Elizabeth Mosima
14 April 2008
The media family in Cameroon is once more bereaved. Joseph Marie Besseri, publisher of the weekly newspaper Perspective Hebdo is dead. He died last Saturday April 12 at the Yaounde Central Hospital.
According to the wife of the deceased, Mrs Besseri née Anne Mpono, Joseph Marie Besseri took ill on Wednesday and was admitted in the Yaounde Central Hospital where he later died on Saturday. Prior to his death the late Besseri was the Prescient of the Cameroon Media Federation, President fo the UEPAC, member of "Reporters Sans Frontières, and member of the World Federation of Journalists, member of the International Catholic Journalists Association. Born on the 25th of June 1955 in Bafia in the Mbam and Inoubou Division, Joseph Marie Besseri attended the Catholic Mission Primary School in Gondom, Bafia where obtained the CEPE in 1967.
After secondary and high school education in Cameroon Besseri travelled to Côte D'Ivoire where he attended the University of Abidjan. After three years he obtained a degree in Law in 1975. He later attended the Université Libre of Brussels where he obtained a Master's degree in Social Sciences and Communication with journalism as his elective in 1978. He has also attended several professional training programmes both in Cameroon and abroad. He leaves behind a wife and four children to mourn him.
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