Friday, March 9, 2012

CAMEROONIAN JOURNALIST WINS THE AFRICAN FOSS REPORTER AWARD 2012

Cameroonian blogger/journalist Dorothée Danedjo has just won the African FOSS Reporter Award 2012.

The award recognises excellence in IT journalism and FOSS (Free & Open Source Software) reporting in Africa. It aims to highlight the impact of FOSS on the development of Africa and recognises an outstanding reporting for a general audience and honours individuals, rather than institutions and publishers.

The award will be presented in Abuja during the 5th African Conference on FOSS and the Digital Commons held from the 19-23 March.

Great job to see such a prize being won by a woman!

Catch up on Dorothée's IT related posts here 

Stay sweet
Dulce
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LUC RICHARD MBAH A MOUTE SHOOTS A CDC PSA CAMPAIGN

Cameroon's star player at NBA side Milwaukee Bucks, Luc Richard Mbah a Moute, posted this picture this morning on Twitter (UK time) of him shooting a campaign ad for CDC/PSA (Centers for Disease Control & Prevention/Public Service Announcements).

The CDC PSA's provide timely messages about what you can do to protect yourself and your family in case of a natural disaster in the US and it seems Luc Richard's ad is focusing on sporting injuries.

Thanks for reading!
Stay sweet
Dulce
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IMANE AYISSI AT ARISE MAGAZINE FASHION WEEK 2012

After all the agro, cancellations and protests at the Arise camp in Lagos this week, the show finally kicked off yesterday without a hitch it seems.

On the catwalk was our very own Mr haute couture himself, Imane Ayissi, unveiling "OKIRI", a toned down Autumn/Winter 2013 collection with similarly toned down palettes.

Black and white dominated the colour patterns with a hint of pastel, some wool elegant dresses and high waisted trousers with zip effects.

Just perfect and not too flashy for the season eh! Pair these pieces with tonton Loubous or some Sandersons and away you go!

Check our some of our fav images below!









Imane Ayissi


Images courtesy of Neks2u
Stay sweet
Dulce
xxx

Wednesday, March 7, 2012

SWAGG 3.0 FEATURING KAYSHA AND MENOOSHA

Sunday April 8th at Frankfurt's Vietsky, prepared to be serenaded with crazy afro beats pumped out by rapstar Kaysha and our very own rock chic artist Menoosha...

15 EUR is you'll need and 11pm is the time to be there!

Could you stand the heat?!

Dulce
xxx

Thursday, March 1, 2012

AM I DOING SOMETHING CAMPAIGN

Welcome to another post here on DC. We wanted to bring you a cool campaign that is the brainchild of an individual who we have featured several times on our Dulce Camer Top 50 talents to watch.

Olivia Mukam is a key player in the domain of social activism with a greater focus on inspiring and encouraging Cameroon's youths to be more engaging and responsible for their future.

So without further ado, read below about the "Am I Doing Something" project.

Reason for campaign:

The reason why we launched this Campaign during youth week is to encourage the youths of our country to think beyond parties, myopic goals, snap out of victimisation, and ask themselves the JFK question "Do not ask what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country."

Who are taking part?

We identified 35 young Cameroonians under 35 "Doing Something" through leadership and entrepreneurship in multiple fields such as Arts, Engineering, Health, Fashion, Music, Agriculture, ICT, Social Activism, Entrepreneurship, Sports. The goal is to showcase young-success-stories that will inspire thousands more to ask themselves the introspective question:

"Am I doing Something?"


 The 35 youth leaders who came together to the shoot 3-minutes video asking with one voice "Am I Doing Something?" highlighted who they are, what they are doing, why they are doing it, how they are doing it, some of the challenges they are experiencing, how they overcame them, and a message to the youth. 

The teaser video was launched yesterday (Leap Day) - to prepare everyone for the One-day-One-video campaign which we will be launching on March 15th. They will publish the 3-mins video of each one of the 35-doers on their Facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/AmIDoingSomething

And in parallel to this, they will negotiate with TV & radio outlets to help disseminate the word even further than their online outreach.

The ultimate goal is to have this campaign be an annual campaign, broadcasted across our national and international media channels highlighting another story of African youths, leaders and entrepreneurs. They hope this concept - scalable and easily implementable - will spread to other countries in the sub-region and the entire continent. They plan to publish 1,000 DVDs - which will be given free-of-charge to their network of youths throughout the country so that they may learn from their counterparts they too could be inspired to "do something" and engage in action. 

In addition to the support of the British High Commission to cover our operations we are currently fundraising to produce 1,000 DVDs (2.5 million FCFA) or ($5000) ) which will be distributed through their network of youth leaders in Universities and Secondary schools. 
If you are interested in joining the pilot project of this annual initiative, please contact them via the official Am I Doing Something email address: iamdoingsomething2012@gmail.com

So there you have it! A great job and a great initiative!
Please join the campaign and spread the word. Watch out for the videos on their Facebook page too and on a TV or radio station near you in Cameroon!

Check out the teaser video below


Stay sweet
Dulce
xxx