User:Fonka mutta

Fonka Mutta Beau-Bernard is a 40 year old Cameroonian journalist and TV host who has extensively covered the Boko Haram conflict.He was born on October 7, 1980.

Early Life:

Born into a family of 3 and raised by a single parent(his mother Juliana Mange Fonka), Fonka Mutta attended primary school at the Government Primary School Yaounde, before moving to boarding school in Sacred Heart College Mankon-Bamenda in the North West region of Cameroon. He speaks French, English,Pidgin-English and Akum (his traditional dialect).He rapidly revealed a preference for literature and participated in several school debates, theatre pieces and was editor of the school magazine in High School.

Education:

Fonka Mutta studied Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Buea where he graduated in 2002. He has trained in business and financial reporting in two courses organised in Abidjan and Paris by International Climate Facility, and the Reuters Thomson Foundation. He taught Current Affairs to translation students of the Pan-African University under the University of Yaounde 2.

Career:

Fonka Mutta is the current Editor-in-Chief of CRTV News, the new digital channel of the Cameroon state Television. He has worked in the public and private media in Cameroon. He published several articles in the Guardian Post newspaper and L'Effort Camerounais. He also worked as radio host at Radio Veritas in Douala the country's commercial hub. He joined the Cameroon Radio Television in 2006. Fonka Mutta came to prominence in 2006 as an English language TV news host at the age of 26 and has since covered major national and international events for the state media. He reported on the conflict in the Central Africa Republic,the Brazil World Cup in 2014, tensions on the Korean Peninsula and the Boko Haram insurgency. His reporting  helped reveal the humanitarian toll of the crisis. He is a regular contributor to the Reuters News Agency. Fonka Mutta has also reported on corruption in the agricultural and forestry sectors in Cameroon. http://fonkamutta.blogspot.com/?m=1 Over the past decade Fonka Mutta has been a regular host of the traditional February 10,address of the Cameroonian Head of State to the Youth. He regularly covers the meetings of the Pan-African Parliament in Midrand, South Africa.

Private Life:

Fonka Mutta married Berthe Johana Ekeke Moukory on June 29, 2012. They have four children a daughter and three sons.