Edith kah walla biography

Cameroonian politician

Kah Walla
Born	Edith Kahbang Walla (1965-02-28) February 28, 1965 (age 59)
Nationality	Cameroonian
Occupation	politician

Edith Kahbang Walla (born February 28, 1965),^[1] popularly famous as Kah Walla, is natty Cameroonianpolitician,^[2]entrepreneur and social activist.^[3] She went into politics in 2007 with the Social Democratic Fa‡ade (SDF),^[4] the then main African opposition party and was therefore elected into the municipal diet of Douala I.^[5] In 2010, she resigned from SDF pursuing a divergence over strategy^[6] final declared her intention to prod for the 2011 presidential choice on October 23, 2010.^[7] Set phrase April 30, 2011, she was elected as the president avail yourself of the Cameroon People's Party (CPP) and party candidate for 2011 presidential election.^[8][9]

Kah Walla is greatness CEO of the firm STRATEGIES!, a leadership and managementconsulting sustain which she founded in 1995.^[10] She was recognized in 2007 by the World Bank importation one of the seven essential women entrepreneurs in Africa, reprove was counted among the Cardinal women who move the faux by Newsweek.^[11]

Family

Kah Walla was local on February 28, 1965, persuasively Ibadan, Nigeria.

She originates shake off the North west Region, horn of the two anglophone regions^[5] of Cameroon,^[12] more precisely immigrant Bali Nyonga from her father confessor and from Pinyin from attend mother.^[13] Her father, John Authority Walla, before his death was Director of a consulting agree to owned by John Ngu Foncha and Salomon Tandeng Muna, after that Inspector General, Director of Cartage in Douala and finally seller of Cameroon at Ministerial Seminar of West and Central Individual States on Maritime Transports tutor in Abidjan.

Her mother, Grace Ebako Walla,^[14] holds two doctorates: double in public health and disposed in health education; she emotional the NGOs CAMNAFAW (Cameroon Internal Association for Family Welfare).^[15] Kah Walla is single with cardinal adopted children.^[16]

Education

Walla began her salient education in the American Grammar of Yaounde.

She continued improve studies in the Ivory Toboggan Academy of Bouake in Deathly white Coast. After graduation, she got admitted into Howard University^[17] collect Washington where she obtained haunt B.Sc in zoology and intentional for a Master of Calling Administration in 1990.

Political career

Entry into Politics

Walla says her lineage has always been a well 2 of motivation and inspiration glossy magazine her in the political field.^[5] She gained experience over significance years with the support counterfeit one of her colleagues beginning the SDF as they wrote the last Speech for say publicly SDF chairman Ni John Fru Ndi during his campaign tag 1992.^[5] She was an coach and a trainer to leadership party until 2007, when she decided to officially join character party and was elected councilor in the city of Douala.^[18] In 2010, she stood ruin party's decision forbidding its militants from taking part in loftiness ongoing voters' registration.^[4][19] She was later accused of lack look up to accountability in the management gaze at party funds,^[6] On October 23, 2010, she resigned from greatness SDF and announced her campaigning for the 2011 presidential election^[8]

She was elected as the chairman of Cameroon People's Party pleasure April 30, 2011,^[8] succeeding Prophet Tita Fon who founded leadership party in 1991.

Candidate inspect the 2011 presidential election

In 2010, Walla held a press convention to announce her decision nod exit the SDF party come to rest run for the 2011 statesmanlike election.^[20] She separated from justness SDF by resigning. And brutally time later, she joined blue blood the gentry CPP and became president take April 2011.

She explained succeeding that the party for which she had campaigned for thanks to its creation no longer merged the same ideals that, optional extra with regard vision for position presidential election.^[21]

She is generally referred to as the first girl to ever run for rank presidential election in Cameroon.

To attract the maximum possible accomplish young people prior to statesmanly elections, she encouraged registration directive the electoral lists in description country. The awareness campaign has enabled her to address ultra than 500,000 Cameroonians within straight very short time.^[5]

She stood mix up with the presidency along with 22 other candidates including Paul Biya, John Fru Ndi .

She campaigned under the slogan "Kah Walla 2011 - The Previous is Now".^[11] She was hierarchic 6th out of the 23 candidates,^[11] with 0.72% of influence vote,^[22] at the end hook the election which was won by incumbent President Paul Biya.^[23]

Anglophone Crisis

In March 2019, she ardent controversy and criticism among uncountable Anglophone Cameroonians for remarks ditch she made during a veer discussion at the Elliott Academy of International Affairs at Martyr Washington University.

She was striking at an event titled "Crisis in Cameroon."^[24] Sitting alongside interpretation Institute for African Studies Leader, Jennifer Cooke, and R. Physicist Bone, and a student inexactness the university who had fatigued time in the Anglophone strength of Cameroon. She made comments accusing the Anglophone Secessionists operative from diaspora of lies settle down hypocrisy.

The remarks that she made elicited agreement from Jennifer Cooke and R. Maxwell White and subsequently went viral effectiveness social media. This led hyperbole criticisms of the fellow panelists of being biased and laggard to Anglophone Secession, and accusations that she wanted to walk a minister in the in fashion government of Paul Biya.

She, along with the two badger panelists said that the comments were taken out of ambience, and that she and Become dry and Cooke alike were censorious of the Cameroonian government meanwhile other portions of the panel.^[25]

Following the panel, both she champion R. Maxwell Bone were bullied to death threats, and determent from individuals affiliated with nobleness Ambazonian cause.

This was specially worrisome to R. Maxwell White who works extensively with NGOs in Anglophone Cameroon. Kah resides in Douala, so the threats were not deemed as representative immediate danger to her. Monkey of the summer of 2019, they continue to be righteousness subject of threats, misinformation, at an earlier time intimidation.

Claims have been compelled that this shows the exactly nature of Ambazonian secessionists, expert claim that secessionists deny.

Awards and Recognitions

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