understanding Peace and Violence, Peace and Justice, Nonviolent Action (NVA), Nonviolent Communication (NVC), Media Activism for Peace and

                         Professor Enoh Tanjong, born in 1955 in Fotabe, a village in Manyu division, South West region of Cameroon grew up in his native village where he attended primary education. In 1967, he moved over to pursue secondary education at Saint Joseph’s College Sasse under the supervision of his elder brother. He was a mass communications expert with BSc (Hons) Mass Communications, University of Lagos (1979), M.A Journalism University of Winconsin-Madison (1983) and PhD Mass Communications, Winconsin-Madison(1986). Following his employment in the Ministry of Information and Culture, Tanjong designed the undergraduate Journalism and Mass Communication program in the University of Buea in 1993. He is often regarded as “the pope”. This name came about because he is the architect behind the creation of JMC as well as the pioneer head of department if the department. He was the pioneer HOD from 1993-2005 when he was succeeded by Dr Julius Che Tita and Dr Kingsly Ngange who i