“Most Professional Journalist”
The Editor-in-Chief of this magazine, AFRICA EXCELLENCE, Christopher Ambe Shu, was on May 3rd 2022 honoured by the Department of Journalism and Mass Communication (JMC), University of Buea (UB), Cameroon with an award as the “MOST PROFESSIONALJOURNALIST” from the institution since its coming into existence in 1993.
He was honored on this year’s World Press Freedom Day, which took place on UB campus, chaired by Professor r Emmanuel Yenshu, Dean of the Faculty of Social and Management Sciences of same institution.
Prof Yenshu represented UB Vice Chancellor, Professor Horace Ngomo Manga.
According to Associate Professor Kingsley L. Ngange, Head of the Department of JMC,UB :“This AWARD OF EXCELLENCE is presented to CHRISTOPHER AMBE SHU in recognition of your assiduous services as MOST PROFESSIONAL JOURNALIST”.
Ambe Shu has consistently practiced journalism in Cameroon for twenty 25 years, braving all the odds to uphold the core principles of the profession.
He graduated from the Department of JMC, UB with a BSc (Hons) degree in Journalism and Mass Communication.
This seasoned journalist, fondly called Chris Ambe, is one of fourteen (14) pioneer graduates of that Department.
Chris Ambe was admitted to read Journalism and Mass Communication in 1993, the same year the JMC-UB went operational and he graduated in 1996.
Presently, he is not only the Editor-in-Chief of AFRICA EXCELLENCE, a Pan African magazine with head office in Buea, but also Senior Editor of FOOT PRINTS magazine, a Cameroonian magazine, as well as Contributing Editor of Yaounde-based The HORIZON Newspaper.
He had published The RECORDER Newspaper, founded in 2007, but suspended its publication for some time now
As journalism student, Chris Ambe was Features Editor of THE CHARIOT (the JMC -run campus newspaper) and he stringed forl critical newspapers such as TODAY of Veteran Journalist Ntemfac Ofege and The Herald Newspaper of late Dr. Boniface Forbin
In 1997, Chris Ambe volunteered as a journalist at the Southwest Provincial Delegation for Communication for six months, during which period his reports were published by CAMNEWS/SOPECAM (Cameroon Tribune).
In 1998, he would become a reporter for CAMEROON POST News paper and later for The BEACON Newspaper.
Noted for his quality reports, Chris Ambe was contracted by the publisher of The HERALD Newspaper, Dr. Boniface Forbin, in July 1999 to report for the paper. He served as Southwest Bureau Chief of The Herald Newspaper for seven years.
He resigned from The Herald News paper in August 2006 and in 2007 he started The RECORDER Newspaper, noted for its objective and critical reporting.
In 2006, Chris Ambe served as acting President of the Southwest Chapter of the Cameroon Association of Commonwealth Journalists (CACOJ) and later as Vice-President of Cameroon Union of Journalists, Southwest Branch for several years.
He had also occupied, or several years, the post of Financial Secretary of Cameroon Association of English Speaking Journalists, Buea Chapter.
He has attended many journalism workshops, some sponsored by the British High Commission in Yaoundé, US Embassy Yaoundé and the Commonwealth Secretariat; the UN agencies such as Human Rights Center in Yaoundé, the UNDP Office in Cameroon . He has facilitated several workshops for Cameroon journalists.
Chris Ambe was a regular panelist of the famous CRTV (Radio)-Buea Press Club program, aired every Saturday Morning from 2006-2014, which discussed topical issues in the news. A native of Bafut in the Northwest Region of Cameroon, he is married to Claris Dudzernyuy Mbinkar, a career teacher (presently, Head-teacher of LIGHT OF EXCELLENCE Nursery & Primary School, Great Soppo, Buea); the couple is blessed with three children.
