From the best primary Catholic schools, to the best bilingual grammar school and bilingual high school, as well as the most prestigious and elite private schools and universities in Yaoundé (Cameroun) via  Dakar (Sénégal),

Fontainebleau (France)   to London in the UK, the author and editor owes her success to highly professional teachers, lecturers, mentors, loving parents, family and friends.

 

 

 

The author states in the book synopsis: “The books (both English and French versions) are politically and religiously neutral.

 

We publish exclusive articles ranging from soft news to hard news: from a political, economical, lifestyle, high-profile people, health/beauty, sport categories with neither a Eurocentric nor Afrocentric stance.

Our sources are protected and we ensure at all times that our articles comply with “The Professional and Ethics Code of Conduct of UK, Ireland and International Journalism.”.

 

This article will only mention the English version of the books. As the French version of the books will be mentioned the 27^th of July on the French version of this month’s publication.

 

Global News That Never Fades: The Bridge Magazine Book – From Britain’s News to World Exclusives.

 

By News That Never Fades, the writer means that what her book does differently to all the other books in the news field/category is that its media coverage and advice is long term not short term weekly/daily doses.

 

 

Her books contain a more investigative, proactive and solution-orientated approach for news whilst being supported by verified academic sources.

 

Her books are solution-orientated as they aid the public to make judicious choices throughout the tumultuous and constant bourgeoning conflict of the current world.

 

Her books include a variety of topics: professional premier league and world class footballers, renowned economists, missing children and crucial parenting tips on how to avoid devastating experiences such as the traumatic cases of Madeleine McCann and Stephen Lawrence.

 

 

 

 

 

With the widespread trend of social media culture, people nowadays tend to share  a snap of everything about themselves with their followers and/or subscribers  on a daily basis. 

 

The editor has nothing against that. Although being an extrovert, she  is the type of person who believes that one may draw a sharp  distinction between their social and private/personal life.

 

 

The editor believes people need a minimum of privacy to be happy.  For that reason, there are details about her personal life she tends to keep quiet. She will also mention people’s first names only, not the surnames, to keep confidentiality.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The editor will only share

information that she thinks may be relevant to readers to grasp how her education and cultural background have shaped the successful editor she is from early life till now, how her childhood, teenage-hood and studies have shaped her passion, her atypical yet unique manner of her writing, her authenticity, her career, her success, and her experiences, which epitomise her books.

 

 

 

 

Global News That Never Fades: The Bridge Magazine Book – From Britain’s News to World Exclusives.

 

Below are the three reasons why Rachel Tcheungna’s books are highly recommended and worth reading:

 

1)  Her books are solution-oriented and centred on real life stories and people. Thus, enabling the public to reflect their own lives through her articles whether it be physical, mental or sexual health and wellbeing, for instance.

 

2 ) The fact that she is a versatile writer means her books attract different types of readers who have differing cultures and interests, whether it be economics, sports, beauty, the supernatural, ethics, literature etc.

 

 

3) Her books are informative, educational and provide you with useful advice for people of all ages, walks of life and differing occupations, such as journalists or English literature and language students/academics.

Throughout her career, whether it be as a French and English private tutor  in France, the UK or overseas, a translator,  a corporate administrator, an executive

 

administrator, or a journalist her experience has shaped her writing style and uniqueness.  

Overview:

 

The book content is a collection from the most successful articles of the online magazine.  Rachel Tcheungna picked out the most popular, most read and most commented-on articles by students and other professionals who have been using the site for years as resources for their dissertations and academic research.

Global News That Never Fades: The Bridge Magazine Book – From Britain’s News to World Exclusives.

Please find below a brief account about  her publication:

 

The Bridge Magazine is a UK-based international monthly bilingual publication. We give to home news a unique international angle.  Our editorial guidelines are constructive and aim to challenge and give a balance to the status quo established by the mainstream media.  Because the magazine is located in Britain, we publish every 20th of each month, the English version of the article first, and on the 27th of each month, the French version of the same article for our French audience.

 

The Bridge Magazine and The Bridge Books are politically and religiously neutral.

 

As a versatile writer, the editor publishes pieces ranging from soft news to hard news: from the following angles: political, economical, lifestyle, health and beauty,

 

education, investment, true crimes and prevention, high-profile people, science and technology, travel and tourism, arts and culture, love and relationships, news.

The Bridge Magazine is neither Eurocentric nor Afrocentric and is viewed in 77 countries across the 6 continents (Asia, Africa, Europe, North America, South America, Australia / Oceania.)

Our catch phrase is “cross The Bridge and see what others can’t see “

 

The link to purchase the books:

 

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According to our dashboard statistics, over the past ten years, our Health Beauty and Wellbeing category has been one of the most viewed and the most commented upon. For that reason, The Bridge Books author wrote a book on exclusive health topics to meet the readership needs.

 

Follow the links below to purchase one or various of The Bridge Books complete series. 

 

 

 

1)  Global News That Never Fades: From Britain’s News to World Exclusives.

 

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 2) Beauty, Health and Wellbeing Global News That Never Fades: The Bridge Magazine Book – From Britain’s News to World Exclusives.

 

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3) Education Global News That Never Fades: The Bridge Magazine Book – From Britain’s News to World Exclusives.

 

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 4)  Love and Relationship Global News That Never Fades: The Bridge Magazine Book – From Britain’s News to World Exclusives.

 

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 5)    True Crimes and Prevention Global News That Never Fades: The Bridge Magazine Book – From Britain’s News to World Exclusives.

 

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6) Economy and Investment Global News That Never Fades: The Bridge Magazine Book – From Britain’s News to World Exclusives.

 

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7) Soft & Hard News Global News That Never Fades: The Bridge Magazine Book – From Britain’s News to World Exclusives.

 

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8) Urban Legend Global News That Never Fades: The Bridge Magazine Book – From Britain’s News to World Exclusives.

 

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9) High-Profile People Global News That Never Fades: The Bridge Magazine Book – From Britain’s News to World Exclusives.

 

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10) Arts and Culture Global News That Never Fades: The Bridge Magazine Book – From Britain’s News to World Exclusives.

 

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11) Travel & Tourism Global News That Never Fades: The Bridge Magazine Book – From Britain’s News to World Exclusives.

 

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12) Politics Global News That Never Fades: The Bridge Magazine Book – From Britain’s News to World Exclusives.

 

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See below the link to Rachel Tcheungna Social medias: 

 

LinkedIn:

 

https://www.linkedin.com/in/rachel-tcheungna-a786b91b/

 

Instagram:

 

https://www.instagram.com/racheltcheungna/

 

YouTube:

 

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCmO6vS_RVFo9SAh1_giRPUg

 

Facebook:

 

https://www.facebook.com/rachel.tcheungna

 

Email contact:

 

1) rachtcheungna@the-bridge-magazine.com

 

A most recent daily view of The Bridge Magazine dashboard:

 

Total: 4919528 hits and 310272 unique visitors ( in July 2021)

 

Rachel Tcheungna

 

 

Childhood

 

She had  the most amazing and atypical childhood and teenage-hood one could ever dream of. She was born and grew up in Yaoundé, the capital of Cameroon, in a modest family, but has lived and enjoyed a happy and joyful life many rich kids had never had the opportunity to enjoy. She lived in Sénégal and France, has travelled in several countries and has settled in Britain.

 

Being the youngest child of six with elder brothers and sisters (Justine, Bernadette, Raymond, Marie, Victor, Bernard )  who were all working and successful in their professions had a domino effect on her living standards. She was loved, protected, and spoiled by her parents, brothers and sisters.

 

Rachel Tcheungna  boarded her first plane at age 7 (it was a military plane)  to leave with Justine,  the eldest of the family who was appointed Head of Social Services [for the Department for] Diplomatic Affairs of Koutaba, Navy Official for Nursery  children and families of the military.  Koutaba is  a town and  commune in Cameroon.

 

Never in her life had she  lived in such a beautiful house. The mansion was fully furnished built in a military style. She had the opportunity to choose the most expensive, elite and educational toys in the warehouse before children of colonels and commandants as her sister Justine  was the Head of Social Services.

 

Back to Yaoundé, the capital, at age nine, she travelled to Ngoumou ( Yaoundé)  with her other sister, Bernadette  who currently owns a successful Private Bilingual School, La Rochelle, in Yaoundé Cameroun.

 

From 10 to her late twenties

 

From 10 to her late twenties one of her brothers Raymond flew back from Clermont Ferrand  (France) to support the family. He was the financial pillar of the family at the time.

He managed to land a high-ranking paid job as  The Deputy Director of FONADER bank in Yaoundé . FONADER ( Fonds National De Développement Rural )  National Rural Development Fund Bank .

 

This had a domino effect on Rachel Tcheungna’s education and teenage-hood as through her brother she had the opportunity not only to mingle with rich kids but she also attended the most prestigious Catholic primary high school and bilingual high school in the capital/ college de la Retraite de Yaoundé.

 

She attended the same school as one of the sons of the current Cameroonian President. She is not mentioning that in a name-dropping way. Just giving a hint of how elite the school was. Plus she had a private tutor in every single subject. The only subject she did not have a private tutor for was in PE.

 

She benefited from getting pocket money from all her six  brothers and sisters, more than she really needed. It was worth more than a civil servant salary in Cameroon. She grew up in  a genuinely loving and altruistic family environment where nothing was manufactured.

 

Not to mention the £ 250,000 worth duplex her brother Victor once bought for their parents as a family house in SIC Mendong / Yaoundé.

 

Rachel Tcheungna has never been put under pressure to deliver academically but always had a sense of great guilt if she failed an exam, as she knew she had to give something back. She was too spoilt to afford to bring back bad results.

 

She took the reckless decision to leave the Faculty of Law and Economics Sciences Université of  Yaoundé in  Cameroun, Ngoa Ekelle Campus, to fly to Sénégal to retake the second year of her Law course at Cheikh Anta Diop Dakar in  Sénégal.

She was extremely  lucky  the night before her flight to have her uncle’s contact details ( Uncle Richard)  , a high-ranking Diplomat , Expert of the United Nations ( Who eventually, cancelled an important Flight and mission to Ethiopia)  to welcome her at Dakar Airport with his wife Esther  ( mostly known in the family as Maveun DADA) and his family who had supported her throughout her studies in Sénégal.   

 

Background Studies.

 

Rachel Tcheungna was fortunate to have the opportunity to attend one of the best Bilingual Grammar colleges of Yaoundé, the first and only one at the time close to Lycée Général –Leclerc (Yaoundé), Bilingual High School of Yaoundé located at Essos,  was the only  Bilingual high school in town at the  time .

 

Moreover, private schools  have shaped and solidified her editorial background and knowledge.  A levels in English and French Literature, Spanish, Philosophy, Mathematics, Science, Physics , Chemistry, geography … and World History gave her enough tools to embrace Law Studies with confidence.

 

She had always dreamed of being a corporate lawyer  or an international journalist.  As a focused and dedicated law student she was almost convinced she would be signing oil contracts in a Venezuelan law firm. In the second year of her Law course, she started to lose confidence in herself when her father became critically ill.

She thus left her dream of becoming a successful oil

 

company lawyer to achieve a BTech in Hotel Management in Dakar Senegal. From The private Training School in Hotel Management – in  Ecole Hotelier de Dakar .L’Ecole Nationale de Formation Hôtelière et Touristique (ENFHT), 2 Avenue Hassan II EX Albert Sarrault.

 

She was left with a feeling of academic dissatisfaction in the back of her mind. She had the opportunity to practice for a short period of time as a 5 star hotel receptionist at Meridian Président Dakar,  Café de Rome, a high profile people coffee and business centre in Sénégal.

 

She didn’t even have time to practice and when she was offered  the opportunity to train as a British journalist, she grabbed the opportunity and chose investigative journalism for her special studies, which explains her full passion in investigative journalism which is the pivotal point where Law and Journalism merge.  

 

Rachel Tcheungna

 

Extra- curricular, humanitarian activities and leisure

 

On a humanitarian level

 

The writer of The Bridge Books has mentored and taught languages ​​to children on a voluntary basis in Cameroon and France.

 

Humanitarian commitment: she creates a free online international magazine for readers in which for a decade she has published articles supported by facts and verified academic sources on world news. The editorial is solution-orientated as it aids the public to make judicious choices throughout the tumultuous and constant bourgeoning conflict of the current world.

 

Students, readers and other professionals around the world who have used the site for years as a resource, reference and support for their dissertations and academic research, regularly send their thanks to The Bridge Magazine editorial.

 

Leisure activities

 

The writer, author of The Bridge Books and editor of The Bridge Magazine enjoys cooking, swimming, reading, going to the cinema, playing handball, beach volleyball, jogging, dancing and the gym.

 

Modelling agencies are keen to promote and showcase her remarkable beauty and promise to support her in a fashion industry/ modelling career.

Since her early childhood, and her teenage hood, Rachel has been highly and frequently solicited by world class professional photographers who find her photogenic. (Whether in Cameroon, Senegal, France or the UK). Modelling agencies are keen to promote and showcase her remarkable beauty and promise to support her in the fashion industry/ modelling career.

The most recent was in a renowned London modelling agency, which offered her a series of free photoshoots that she took with her and kept, and she had modelled in front of a jury of fashion professionals/ modelling experts who found her to be an exceptional candidate.

 

Rachel politely declined the offer to sign a modelling contract as she believed her literary gifts as a journalist and writer would benefit humanity better than her physical prowess as a model. The agency gave her her modelling portfolio, a certificate that attests to her exceptional modelling skills, and asked the journalist and writer to get back to them if she ever changed her mind.

 

Journalism Studies and career.

 

Once she arrived in the United Kingdom, aware that any intellectual progress requires renewal courses in English and  in the digital field : The author of The Bridge Books enrolled and did an academic year in English to perfect her vocabulary, her speech and her grammar  and thus successfully achieved her Oxford Cambridge Recognition (OCR)First Certificate in English language . 

 

Rachel Tcheungna also Enrolled in another academic   course in IT,-Computer Science Technology  and successfully achieved her Oxford Cambridge Recognition (OCR) diploma in Computer Sciences Technology. This allowed her  to stand out throughout her   Journalism degree and career as soon as  the opportunity arose.

 

Rachel Tcheungna graduated in 2009 as a full field journalist.

 

When she  was still a student in Journalism,  she  had a budget planned to buy hard copy versions of red top UK  tabloids and international publications such as The Guardian, The Sun, The Mirror, The Times, The Telegraph, and The Week on a regular basis to learn the craft of writing from the professionals.  According to the recommendations of one of the Deans of the Department for Journalism, we learn better the techniques of news writing by reading the professional newspapers on a regular basis.

 

The Week was ideal since one of her modules was International Journalism: The Bridge Magazine project was already budding in her head.

In addition to The Week, she read Private Eye a satirical magazine.

 

The author of The Bridge Books  had the opportunity to learn  the craft  in the news room from the best . As a student, she had the job position of Deputy Features Editor at The River:  The Kingston University journalist students’ online and hard copy newspaper .

 

She started her career in journalism with some of the UK’s red top tabloids such as the Daily Mirror, at the Celebrities Desk Department, the UK Press Gazette, now Press Gazette, as assistant editor, The Independent / The Independent on Sunday as assistant editor, and Hay Market Magazine… to list a few.

 

Acknowledgments

 

This book has been a labour of passion, whilst having a  love for publishing human interest stories,  constructive,  informative,  educational and solution-oriented international news. It has always been a pleasure to interview people from around the world, from all walks of  life,   willing to share their real life  stories and experiences with  Britons and the rest of the world.

 

Human beings are what we value the most:  Promoting collective and individual worth is and remains our core mission.

 

Rachel Tcheungna’s aim has been to convey virtues and fundamental values to readers, which, in terms of morality, are also the wisest and most pragmatic options in ensuring the continuity of the human  species.

 

A special thanks to Dr James Morrison: journalist, writer, currently Senior lecturer and Reader In Journalism, supervising PhD, Masters and BA dissertation students at The Robert Gordon University of Aberdeen in Scotland. Dr James Morrison, was my Journalist Lecturer for three years at  Kingston University in London,  UK, and  my mentor for  over a decade. 

 

A special thanks to Channel 4 Comedy Award winner John Hill whose 60-minute comedy play once made a success at its debut at the Camden Fringe Festival (an alternative to the Edinburgh Fringe). Hill has penned several sitcoms, films and plays such as Blood Match, We Need To Talk About Clive, and Instructions Not Included, as well as being an author and a journalist. John Hill has been my mentor for several years. 

 

A special thanks to Orchidée Wafo, The Bridge Magazine’s young contributor who  was awarded Young Reporter of the Year 2018 by The Sutton Guardian and The Richmond Times for publishing articles regularly for eight months, and also has a keen talent at writing poetry from the age of 9.  Orchidée Wafo has been a contributor for The Bridge Magazine   for over a decade and is currently a bright  University Student currently studying corporate Law  in London/ UK.

 

A special thanks to All my former lecturers at Kingston University in London /UK, to investigative journalists, journalists, to sportsmen, athletes, lawyers, accountants, economists, to the whole team at The Bridge Magazine.

 

A special thanks to our readers from around the world. Our readers are the reason why I keep holding on to the pen, pencil and keyboard despite the stresses that I experience in digital journalism. Thank you for giving me enough courage and support to keep the flame burning: it keeps my love for writing alive.

 

Thank you ALL for being part of my success.

With Love.

 

 

 

 

Rachel Tcheungna, Author, Writer of

The Bridge Books and

The Bridge Magazine Editor.