BY TAC
The African Bar Association AFBA has recognised the leadership potentials and skills of the Secretary General of the Cameroon Bar Association, Barrister Anne Yolande Ngo Minyogog and has thus conferred in her the AFBA Leadership Merit Award. The Award was handed to Barrister Anne Yolande at the just concluded 2024 annual Conference of AFBA that took place at the Mulungushi International Conference center in Lusaka, Republic of Zambia. The conference was placed under the theme, “Building Credible Legal Frameworks to enhance Intra- African Trade, Project Financing and Industrialisation of Africa”. The theme of the conference was well articulated to the close to 1000 Legal minds who attended the conference, by Prof. Emmanuel Ibe Kachikwu
Dedicates award to colleagues of NW, SWR
While presenting the Award to the entire members of the Cameroon Bar Association, the Bar Secretary, Barr. Anne Yolande declared that she is dedicating the Award mostly to her colleagues in the North West and South West Regions, Young Lawyers and the entire Bar.
“I am honoured to present you my Award, the AFBA Merit Leadership Award, 2024, received from the African BAR Conference in Lusaka, Zambia. I am happy to share my joy with you. When I do my work, I do so out of passion and in performance of the duty of service that is incumbent on me as a leader. Never have I contemplated awards or recognitions. There are probably others more deserving of this award, so while I accept same, I do so with measure of humility. I am grateful to the members of the jury who found in me a worthy recipient of this award. Can I hold on myself? I don’t think so”.
She furthered that, “This award is dedicated to my colleagues in the North West and South West Regions- fine gentlemen who unfortunately are challenged by the realities of their place, time, circumstances, yet brave the odds and keep the faith. Since 2017, I have been with you, and this will not change. Wherever Lawyers are in difficulty, I feel immediately summoned to intervene unconditionally. I am also thinking of the young Lawyers who look up to me for inspiration. This Award is for you too. It is a testament to the fact that you can achieve a lot more when you don’t care who takes the credit. Don’t be despaired, but keep your hands on the plough. I am thinking of the gentlemen in skirts, the often ignored and stereotyped. To you I say this; YOU Are UPWARD BOUND. The final grain of my gratitude goes to my Bar President, The People’s Batonnier and the entire Cameroon Bar. Without you I would have been capable of nothing worthy of recognition. I do not work for glory, yet glory has found me. THANK YOU”
About AFBA
The African Bar Association was founded in 1971 as a professional body uniting individual Lawyers, Bar Associations, Law Societies and Legal Entities across Africa. The Association seeks to take the African Legal Community to Global recognition not only in the advancement of Law and Justice but also on Economic and social-political fronts. The core mandate of AFBA includes the development of the legal Profession and Legal Education, the Principles of the rule of law and mouthpiece of the Judiciary. The AFBA believes in the Doctrine of Separation of State Powers, Democracy, Good Governance and Law reform.
The 2023 Conference took place in Pretoria; Republic of South Africa with Hon. Justice Desmond Edwards, the Chief Justice of Sierra Leone who gave the keynote speech. AFBA Secretariat is in Lagos –Nigeria . The President of the AFBA is Hannibal E. Uwafio Esq.