VoA has been a transforming experience
- Posted on Thursday 11 December 2008 - 21:25Walter Nana Wilson, VoicesofAfrica alumnus in Buea, CameroonLife has never been same for me since I got to be part of this business called www.africanews.com and Voices of Africa. It has been an indelible experience and it will continue to be.Loading video...Since June 2008, beginning from the offices of WWF-Cameroon in Yaounde, the Voices of Africa virus got into me, Dominique Bela and Elizabeth Benkam. From Yaounde, it has been the Camera Journalist or call it CAMJO, always on the go, looking for the next 'victim(s)' to interview with the N73 NOKIA PHONE.
My most exciting moments have been when I am actually doing the shooting and interviewing my interviewee in the process. The prison report at the Buea Central Prison is amongst a series of reports that have always touched my heart. What about the assignments I have undertaken, prescribed from the head office in Holland; the stopovers in Bafousam, Cameroon, to highlight a very menacing problem like cholera in a big section of a populated town like Bafoussam.
The trip to Bamenda is unforgettable, to go in quest of some young people, who are so talented, yet they have no visibility. Thank God, AFRICANEWS.COM and Voices of Africa were there to put them on the spotlight. We can enumerate them till the end of time. Like any other human endeavour, the challenges too are there.
The internet lines in our setting will some times frustrate you after a very tedious work for days and weeks. Some people who are yet to know that the communication industry is moving so fast like the fashion industry, will not understand why a mobile phone has become a reporting tool and it is even used for an interview to be broadcast world wide and even on TV.
Gradually, we have taken time to explain to them and when they click on the net and see and read about themselves, then, they congratulate you and wish you well with your newfound job. Hence, I do also wish AFRICANEWS.COM and Voices of Africa the longest life, why not more than that of Methuselah
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