Global Teaching Record
Lessons shaped by eleven years of teaching around the world, including travel and teaching across six parts of Cameroon: Limbe, Tiko, Souza, Bafut, Bamenda, and Yaoundé.
Phone First
11 Years Global
Owned Media
Cameroon
Field Dispatches · Sovereign Media · Creator Ownership
News From The World’s Mayor
Field-tested signal for people building story into sovereignty.
Dispatches shaped by eleven years of teaching globally, current work in Cameroon, and the ongoing development of Media Company in a Box — the living record of helping creators and communities own their stories, platforms, and opportunity.
Every dispatch, starting below.
The full archive continues beneath this introduction.
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Cameroon Mission
11 Years Teaching
The Archive
The Dispatches Begin Here
Investigations, field reports from Cameroon, workshop write-ups and interviews.
Who controls the CFA franc in Cameroon? BEAC, the French Treasury account, France’s two board seats, the euro peg — and what the 50% rule really means.
Declassified US and British records on Kwame Nkrumah’s 1966 overthrow: the psychological-warfare plan, the plotters, the aid — and what they don’t prove.
What really happened to Patrice Lumumba? The documented CIA plot, Belgium's own findings, Katanga's uranium, and the MI6 question that is still unresolved.
Cameroon recorded 22.3 kg of gold exports in 2023; partner countries reported 15.2 tonnes. The Shadow Files #2 follows the evidence, and its limits.
A $289 million average annual gap sits between what Cameroon reports exporting in timber and what its partners report importing. Episode 1 of The Shadow Files.
Aid asks what we gave. Architecture asks what remained. Joshua T. Berglan on ownership, value chains, and building systems that let Africa keep its value.
That’s the Archive
Below: what the dispatches cover, where the work is happening right now, and every way to go deeper.
What You’ll Get
Signal for Builders, Not Noise.
These dispatches are for people who care about story, media literacy, creator ownership, practical systems, and community infrastructure that can work in the real world.
Media Frameworks
Practical thinking from Media Company in a Box and the phone-first systems behind independent media ownership. The phone is the studio.
Creator Ownership
Strategies for turning story into intellectual property, content into infrastructure, and lived experience into ethical economic possibility.
The Work Is Being Given Away
Joshua is currently giving his books, workshops, and services to people in need in Cameroon. The work comes first; outside service availability is limited because the mission is active on the ground.
A sponsor can fund the mission through GoFundMe or sponsor access to a specific service so the work can continue without discounting its value.
The Mission Is Mine to Carry
Joshua is the sole architect and orchestrator of The Sovereign Franchise, building toward 500 sovereign media hubs worldwide under his direct orchestration.
The framework starts with ownership: a clear story, phone-first production, an owned platform, a responsible revenue path, and protection for the creator’s identity, intellectual property, and boundaries.
It is not aid. It is architecture.
Limbe Field Deployment
King Black Welfare Association leads locally in Limbe; I lead the mission and the framework.
Souza Field Deployment
Grace Digital Solutions leads locally in Souza; I lead the mission and the framework.
Nakivale Field Record
Kairos Transformative Lives—formerly Metanoia Hope for Tomorrow—leads locally in Nakivale; I lead the mission and the framework. Nakivale remains a planned replication node.
Their work. Their credit.
Go Deeper
Explore the Ecosystem.
The dispatches are the living record. These pages explain the systems, mission, media, and service pathways behind the work.
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The Mission Is Mine to Carry · Sell the Scar, Not the Wound · Commitment Is the Gate