LENJVAL BLOG

UNDERSTANDING THE AGRO OPPORTUNITY The problem of food insecurity has been a topic of utmost concern to development experts. It is known that when a country achieves food security: they become stable; they become economically viable; they progress and most importantly, can leap from a developing to a developed nation – when this happens, its people also advance in life. It may be true to say that the key factor in the advancement of Western countries has been  their food security.   If this is true then the question is: why are development experts, multinationals, philanthropist, donors, angels and development organizations still not able to establish, initiate, support, promote/ fund viable ideas that will alleviate poverty using food security measures?  With over one hundred thousand NGOs working in and for Africa, no forward movement seems to occur. One may be tempted to say these organizations are more of a curse than a blessing.  They have only raised the s...

Fon Ngum Ernest Merlin His Royal highness Ngum Ernest Merlin is the new Fon of OKU in the Bui division of the NW region of Cameroon His Royal Highness is a graduate from the university of Bamenda in Common Law and a Youth. He takes charge of this responsibility at a time when the anglophone crisis is epic in the Bui division and his country men and women are in bushes or internally displaced every where in the country. We wish that His Royal Highness makes use of his youthfulness  and new responsibilities to create more jobs in OKu and Bui division at large. May he leave politics aside(since there’s no real politics in Cameroon) and focus on eradicating poverty in Bui division. There is white and black Honey, very good soils, medicinal herbs and very powerful men and women in Oku. Make use of them all please.🙇🏽‍♂️🙇🏽‍♂️🙇🏽‍♂️

LENJO VALERY SPEAKS: 8 Reasons to Prove that Africans behave like freed people instead of free people.  ✔️ We behave as if we owe our lives to someone. For generations we haven’t accepted the fact that life is a gift and anything we do is for ourselves and no one else.  ✔️ We are always calling ourselves freedom fighters or liberation fighters or something similar to that as if someone was holding our freedom. Honest Politics is more than us, creativity is more than us, even unity is more than us. We enjoy putting leaders down only to repeat the same mistakes as the former. ✔️ Critical and Strategic thinking is more than us. Reason why we rush to fight the moment something is said that is controversial to our understanding. Let’s use our head and not our hearts  ✔️ We love pointing fingers at others for the things that happen to us. If it’s not the government, it is the Whitman or the devil. ✔️ We are always feeling threatened and cling to funny believes for redemption. I...

Something interesting happened last Friday while I was introducing a lesson on web development to some students of Upper sixth in a school somewhere in Douala Cameroon. I arrived in that school and noticed the lab was of standard type and well equipped with over 35 working computers, internet connection and had only 28 students enrolled for the computer science lesson. This was shocking to me because it was the first time I saw a school with a standard computer lab in Cameroon but less students. While I was writing the html codes on the Board for them to run on their computers since there’s no projector for me to test it myself, behold only 3 students were testing the code immediately while the rest were busy copying it in their hand books hoping to try it at home or some other day or worst still cram it against the upcoming exams. I even insisted they run the program at the moment for a better understanding, yet these students where bent on going the manual way(hand copying). At the e...

Inertia is a scientific term that describes the tendency for an object to go back or remain at its initial position. Yes indeed, inertia is plaguing us Africans (young and old) in ways minds couldn’t imagine, and we need to wake up and flee from it. Among the many inertias, one can cite: -Economic Inertia (our malnourished economy which has been denied growth by our leaders).

Reasons most aspiring entrepreneurs give up without even starting. ✔️I’m not ready yet, I need more time to become perfect.  Like mark Zuckerberg will often say « ideas don’t come out fully formed, they only become better as you work on them. » you just have to get started. ✔️ I need capital to start. Many disruptive and innovative ideas didn’t start with a budget. They started by solving problems and with the little they had. And again if you know what is good for you, «Never start a business with borrowed money as your seed capital» by Mahatma Lenjval.  ✔️ I’m scared because people don’t understand me and what I’m trying to do. For the record «If you really want to be understood, then Entrepreneurship isn’t the best route for you.» by Vusi Thembekwayo. Go and become a pastor or something else. ✔️ I’m afraid to fail. In Entrepreneurship failure is not an option, it is like a fuel on fire, Critique is a motivating factor. The first mistake of an Entrepreneurs is to think you c...