Mr. Christopher Ambe Shu, fondly called Chris Ambe, is a native of Bafut in Mezam Division of the Northwest Region of Cameroon. He is also a University of Buea alumna and a longtime-practicing journalist.
Delivering paper at ASJUB-JMC open day, 2013
In fact, he has been practicing as a print journalist for more than sixteen years. He is a pioneer graduate of the Department of Journalism and Mass Communication, UB .Chris Ambe was admitted in 1993 as a JMC student and graduated in 1996, with a BSc (Hons, 2nd Class lower).
As a JMC student he was Editor of THE CHARIOT (the JMC -run campus newspaper) and he stringed for several newspapers such as Ntemfac Ofege’s TODAY and The Herald Newspaper.
In 1997, he volunteered as a journalist at the Southwest Provincial Delegation for Communication for six months, during which period his reports were published by CAMNEWS/SOPECAM (Cameroon Tribune).
In 1998, Mr.Ambe became a reporter for Cameroon Post Newspaper and later for The Beacon Newspaper Noted for his incisive and quality reports, he was contracted by Journalism icon and Publisher of The Herald Newspaper, Dr. Boniface Forbin, in July 1999 to report for the paper.Mr.Ambe served as Southwest Bureau Chief of The Herald Newspaper for seven good years.
He resigned from The Herald Newspaper in August 2006 and in 2007 he started The Recorder Newspaper
Mr.Ambe is currently the Publisher-Editor of The RECORDER, an English language newspaper with head office in Buea. He is also a blogger.
Mr.Ambe had served in 2006 as acting President of the Southwest Chapter of the Cameroon Association of Commonwealth Journalists (CACOJ) and later Vice-President of Cameroon Union of Journalists, Southwest Branch.
Chris Ambe is currently the Financial Secretary of Cameroon Association of English Speaking Journalists (CAMASEJ) Buea Chapter.
He has attended many journalism seminars/workshops, some sponsored by the British High Commission in Yaoundé, US Embassy Yaoundé and the Commonwealth Secretariat.
Chris Ambe is a panelist of the famous CRTV-Buea Press Club program, aired every Saturday Morning. This soft-spoken journalist/editor/publisher is a Presbyterian Christian and a father of two children.
Are his achievements not worth emulating as an Ex JMC student?
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