Blaise Olok Njama Muteck is 34 years old and has been a priest in the Diocese of Bafang (Cameroon) for 4 years. He is the youngest in a family of 6 siblings: 3 boys and 3 girls. "My life has always been based on a joyful precariousness, which started very early in my life: the day after my birth, my dad lost his job, but this situation did not prevent me from going to school. During my childhood, while attending elementary school, I received the sacraments of Christian initiation. It was during this period that I felt the call to become a priest. After elementary school, my dad went to enroll me at the Petit Séminaire Saint Michel de Melong, where I was able to study for a year despite his meager retirement pension. I was then excluded from the seminary due to non-payment of my tuition. Two years later, my father died and everything became even more complicated, since no one could take care of my formation. But Providence worked for us and made everything easier since my older sister, the first daughter of the family, was hired in a bank: it was she who sacrificed herself for me so that I could complete my studies first in the Minor Seminary and then in the Major Seminary. After my formation, I was ordained a deacon and assigned as a vicar at St. Paul's parish in Nkondjock (on the outskirts of the city) where, in addition to the lack of drinking water and unstable electricity, I found myself once again, and this time as a priest, in that joyful precariousness. It was a difficult but beautiful and rich experience. I spent two years in this village and right there I was ordained a priest, on January 30, 2016. The following year, the bishop entrusted me with a new position as pastor of an English-speaking parish, in Bafang, and Principal of St. Paul's College, as well as chaplain of St. Paul's and St. Mary's schools. It is important to know that in my country, precariousness is also expressed through the presence of two official languages: French and English, in addition to the local languages. So we all have to be able to speak several languages. I stayed three years in this office before my bishop decided to send me to Rome to study".
