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Host Tiokasin wel­comes two guests for the full hour. We need to know what’s hap­pen­ing with Indige­nous peo­ples liv­ing in oth­er parts of the world. This week we hear from two impor­tant Indige­nous voic­es from Cameroon. Konkankoh has more than 40 years of diverse and glob­al expe­ri­ence across social entre­pre­neur­ship devel­op­ment sec­tors in Africa and in Europe. His career spans senior lead­er­ship and entre­pre­neur­ial roles in social trans­for­ma­tion, envi­ron­men­tal man­age­ment, sus­tain­able devel­op­ment and con­sult­ing. Since 1996 when Konkankoh reg­is­tered Bet­ter World Cameroon (BWC), he has been lead­ing a green rev­o­lu­tion and youth devel­op­ment con­cept based on Sys­tems think­ing — an inno­v­a­tive method of resolv­ing the com­plex cul­tur­al chal­lenges push­ing thou­sands of youth to migrate out of Africa, with speed, sus­tain­ably, and at scale. Konkankoh was evict­ed from his coun­try in 2018 by the civ­il war and lives today in Por­tu­gal where he men­tors and coach­es a diverse group of young change-mak­ers, devel­op­ing new soci­etal plat­forms in the domains of edu­ca­tion, social inclu­sion, health­care, civ­il soci­ety gov­er­nance, and liveli­hoods. Konkanko­h’s youth devel­op­ment plat­form Ndan­i­for Per­ma­cul­ture Ecov­il­lage, that was recent­ly burnt down by French Cameroon mil­i­tary, includ­ed large-scale regen­er­a­tive agri­cul­ture sys­tems sup­port­ed by glob­al phil­an­thropic col­lab­o­ra­tors. In par­al­lel to Ecov­il­lage design work, Konkankoh is groom­ing Glob­al Ecov­il­lage Net­work (GEN), Africa’s next-gen­er­a­tion lead­er­ship that is engaged in devel­op­ing a regen­er­a­tive edu­ca­tion sys­tem in Africa. Konkankoh is pas­sion­ate about men­tor­ing young social entre­pre­neurs. Faced with the chal­lenges of the Geno­cide in Ambazo­nia and COVID-19 pan­dem­ic, Konkankoh focus­es his atten­tion on recon­nect­ing refugees to the land using Per­ma­cul­ture and look­ing for sup­port to accom­pa­ny them with seed fund­ing. Konkankohs orga­ni­za­tion Bet­ter World is a not-for-prof­it incu­ba­tor and accel­er­a­tor focused on non-for­mal edu­ca­tion. Konkankoh is a social Inno­va­tion advi­sor to Defend the Sacred Alliance. For more infor­ma­tion, vis­it: https://betterworld-cameroon.c… and https://spiritofndanifor.wordp…

Koh is a jour­nal­ist and Com­mu­ni­ca­tions Man­ag­er for Bet­ter World Cameroon. Koh has worked in print and broad­cast media in Cameroon but is now involved in free­lance and dig­i­tal media jour­nal­ism and activism since mov­ing to Por­tu­gal in 2019 due to the severe crack­down on jour­nal­ists report­ing the atroc­i­ties hap­pen­ing in South­ern Cameroon. Koh has been with Bet­ter World for more than 9 years and par­tic­i­pates in the orga­ni­za­tions efforts to improve the lives of women and young peo­ple through regen­er­a­tive edu­ca­tion and entre­pre­neur­ship. Koh’s cur­rent work cen­ters around cre­at­ing aware­ness in Europe about the ongo­ing cri­sis in his coun­try to push for inter­na­tion­al sup­port towards an end to the war. Koh is also the co-founder of two small start­up com­pa­nies in Cameroon, Njan­gi and K and K media. Koh is pas­sion­ate about sto­ry­telling, art and tech­nol­o­gy. He believes these are key areas that will take Africa to the lev­el where it is no longer por­trayed in West­ern media nar­ra­tives as a place of pover­ty and dis­ease, but where Africans can tell their own sto­ries and forge their path, void of post-colo­nial shack­les and west­ern exploitation.