Sunday 4 March 2018

B’da Varsity Pays Last Respect To Prof. Bame Nsamenang


The administrative, teaching and support staff of the University of Bamenda, UBa on March 2, 2017 paid academic honours to late Prof. Nsamenang Augustine Bame, the immediate past Director of the Higher Teachers Training College, HTTC Bambili, UBa. The seasoned psychologist, counselor and researcher died on Valentine’s Day, February 14, 2018 after a brief illness.
            In an academic honour ceremony organised by the University of Bamenda for the fallen icon at the Amphi 650, mourners comprising of the academia, administration, researchers and students among others, from diverse fields of work paid glowing tribute to the late University Don.
            The casket which contained the remains of Prof. Bame was brought in to and out of the Amphi by a college of Doctors and Professors in a colourful academic procession. 
            Different eulogies that came from the late Professor’s collaborators, students and the different institutions and organizations that he adhered to, described him as a dedicated, selfless, committed teacher, researcher and a shrewd administrator.
            The Minister of Higher Education, Prof. Jacques Fame Ndongo in his eulogy read during the ceremony described Prof. Nsamenang Bame as a “scholar of mettle” judging from his numerous publications.
            The Vice Chancellor of the University of Bamenda while attesting Prof. Nsamenang’s enormous capacity for work noted that he was “very instrumental in laying the ground work for the newly created faculty of Education” of UBa.
            The Director of the Higher Teachers Training College, Prof. Tita Margaret lamented that the school  is mourning “not just a long serving, committed and dedicated member of staff, but an academician of the highest rank, scholar of international renown and an accomplished scientist”.
            The Head of Department of Guidance and Counseling of HTTC, Dr Fai Lilian Wiysanyuy who was a student of Prof. Bame and took over from him as HOD, regretted that the death of the renowned academic has orphaned students and junior colleagues.
            “You have left a void which will hardly be replaced but as you disciples we shall try to keep your legacies and build on your foundation” she added. 
            Emeritus Professor Therese Tchombe in her homage said Prof. Bame Nsamenang, may be dead physically but his intellectual legacy is eternal.

            “…his life is a testimony of a scholar who never permitted political ideologies and guest for power to derail him from his professional call to service as a teacher, researcher and community developer. He has set an example for the rest of us to follow namely: if you cannot teach your students well, if you cannot conduct research and publish, …then you cannot call yourself a true academic at the University”, she concluded.
            Born in 1951, Prof Bame attended Sacred Heart Primary School, Kitiwum, and St Augustine’s College Kumbo all in Nso. He proceeded to National School of Nursing and Midwifery, Bamenda and then to University of Ibadan in Nigeria where he obtained a Bsc in Nursing, a Masters degree in Guidance and Counseling  and later the Doctor of Philosophy degree in Clinical Child Psychology. Thereafter he was a fellow in many institutions.
            He was recruited Assistant Lecturer in 1993 at the University of Yaounde 1, promoted rank of lecturer in 1998, Associate Professor in 2004 and in 2011 he was promoted to the rank of full Professor of Psychology and Counseling.
            The erstwhile Director of the Higher Teachers Training College, HTTC Bambili of the University of Bamenda, and former Head of Department of Guidance and Counseling in the same school served in many administrative positions in the university.

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