‘We’ve seen God’s miracle within the crisis’: An interview with Cameroon’s Archbishop Nkea

The Archdiocese of Bamenda is caught in a political crisis. But the Church is still growing.

Archbishop Andrew Nkea came to the Catholic world’s notice in 2018 at the youth synod in Rome.

Amid much hand-wringing about losing contact with the younger generation, Nkea spoke with refreshing confidence about how parishes in his west-central African homeland of Cameroon were full of young people.

In 2019, Pope Francis named him Archbishop of Bamenda i…