By Doh James Sonkey
Communication Expert and Life coach, Jean Paul Tchomdou has been elected the pioneer Founding President of the newly created Academy of Happiness in Cameroon. He was elected by members at the General Assembly meeting last December 6, 2025 at the Multipurpose Sports Complex in Yaoundé.
Presenting the project earlier, Jean Paul Tchomdou announced that the Academy of Happiness will put at the disposal of members a cross section of physchatres. The pioneer President also indicated that there will be workshops for members once the movement goes operational.
“We will make sure that companies integrate happiness as fundamental pillar for recruitment. We want to offer a space for people to breath, reconstruct and construct emotional learning. People who are optimistic easily heals than those who are pessimistic”, declared Tchomdou.
Members then adopted their internal rules and regulations to govern their movement.
In Master classes lessons, members listened to a series of presentations on key social habits such as emotional test by coach Benjamin Nwali, being happy in a difficult context, how to keep the flames on when everything seems to be down by Nelly Nana and Elise Bonga Epee, etc.
Created by Jean Paul Tchomdou in April 2025 as a WhatsApp group dubbed “everyone is entitled to happiness” with about 600 members in Cameroon, Europe, Africa and America, the group became a laboratory for ideas, solidarity and daily support mechanisms.
He told reporters that “the birth of the Academy of Happiness today marks a new beginning in Cameroon. The ambition of this academy is to allow Cameroonians to be more fulfilled, to be happier and to face the difficulties of life. You know, our country is going through difficult times. People are victims of stress, victims of conflict. On social media, we see a wave of hatred, a wave of frustration, a wave of insults. We, as advocates of positive thinking, think that we cannot let our country sink into this chaos.”
He further explained that, “there are several definitions of what happiness is but the definition that we share in the Academy of Happiness is simply to love the life that we lead. We can love it less, we can love it more.”