The current exponential increase in our numbers in the United States of America is a reflection and testament to our legendary brotherly and sisterly love and generosity towards our shared aspirations as sons and daughters of our beloved village, Guzang. It is our goal that this website will serve to preserve our cultural heritage through the storage and dissemination of information about the people, the village, the traditional, socio-cultural, and economic dynamism and ingenuity of Guzang. We are proud of this initiative which of course could only be realized by us and not by others. 

Therefore, it is our hope that with the realization of this communication and outreach tool, our numerous development and humanitarian projects carried out in Guzang and elsewhere shall receive the attention and publicity needed to galvanize yet more of such initiatives in the future.

On this website, we shall attempt to trace the roots and routes of the Guzang people to present-day Guzang with pictures, artifacts, excerps of speeches, folklore, dress codes, and much more.

Most of us residing in the diaspora, especially the United States of America are blessings to our various families. In other words, we could be considered God's picks to become the breadwinners of our families. Make no mistake, the United States is a welcoming and generous nation blessed with lots of social, economic, and educational opportunities. 

We must act on the need to rally ourselves under a common identity to collaborate towards exploring and exploiting these opportunities. To this end, we ought to encourage and motivate those still on the fences of alighting this bandwagon to accept and believe in the rationale and benefits of belonging. 

Our vision is to improve the living conditions of the less privileged, the sick, and the hungry through promoting education, healthcare, shelter, and social safety to vulnerable populations of Guzang in particular, and the wider humanity. It is, therefore, also our goal to build partnerships with those who share in our mission and vision.

The idea of development seems at times new, strange and a burden to some people, yet it is always realized by the help of those divinely gifted values in man which are: desire, determination and hard work. Our ancestors, elders of Guzang village have proven these values through the creation of our market, construction of a dignified palace, the realization of the water project and the construction of a community hall and library etc. These acts which are not only legacies but also responsibilities to future generations have been our pride as a village and as individual sons and daughters of Guzang for decades. Unfortunately, we now live a vacuum of development since the 70`s because we have adopted the spirit of knowing where the stone falls before throwing. Our ancestors would not have created this solid market, HRH Gwan Mbanyamsig 1 and

his subchiefs would not have constructed a dignified palace, Pa J.A Ngwa, Pa D.T Mbah, Pa J.M. Tikum, Pa Alfred Mbah, Pa M.T. Munji, Pa S.K. Fon, Pa E.N. Sama, of late and others would not have realized the water project, community hall if they had exercised the spirit of temporary satisfaction.

The lesson of development that we have acquired is that development has never been the outcome of windfall. Development has never been manna from heaven. Development is the work of man for himself not for others. Therefore our own development shall be by us for us. This should be our working philosophy: “Development by us for us”. Benjamin Franklin to motivate Americans carryout developments said, <<Work as though you were to live a hundred years more; pray as though you were to die tonight>>. Other villages of Moghamo now look as or more than Guzang. We have that responsibility inspired by our ancestors and elders to make Guzang look more Guzang.

Unity and respect of our traditional institutions are fundamental and indispensable prerequisites for development. Let no passion, conflict, quarrel break our bonds of affection. We are brothers and sisters united by blood, soil and history. We belong to a traditional setting that deserves respect and honor.

God Bless us all        

President, 

GUDA-USA          

Patrick Kem

The Guzang Development Association, Inc (GUDA-USA, Inc) is a non-profit and tax-exempt under section 501(c) of the Internal Revenue Code. This organization was formed in Maryland/USA for charitable, educational, development, and philanthropic purposes.   Read more

Welcome to the the Guzang Development Association (GUDA) website. We appreciate your interest in us and in our development objectives. GUDA is dedicated to fostering education, health welfare and development of Guzang communities and its members around the world.  Read more