From the Highlands of Nkar to the World

<p class=ql-align-justify>In his memoir <em>From the Highlands of Nkar to the World</em> Martin Jumbam sets out on an adventure which leads him from the cosy domesticity of life in his village of Nkar under the patronage of his parents fervently-strict Catholic Christians to what is practically a <em>terra incognito</em> the unknown the unfamiliar world that first opens up to him when he follows his elder brother a Catholic teacher to Nkambe far from his native Nkar village. This becomes the first of an adventure that will eventually see him drift further and further away from his native village out into the beckoning wide world a journey of nearly half a century during which he frequents university amphitheatres in Cameroon Europe the United States of America and Canada. Deciding not to settle in any of these countries thus rejecting the glamour of life abroad he finally returns to his native Cameroon an already married man and father of a family.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p class=ql-align-justify><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Martin Jumbam worked for over 20 years for an American oil company Pecten Cameroon in the port city of Douala Cameroon before serving for four years as the general manager of La Maison Catholique de la Communication Sociale (MACACOS) the Catholic Media House of the Archdiocese of Douala. He is the author of </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>My Conversion Journey with Christian Cardinal Tumi</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> (Langaa Publishing 2014) </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Beads of Memory</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> (Spears Books 2020) and co-author of </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>My Night in Captivity </em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>(Spears</span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> </em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Books 2021</span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>)</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>. He lives in Douala and works as a freelance translator conference interpreter and journalist.</span></p><p><br></p>