Francis Wache: Nkor Mayor & Publisher of The Post Newspaper is dead.

Wache Francis: the fine writer/journalist is no more

By Christopher Ambe

Francis Wache (aka Kongnyuy Francis), Publisher/Executive Editor of   Cameroonian English bi-weekly, The Post Newspaper   would have clocked exactly  64 on December 31,this year, but unfortunateldy,he breathed his last on Friday, December 20.

The soft-spoken Wache,who was also Mayor of Nkor Noni In Bui Division, succumbed ,suddenly, to death    at the Buea Regional Hospital as he was about to be  surgically operated upon for a serious stomach ailment.

He breathed his last outside the theatre as preparations for the operation were underway.

That morning before his demise, the Mayor of Nkor( since 2013)  had looked quite healthy and nobody  least suspected the unexpected would later same day befall  him.

Before becoming Mayor of Nkor, Wache was a senior trainer (ranked as sub director at the level of Cameroon Central Administration) at Local Government Training Centre, (CEFAM), Buea.He worked at CEFAM from 1978 until 2015. 

Even though a government worker at CEFAM, the love for journalism and literary writing, kept Wache busy with editorial work here and there for many years.

From1997 when The Post Newspaper started till his death,Wache remained the Executive Editor/Publisher of the paper; 1996 – 1997 he was Editor-in-Chief, Cameroon Post, Newspaper; 1992 – 1994,Wache served as Editor-in-Chief, Cameroon Today, Newspaper;1991 – 1994 he was Editor-in-Chief, Cameroon Life, Magazine;1990 - 1991 he was Senior Writer, Cameroon Life Magazine.

Wache also helped to organize the journalism profession in Anglophone Cameroon and from 2006 -2009, he served as National President of the Cameroon Association of English-speaking Journalists (CAMASEJ).

Wache   attended Bishop Rogan College, Soppo, Buea(1968-1971),passing the   G.C.E. ‘O’ Level and proceeded to Cameroon College of Arts Science and Technology (CCAST) Bambili (1971-73) where he got his G.C.E. ‘A’ Level.

He furthered his studies at the then University of Yaounde, Faculty of Letters and Social Sciences, University of Yaounde, earning         BA. (Hons) in Literature; he earned   Language Proficiency Diploma from Universite d’Avignon, France  (1975 – 1976).     

In 2008, Wache bagged   a diploma from Pan African Institute for Development (PAID-WA),Buea.   

 The deceased has left behind, among others, a wife, four children, seven grandchildren, colleagues, friends to mourn and remember him.