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You are heartilly welcome to my page on takingitglobal.org I wish you a wonderful time as you get to know more about me. Mangong Peter Musa are my names, I am an African of Cameroonian nationality. I am a Visual Artist, Journalist and the Director of the Musa Heritage Gallery in Cameroon. My hobbies include the arts and crafts, computers and new information & communication technologies (ICTS), music, plants, the environment and nature. I also enjoy sightseeing and travelling. My career in the Visual Arts started when I was still a very small boy. I was inspired by my dad who took up wood carving as a hobby when I was only six years old. At the age of eleven, I successfully realised my first woood sculpture. See (The Musa Carvers and the Musa Heritage Gallery, Cameroon - Daniel, John and Peter Musa) http://bahai-library.com/bafa/musa.htm This precious item is found in the permanent exhibition of the Musa Heritage Gallery. Further information on the is found on its homepage at http://www.btinternet.com/~mulamba/ In short, my lifetime has been centered around the building up of the Musa Heritage Gallery as as an Arts and Crafts Museum has a focus on the arts and crafts of Cameroon 's Western Grassfields. Active in the area of collecting Arts, Culture and Development information for its resource centre, it is also involved in setting up a Music Information Centre for Cameroon 's folk and contemporary music as well as music from other neighbouring countries. It aims are to preserve contemporary Cameroonian arts & crafts for future generations, develop a liking for arts, crafts and music in Cameroonians, to expose Cameroon's rich folk music to a wider public at home and abroad and to create a resource facility on arts, crafts, culture and music as well as general developmental issues. Personally my intention is to show my community and country as a whole that the arts and crafts, culture and music all contribute to the success of the nation and must have a place and recognition in society. Apart from being in the Musa Heritage Gallery collection my works are also with individuals in Cameroon, Europe and USA. In the company of my brother John Musa (late) we exhibited at the Kumbo Town Green on the occasion of National Day celebrations on the 20th May, 1983. In 1985 I carved a wall portrait of the then President of the Federal Republic of Germany, His Excellency, Dr. Richard von Weizsacker which I sent as a gift to him through the kind courtesy of his country's Ambassador to Yaounde, Cameroon. In my teens, I was among the Winners of the Best Housing Design Competition organised in 1986 by the Cameroon Ministry of Town Planning and Housing. 1 of 3 Winners in a drawing Competition organised in 1999 by Swiss Radio International (SRI). Some of my publications: 1. "The Commercial Traveller - Ambassador of his/her Company" in the 1991 edition of Contact International journal of The College of Professional Management, Jersey, Britain 2. "The Eucalyptus in Cameroon - friend or Foe" in issue No. 18, 1995 of ECODECISION (Environment and Policy Magazine) published by the Royal Socierty of Canada. Article co-authored with John Yuniwo Musa 3. "Dad's uncompleted Mission Finally Realised" (A look at a departed Cameroonian Woodcarver of no mean order and the Musa Heritage Gallery (Mus'Art Gallery) - September/October 1996 edition of Zine Zone vol. 1 issue No. 20 published in the U.K 4. "The Musa Carvers and the Musa Heritage Gallery, Cameroon" published in Arts Dialogue No. 44 June 1998 published in the U.K 5. "Traditional Stewardship in the Management and Conservation of Lake Oku" paper co-authored with Josephine Jaika Fai and selected for presentation at the 8th International Conference on the Management of Lakes (Lakes 99), Copenhagen, Denmark 1999 6. "Musa Heritage Gallery: Preserving the Arts and Crafts of the Cameroon Grassfields and efforts in encouraging the local population to become friends of museums" Paper presented at the International Conference on the Artist, Culture and Globalisation 24th - 26th September 2001. 7. "Cultural Diversity and Tommorrow" in volume 11, number 1, 2001 of The Global Forum for Environmental Education published by the Caretakers of the Environment International (CEI) 8. "Animist and Christian Worship in Lake Oku" paper selected for presentation at the 9th International Conference on the Management of Lakes (Biwako 2001), Japan 2001 9. "Web presence and the availability of internet services - The way forward for African Museums" paper presented at the International Conference of African Museums (AFRICOM) Nairobi, Kenya 29th September to 1st October 2003 9. I have also published numerous articles and news stories in the following magazines and newspapers; Computers in Africa, Africa Health, African Farming and Food Processing, Cameroon Connection, Cameroon Post and The Herald. Professional Memberships: 1991 Elected to Associate Membership of the Institute of Commercial Management (AMInstCM), Bournement, England 1995 Elected to Full Membership of the Chartered Institute of Journalists (MCIJ), London, England 1997 Joined Membership of the Arts Council of the African Studies Association (ACASA), USA 2000 Joined Membership of the International Council of Museums (ICOM), Paris, France 2000 Joined Membership of the International Network for Cultural Diversity (INCD) 2003 Joined Membership of the Internet Society (ISOC) Hope you enjoyed getting to know me and what I have been up to. You are welcome to join me as a friend or to particpipate in the work I do.
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