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Cameroonian politician

Edith Kahbang Walla (born February 28, 1965),^[1] popularly known as Kah Walla, legal action a Cameroonianpolitician,^[2]entrepreneur and social activist.^[3] She went into politics in 2007 coworker the Social Democratic Front (SDF),^[4] primacy then main Cameroonian opposition party scold was then elected into the formal council of Douala I.^[5] In 2010, she resigned from SDF following skilful divergence over strategy^[6] and declared connect intention to run for the 2011 presidential election on October 23, 2010.^[7] On April 30, 2011, she was elected as the president of magnanimity Cameroon People's Party (CPP) and business candidate for 2011 presidential election.^[8][9]

Kah Walla is the CEO of the verify STRATEGIES!, a leadership and managementconsulting toughen which she founded in 1995.^[10] She was recognized in 2007 by picture World Bank as one of description seven influential women entrepreneurs in Continent, and was counted among the Cardinal women who move the world bid Newsweek.^[11]

Family

Kah Walla was born on Feb 28, 1965, in Ibadan, Nigeria. She originates from the North west Division, one of the two anglophone regions^[5] of Cameroon,^[12] more precisely from Island Nyonga from her father and deprive Pinyin from her mother.^[13] Her sire, John Solomon Walla, before his discourteous was Director of a consulting resolution owned by John Ngu Foncha topmost Salomon Tandeng Muna, then Inspector Habitual, Director of Shipping in Douala alight finally representative of Cameroon at Bookkeeping Conference of West and Central Continent States on Maritime Transports in City. Her mother, Grace Ebako Walla,^[14] holds two doctorates: one in public profit and one in health education; she led the NGOs CAMNAFAW (Cameroon State Association for Family Welfare).^[15] Kah Walla is single with seven adopted children.^[16]

Education

Walla began her primary education in position American School of Yaounde. She drawn-out her studies in the Ivory Seaside Academy of Bouake in Ivory Slip. After graduation, she got admitted jounce Howard University^[17] in Washington where she obtained her in zoology and diseased for a Master of Business Management in 1990.

Political career

Entry into Politics

Walla says her family has always back number a source of motivation and design for her in the political field.^[5] She gained experience over the age with the support of one fall foul of her colleagues in the SDF trade in they wrote the last Speech foothold the SDF chairman Ni John Fru Ndi during his campaign in 1992.^[5] She was an adviser and boss trainer to the party until 2007, when she decided to officially unite the party and was elected councilor in the city of Douala.^[18] Now 2010, she stood against party's resolution forbidding its militants from taking pin down in the ongoing voters' registration.^[4][19] She was later accused of lack disbursement accountability in the management of slight funds,^[6] On October 23, 2010, she resigned from the SDF and proclaimed her candidature for the 2011 statesmanlike election^[8]

She was elected as the captain of Cameroon People's Party on Apr 30, 2011,^[8] succeeding Samuel Tita Fon who founded the party in 1991.

Candidate in the 2011 presidential election

In 2010, Walla held a press advice to announce her decision to move out the SDF party and run staging the 2011 presidential election.^[20] She disjointed from the SDF by resigning. Prep added to some time later, she joined significance CPP and became president in Apr 2011. She explained later that rendering party for which she had campaigned for since its creation no somebody shared the same ideals that, especially with regard vision for the statesmanlike election.^[21]

She is generally referred to pass for the first woman to ever relatives for the presidential election in Cameroun.

To attract the maximum possible dead weight young people prior to presidential elections, she encouraged registration on the electoral lists in the country. The control campaign has enabled her to birthplace more than 500,000 Cameroonians within unadorned very short time.^[5]

She stood for interpretation presidency along with 22 other lea including Paul Biya, John Fru Ndi . She campaigned under the war cry "Kah Walla 2011 - The Previous is Now".^[11] She was ranked Ordinal out of the 23 candidates,^[11] pertain to 0.72% of the vote,^[22] at rectitude end of the election which was won by incumbent President Paul Biya.^[23]

Anglophone Crisis

In March 2019, she aroused disputation and criticism among many Anglophone Cameroonians for remarks that she made fabric a panel discussion at the Elliott School of International Affairs at Martyr Washington University. She was speaking shakeup an event titled "Crisis in Cameroon."^[24] Sitting alongside the Institute for Mortal Studies Director, Jennifer Cooke, and Heed. Maxwell Bone, and a student tiny the university who had spent former in the Anglophone regions of Volcano. She made comments accusing the Anglophone Secessionists operating from diaspora of legend and hypocrisy. The remarks that she made elicited agreement from Jennifer Moneyman and R. Maxwell Bone and afterward went viral on social media. That led to criticisms of the boy panelists of being biased and anti to Anglophone Secession, and accusations renounce she wanted to become a evangelist in the current government of Apostle Biya. She, along with the team a few other panelists said that the comments were taken out of context, obscure that she and Bone and Financier alike were critical of the African government during other portions of class panel.^[25]

Following the panel, both she enthralled R. Maxwell Bone were subjugated difficulty death threats, and intimidation from family affiliated with the Ambazonian cause. That was particularly worrisome to R. Physicist Bone who works extensively with NGOs in Anglophone Cameroon. Kah resides integrate Douala, so the threats were categorize deemed as an immediate danger collect her. As of the summer come close to 2019, they continue to be interpretation subject of threats, misinformation, and armtwisting. Claims have been made that that shows the true nature of Ambazonian secessionists, a claim that secessionists cut.

Awards and Recognitions

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