Summary Of Planning Meeting Yesterday 29–03–2015 To Welcome Dr. Nfor
Emmanuel Nfor, A Nwebum Who Recently Defended A PhD In Biochemistry From The University
Of Yaounde I
The meeting started at 5:00pm at
Mile 2 NKwen–Bamenda with a word of prayer from Mr. Junko Oliver. It had the
following in attendance; Mr. Alfred Tamfu, Mr. Austin Nfor, Mr. Junko Oliver,
Dr. Nfor Emmanuel Nfor, Mr. Coni T. Tawong and Mr. Kwison Wendi George.
The Chairman of the meeting in
the person of Mr. Kwison told Dr. Nfor Emmanuel Nfor that the reason for the meeting
was an initiative to honour him after his PhD defence and subsequent Mbum
people who would achieve or distinguished themselves in academics with words of
appreciation. In his words “these are people we have to encourage. Encourage them
and encourage any other Mbum person.” He told Dr. Nfor that his PhD may not
necessarily be PhD by virtue of PhD, that he can climb to a certain stage where
he will be able to stand and defend certain things. The chairman of the meeting
was of the opinion that we make the mobilization for the occasion and the
occasion itself very serious. He regretted others will say when it was their
own turn; nobody did such a gesture but insisted that a good thing must be
started from somewhere.
Mr. Alfred Tamfu, doctoral
student in Organic Chemistry at the University of Yaounde I informed
participants that the sum of ten thousand francs has already been collected for
the occasion.
The occasion proper to welcome
and honour Dr. Nfor was scheduled for Saturday
the 11th of April 2015 and to begin at 12:00noon at his Ndamukong residence in Bamenda.
Participants collectively agreed
that whatever contributions come in they would work with it. They believed what
was most important was the intention and not the contributions.
Dr. Nfor thanked the participants
for the initiative to welcome him and informed them that he did his PhD
research in Animal Physiology; the efficiency of Malaria drug in Ndu Health
District.
Dr. Tawe Bantar had studied the
resistance to malaria from chloroquine in Nkambe and by 2002 Chloroquine which
was used for the treatment of malaria was withdrawn from the market by the
World Health Organization.
Dr. Nfor said it was the drug Fansida
and Quinine that replaced chloroquine but Sub-Saharan Africa adopted Fansida
instead of Quinine. Studies carried on in East Asia, East Africa showed the
drug Fansida was failing. With this information he chose to do his research in
a rural health district for that matter Ndu health district. He has also been
working on anti helmints (worms).
Dr. Nfor Emmanuel Nfor whom we
shall be welcoming and honouring is presently teaching at Government Bilingual
High School Bamendankwe. He started his teaching career in Douala, was transferred
to Kumba and later a punitive transfer sent him to Njikwa.
In his quest for knowledge, he
wanted to know how Wimbum people see malaria, their belief in treatment, effectiveness
and attitudes towards treatment (poverty).
After his research he defended
with mention trés honourable and was
advised to extend his studies in Ndu health district worldwide.
A participant at the planning
meeting wondered why a drug was curing people in the past and can no longer
cure now. Mr. Junko Oliver on his part disclosed a new research project he will
pursue – The Impact Of Longetivity In Power.
(A New Vision of the Mbum person and new breed common good of Mbum man).
Participants lamented on three
things which have destroyed the Mbum man namely; (i) Clanism, (ii) Industrialization
of Witchcraft, and (ii) Mutual Suspicion. They wondered aloud asking where is
the general hospital in Nkambe, the Tea in Ndu which were there in the 1950s.
The meeting acknowledge that Dr.
Nick Ngwanyam, Professor Njilah Issac, Dr. Maurice Ndikotar are Wimbum
contemporaries trying to see younger ones prosper.
When the meeting rose, it was
agreed that contributions to Welcome Dr. Nfor Emmanuel Nfor be channeled through
the following persons:
Mr. Barnabas Nfor Mr.
Tamfu Alfred
Tel. (+237) 677
879 060 Tel. (+237) 675 590 353
CCC Mankon UNIYAO I
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