Godfrey Tangwa AKA "Rotcod Gobata":

Tangwa at a glance

Acting Credits

Conception & Design

Jimbi Media Sites

AFRICAphonie
AFRICAphonie is a Pan African Association which operates on the premise that AFRICA can only be what AFRICANS and their friends want AFRICA to be.
Bakwerirama
Spotlight on Bakweri Society and Culture. The Bakweri are an indigenous African nation.
Bate Besong
Bate Besong, award-winning firebrand poet and playwright.
Bernard Fonlon
Dr Bernard Fonlon was an extraordinary figure who left a large footprint in Cameroonian intellectual, social and political life.
Fonlon-Nichols Award
Website of the Literary Award established to honor the memory of BERNARD FONLON, the great Cameroonian teacher, writer, poet, and philosopher, who passionately defended human rights in an often oppressive political atmosphere.
France Watcher
Purpose of this advocacy site: To aggregate all available information about French terror, exploitation and manipulation of Africa
George Ngwane: Public Intellectual
George Ngwane is a prominent author, activist and intellectual.
Jacob Nguni
Virtuoso guitarist, writer and humorist. Former lead guitarist of Rocafil, led by Prince Nico Mbarga.
Martin Jumbam
The refreshingly, unique, incisive and generally hilarous writings about the foibles of African society and politics by former Cameroon Life Magazine columnist Martin Jumbam.
Nowa Omoigui
Professor of Medicine and interventional cardiologist, Nowa Omoigui is also one of the foremost experts and scholars on the history of the Nigerian Military and the Nigerian Civil War. This site contains many of his writings and comments on military subjects and history.
PostNewsLine
PostNewsLine is an interactive feature of 'The Post', an important newspaper published out of Buea, Cameroons.
Postwatch Magazine
A UMI (United Media Incorporated) publication. Specializing in well researched investigative reports, it focuses on the Cameroonian scene, particular issues of interest to the former British Southern Cameroons.
Simon Mol
Cameroonian poet, writer, journalist and Human Rights activist living in Warsaw, Poland
Victor Mbarika ICT Weblog
Victor Wacham Agwe Mbarika is one of Africa's foremost experts on Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs). Dr. Mbarika's research interests are in the areas of information infrastructure diffusion in developing countries and multimedia learning.
Tunduzi
A West African in Arusha at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda on the angst, contradictions and rewards of that process.
Dr Godfrey Tangwa (Gobata)
Francis Nyamnjoh
Prolific writer, social and political commentator, he was a professor at University of Buea and University of Botswana. Currently he is Head of Publications and Dissemination at CODESRIA in Dakar, Senegal. His writings are socially relevant and engaging even to the non specialist.
Ilongo Sphere: Writer and Poet

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Book Review: Ethics and AIDS in Africa: The Challenge to our Thinking

Anton A. van Niekerk, Loretta M. Kopelman (eds). Ethics and AIDS in Africa: The Challenge to our Thinking. Johannesburg: New Africa Books, 2005. [ISBN: 0-86486-673-9]

The devastating AIDS pandemic in Africa poses daunting medical, social, and economic challenges, placing local, regional, national, and international communities at a moral crossroads. This book, the first to systematically examine the ethical implications of the AIDS pandemic for Africa, examines such pressing questions as:

How do we deal with the uncertainties surrounding AIDS statistics?
Is it really too costly to provide people highly active antiretroviral therapies in Africa? What is the relationship between AIDS and poverty?
Is the political leadership in South Africa doing what is right and prudent to meet the challenge of AIDS?

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February 04, 2006 at 06:27 PM in Bio-Ethics | Permalink | Comments (0)

The HIV/AIDS pandemic, African traditional values and the search for a vaccine in Africa

By Godfrey Tangwa

Culled from Anton A. van Niekerk, Loretta M. Kopelman (eds). Johannesburg: New Africa Books, 2005. ISBN: 0-86486-673-9(Chapter 11, pp. 179 - 189)

Traditional African values have a lot to offer in an approach towards fighting HIV/AIDS. In this chapter Godfrey B. Tangwa argues that values such as empathy and unpaid assistance for those in genuine need will do more to curb the pandemic than the first world's market-driven, profit-oriented practices have done. He also outlines what he believes to be some encouraging research done in Africa towards an AIDS vaccine.

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February 04, 2006 at 06:13 PM in Bio-Ethics | Permalink | Comments (0)