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| Comfort Mussa at work |
This young and very active Journalist Mussa Comfort is one of the few Cameroonian women in the Media who have used their profession to advocate for the rights of women and young girls. Her job with Cameroons Association for Social marketing ACMS gave her another opportunity to face girls and boys issues from another perspective. Reproductive Health Education of youths is what she is paid for. In Bamenda her voice and surely name is known to everyone thanks to a radio talk show she anchors over Radio hot Cocoa named 100% jeune.
She features here as Our Personality of the week following her nomination by WOMEN DELIVER which each year celebrates International Women’s Day by honoring people, organizations and innovations that are delivering for girls and women. This year, the institution celebrates 15 journalists from around the world who are advocating for and advancing sexual and reproductive health and rights. These honorees were selected by an internal review board from a competitive pool of more than 100 journalists who were nominated by dozens of Women Deliver’s partners and supporters.
This is what WOMEN DELIVER wrote about Our own Comfort Mussa who is currently working for Global Press Journal and Radio France International
"Comfort uses her voice to make others’ voices even louder. She is a radio host, blogger and multi-award winning journalist with a keen eye for stories that expose social injustice. She hosts a weekly radio broadcast, 100% Jeune Live, where she leads young people in open and vibrant conversations about sexual and reproductive health. As a reporter for the Global Press Journal, Comfort writes about many sensitive topics including the risk of sexual harassment for mentally disabled women in Cameroon and the ripple effect of anti-child labor laws on middle class women. Comfort also founded SisterSpeak237, a blog where girls and women can openly discuss taboo topics, such as sexual harassment on public transportation.
In her own words: “There is an immense lack of stories about women’s health and rights in Cameroon’s mainstream media. I am inspired to tell these stories because it highlights relevant issues otherwise ignored. I believe that through my reporting, people ask themselves, ‘How can we solve the problems that we are currently sweeping under the rug?’ ”
Though voting closed on the 20th on March we think that we have every reason to say thank you Comfort for putting Our City Bamenda and Cameroon by extension on a global podium.
Comfort we Thank you.