The ladder of success is not crowded at the top for I set it on the right foundation.

I was born in a poor family background but made up my mind that I most go to school so as to have a saying in the development of MY COUNTRY and that I will not die a poor woman. After passing my GCE advance level in 1990, I could not go to the university because the only university in Cameroon then was Yaoundé UNIVERSITY and my parents could not pay my fees, I decided to look for a teaching job and was employed to teach in one primary school in Bambili to be paid a wage of 23,725 francs a month. Unfortunately for me it lasted only for two months because of a drop in enrollment. When I had this job the wage was very low but I accepted it for I was from a poor FAMILY background and had nothing to do.

    I was given this wage of two months at once I presented this money to my mother and she said by our tradition my first income has to be given to my father so as to have his blessing which I did. He took the money and did not give me even a francs for my upkeep.

     I still had the passion in me to go to school so I started my small business of buying groundnut and selling, with it I started making money and join a ‘’ngangi group ‘’that I was contributing 2000 francs a week. At the end of the session in August I had seventy three thousand francs, at this point I stayed in the house for a year to save enough money to go to the university. When I got there I was admitted and I paid my fees with part of the money from my “ngangi group” the sum of fifty thousand francs and the rest of the money I took it for my upkeep, for one of my uncle had accepted me to come and live with him. He was living in a quarter called Nkolbisong and I realized that it was too far from the university and I could not cope with the situation, had to go back to Bamenda.

           When I got to Bamenda, the only solution for me was to get married because my father saw me then as a burden to him. When I got married I thought everything will be just fine but I started experiencing difficulties in my marriage. I was told that by our tradition I will have to live with my father in-law for some time, my mother in-law was a problem to me, she will never smile even though I realized it was her character she showed me where I had to cook my food but to me it wasn’t normal. The worst thing was when her daughter came and told me that she is use to buying five liters of oil for her mother and will not want to increase it. I knew then that I was not needed in that home. I rushed back to my husband.

     Back with my husband I remember a day he give me (5000) five thousand francs which I used it to do my hair he said the money was for my personal use, but when I use the money to do my hair he got very upset with me. It was then that I realized that I needed to do something for myself to generate income. I then started frying puff puff and beans to sell, God bless me and it was moving on well and I join my “Ngangi group” again when I benefited from the puff puff and beans I was selling, the idea of going to school came back to me, I decided to go to the teacher training college where I came out with excellent results. I HAD passion for development work so I started helping children around me by telling them why it is important to go to school for one’s married you can always be able to handle your issues.

   With the education that I have, when I start up a new idea if it doesn’t work I drop it and start a new one. I have work as a community agent for close to twenty years and I am not tired for I enjoy it so much. Today my husband been a typical African man cannot stand in front of me to SAY THAT my wife thank you but I can only see his action knowing that he is grateful to me. Beside with the use of the internet, it has help me to know that it is important to own my own business and control it rather than thinking that I must work with my husband which is a great challenge to most African women. As an entrepreneur I own my coconut oil and Cosmetic shop and I control it myself. Surprisingly last year the minister of small and medium size industry invited me for three exhibitions in Yaoundé, and one training workshop organized by the UN to the amusement of not only my husband but his whole family, that are now coming to me for an apology for they now look up to me to help them, this been the work of God.  Infact by the end of last year I was the topic of the day for my activities where passed over and over, the CRTV national radio and television. I know I would have gone very far but for the socio political situation of our country makes it difficult to work smoothly. I wish to say thank you to Sister Sophie Ngassa and World Pulse for opening another window for me.

      You know something my dear sisters in the Lord all of what I have done is not because I am intelligent, strong, and gifted but it is because I have faith in the Lord and believed in HIM, as a result God has uplifted me by linking me to those who matter, hence my growth in life and World pulse that has enable my voice to be heard by someone, somewhere in the world. As a result of this I am calling upon my sisters in the world to read the story of Martin Luther and the wife after he break away from the Roman catholic church, the wife worked so hard for the success of the family and it earn her so many sweet names from her husband. Sisters what about you?