Moving forward in 2011...

My blog has been silent in months or maybe years... I have been hustling at alot of levels and my new nick name became I AM A HUSTLER ;)... inspired by rap music ;).

Ok this is why I haven't blogged in a while:

1) working on www.njorku.com a Human Resource technology hub in the making for Africans world wide and maybe other countries... There is just no limit to this platform I am killing myself on... coding, business ideas, testing, research, growing mad, getting sad, crying, laughing... and watching Google Analytics ;).

2) AfroVisioN Group my foundation is profitable but I have been battling with new staff month over month I have had like 4 failed hirers where I train guys only to realise they cant be up to what I want them and hence cant use them. There is a big problem with education in Africa... the level at which they leave university is like 2yrs behind world class work force for the most intelligent of them all. I have been having a hard time trying to get them up to pare and the frustration wont let me do any other thing like updating my blog

3) I have been having alot of stress and fatigue from step 1 and 2 above to the level where I have had to involve into gaming PLAY STATION FIFA 10 has become a new friend and at times I just sit at home reading news and thinking hard on what next to do. but the HR issues I faced in my business led me to developing the HR platform www.njorku.com... great right ;).

Finally I will like to thank God for all he has shown me and now mom is also happy and brothers, sisters and family are closer as I get to spend less time working and more time with them especially this past month(May 2011) when my hemophilia brother got me scared as he had appendicitis and that needs operation but his blood condition wont allow an operation, I got so scared for the first time in my life for my kid brother and he is the only one I got. Some how I think I should be successful all the time so if I am not really making great inroads in my current business(AfroVisioN Group-> engineering the way towards more profit), I should make great inroads into my family and also my new venture www.njorku.com but all of that is going to change soon from the next quater I will have enough knowledge to employ the best once again and retain them and move fiercely with great outputs... Amen

Mambe Churchill Nanje Profiled on B.Spirit an Inflight Magazine for Brussels Airlines

If you are travelling this August 2010 via Brussels Airlines, pick up B.Spirit(July 2010 edition) and turn to page 53 to read up on me ;).

Now that I have made the announcement let me start from the beginning:

A few months ago, while I was busy trying to hack some codes I got a mail from a journalist in UK asking if I was available for an interviewing. He writes for B.Spirit ( http://www.ink-live.com/emagazines/b.spirit ) an inflight magazine for Brussels airlines and he was working on an article talking about broadband internet and its effects on Africa.

Well first I wanted to be like the all busy guy that doesnt have time for interviews and the public eye (my usual self) but then again I said ooh well this is exposure for me so let me give it a try.

We had a couple of conversations and finally he told me he was done with the article. Before I knew it Linda Raftree ( http://lindaraftree.wordpress.com/) got to me on twitter with an @reply saying she saw a profile of me as she read one of the magazines in the plane while traveling back to USA from Africa (Nairobi, Kenya). Immediately I had to recall the interview I had with the journalist.

Basically the article talks of myself, AfroVisioN Group ( www.afrovisiongroup.com ) , how it all started and how its growing now with the internet access getting better.

He told me about 600,000 people read that magazine on board the Brussels airlines every month so I am glad to get such exposure at this time of my business journey.

So if you are travelling via Brussels airlines, pick up the B.spirit magazine this August 2010 and check my swag and show me some love here with some comments...

excepts of the article from the magazine are in the graphics below.

show ya sef

click on the image to enlarge and read

My Resume of Barcamp Cameroon 2010

I was at Barcamp Cameroon 2010, where my company www.afrovisiongroup.com was privileged to be one of the sponsors and I went there to present my new project www.camerborn.com.

I was there along side Nara Njie Litumbe (software developer at AfroVisioN Group), check out his blog post about his participation http://njielitumbe.livejournal.com/1032.html which was to represent AfroVisioN Group and tell the Cameroonian tech community about Model View Controller( MVC ) and its benefits.

I had a presentation about Camerborn.com - Show ya sef...and its future innovations into the Cameroonian tech space.

here are some pictures we took at the event, enjoy

above: thats myself and Nara Njie www.twitter.com/nara_l

above: thats Nara Njie www.twitter.com/nara_l

you can view all the pictures on a facebook album here http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=185212&id=517433359&l=1afff88aeb

Check out Nara's Barcamp Presentation on Model View Controller (MVC) and its use in web, mobile and enterprise software development.

MVC(Model View Controller),Web,Enterprise,Mobile

View more presentations from naral.

Free Websites For All Cameroonians

When I started the AfroVisioN dream in 2006, I never knew it will get this far:

- over 100+clients and adding every day

- over 5 outsourcing partners

- strong business collaboration with Nigeria and partners

and now that it has gone to this level www.afrovisiongroup.com/projects.php I want to give back something to the Cameroonian people that have raised me for the past 24yrs.

I will push AfroVisioN Group to offer 1000 websites free to all Cameroonians(personal, business or enterprise owners) for the next five years. Any business that needs a website/web+enterprise applications should not go any further, come and get your free custom built solutions with us...visit www.afrovisiongroup.com go to our contact page send us a mail with information "Churchill+Mambe-AfroVisioN+Group-free-website:April+Fools+Joke" and state your company name, your address, email and phone number and our Customer Service team will get back to you. Note that in exactly two weeks after you contact us, you will get a website as powerful as www.pcklinicng.com www.imagine-finances.com and the others we have in our portfolio on www.afrovisiongroup.com/projects.php

My Meeting with Professor Monekosso Gottlieb Lobe

My blog has been missing me alot because of my love for AfroVisioN Group(www.afrovisiongroup.com) and my other projects that you can read on my birthday blog review on blackamphi.com . Ok enough with the excuses because they dont do the job lol. lets get back to the topic at hand....my meeting with Prof Monekosso Lobe, a top Star Cameroonian Elite who has served as African Regional President of WHO(World Health Organisation) and also served Cameroon as a Minister of public health and for the record he is the person that launched Cameroon foremost Medical Institution locally known as CUSS.

While I was in Yaounde at the Ministry of youths and Sports, talking with the national president of Athletic Federation in Cameroon about their need of a website, I had a call from a friend in Buea. The phone call was demanding me to meet with Prof Monekosso and coming back to buea I scheduled the meeting with him this morning.

I was at his place for an hour and we talked about a couple of things relating to empowering Cameroonians and not only making them depend on foreign Aid but also start working and ferning for themselves.

I was very very happy to be on the same table with this 80yr old Cameroonian who has alot of experience and archievements in his portfolio(thanks be to God).

The meeting was about his Global Health Dialogue Platform. www.globalhealthdialogue.org.

We are going to be working with villages and local councils, empowering them with health related information and needs along side supervising their activities.

Where I fit in is the IT department, I am going to define how a platform similar to what I did for Link UP www.villagediary.org (coming soon), but this one will be more geared towards health and the sub urban communities in Cameroon to start with then later spread into other parts of Africa(remember he has once served WHO and he innitiated the project of all District Hospitals we have in Cameroon and most parts of Africa). So the platform will work more with health and our people in the less previledged regions of Cameroon and later Africa.

I will end this blog post here and get to work, but I will keep you posted as things unfold. Dont forget to keep up with what I have been doing for the past three months on www.blackamphi.com and watch out www.naijaborn.com and www.villagediary.org, I built those platforms on this same laptop in this same office right here in Molyko, Buea, Cameroon.

thanks for your time

Random Events Dec 2008 - March 2009

Well my blog is missing me because of the tones of work we have at AfroVisioN Group but sure I will always post one or two stuffs because the blogger in me wont rest till I do some blogging ;).
Today I want to take this time off to write about some random events , not much but just a glimpse will be revealed.

Here we go:

ICTAFRICA 18-21 December 2008, Yaounde Cameroon.

In December 2008, there was a conference in Cameroon organized by some African professors in universities around the world (mostly USA). for information about the conference visit http://icitd.com/ictafrica2008/. They launched a call for papers and I submitted a research paper about IT4UMagazine I did with Phebe. I can say the paper was rich enough for the juries to accept it as a good topic for the conference.

Below is my PowerPoint presentation:



below is my video presentation:



below are some pictures




for more pictures and information please visit the following links

http://banyangigirl.blogspot.com/2009/02/ict-conference-2008-yde-camer.html

http://banyangigirl.blogspot.com/2009/02/conference-videos.html

AfroVisioN's Offline Gorilla Ad Campaign

We have started posting posters all over the south west Region of Cameroon and this is to inform the general public about our "ONE WEBSITE FOR EVERY CAMEROONIAN SCHEME". check out the picture below and what you see there is actually what you will see all over buea, mile 17, mile 16, Muea and Ekona. Next we move on to Limbe, Mutengene, Tiko, Kumba and Mamfe. The picture is from Billzimmerman, he saw the posters all over the place and took a picture which he posted on twitter find his tweet here - impressive.

40+ Useful & Handy Web Designer’s Web Services & Tools

Today I stumbled upon this link from a Nigerian friend and Entrepreneur - Tim Akinbo. Its a blog post he found and shared with me on facebook. The blog post is an amazing list of web tools that will help me and my team (AfroVisioN) rapidly design websites at 50,000FCFA and also track our websites availability online. These tools will also help us come up with Rapid Web Applications for our clients world wide. AfroVisioN needs to research on many ways to improve productivity and tools like this will push our productivity to another level ;)
check the link out
http://www.noupe.com/tools/40-useful-handy-web-designers-web-services-tools.html

MY 2008 DIGESTED IN ONE BLOG POST

January 2008
I was solidifying partnership with this Indian Tech guy

Febuary 2008
Started work on theinvestor.in and studentnetworks.in, and launched www.bushfalling.com [AfroVisioN's community of cameroonians ], met Enstine of njangihost.com , FEE of kerawa.com and Nino of 20mai.net thats when the marvelous connection started


March 2008
Launched cameroonfootballers.com as AfroVioN's community of professional football players

April 2008
Had this great interview about me and AfroVisioN on 20mai.net, and started partnership talks with Sebastian schmid of Ecorp www.ecorp.ch

May 2008
Launched AfroVisioN's " one website for every cameroonian" project which entails a full professional site at 50,000FCFA per year

June 2008
We started work on www.afrikeo.com, www.seekvice.com and met Judith Modjock of www.weboptimal.net and signed a partnership deal with weboptimal.

July 2008
We had the first version of afrikeo and started work on our partnership with panther media and Ecorp. Our main partnership for Business Process Outsourcing of web applications from switzerland to Cameroon. Also met Joel Nlepe from Microsoft who is currently working with us on alot of projects including www.coolmboa.com and we also launched his ww.africa2point0.com blog.

August 2008
We successfully implemented the www.executiveasset.com project for our client in Douala. Real estate site where you can search for houses to rent or buy in Douala. And we started work on www.spdmania.com for cheap and auction sales listing in Douala.

September 2008
Redeveloped our AfroVisioN new corporate website, with an administrative backend, CRM module and scalable codes running on an MVC design patern with HTML views.

October 2008
We added computers to our training hall and launched marketing for our AfroVisioN Training programs in Buea and online

November 2008
We releaseed the www.spdmania.com for our partner Weptomial.
I came in contact with this Cameroonian Msc student in UK who intends to do her internship with AfroVisioN.
my research paper got accepted for IctAfrica 2008 Conference.
I came in contact with Billzimmerman and had this great email interview with him posted on his blog 27months.com

December 2008
Attended the ICTAfrica conference along Phebe Etchu business student from USA.
Started revising our business plan at AfroVisioN for the year 2009.
Also came in contact with Anabi Epizitone of BigPiktures Group www.bigpiktures.com

That is the brief run down of my professional life in 2008, and some projects are not included due one or two things.

Random Posts About Me And AfroVisioN

Going over the African blogosphere I noticed some interesting articles:

Théophile KOUAMOUO an ivorian blogger talks about why people blog in Africa on his blog and references me on these links

http://kouamouo.ivoire-blog.com/archive/2008/12/05/pourquoi-bloguer-sur-l-afrique-revue-provisoire.html

http://www.rue89.com/ivoire-blog/2008/12/09/pourquoi-bloguer-sur-lafrique

Dibo a.k.a Nayigi's Daughter also loves what we are doing at AfroVisioN on this post 

http://dibobanja.blogspot.com/2008/12/and-i-keep-searching.html

there could be more some where somehow in some documents but these are the few I found around.

 Hey I still have to come up with why I blog about Africa, answer the tag from Bill and also answer Theo who started the whole viral effect ;)

My Presentation At The University of Buea For Brain Trust Competition

I was happy to be invited to talk about AfroVisioN Group to all the first class students at the University of Buea. They have to be inspired and motivated to start creating their own business' after school or while in school.
I told them who I was, my age and how I started AfroVisioN Group in 2006, and all our achievements (GCE results, Ubstudents.com, portfolio ) and how we have cut down cost of professional websites in Cameroon and put the most competitive price in the market. They were amazed when I told them we plan to build 1000 websites for NGOs, CIGs, SMEs and schools in Cameroon by the end of 2009.
check out the slideshow below and you might get a summary of how the presentation went through.

Mambe Nanje Churchill On The Spotlight

Well I cant believe Bill Zimmerman (An Ex Microsofter) just posted an interview about me and AfroVisioN Group. Well I think AfroVisioN Group is getting alot of attention these days. If you want to read the post follow the link below.

http://www.27months.com/2008/11/focus-on-cameroon-ict-entrepreneurs-part-2/

What I think So Far About Information Technology in Buea - Cameroon

Buea is fast becoming a hub for information and communicatin technology (computers, software,internet) in Cameroon. This is due to an increase in the number of small business startups dealing in Information Technology, which leads to an increase in the number of software solutions at lower costs than Douala and Yaounde (alot of competition just like MTN, Orange and Camtel).
AfroVisioN Group (www.afrovisiongroup.com ) being a leader in this sector has decided to train more young, dynamic and talented Cameroonians to join in serving these rising number of clients. I see this as an opportunity for Cameroonians to get trained and get certified and finaly work for AfroVisioN Group which has a rich client base and an increasing number of clients in Cameroon, and alot of offshoring projects from partners in France and Swiss. I think Cameroonians abroad who understand the importance of Information Technology skills like Java, C#, PHP, MySql, Oracle and DHTML should advice their brothers back home to come learn how to build solutions like www.executiveasset.com www.openuandi.com and help us improve the services on www.ubstudents.com. At the same time also improve their standard of living while attending university or better yet have a steady source of income. Some how this might help us against the "Brain Drain" dilema.
I am in the process of doing my part please help me spread the word, for more information click here
or visit www.afrovisiongroup.com/training

Updates on AfroVisioN Group's One Website for Every Cameroonian

Its been about three months since we launched the "one website for every cameroonian scheme" where we offer full sites like www.inacod.org as low as 50,000FCFA (110usd) per year to cameroonian firms or business men.
We have added a couple of businesses to the scheme but this one caught my attention, its a site we built for a business consultancy agency here in buea - U and I business consultancy hosted and www.openuandi.com .
The client is happy to have had his business represented on the web and the pricing is comfortable. We are looking forward to more businesses signing up to this our on going scheme with about 18+ websites since launch.

Screen shot

The pic below is a screenshot of the home page of U AND I CONSULTANCY'S WEBSITE. click on it to view the site and remember its under the " one website for every cameroonian SME and citizen scheme

My Meeting With Ongola Boy a.k.a Willy Manga

A few days back, I met with Willy Manga and we had a nice meeting talking about Information Technology in Cameroon.
Willy Manga is the Computer Lab Admin at "College Liberman - Douala"- I wonder if thats the right spelling ;) .

I told him about some projects AfroVisioN Group is going to release into the Cameroonian market in the sector of Information Technology Education and Awareness, especially amongst the youths and he was very much interested. Some of the projects are the ones I posted(http://mambenanje.blogspot.com/2008/07/my-meeting-in-douala-with-etum-africa-2.html when I had a meeting with Etum of africa2point0.com .
I was amazed when Willy Manga told me about his projects with Cops fm or so, and what he is doing with secondary school students in his lab on linux platform. anyway check out our pictures below.

In the pictures we were in a taxi in buea heading to Mid Way restaurant

some random pictures

I have had a couple of events at the offfice, around buea, in douala and all and I was to blog about them but I didnt have time because there are alot of projects AfroVisioN Group is working on and I have to see that all the clients are satisfied. So I have decided to post the pictures and just comment about them.
check out the pictures below and you might know what has been happening with me:

Below: Ghislain Kamgang(Cameroonian in Paris, France) paid us a visit at AfroVisioN Group while we were working on our new corporate website so we had to take a look at it together


Below: Ghislain and the brother Sorel (Cameroonian in Germany) were with us yesterday and we had to analyse AfroVisioN Group's new website.


Below: Ghislain while he was explaining some software development concepts to AfroVisioN Group developers during his visit


Below: I was walking the streets of Buea with a laptop behind me, and I decided to get the look and feel of the whole scenario


Below: Enstine (www.enstine.net) came to AfroVisioN Office and he was asking Valery (Software developer - AfroVisioN Group) some questions about an enterprise software we were building in C#


Below: I had a meeting with Enstine and it was fun. Its always fun when I meet with software developers or geeks


Below: I paid a visit to douala along with Wenie (my gf) and we were with FEE and Enstine.

AfroVisioN Group Information Technology Training

AfroVisioN Group, a leader in software and web development services in Cameroon, is a young and fast growing firm in Buea - Cameroon with a vast portfolio of clients in Cameroon, Africa, Europe and USA.

AfroVisioN's client base is growing at a very fast rate and we are in need of young and dynamic cameroonians who will get trained and subsequently work for us. We need people who are interested in the following fields of study:

• Computer Science

• Accounting

• Journalism and Mass Communication

And they will get trained in one of the following programs within 3 -5 months:

• web development

• software development

• database administration and computerized accounting

• graphic design and multimedia presentation

• computer systems engineering(maintenance and networking)

• online news writing and blogging.

Note: the training offer is limited to 8 students per course, we are not going to do a great deal of marketing because we need a small number of students which we are sure we can train adequately, which implies its a limited opportunity so the smart will be able to harvest it. If you are abroad and you have a brother or sister back home, you should advice them to come get these required skills or if you are a student or graduate you will be needing these skills. Here is an opportunity for you to get trained then empower yourself to work while your still a youngman.

For more information about the training visit www.afrovisiongroup.com/training then contact us via www.afrovisiongroup.com/contacts.php

or call the following numbers:

33011349

75692209

77960280

if you are interested in the porfolio of AfroVisioN Group you can checkout www.executiveasset.com www.africa2point0.com , www.bushfalling.com , www.afriplay.tv , www.ubstudents.com or just visit www.afrovisiongroup.com/projects.php

AfroVisioN Group In Partnership Talks with Two Firms In Switzerland

For a couple of weeks now we have been in talks with two Software firms in Switzerland. The Swiss firms are having a lot of work and they are willing to outsource some of it to AfroVsioN Group, Cameroon ( www.afrovisiongroup.com ) . This means AfroVisioN Group's revenue will increase greatly and also the number of employed Cameroonains will also increase. We will have to train more young talents from the University of Buea and employ them to work on most off these projects coming in. I for see that our current staff base will rise from 8 to about 30 workers before January 2009.
This way the Information technology experience in Molyko, Buea will also increase drastically with soo many young Cameroonains walking around with laptops and talking nothing but php and codeigniter codes, not forgetting Ajax, Flash and doing a lot of new creations in form of computer algorithms for money.
We have been in constant talks with a representative from Switzerland, who is here to do the arrangements and have a tete a tete with us. So far the negotiations are going well and we are working on the first pilot project after which we will work on about 5 projects for them before the end of December2008 or so.
To me outsourcing is one big road to the success of information technology in Cameroon, because our local market is not yet aware of the importance of such solutions. india IT sector had a boom because most US firms were outsourcing to India, so Africa and Cameroon can also get into it that way.
check out the pictures below we took in some of the meetings at AfroVisioN group offices.

The picture below we had a meeting at our developers lounge. Thats where all the www.ubstudents.com and www.executiveasset.com solutions get created and maintained


The picture below is in the same place but now the white guy behind me by the right of the picture is the swiss representative


same location but now i am the one taking the picture so am absent. you can see the AfroVisioN Group Developers, the guys that write one of the best algorithms in Cameroon Information technology space.


we had an online video-audio conference with the swiss guys and I was trying to talk on our partnership with them


this is the skype screen, where we were seeing the swiss guys and talking with them live

Cameroon GCE Results 2008

I got up from bed today and the radio was sounding

"...the 2008 Cameroon GCE results will be out today. And

the results would/should not be published on the Internet. The results will not be sold in booklets

and to the public only the press and radio will have the rights to buy and publish the

results....The results were posted on the Internet in 2006 to exploit money from the students...".

I am so concerned because, in 2006, we created passgce.com[which is now offline] to host the results on the Internet and the main reason for the website was to sensitize Cameroonian youths on the importance of Information Technology, Computers and the Internet. We bought the results from the GCE board at 220,000FCFA to publish it for free access on the Internet mainly because of the sensitization and future benefits for Cameroonian people and our business.

If the results are posted on the Internet, form five and upper sixth students will be pushed to learn about using computers and the Internet. Because they will like to know how to get their results online. It might be affecting sales of news papers (press issues), but that one can be resolved by partnering with the news papers and not stopping Internet publication. More to that every student can be asked an extra fee of about 100FCFA for their results access online. which means the results will sell more than the press can ever sell their papers ( more revenue for the GCE Board ).

I cant imagine the number of students who would have learned how to use the computer ever since 2006. Usman Mbella, a lower sixth student at Inter Comprehensive High School, Great Soppo, Buea, who became a loyal user of passgce.com talks to me online almost everyday. He keeps asking me to do something about publishing the results online, because their cybercafe revenue increased when the GCE results were published online. Which means the publication of the results online could mean more revenue to the Board and more revenue for cyber cafe owners all over the republic, going a long way to improve their living standards. Most of Mbella's classmates were always asking him to teach them how to use passgce.com so they could know how to get their results when next they are released . The GCE results can greatly increase Internet usage in Cameroon. Nigeria is posting results online and most African countries, but in Cameroon I wonder why its illegal.

Anyway there are some disadvantages having the GCE results on the Internet:

- Errors caused by the programming logic, which might make someone fail while the person made it

- Security: someone might hack into the system and change their results

But these disadvantages don't weigh more than the advancement it will bring to the Cameroonian people in the nearest future.

I personally know that the GCE Results publication on the Internet can employ at least 5 Cameroonian youths which will increase their standards of living and keep them away from scamming or falling bush via [www.bushfalling.com].

What do you think about this our current situation, to me I have no conclusions and I will keep working hard everyday to make the average Cameroonian (student, business man, etc) learn how to use the computer and Internet to make clean money with technology because with no opportunities like this, all they do is fall bush or fall scamming. To see how we have been helping follow this link " AfroVisioN Group's One Website for every Cameroonian at 50,000FCFA per year "

Updates On AfroVisioN Group's One Website For Every Cameroonian

Last time I told you we launched a scheme wherein we make websites cheap and affordable to Cameroonain firms and individuals as low as 50,000FCFA/year [ about 110USD ]. Well we have been faring with soo many SME's benefiting and getting some web presence thanks to AfroVisioN Group and God.
We have just hosted the following site for a client and working on a couple of others. What is pushing is the fact that this goes a long way to sensitize business men in Cameroon.
We are currently working on six other websites, which means we are working hard to represent six cameroonian initiatives on the internet.

Damwo CIG (www.damwo.org) - a site representing an organisation fighting for women empowerment. it cost our client 110USD per year to keep this site running.


I will keep posting about the success or failure of this "one website for every cameroonian firm or individual " program launched by AfroVisioN Group and if you need a site visit www.afrovisiongroup.com/contacts.php send us your request and we will host your site in 7 days. At AfroVisioN Grouip, we work hard everyday to improve computer systems awareness in Cameroon and later Africa ;)