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    ‘Leading A Legitimate And Laudable Fight’

    Jul 29, 2022 4 minutes
    - Compiled by Chanel Retief

    AT THE FOREFRONT OF THE FIGHT FOR BASIC human rights for the people of Cameroon is Cameroonian Maximilienne C. Ngo Mbe, recently honored with the prestigious 2022 Robert F. Kennedy (RFK) Human Rights Award.

    In an interview with FORBES AFRICA, Ngo Mbe speaks of her early motivation to take to defending human rights: “My father, being a teacher, saw his rights regularly besmirched and violated… He received a miserable salary and on top of that he had to wait months to receive it What’s more, the working conditions were difficult It is all this situation that pushed me to fight since my childhood for the respect of teachers’ rights.”

    Ngo Mbe, Executive Director of the Central

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