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| Pa Takang Jerome |
At 17, Pa Takang left his village to the
neigbouring Santa where he set up a small business. Few years later, with the
help of his elder brother, he moved to Bamenda where he continued in business.
By 1957, he was already an international trader who would move to Onitsha in
Nigeria to buy goods. He later changed into construction material and was one
of the main suppliers of products like soap, rice and sugar. When in 1990
during the construction of the Bamenda Commercial Avenue, his shop was
destroyed and he decided to enter into the transport sector. Things didn’t work
the way he thought, and he had to enter into a joint venture with one of his
daughters to commercialize red oil. With the experience he gathered from the
time he started his small business with a sum of “2 shere”, Pa Jerome grabbed
the opportunity and suddenly became the biggest distributor in the North West
Region and extended his activities to part of the West Region, notably Mbouda,
Babadjou and Bangang. When in 1997, he developed sight problems, incapacitate
by sight problems, in November 2000, Pa Jerome Takang left his compound in
Bamenda for Babadjou. While in the village, he was an encyclopedia to the young
as well as the old. On February 5, 2014 Pa Takang passed unto Glory after
having accomplished his mission on earth. He was the successor to his father
and during his lifetime, he successfully ruled a family of fourteen widows and
seventy-five children. He was married to three wives and had 8 children, 16
grand children and few great grand children.
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