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05/09/2026

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Meet The Nso People — The Grassfields Tribe Nobody Can OutworkLong before Cameroon had a name on any European map, the N...
05/09/2026

Meet The Nso People — The Grassfields Tribe Nobody Can Outwork

Long before Cameroon had a name on any European map, the Nso Kingdom was already one of the most organized societies in the Grassfields — built around the Fon of Nso, the Nsaw palace, and the Kwifon council that kept order for centuries. Kumbo, their traditional capital in Bui Division, wasn't just a settlement. It was a working economy, a farming powerhouse, and a training ground for discipline that the Nso people carried with them wherever they went.

That discipline is exactly why the Nso name still travels today. Walk into almost any Cameroonian city — Bamenda, Douala, Yaoundé — or into the diaspora in Europe and North America, and you'll find Nso people running businesses, holding degrees, farming land, and building institutions from nothing. Agriculture built the foundation — Kumbo's markets are still some of the busiest in the Northwest Region — but it's the work ethic behind it that turned a farming kingdom into a name associated with hustle and results. (Say it loud in our WhatsApp channel if you know a Nso person putting in that same work: https://whatsapp.com/channel/0029VbCDRFa72WTo5QA6wr1B)

Go back to the source and it makes sense — Nso identity was never built on shortcuts. The Kwifon didn't hand out status; you earned your place. That same principle is why education matters so much in Nso communities today, why so many Nso families have sent multiple generations through school while still keeping one foot on the farm. It's a culture that never separated hard work from honor.

If you're building something right now — a business, a skill, a name for yourself — that's the Nso spirit. Grab "They Called Him A Dictator" on Selar (selar.com/y611n8515m) for more stories of Africans who built power the hard way, no shortcuts. And if you're running a skincare, fashion, or food brand looking to reach a hardworking, loyal Cameroonian and Nigerian audience — TruVision Africa is where that story gets told.

Drop a 💪🏽 if you know a Nso person who never stops working, or tag one in the comments right now.

Verdict A: A kingdom that built its whole culture on earned respect doesn't produce lazy people — it produces builders.

Verdict B: Ask any Nso person to "rest" and watch them start a new business by Friday.

Nso pipo di wan, di wok — dat na di ting we di kolo dem sef no fit understand. ❄️

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TruVision Africa Editorial Team — September 5, 2026

RED IN THE STREETS: BAMENDA MARCHES AGAINST FEMICIDE AS 12 WOMEN DIE IN TWO WEEKSHundreds turned Bamenda's streets into ...
04/09/2026

RED IN THE STREETS: BAMENDA MARCHES AGAINST FEMICIDE AS 12 WOMEN DIE IN TWO WEEKS

Hundreds turned Bamenda's streets into a wall of red on Friday. From City Chemist to T-Junction, down to Commercial Avenue — women, men, bike riders, civil society groups, ordinary community members. Not a small crowd. Not a quiet one.

The reason is heavy. At least 12 women killed in domestic violence–related incidents in just the past two weeks alone. Most of these killings, we have gathered, were carried out by intimate partners — the people who were supposed to protect them.

The placards said it plainly: no woman should lose her life simply because she is a woman. Femicide is not a "private matter" to be whispered about behind closed doors — it's a community crisis. Demonstrators are calling for something bigger than sympathy: accountability, protection systems that actually work, and a culture that speaks up instead of looking away.

This march is part of a wider, troubling pattern — femicide numbers climbing across the country, and Bamenda just became the loudest place saying "enough." For real-time coverage like this, our WhatsApp channel stays ahead of the story: https://whatsapp.com/channel/0029VbCDRFa72WTo5QA6wr1B — link straight there if you want it before it hits your feed.

If you're in the North West Region and know someone who needs support, or an organization doing real work on this, TruVision Africa wants your story in the comments.

COMMENT TRAP: Should men who commit domestic violence in Cameroon face harsher, publicly named consequences — or does that put victims at more risk?

VERDICT A: Naming and shaming offenders publicly forces communities and law enforcement to act instead of quietly filing cases away.

VERDICT B: Public naming without proper protective structures for the victim first can backfire — safety systems need to come before public exposure.

Bamenda has spoken. The question now is whether the rest of the country listens before the next two weeks pass.

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TruVision Africa Editorial Team
September 4, 2026



small motor big engine

🚨 ARREST THE FON OF NSO! HIS “CRIMES” HAVE LASTED 33 YEARS! 👑🚔Someone should please arrest HRM Sehm Mbinglo I, Fon of Ns...
04/09/2026

🚨 ARREST THE FON OF NSO! HIS “CRIMES” HAVE LASTED 33 YEARS! 👑🚔

Someone should please arrest HRM Sehm Mbinglo I, Fon of Nso.

Because since he was enthroned on 6 September 1993, this man has been committing some very serious “crimes.” 😂

His first crime? Bringing Nso elites together to pursue development, a move that helped lead to the creation of the Nso Cultural & Development Association (NSODA) in 1993.

Then he committed an even bigger crime: fighting for Nso's stolen heritage.

For decades, the Fon and Nso representatives have pushed for the return of Ngonnso, the sacred Nso royal figure taken to Germany during the colonial era. He took the matter to German institutions and continued demanding that Nso's heritage be returned.

In 2022, after decades of pursuing the cause, the Fon travelled to Germany and finally stood before Ngonnso at the Humboldt Forum.

But apparently, that wasn't enough.

He kept going.

Germany subsequently moved toward the restitution of 28 additional Nso royal objects held at the Linden-Museum in Stuttgart.

🚨 Another crime: fighting for his people's heritage.

Then came the Kumbo water crisis.

In 2016, the Fon publicly challenged the situation surrounding the Kumbo water scheme and demanded answers concerning water for his people.

🚨 Crime number three: caring about water. 💧

He has also used his position to promote reconciliation within Nso, including extending an olive branch to previously banished traditional figures.

Then came one of the darkest chapters of Cameroon's Anglophone crisis.

In 2020, the Fon himself was abducted alongside Cardinal Christian Tumi.

And instead of turning his later experience into a message of revenge, he documented the crisis and called for reconciliation and peace.

In 2026, he launched his book:

📖 The Fon of Nso and the Anglophone Crisis: A Testimony for Reconciliation and Peace.

Thirty-three years on the throne.

Thirty-three years of these “crimes.”

Preserving Nso culture.
Fighting for ancestral heritage.
Demanding the return of royal treasures.
Promoting development.
Speaking about peace.
Calling for reconciliation.
Standing up for his people.

🚔 YOUR MAJESTY, YOU ARE GUILTY AS CHARGED! 😂👑

And the sentence?

Another chapter of service to the people of Nso. 🇨🇲

🚨 THE LORD MAYOR OF NDU COUNCIL IS GUILTY OF SEVERAL “CRIMES.” 🚨And honestly… he needs to be arrested immediately. 😳For ...
04/09/2026

🚨 THE LORD MAYOR OF NDU COUNCIL IS GUILTY OF SEVERAL “CRIMES.” 🚨

And honestly… he needs to be arrested immediately. 😳

For years, people in Ndu have been calling for change. They wanted a different direction. They wanted better roads, better services, better infrastructure and a council that could actually deliver.

Then Mayor Abdou Kanfon Borno stepped in.

And now, according to the council's reported record, things keep getting better. 🤦🏾‍♂️😂

So yes…

THE MAYOR IS GUILTY.

🔴 GUILTY of tarring roads.
🔴 GUILTY of constructing bridges.
🔴 GUILTY of bringing water projects to communities.
🔴 GUILTY of installing solar streetlights.
🔴 GUILTY of electrifying traditional palaces.
🔴 GUILTY of constructing classrooms.
🔴 GUILTY of building health centres.
🔴 GUILTY of supplying medical equipment.
🔴 GUILTY of supporting farmers and fish farmers.
🔴 GUILTY of constructing markets.
🔴 GUILTY of renovating and rehabilitating palaces.
🔴 GUILTY of building a new Council Office Complex.

And perhaps the most serious “crime” of all…

🏆 GUILTY of making Ndu the 1st council in the North West and 7th nationally in the 2025 Clean City Competition.

📊 GUILTY of scoring 79% in the 2026 PROLOG Performance Grant among 37 councils — reportedly the only council to cross the 70% threshold.

🚨 SOMEONE PLEASE ARREST THIS MAN! 😂

Because apparently, his “crime” is making it increasingly difficult to complain about development.

Of course, development should never mean that criticism stops. Leaders must still be held accountable, and every project deserves proper scrutiny.

But if these reported achievements are anything to go by…

Ndu may have found a mayor whose biggest “crime” is doing the work. 🇨🇲🔥

What do you think? Should we “arrest” him for these crimes? 😂👇🏾

CAMEROON JUST SET ASIDE 50 BILLION FCFA FOR WOMEN AND YOUTH — BUT WILL IT REACH THE ONES DYING RIGHT NOW?**The governmen...
04/09/2026

CAMEROON JUST SET ASIDE 50 BILLION FCFA FOR WOMEN AND YOUTH — BUT WILL IT REACH THE ONES DYING RIGHT NOW?**

The government of Cameroon has earmarked 50 billion FCFA for the empowerment of women and youth. The figure came out of a gender-responsive budgeting seminar that wrapped up Friday in Yaoundé, where members of the Interministerial Committee spent two days being trained to make the state budget an actual tool for equality — not just a document.

Here's the part that should stop you: this money is being announced at the same time killings of women by their spouses keep rising across the country. Gender-responsive budgeting itself isn't new — Cameroon adopted the reform 16 years ago — but it has stayed stuck in pilot phase all this time. The government itself admits the real challenge now is speeding up implementation, not just talking about it. Join our WhatsApp channel to stay ahead of stories like this: https://whatsapp.com/channel/0029VbCDRFa72WTo5QA6wr1B

Sixteen years is a long time for a "pilot phase." The good in this: the state is finally putting a number on paper and building the committees to track it. The open question Cameroonians deserve an answer to: what happens to the women being killed by their spouses today, while this fund is still being set up?

Drop your take in the comments — is 50 billion FCFA enough, or is this just another announcement?

**Verdict A:** A real fund, backed by real training for the people meant to monitor it, is a serious first step toward gender equity in the budget.
**Verdict B:** Sixteen years of "pilot phase" while women keep dying at home is not urgency — it's delay dressed up as policy.

Namba one thing wey dis kontri need now na fast action, no more waka-waka.

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TruVision Africa Editorial Team
September 4, 2026



Small motor big engine.

FIRST LOOK: MEDIAN'S FACE — AND THE MAN WHO NEVER GAVE UP ON HERFor years, Median lived with the destruction a bullet le...
04/09/2026

FIRST LOOK: MEDIAN'S FACE — AND THE MAN WHO NEVER GAVE UP ON HER

For years, Median lived with the destruction a bullet left on her face — shot at 15, in the middle of Cameroon's Anglophone Crisis. This week, for the first time since her latest major surgeries, Ayah Ayah Abine shared a new photo of her face, taken as her reconstructive treatment continues in Asia. "Finally, MEDIAN's face," he wrote.

This didn't happen by accident. Ayah Ayah Abine has stood by Median through a 15-hour-38-minute marathon surgery that rebuilt her jaw bones, worked on her ENT tract, built her a nose, and partially reconstructed her mouth. Weeks later, she began breathing through her nose and mouth again — faster than doctors expected. None of this comes cheap, and none of it comes easy. Through the Ayah Foundation, he has carried her case from Cameroon to Asia, kept the public informed at every stage, and kept the support channels open (GoFundMe, MoMo, Orange Money) so ordinary Cameroonians and well-wishers abroad can be part of her healing. This is what an NGO model built on one man's commitment looks like — no big office, no noise, just years of showing up for one person's life. Join our WhatsApp channel for updates like this as they break: https://whatsapp.com/channel/0029VbCDRFa72WTo5QA6wr1B

And Median herself — a young woman who could have disappeared into her injuries, who chose instead to keep going through pain, through operation after operation, through a face the world hadn't seen in years. That is not a small kind of strength.

Drop a ❤️ in the comments if this story moved you — and tag someone who needs a reminder that not giving up actually pays off.

**Verdict A:** Ayah Ayah Abine is proof that one committed person can carry a cause further than most institutions ever do.
**Verdict B:** Median's fight shows that survival itself can be the loudest form of resistance.

Small motor big engine. Weting Ayah Ayah Abine di do for Median, na di kind love wey no dey shout — e just dey work.

TruVision Africa dey ready to carry your story to millions across the continent too.)

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TruVision Africa Editorial Team
September 4, 2026

BREAKING: Buea, Bambui, Bamenda — Gunfire Rocks 2 Towns in One Day, At Least Three DeadHeavy gunfire broke out today at ...
03/09/2026

BREAKING: Buea, Bambui, Bamenda — Gunfire Rocks 2 Towns in One Day, At Least Three Dead

Heavy gunfire broke out today at St. Jude Junction in Bambui, Tubah Subdivision, leaving at least three people dead and sending residents and road users scrambling for cover.

We have gathered that the shooting broke out during a confrontation between defence forces and armed fighters. Among those killed is a man reportedly caught in the crossfire, alongside at least two others believed to be linked to separatist fighters — though the identities of the deceased and the full circumstances of the clash remain unclear. Join the conversation on our WhatsApp channel — link below — as we track this developing story.

Local authorities have yet to issue an official statement. What makes today different is the timing: as gunfire was breaking out in Bambui, it was also breaking out at Muea market in Buea — and reports place unrest in Bamenda around the same window too. Three towns, one day, days before schools nationwide are set to reopen on September 7. This is a developing story — TruVision Africa will update as more information becomes available.

Drop a comment: what do you think it will take to bring real calm back to the Northwest and Southwest before school resumes?

Verdict A:Two towns shaken in a single day, and communities are still the ones absorbing the cost of a conflict they didn't choose.

Verdict B: Buea, Bambui, Bamenda — same day, same story, still no statement from the people whose job it is to explain it.

Di whole Northwest and Southwest don see blood today — God go beta di ground. Small motor big engine.

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TruVision Africa Editorial Team, September 3, 2026

MUEA MARKET UNDER FIRE: Gunfire, Panic, and a Region Bracing Before School ResumesMuea market was alive with the usual T...
03/09/2026

MUEA MARKET UNDER FIRE: Gunfire, Panic, and a Region Bracing Before School Resumes

Muea market was alive with the usual Thursday morning rush — traders calling out prices, buyers haggling, life moving the way it always does — until gunfire tore through the noise and sent everyone running for their lives.

An unconfirmed number of people are believed to have been injured. We have gathered that one trader who fled watched a woman being rushed off in a push truck, carried that way because vehicles couldn't move immediately after the shooting. Another said a man was hit by what's believed to have been a stray bullet. Some collapsed from shock in the chaos of the escape. Join the conversation on our WhatsApp channel — link below — because Buea needs to hear from the people who were actually there.

By evening, the market had emptied out. Traders packed up early, roadside shops pulled down their shutters, and a mixed patrol of police and soldiers moved in to hold the area. Residents believe separatist fighters were behind the attack, and that it triggered a response from security forces — but nothing has been officially confirmed. What's certain is the timing: this happened days before schools nationwide reopen on September 7, and Muea's traders and parents are now left to wonder if that date will hold the way it's supposed to.

Drop a comment: if you had a child walking through Muea on September 7, would you send them?

Verdict A: A market is not a battlefield, and the people caught in this deserve real answers, not silence. Whoever fired those shots put ordinary traders and shoppers in the crossfire of a conflict they didn't start.

Verdict B: Muea's market reopened for gunfire before it even got the chance to reopen for school season.

Buea don see am again — God go beta everything. Small motor big engine.

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TruVision Africa Editorial Team, September 3, 2026

03/09/2026

MUEA MARKET UNDER FIRE: Gunfire, Panic, and a Region Bracing Before School Resumes**

Muea market was alive with the usual Thursday morning rush — traders calling out prices, buyers haggling, life moving the way it always does — until gunfire tore through the noise and sent everyone running for their lives.

An unconfirmed number of people are believed to have been injured. We have gathered that one trader who fled watched a woman being rushed off in a push truck, carried that way because vehicles couldn't move immediately after the shooting. Another said a man was hit by what's believed to have been a stray bullet. Some collapsed from shock in the chaos of the escape. Join the conversation on our WhatsApp channel — link below — because Buea needs to hear from the people who were actually there.

By evening, the market had emptied out. Traders packed up early, roadside shops pulled down their shutters, and a mixed patrol of police and soldiers moved in to hold the area. Residents believe separatist fighters were behind the attack, and that it triggered a response from security forces — but nothing has been officially confirmed. What's certain is the timing: this happened days before schools nationwide reopen on September 7, and Muea's traders and parents are now left to wonder if that date will hold the way it's supposed to.

Drop a comment: if you had a child walking through Muea on September 7, would you send them?

**Verdict A:** A market is not a battlefield, and the people caught in this deserve real answers, not silence. Whoever fired those shots put ordinary traders and shoppers in the crossfire of a conflict they didn't start.

**Verdict B:** Muea's market reopened for gunfire before it even got the chance to reopen for school season.

Buea don see am again — God go beta everything. Small motor big engine.

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TruVision Africa Editorial Team, September 3, 2026

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