Fuhbang Emmanuel Tanifum is a Cameroonian ordained minister of the gospel, social entrepreneur, theologian, and jurist with a PhD in Theology & Intercultural Studies. He is the founder and chief executive officer of the Rohi Foundation, which is a registered grass-roots, not-for-profit organization that promotes peace, human rights, education, and humanitarian action in Cameroon. He is also the director of the Martin Luther King Vocational and University Institutes in Cameroon. He and his team skill, upskill, and reskill young people who otherwise are susceptible to violence, crimes, and unemployment. Emmanuel is a KAICIID 2022 fellow and is presently a Kanthari 2023 fellow. He loves meeting new people, learning new cultures and exploring intercultural friendship. To know more about me visit the following: www.ndabuchiseh.org, www.malukuinstitutes.org, www.rohifoundationcameroon.org

我为什么加入 Couchsurfing

I am an enthusiast of intercultural friendship. I really like meeting people from other cultures and backgrounds. I have learned so much traveling to other countries and also receiving people from other countries. Couchsurfing gives me the opportunity to continue to connect with new friends and learn from each other.

兴趣

• #japan
• #china
• #research
• #entrepreneur
• #volunteers
• #development experts
• #social workers
• #missionaries
• #international students
• #social changemakers
• # teaching
• #peacebuilding
• #vocational training
• # europe
• #united states of america

音乐、电影和书籍

Things fall apart by Chinua Achebe

我做过的一件不可思议的事情

It Could Have Been the Death of a Fool!
As a teenager, I came dangerously close to dying due to an act of violence. It was one day when my mother lamented with tears running down her face: "Oh no! Where are the bananas I kept in the kitchen? These monsters have eaten all of them. Oh, it’s better to die than live in such a toxic family!" I rushed to comfort her. But she kept sobbing and I could not bear seeing my mother in such tears. I carried a stick to beat up one of the culprits, the "banana thieves". And that day, the hunter became the hunted.

In a Cameroonian peasant polygamous family, women often bear the primary responsibility for the upkeep of the home environment, including child rearing, providing food, and other basic needs. In my case, my father had to administer four wives and 19 children in a single compound, which was not easy because there were often violent fights.

And that day, my step brother attacked me with a machete to gravely injure me and I got a deep cut on one of my thighs. I was taken to the hospital right away. Before I reached the hospital, I was unconscious because I had lost a lot of blood. When I woke up in my hospital bed, I started taking an introspective look at myself and questioned the entire situation. What if I did not recover? If I had died in the cause of perpetrating violence, could my death not have been the death of a fool? What was I trying to achieve through violence? Doesn’t violence always beget violence? After this incident, I developed a dislike for violent conflicts.
When I got to university, I joined a peace and human rights club. I studied the philosophies of world-known peace activists, and I was inspired by quotes like "Wars are poor chisels for carving a peaceful tomorrow", and "Eye for an eye will only turn the whole world blind." Through this exposure, my mindset shifted, and I developed a passion for peacebuilding. At the time, I was still a young person. I used my knowledge to reach out to all my siblings with a message of peace. My siblings reasoned with me and got weaned off the manipulations and incitement from our parents.
In 2008, I founded a youth-led organization, with one of its aims to inspire and empower many youth as agents of positive peace.
And then the civil war hit the north and south-west regions of Cameroon in 2016. Deafening gunshots are now a daily occurrence. Through my organization, I have been engaging this youth in peacebuilding activities and training, leveraging on my own long-standing passion and experience in peacebuilding since being young. I have established a vocational institute and a professional university as tools of youth peacebuilding. We skill, re-skill and upskill youth who other wise would be vulnerable to unemployment, crimes and violence in Cameroon.

我可以与沙发主分享些什么

Hospitality, local knowledge, friendship, love and care.

我游览过的国家

France, Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria, Portugal, South Africa, Uganda

我居住过的国家

India, Rwanda