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News From The World’s Mayor
Independent reporting and field dispatches from Joshua T. Berglan. Cameroon is today’s priority; Africa is the focus. The vision is global.
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- 4× #1
- International bestselling author
- 126+
- IMDb credits
- 8
- Film festival awards
- Cameroon
- Current field base and priority
The Archive
The Dispatches Begin Here
Investigations, field reports from Cameroon, workshop write-ups and interviews.
Joshua T. Berglan joins ROC TV to discuss Cameroon's untold stories, media ownership, AI, entrepreneurship, faith, and the future of African creativity.
Africa has the cobalt, copper and uranium. But who captures the value after the mine? Inside mining contracts, refining, technology and resource-backed loans.
France’s own records list a secret 1974 defense pact with Cameroon. A document-led investigation of Françafrique: Foccart, Olympio, Biafra, Denard and Elf.
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.
I left the U.S. for Cameroon to build sovereign media hubs. Here's the $32K model, why creators keep 80%, and why the creator economy is Africa's real job market.
African farmers create real value but stay invisible to buyers, banks and markets. How media, documentation and ownership turn producers into partners.
Joshua T. Berglan reflects on HIV, homelessness, stigma, and why stable housing is essential for consistent care, dignity, security, and rebuilding lives today.
Whoever controls the story controls the value. A proposal for a modern World's Fair for African producers, recorded in Limbe, Cameroon. Video and audio.
Live from Limbe, Cameroon: ten creators finish a 6-day Media Company in a Box workshop and claim their voices. Watch, listen & read the full sovereign story.
Africa creates the value—so who keeps the profit? Joshua T Berglan breaks down the Sovereign Supply Chain: how African producers own the story, sale & future.
Behind the dispatches
Reporting, fieldwork & media ownership.
News From The World’s Mayor is the free newsletter and dispatch archive of Joshua T. Berglan. It connects published stories with the field experience, practical systems and people behind them.
Field dispatches
Reports from current work in Cameroon, lessons from teaching and the relationships shaping the mission’s wider vision.
Media frameworks & ownership
Practical thinking from Media Company in a Box: turn a clear story into content, an owned platform and responsible revenue pathways. The phone is the studio.
More than eleven years of teaching globally. In Cameroon, that includes Limbe, Tiko, Souza, Bafut, Bamenda and Yaoundé. The work connects storytelling, media literacy, creator ownership and practical systems that respect a person’s identity, intellectual property and boundaries.
The mission and the work
Cameroon first. Global in purpose.
Where the mission goes.
Cameroon is my current field base and immediate priority. Africa is the focus. From here, the planned path reaches the wider Global South and ultimately the rest of the world.
- Cameroon Working here now
- Across Africa Focus for expansion
- Wider Global South Planned longer-term reach
- Rest of the world The global vision
Mission access and professional training.
Free resources and selected no-charge teaching remain part of my mission. Each session depends on the group’s needs, the subject and the scope.
Through B3 Media, I also deliver paid, hands-on training with full media production equipment, mainly at local hubs. Other organisations can arrange tailored professional bookings, with scope and fees agreed in advance.
Explore professional trainingThe longer-term framework & local relationships
The Mission Is Mine to Carry. I am the sole architect and orchestrator of The Sovereign Franchise, working toward 500 sovereign media hubs worldwide under my direct orchestration. Hosting a workshop does not make an organisation a franchise hub.
The framework begins with 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 partner record
Kairos Transformative Lives—formerly Metanoia Hope for Tomorrow—leads locally in Nakivale; I lead the mission and the framework. Nakivale remains a planned training replication node.
Their work. Their credit.
Sell the Scar, Not the Wound. In the longer-term Franchise context, commitment is the gate.
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