The Pastor of Songa

About the Author.
Forsab Joseph was born in Ashong in the Batibo Sub-Division of the North West Region of Cameroon. After eight years of primary education in the Basel Mission school system, he completed standard six in 1964. He was admitted simultaneously into the Cameroon Protestant College Bali and into the newly opened Federal Bilingual Grammar School Man o’ Bay, Victoria. He chose to attend the latter school from where he graduated in 1969 and was admitted in the Cameroon College of Arts, Science and Technology, where he read modern letters. In 1971 he enrolled into the Faculty of Letters and Human Sciences in the lone Federal University of Cameroon Yaoundé where he graduated with a Bachelors Degree in Bilingual Letters. He later studied in Georgetown Unversity Washington DC as Translator/Interpreter where he graduated in 1977 as a Translator and Interpreter. In 1991, he was trained at the Secretary of State Department, Ottawa, Canada as an English Language Revisor. Forsab also underwent training at the Specialist Language Services York, England as an English Teacher Trainer and produced course materials for the teaching of English to French speaking Members of Parliament and Staff.
 
Joseph Forsab served in the National Assembly over the years in many capacities namely, Translator and Interpreter, Service head, Sub-director, Director of Administration, Technical Advisor and Deputy Secretary General. His profession as Translator/ Interpreter has taken him to many countries in Africa and abroad.
Joseph Forsab is a Christian of the Presbyterian Church in Cameroon. He has occupied so many top positions in the church from the level of groups to thelevel of the Synod. He is married and a father of four.