Euro 2020: Blacks in the European Nations’ Cup.
The 2020 European Nations' soccer jamboree enters its second phase today with the knock off round of 16. Given Europe’s checkered history with Africa especially with respect to colonialism and racism, it seems fitting to enjoy the beauty of the European competition...
African Development Bank Group Holds 2022 Annual Meetings in Ghana: AfDB has delivered for Africa!
The 57th Annual Meetings of the African Development Bank and the 48th meeting of the African Development Fund (ADF), the bank’s concessional lending window, kicked off in Accra Ghana on Monday May 23. Scheduled to run through Friday May 27, the 2022 meetings are...
The Role of Africa’s Regional Organizations in Conflict Prevention and Resolution
On Tuesday November 23 2010, Brookings institution hosted a conversation between Uganda’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Dr. Ruhakana Rugunda and US State Department’s John Hoover, Director, Office of Regional and Security Affairs, Bureau of African...
FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022 Draws!
Today’s draws shall have the eight groups named horizontally from A to H. Tier one shall be all the teams in Pot 1, Tier two shall be teams in Pot 2, Tier three shall be all the teams in Pot 3 and Tier four shall be the teams in Pot four. Teams have been...
FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022: Which African Teams shall qualify – My Predictions. By Lambert Mbom
#Algeria, #Nigeria, #Senegal, #Morocco and #Tunisia are the five teams that shall today qualify for the five spots reserved for #Africa at the forthcoming 2022 #FIFA World Cup in Qatar. This analysis is based on the results of last Friday’s results and the current...
Which African Soccer Giants Will Qualify for World Cup 2022?
Ten African soccer giants shall compete over the next five days for the five spots reserved to Africa for the FIFA 2022 World Cup jamboree billed for December 2022 in Qatar. Today Friday March 25, 2022 shall witness the following schedules: Egypt vs Senegal Mali vs...
Bishop Bibi Turns 50! Let them say. By Lambert Mbom.
Birthday anniversaries are milestones that set markers on one’s life trajectory. Fifty is such a golden age and a time for great celebrations. While such celebrations seem perfunctory, they carry immense significance. It is a celebration of life, of a journey and of...
Religious Freedom in Africa at The International Religious Freedom Summit July 13 – July 2021.
Washington D.C. -- According to the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom 2021 Report released last April 2021, Eritrea and Nigeria are the two African countries of the ten recommended for designation as “Countries of Particular Concern” while...
Why I am rooting for England against Italy in Euro 2020 Final.
In a few hours, the Euro 2020 will be in the history books when Italy meets with England. And not that it matters, supporting either one or the other the difference shall be made by the soccer wizardry, technical savvy of managers and players and sheer luck. It is not...
Paul Tizibong Atang honors Msgr. Patrick Lafon’s legacy. By Lambert Mbom
Three months after the passing to eternity of Msgr. Patrick Lafon, American business magnate and philanthropist, Paul Atang recently donated lifesaving medical equipment to the St Blaise Catholic hospital, Mankon in the archdiocese of Bamenda, Cameroon. COVID19...
Msgr. Patrick Lafon: Priest, Prophet & Philosopher! Rest in Peace! By Lambert Mbom.
There is no shortage of models of the priesthood who inspire young men to become priests and if I could be a priest, Msgr. Lafon would have been the example of the kind of a priest I would have loved to be. He loved the priesthood and that made the difference. He...
Let’s Celebrate African Women! By Lambert Mbom
March is often celebrated as Women’s History Month. March 8th is International Women’s day and I decided to celebrate this month by writing profiles of 31 African immigrant women across different disciplines whom I could showcase to my daughters as role models. I...
Adieu Fr Joseph Ngah Mbiydzenyuy: Someone Beautiful for God!
Last Saturday or thereabouts, my friend Jude Ozughen and I reminisced of encounters with Fr Joseph Ngah. He recounted for the umpteenth time a story he has often told of the impact of priests in his life. Growing up in Ndop, at the time Fr Joseph Ngah served there,...
St. Joseph: Artisan of Peace.
Every year, the Catholic Church celebrates the World Day of Peace on January 1. In his message for the celebration of 2021, the 54th World Day of Peace, Pope Francis invites Christians “to cultivate a culture of care as a path to peace.” The Holy Father proposes the...
January 2021: “With a Father’s heart!”
It is with the words “With a father’s heart” that Pope Francis opens his Apostolic letter celebrating the anniversary of the proclamation of St Joseph, as Patron of the Universal Church. The pope seems to be answering a question which he does not tell us. His answer...
Celebrating 2021 with St Joseph: Patron of the Universal Church. Lambert Mbom
Last December 8th, Pope Francis declared the year in honor of St Joseph in celebration of the 150th anniversary of Pope Pius IX’s dedication of the universal Church to the patronage of St Joseph. Pope Francis draws our attention to the person of St Joseph often a...
THE ROLE OF INSTITUTIONAL CHANGE IN REVIVING CAMEROON’S ECONOMY By Rev. Wilfred Emeh*
June 3, 2020 Cameroon’s Minister of Finance Louis Paul MotazeOverview Since late 2016, the Republic of Cameroon has been going through a devastating armed conflict that has worsened what was already a fledgling economy. Historically, this civil strife can be...
US Organizes the Second Ministerial to Advance International Religious Freedom. By Lambert Mbom.
Washington D.C. – Over one thousand religious leaders and civil society delegates are gathering at the U.S. State department for the second Ministerial to advance Religious Freedom from Tuesday July 16th through Thursday July 18th, 2019. This is coming on the heels of...
French Hegemony over Africa – The Case of African Nations’ Cup 2019. By Lambert Mbom.
There is an unmistakable "Africanness" with the French Soccer team and Trevor Noah, the South African comedian loudly proclaimed this after the French team won the 2018 World Cup. After France conquered parts of Africa since the Scramble for Africa in 1884, they have...
A Rejoinder to Cameroon’s Foreign Minister’s Address to the 73rd General Assembly of the United Nations. By Lambert Mbom
https://youtu.be/RMdzAgXe7Gw On Thursday September 27th2018, La Republique du Cameroun’s Minister of External Relations Lejeune Mbella Mbella addressed the 73rd session of United Nations’ General Assembly (UNGA). The minister spent 19 of the 25 minutes he spoke...