baba

Baba WAME is a professor in cyberjournalism and ICT at the Advanced School of Mass Communication (ASMAC) from the Yaoundé 2 University (Cameroon). Baba has a journalist background and worked at the Cameroon Radio and Television (CRTV) before starting to write, mostly for Jeune Afrique Economie, Divas, Brune as well as sport newspapers.

He wrote a PhD thesis in Information and Communication Sciences «Internet in Cameroon : uses and users, an essay on the adoption of communication and information technologies in a third world country» that he defended in December 12th 2005 at the University of Paris 2. The professor WAME observed the use of the Internet and showed the appropriation of web tools by Cameroonian women looking for a husband online. Baba Wame reveals us the gap beetwen occidental and cameroonian’s uses of the web, economic consequences in Cameroon and consequences in the search of “the white husband” on Internet.