Professor Tazoacha Asonganyi, Cameroon's natural scientist and prolific political commentator has died

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Professor Tazoacha Asonganyi had a PhD in Biochemistry since 1980 from the University of London (UK). He did his PhD research in a Laboratory at Gower’s Street a few meters from Dillon’s Bookshop London, which he visited nearly every day. During the same period he also worked with an Africanist Community Group (“Headstart Books & Crafts” London N15) which dealt in books on the history of peoples of African origin.

These two contacts with book in domains outside his area of specialization caused a profound change in his education, influenced principally, as he says, by Cheikh Anta Diop whose books and many others with the same thrust he read during that time.

He has taught in the Faculty of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences of the University of Yaoundé 1 since 1985, training medical students for over 30 years. He is a Visiting Professor to some Universities outside of Cameroon. He has published some 90 peer-reviewed articles and still publishing.

His scientific research interests are in Sleeping sickness/Trypanosomiasis, River blindness/Onchocerciasis, HIV/AIDS.

At the early onset of partisan politics in Cameroon he emerged and became Secretary General of the SDF, 1994-2005, He then became the Permanent Secretary of the opposition CNRR in 2004.

He parted ways with the SDF in 2006. Since then, he has published over 100 articles in Newspapers and other media analyzing the political situation in Cameroon and African countries.

He has observed elections for the Carter Center (USA) in Ghana, and for the National Democratic Institute (NDI) of Washington DC in Nigeria