Tuesday, May 12, 2009

HEARD AT EYUMOJOCK - Keynote Speakers

DR. ETTA CULBERTSON ENOW

Culbertson Enow Etta was born on the 15 April, 1964 in Victoria Limbe South West Province, Cameroon to the Enowmbeleke’s family of Kembong Village in the Ejagham Clan of Manyu Division.

After his secondary education, he enrolled at the then University of lfe the same year and graduated in 1988 with a B.Agric. (Hons) degree majoring in the plant sciences. Mr Etta Culbertson then proceeded to the famous University of Ibadan for his Masters degree still under the Cameroon government sponsorship. He enrolled in the Dept. of Agricultural Biology in 1988 and in 1990 graduated with an M.sc. in Genetics and Plant Breeding.

As a result of his brilliant display of erudition, he was given an offer to proceed directly into the Ph.D programme of the University of Ibadan and awarded another Cameroon Government scholarship to pursue the programme. In 1995, he graduated as a Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D) in Genetics, specialising in Transmission and Quantitative genetics.

Dr. SAMMY ENYONG, Board Chairman, MAPADEF

Sammy Enyong, BA, MA, PhD, FCP (London 1986). Dr. Enyong’s major field of specialisation is in Educational Administration & Management, Educational Technology, Research Methods and Statistics. Prior to joining Peace Corps, was a Primary School teacher in Cameroon; Secondary High Schools’ Principal/Teacher Trainer and University Lecturer Port Harcourt, Rivers State of Nigeria.

He became a Researcher in the Ministry of Higher Education & Scientific Research upon his return to Cameroon in 1986. He has served Peace Corps Cameroon for 20 years since 1987 and took early retirement a year ago to do Consultancy.

He has attended over 30 workshops on Rural Community Development Projects, Volunteer Support, Administration, Programming and Training. Dr. Enyong was born in Mamfe Town in 1951 and is married with three daughters.

Dr. ENO ANNA ARET

Is a senior lecturer in the Faculty of Science, University of Yaoundé I, where she lectures on pathogenic microbes and parasitology, at both the undergraduate and post graduate levels. Her research interest is in the molecular speciation of the malaria parasites (Plasmodium species), and pathogenic bacteria in concomitant infections. She is fascinated with the naturalness of the country side, and is thus intensely interested in the community outreach component of development,
towards the overall well being of the minority, underprivileged and underserved communities. The provision of a biologically safe environment remains a major challenge, both at the local and national levels.

Anna holds a PhD in Medical Microbiology from Ibadan, Nigeria, with a sub-specialty in bacteriology. She did her high school and secondary school education in Saint Augustine’s college, Nso and Queen of the Rosary, Okoyong, Mamfe, respectively.

Mrs. OGORK SUSAN

She is a holder of DES English, from Yaounde University and a Masters in Social and Counselling Psychology from Ball State University, Muncie Indiana, USA. Mrs. Ogork is presently a National Pedagogic Inspector for English in the Ministry of Secondary Education. She is co-author of Passport to English, which is being used by the Anglophone schools and First in English for the Francophone schools.

Mrs. Ogork believes in promoting self-help projects which improve on the lot of the masses and the underprivileged and has initiated many of such projects. She is co-founder of the CAMEROON Deaf Empowerment Organisation, founding member of MC2 (The Community Bank in Mamfe) and founder of the Manyu Integrated Farmers Cooperative.

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