Medame Z.

10/08/2026

BREAST CANCER/ CANCER DU SEIN!

🎀 Breast Cancer: Overcoming Fear and Financial Barriers

As part of its breast cancer awareness campaign, Medame Z. met with a Gabonese market vendor.

In her view, the cost of tests and the fear of a cancer diagnosis are the main barriers preventing women from seeking screening.

She has experienced this fear herself. She shares how she overcame it to take the first step toward screening. Her advice to other women: have the courage to take that first step to care for your health, despite your concerns.

🌹 What would help you take the first step toward screening?

Medame Z. — Inform. Educate. Inspire.

10/07/2026

BREAST CANCER/ CANCER DU SEIN!

🎀 Breast Cancer: When Fear of the Results Holds Women Back from Screening

As part of its breast cancer awareness campaign, Medame Z. met with a young woman in Gabon.

In her view, fear of the results is the main barrier to screening. Behind that fear lies the anxiety of a cancer diagnosis, the concern that everyday life could be turned upside down, and the fear of feeling different.

Her advice is to overcome that fear, understand your health status, and take care of yourself.

🌹 What would you say to a woman who hesitates to seek screening because she fears the results?

Medame Z. — Inform. Educate. Inspire.

10/07/2026

BREAST CANCER/ CANCER DU SEIN!

Breast Cancer: When a Lack of Information Fuels Misconceptions and Distrust

As part of its breast cancer awareness campaign, Medame Z. met with a Cameroonian market vendor. Her testimony reveals the questions and concerns that screening can raise when information is lacking.

Having never known anyone with breast cancer, she even questions whether the disease really exists. She explains that she only hears about it on television, giving her the impression that it is a “disease of the rich.” She also wonders how she could be affected, associating cancer with certain foods and an affluent lifestyle.

Alongside these misconceptions are embarrassment and fear of the examination: Why should she let someone touch her breasts? How does screening work? Will her breasts need to be compressed? Without answers to these questions, she remains distrustful.

Finally, without knowing the cost of the tests, she assumes they are expensive and believes she cannot afford them.

🌹 Her testimony highlights the importance of accessible, respectful, and practical awareness efforts: listening to concerns, explaining how examinations are performed, and providing information about costs and available options for accessing care.

How can we encourage screening if women understand neither the disease nor the examinations being offered?

Medame Z. — Inform. Educate. Inspire.

10/06/2026

BREAST CANCER/ CANCER DU SEIN!

🎀 Breast Cancer: When the Cost of Tests Becomes a Barrier to Screening

As part of its breast cancer awareness campaign, Medame Z. met with a woman in Gabon.

In her view, the high cost of tests is a barrier to screening. Some women, feeling healthy, hesitate to spend money on these tests when they need it to care for their children and cover everyday expenses. They therefore put off seeking care until they feel it is urgent.

She emphasizes that these financial difficulties limit access to screening for both breast cancer and cervical cancer.

🌹 How can we make screening more accessible so that women do not have to choose between their health and their family’s needs?

Medame Z. — Inform. Educate. Inspire.

10/05/2026

THE NAME OF JESUS/ LE NOM DE JÉSUS!

Hello, Ladies,

Today on Medame Z., I am not simply here to share a teaching with you. I want to tell you about a personal experience that profoundly impacted my spiritual life.
For a long time, I asked myself: Why was I calling on the name of Jesus without experiencing the power that the Bible attributes to His name?
I was about 11 years old when I decided to follow God in the Catholic faith.
By the age of 14, I had been baptized, received Confirmation, and made my profession of faith. I prayed every night, went to church on Sundays, and according to everything I understood about Christianity at the time, I was a Christian.
I believed in God. I prayed. And I had even seen some of my prayers answered.
Then, in my twenties, I went through a very difficult spiritual experience that would affect me for several years.
For the first time in my life, I found myself directly confronted with what I understood to be the forces of darkness.
Naturally, with all the confidence of someone who considered herself a Christian, I called on the name of Jesus.
But in my experience, nothing happened.
I continued. I prayed. I called on the name I had been taught was powerful.
Still, nothing happened.
In my desperation, I then called upon my ancestors and invoked certain spiritual names rooted in traditional beliefs.
And immediately, I felt as though I received help.
Similar experiences happened again afterward, and they raised many questions within me.
Why did the name of Jesus seem not to work for me?
Was it because Jesus was not my ancestor?
Was it because I was not Jewish?
Or because I had no blood relationship with Him?
And above all, another question deeply troubled me:
If the Bible tells me to call upon God, yet when I called upon other spiritual powers something seemed to answer me… who was actually answering me?
Over time, and through my understanding of the Bible, I came to a conclusion that completely changed the way I understood faith:
My problem was not the name of Jesus. My problem was my relationship with Jesus.
I knew religion.
I knew prayers.
I knew church.
But knowing things about Jesus does not necessarily mean knowing Jesus.
Ladies, this is where I came to understand something essential: being a Christian is not simply about carrying the title of “Christian.”
It is not only about going to church on Sundays. It is not only about being baptized. It is not only about knowing how to pray.
It is about entering into a personal relationship with Jesus Christ, belonging to Him, and learning to walk under His authority.
The Bible gives us a powerful illustration of this in Acts 19:13–16. Some men attempted to use the name of Jesus to cast out an evil spirit. But the spirit answered them:
“Jesus I know, and Paul I know about, but who are you?”
Those words deeply challenged me.
Imagine someone trying to enter a highly secured place simply by saying, “I know the President.”
Merely saying the President’s name would not be enough. That person would have to establish the relationship and the authority they claimed to have.
That is how I eventually came to understand my own spiritual experience.
The name of Jesus is not a magic formula.
It is not simply about saying “Jesus” whenever we are afraid.
For me, the real question became:
Do I truly know the One whose name I am calling upon? And do I belong to Him?
Today, if I am sharing this testimony, it is not because I want you to blindly accept my experience as your own truth.
On the contrary: open your Bible, examine the Scriptures, and ask yourself the question.
Do I only know religion? Or do I truly know Jesus?
Because there is a difference between knowing the name of Jesus and knowing the Person who bears that name.
And to my African brothers and sisters: people may have used the name of Jesus as an instrument of domination, but that does not cancel the power of His name. God can transform what was intended to enslave us into an instrument of liberation.
Let us not confuse Jesus with those who have used His name for their own purposes.

10/04/2026

10/04/2026

BEING A CHRISTIAN/ ÊTRE CHRETIEN!

BEING A CHRISTIAN: “IT IS NO LONGER I WHO LIVE”
According to this testimony, being a Christian goes far beyond simply believing in God or practicing a religion. It means accepting that our lives now belong to Christ.

The Apostle Paul summarizes it this way in Galatians 2:20: “It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me.”

Jesus Himself teaches that following Him means placing Him above everything else—our relationships, possessions, ambitions, and even our own lives. This reflects the greatest commandment: to love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your strength, and with all your mind.

At first, this calling may seem difficult, even radical. Yet the first disciples were willing to give up many things in order to follow Christ.
But we are not called to reach this ideal through our own strength alone. The grace of God teaches us and gives us the strength to progressively live out this transformation.

🌹 Being a Christian, therefore, is not simply about adding Jesus to our lives; it is about giving Him first place and allowing Him to transform the way we live.

Medame Z. — Inform. Educate. Inspire.

10/03/2026

Being a Christian/ Être Chretien

Que signifie réellement être chrétien ?
Selon ce jeune homme, être chrétien ne signifie pas simplement ce que beaucoup de personnes pensent.
Certaines personnes se sentent rassurées dans leur foi parce qu’elles lisent la Bible, prient chaque soir, vont à l’église ou font régulièrement des méditations bibliques. Bien que ces pratiques soient importantes, il nous rappelle que la vie chrétienne va bien au-delà.
Jésus a dit : « Si quelqu’un veut venir après moi, qu’il renonce à lui-même, qu’il se charge de sa croix, et qu’il me suive. » (Matthieu 16:24)
Pour lui, suivre Jésus doit produire une transformation visible. Cette rencontre doit se refléter dans notre caractère, nos choix, notre manière de traiter les autres et notre façon de vivre.
Son message est simple, mais profond : avant d’affirmer que vous avez rencontré Jésus, posez-vous cette question : cette rencontre a-t-elle réellement changé votre manière de vivre ?
Car être chrétien ne se résume pas à ce que nous proclamons ; cela doit aussi se manifester par une transformation de notre vie.
Medame Z. — Informer. Éduquer. Inspirer.

10/02/2026

LE VÉRITABLE HÉRITAGE/ THE TRUE LEGACY OF PARENTS

As part of its awareness campaign on “The True Legacy of a Father and Mother,” Medame Z. met with this man, who shared his perspective on what it truly means to leave a legacy for one’s children.

He explains that his parents did not leave him any material possessions, because they themselves had very little and did not even own a plantation to pass on to him.

Now a father himself, he wants to prepare something for his own children. In particular, he plans to leave his house to them as an inheritance.

But for him, a true legacy does not begin with material possessions. Above all, it is built on a good education and wise guidance.

According to him, when a child receives strong values, a good education, and guidance that helps them make the right choices in life, financial success and material possessions can follow through what they learn to build for themselves.

His testimony reminds us of an important lesson: leaving a house to your children is valuable, but giving them the tools to build their own future is just as important.

And you, if you could choose what your children will remember and carry with them from you, what values or lessons would you want to pass on?

Medame Z. — Inform. Educate. Inspire.