New Magazine on Women’s Issues Hits the Stands

AUTHOR SECOND FROM RIGHT POSE WITH FRIENDS AT LAUNCH
The print media landscape in Cameroon has been blessed with yet another publication that treats predominantly women issues.
“Women on the Move”, a profile magazine aimed at presenting women who have succeeded in life in other to break myths amongst women and encourage them to venture in all kinds of societal carriers was officially launched in Bamenda on June 3, 2017.
The magazine which is an initiative of Linda Ngobessing Neh, journalist and ace crusader for more women in politics, gender issues and the need to bridge the gap between women and men in decision making and white collar jobs, captures women who have made it to the top in areas such as banking, magistracy, judiciary, education and administration.
The magazine gives successful women a platform to tell their stories through guided interviews. According to the publisher, it is her intention to motivate other women who are still to come to reality that woman can pick up any job in the society and walk to the top.
Talking to prying reporters as to what motivated her to embark on such as initiative the publisher said it was a dream she had nursed since childhood.
LINDA SPAEKS AT LAUNCH
“There has lways been an innate urge in me to advocate for women’s rights and girls. This magazine is just the maturation of that dream. I have been to civil society advocacy and democracy empowerment of women. I have discovered that women has a lot to offer and nobody talks about them, that’s why I have decided to let them talk through the magazine” she said
Quizzed on why start only with successful women, Linda Neh justified that it was just the maiden edition revealing that subsequent editions which shall be produced quarterly shall handle all walks of life that touch on the woman.
Hilda Bih, journalist, vocalist and gender defender, who presented the magazine, describes it as a well manicured publication.
“It comes as a turning spotlight on the women in the region and Cameroon where women have not been celebrated as they deserve to be. It is a laudable initiative that comes to inspire women to come out of their shelves and do great things” she added.
To Colbert Gwain, human rights activist and gender defender, there has been great apathy on women issues especially on the mainstream media observing that the magazine will put women’s issues at the forefront of public consciousness. “This is the debut of professionalization in journalism” he added. The SHE Platform campaign started as an advocacy to give women a voice and visibility and the launch of the magazine is prove of its continuity.
NGOBESSING LINDA NEH


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