About
Hi I’m Steve Jackson also known as ourman.
It’s hard to know how far back to go but I’ll try and relate it in such a way that it makes sense.
Until the age of 34, give or take a single sabbatical year, I pretty much kept my head down. I worked as a journalist, a PR manager, a marketing manager and later a freelance copywriter.
It was then I decided to do VSO. By pure luck I was posted to Vietnam, a country I had already fallen in love with on a trip some years earlier. I became Our Man in Hanoi and in the two and a half years I spent there that love only deepened as I worked for a wonderful NGO called KOTO.
After that I spent four months in beautiful Nicaragua – where I was Our Man in Granada. In its own way it was no less wonderful than Vietnam though it didn’t work out for me. No job and few mates sent me homeward back to Newcastle.
I spent a year working for Newcastle City Council as a public affairs officer before I couldn’t resist it any longer and once more signed up to VSO. My posting was sorted in double quick time. While I was at home wondering where I’d most like to be sent they contacted me to say: how about Bamenda, Cameroon?
I said that sounded just about perfect, and so here I am – fundraiser and communications co-ordinator for COPAAP.
August 11, 2008 at 1:56 pm
Hello,
I am gald to read a blog from some one who is resident in Cameroon. And I must confess, it is the first time I am reading from a blogger from Bamenda, Cameroons. Hope all is well with you . I will come more often to read your info about the city of Bamenda, the seat of Cameroon’s thiny revolt against the system that is so W and so C. I hope you can understand what those two letters stand for. Until I come and read again, remian Blessed and be strong.
Yours faithfully,
Elie Smith,
Bonneuil sur Marn, Greater Paris Region, France.
October 8, 2008 at 3:45 pm
I truly admire your work and work of people of VSO and Global Voices, well done!
October 8, 2008 at 10:14 pm
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October 9, 2008 at 2:14 am
Hey, I am so shocked but at the same time very ecstatic to see my blog on your blog list! Thanks for representing Cameroon! Thanks for the work you are carrying out there.
Dulce
xxx
November 20, 2008 at 3:46 pm
Hiya Steve,
What a pleasure being part of your blog. I am very happy and proud of the work you are doing out there.
I am from Tawah street, Atuakon-Mamkon, Bamenda. I love traveling and have been to other places, but I now live in London.
I want to be part of it and see my lovely little town develop. As you seems to know more now than I do, what can I do to to be part of it?
I am presenting writing a thesis on “Road Transport In Bamenda” for my University in Finland.
Cheers
Kenneth Tawah