Godfrey Tangwa AKA "Rotcod Gobata": Conference Presentations

Tangwa at a glance

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.
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)
Renaissance man, philosophy professor, actor and newspaper columnist, Godfrey Tangwa aka Rotcod Gobata touches a wide array of subjects. Always entertaining and eminently readable. Visit for frequent updates.
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
Novelist and poet Ilongo Fritz Ngalle, long concealed his artist's wings behind the firm exterior of a University administrator and guidance counsellor. No longer. Enjoy his unique poems and glimpses of upcoming novels and short stories.
Scribbles from the Den
The award-winning blog of Dibussi Tande, Cameroon's leading blogger.
Enanga's POV
Rosemary Ekosso, a Cameroonian novelist and blogger who lives and works in Cambodia.
GEF's Outlook
Blog of George Esunge Fominyen, former CRTV journalist and currently Coordinator of the Multi-Media Editorial Unit of the PANOS Institute West Africa (PIWA) in Dakar, Senegal.
The Chia Report
The incisive commentary of Chicago-based former CRTV journalist Chia Innocent
Voice Of The Oppressed
Stephen Neba-Fuh is a political and social critic, human rights activist and poet who lives in Norway.
Bate Besong
Bate Besong, award-winning firebrand poet and playwright.
Up Station Mountain Club
A no holds barred group blog for all things Cameroonian. "Man no run!"
Bakwerirama
Spotlight on the Bakweri Society and Culture. The Bakweri are an indigenous African nation.
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.
Bernard Fonlon
Dr Bernard Fonlon was an extraordinary figure who left a large footprint in Cameroonian intellectual, social and political life.
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.
Canute - Chronicles from the Heartland
Professional translator, freelance writer and a regular contributor to THE POST newspaper. Lives in Douala, Cameroon

GLANCING BACKWARD 4

Two giant steps backward from the CANTAM Workshop of 27 September to 01 October, 2010, take me first to the CAMBIN General Assembly which took place at the University of Buea in the South West Region of Cameroon on 17 July 2010. CAMBIN is the Cameroon Chapter of the Pan African Bioethics Initiative (PABIN) whose creation (CAMBIN’s that is) I initiated in 2005. It is a non-profit, non-governmental, non-political, non-discriminatory, multidisciplinary association whose official seat is in Yaounde.

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April 23, 2011 at 08:19 AM in Bio-Ethics, Conference Presentations, Events | Permalink | Comments (0)

GLANCING BACKWARD 3

Some 3 weeks or so before the 17th (ordinary) session of the International Bioethics Committee (IBC) in Paris, scheduled on 26 and 27 October 2010, to which I was invited to make a presentation on the Ethics of traditional medicine, I had been involved, as the chairperson of the Cameroon Bioethics Initiative (CAMBIN), as coordinator of the African Malaria Network Trust (AMANET) Sub-Hub (ASH) in Yaounde nestled in CAMBIN, and as an expert in my own right, in the organization and facilitation of a workshop on Health Research Ethics for Members of Ethics Review Committees and National Regulatory Authorities of Central Africa.

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February 21, 2011 at 02:57 AM in Bio-Ethics, Conference Presentations | Permalink | Comments (0)

GLANCING BACKWARD 2

About 2 months before my lecture trip to Congo Brazzaville on the return from which I was robbed by burglars, I had been invited by the UNESCO to the 17th (ordinary) session of the International Bioethics Committee (IBC) in Paris, scheduled on 26 and 27 October 2010, to make a presentation within the framework of the working session on traditional medicine and its ethical implications. The IBC is preparing a report on traditional medicine. In my presentation on the ethics of traditional medicine, I drew attention to the following issues, among many others:

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February 07, 2011 at 02:20 AM in Conference Presentations | Permalink | Comments (0)

PHOTO TAKEN AT BRAZZAVILLE, 11 DECEMBER 2010

Lecture to the FONDATION CONGOLAISE POUR LA RECHERCHE MEDICALE (FCRM) on 11 December 2010.

February 04, 2011 at 02:18 AM in Conference Presentations | Permalink | Comments (1)

GLANCING BACKWARD

In the coming weeks I will glance backward at the silent years of this blog, with the intention of highlighting a few activities that can serve to bridge the interrupted past with the present and future. I intend to take some giant strides backward, from the more recent to the more remote past.

During the second week of December 2010, I honoured an invitation of the FONDATION CONGOLAISE POUR LA RECHERCHE MEDICALE (FCRM) and made a presentation on 11 December 2010, at the Faculté des Sciences de la Santé, in Brazzaville, République du Congo, on the topic “Ethique et Recherche Clinique”.

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February 03, 2011 at 05:59 AM in Conference Presentations | Permalink | Comments (0)

September 2011