George Ngwane

Dead Presidents Don’t Bite

By Mwalimu George Ngwane

It is twenty years today, 30th November 2009, since Cameroon’s first President El Hadj Ahmadou Ahidjo took his exit from this world to be laid in Yoff cemetery Dakar Senegal.
 
George Ngwane at Ahidjo's grave in Dakar, Senegal

In September 1995, I was invited to an International Conference on Peace in Dakar, Senegal and was privileged to accompany one of Ahidjo’s family members to the Ahidjo home.

Promoting Reading Culture in Schools

 One of the daunting challenges in the Cameroonian education system is the lack of reading culture in schools. This problem is compounded by two major factors.
 
First, the Cameroonian system of education is dominated by exams which play a crucial role in deciding the students’ future. Second, almost all the students and teachers speak English as their second or even third language.

George Ngwane - "Libraries Have Become Mere Warehouses"

By Roland Mbonteh

The Chairman of the National Book Development Council, NBDC, Mwalimu George Ngwane, has said libraries have just become mere warehouses where books are dumped are nobody seems to be bordered.

 
 Schools administrators, he added, do not seem to see the need of libraries.

 Mwalimu George Ngwane made the statement to the press at the Buea Independent Square Wednesday 14th October shortly after donating 2,100 books to some 21 institutions drawn from Fako division in the South West Region.