Author Archives: Rachel

Cameroon is a country where modernization can seem so out of sync. Cell phone signal is far more accessible than water. Most people who do not have direct access to water in the home own a cell phone and can talk freely in the rural areas. Many cell phones sold in Cameroon can hold two […]

A Peace Corps Medical Officer who has been working for Peace Corps Cameroon for the past more than 20 years said to the trainees, “If you are in Cameroon, you are blessed with food because you have variety of food.”  She is certainly right.  Cameroon has a wide variety of dishes due to colonization, learning […]

Last Friday, Ruth, my counterpart, took me to her weekly radio show on people with disability that she does every Friday with Hilda Bih, a Cameroonian woman with disability who was a 2014 Mandela Washington Fellow.  I went there only to observe.  However, Hilda pulled me in and asked me a few questions about my […]

• Dry season is underway in Cameroon, and I can’t decide which season I prefer, dry or rainy. In Cameroon, we have only two seasons, dry and rainy. Rainy season clearly means lots of rain and cloudy days. It certainly also means cooler temperatures. While dry season of course means lots of sunny days but […]

Prior to leaving for Cameroon, someone asked me this question, “How is Peace Corps going to ensure you’re safe from sexual assaults especially in a country with a high rate of AIDS?” When I was asked this question, I was angered and sad to see that there is still so much ignorance about Africa and […]