The Profile of the Main Opposition Candidate Is Issa Tchiroma Bakary a Distractor or a Liberator? By The Afrisocrat Political Desk | 2025 Presidential Election Special Early Life & Education Born on 10 September 1949 in Garoua, northern Cameroon, Issa Tchiroma Bakary grew up in a respected family where his father served as an advisor to the Lamido. This upbringing instilled in him deep values of responsibility, discipline, and service to the community. After early schooling in Douala, he pursued technical training in transport and materials engineering before traveling to Paris. At the University of Paris (Jussieu), he prepared for a PhD in mathematics before redirecting his focus to mechanical engineering at ISMCM, graduating as a railway engineer. Returning home, he worked at Regifercam in Douala, embodying the discipline and pragmatism of a technocrat committed to service. Imprisonment & Political Rise In...
POWERFUL AFRICAN PROVERBS AND THEIR MEANINGS “If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.” This proverb highlights the power of community and collaboration. Success achieved alone may be quick, but it rarely lasts. Real progress and sustainability come from working together, sharing responsibilities, and lifting one another. “Until the lion learns to write, every story will glorify the hunter.” This teaches the importance of self-representation. If Africans do not tell their own stories, the world will continue to hear only one-sided narratives shaped by outsiders. The proverb is a call to reclaim our voices in history, politics, and culture. “Wisdom is like a baobab tree; no one individual can embrace it.” The baobab tree is enormous, and just as no one person can wrap their arms around it, no single person can claim to have all wisdom. True knowledge is collective, shared, and built through dialogue. It reminds us of the need for humility and collaboration i...