The urgency of now by Yvon NGASSAM

Blanche 2 During the war I lost a pot that was very precious to me because it belonged to my mother. It was one of the things she had given me when I was a student living in the university campus. When I lost my mother, it was one of the things I had in memory of her. This pan was precious to me. I liked to use it to cook for my son who didn't know his grandmother. She was a very hardworking w...

BLanche 1 I was a student in Buea from 2006 to 2009. I started my family there. It was in this city that I met my first love and had my child. I am passionate about cinema and the only school I could go to for training was here in Yaounde. In 2016, in October, when the crisis started, my fiancé, who had stayed in Buea had to leave the country. I went there to move our small belongings from the fla...

Anna (16 ans) Before the crisis, I was happy living with my family. I always went swimming with my friends every Saturday. We also played basketball and volleyball. One Monday morning, when we arrived at school, we were asked to go home because the teachers were going to strike. We went home but I don't really know what happened next. There was shooting. People were hiding under the beds, some...

 Mary I am 12 years old I am from the North West region, I come from Bamenda.  I was 7 years old and I couldn't go to school that day because my mother was shot in the back on her way to the market. A victim of the war. My mother was a small, quiet shopkeeper. My life was so good when my mother was still alive. After she died, we lost everything, even the love we had. When our mother was alive...