Mama Monica Bih Ndisang was born in the year 1938 in Niko – Bafut, North West Region of Cameroon to Pa Wanfor Meshack and Mama Mary Sirri. She was the second child in a family of 15 siblings (this includes step siblings). She was the least educated but the most successful amongst her siblings. In short she was illiterate and did not read or write. As a beautiful young girl of her days with a good upbringing, Mama Monica got married to a handsome hard working gentleman, Pa Mathias Ndisang on April 11th, 1959. She was not the first wife to this gentleman Pa Mathias Ndisang. She came into this marriage to immediately start raising two children, Magdalene 4 years old and Mary 9 months old, who had been abandoned by his first wife. When Pa Mathias Ndisang brought Mama Monica to his house in Tiko of the South West region of Cameroon, people thought he brought a baby sitter to baby sit the two little girls with the second barely off breast feeding. After a few years of raising these children, she started having her own direct children and all the children knew each other, growing up as sisters without any differentiation. Mama Monica Bih Ndisang then took a trip from Tiko to Bafut to visit family. While in Bafut she saw a plot that she loved so much and thought it will be nice for them to start a structure at home with this plot being the place. The allowance she brought from Tiko looked like a starting point. Instead of using the money to splurge around, she decided to buy the land and started putting up a three room structure. When the husband heard about this knowing that he had not given her enough money to buy a plot let alone build a house, he was puzzled and decided to make his own findings. He made a quick trip to Bamenda to see for himself. Upon his arrival he was intrigued by the wife’s ingenuity and decided to support the project she had started. This was the foundation of the present Ndisang’s residence where Mama Monica took her last breath on Sunday Sept. 9th, 2012. Mama Monica Ndisang was blessed with 6 biological children and 2 step-daughters from the husband’s previous Marriage. These children are scattered all over the country and abroad. This made Mama Monica to travel all over the country visiting these children. In 2007, she took her longest trip around the world to visit her children in the United States of America, specifically Los Angeles after the passing of her first son, McDonald Numfor. The trip was short lived as she wanted to return home to continue her usual job of taking care of the younger children of the family who were living in her house. All these children included extended family and non family members. Mama Monica had a strong relationship with her family, as a mentor and a doer. This can be exemplified with her taking up the responsibility of raising her sister’s children after her passing in 2000. Unfortunately, in 2009 she had a falling out with her two step daughters as they had disagreements over multiple family issues which have continued till her death. This was an unexpected outcome of what she and her husband had groomed and raised their children to be. The children had been raised as one cohesive family unit without making a differentiation of step children. This was in keeping with the dying words of our father. Although Mama Monica was illiterate, she had the knowledge to keep a strong family unit together. She outlived her siblings, her husband and even her first son, something that would have demoralized or broken any person but Mama Monica maintained a strong character and fortitude to carry on her husband’s legacy. Mama Monica was such a unique person with unique characteristics. A strong member of her beloved Alleluia choir and always preached to us the importance of being loyal to the choir and fulfilling all its demands. Her broken right hand is a testament to this loyalty and forgoing/risking everything for the choir. She was a unifying factor and role model to her children. She was kind hearted, gregarious, loving, sharing, respectful and will give the least she to any needy one and go without. She listens more and talks less. She had respect for the Law, Tradition and the Culture. She left behind 7 children including 2 step daughters, over 20 grandchildren and a host of great grandchildren to mourn her.