Kah Walla

Walla says her family has always been a source of motivation and inspiration for her in the political field.[5] She gained experience over the years with the support of one of her colleagues in the SDF as they wrote the last Speech for the SDF chairman Ni John Fru Ndi during his campaign in 1992.[5] She was an adviser and a trainer to the party until 2007, when she decided to officially join the party and was elected councilor in the city of Douala.[18] In 2010, she stood against party's decision forbidding its militants from taking part in the ongoing voters' registration.[4][19] She was later accused of lack of accountability in the management of party funds,[6] On October 23, 2010, she resigned from the SDF and announced her candidature for the 2011 presidential election[8]

She was elected as the president of Cameroon People's Party on April 30, 2011,[8] succeeding Samuel Tita Fon who founded the party in 1991.

In 2010, Walla held a press conference to announce her decision to exit the SDF party and run for the 2011 presidential election.[20] She separated from the SDF by resigning. And some time later, she joined the CPP and became president in April 2011. She explained later that the party for which she had campaigned for since its creation no longer shared the same ideals that, particularly with regard vision for the presidential election.[21]

She is generally referred to as the first woman to ever run for the presidential election in Cameroon.

To attract the maximum possible of young people prior to presidential elections, she encouraged registration on the electoral lists in the country. The awareness campaign has enabled her to address more than 500,000 Cameroonians within a very short time.[5]

She stood for the presidency along with 22 other candidates including Paul Biya, John Fru Ndi . She campaigned under the slogan "Kah Walla 2011 - The Time is Now".[11] She was ranked 6th out of the 23 candidates,[11] with 0.72% of the vote,[22] at the end of the election which was won by incumbent President Paul Biya.[23]

Anglophone Crisis

In March 2019, she aroused controversy and criticism among many Anglophone Cameroonians for remarks that she made during a panel discussion at the Elliott School of International Affairs at George Washington University. She was speaking at an event titled "Crisis in Cameroon."[24] Sitting alongside the Institute for African Studies Director, Jennifer Cooke, and R. Maxwell Bone, and a student at the university who had spent time in the Anglophone regions of Cameroon. She made comments accusing the Anglophone Secessionists operating from diaspora of lies and hypocrisy. The remarks that she made elicited agreement from Jennifer Cooke and R. Maxwell Bone and subsequently went viral on social media. This led to criticisms of the fellow panelists of being biased and opposed to Anglophone Secession, and accusations that she wanted to become a minister in the current government of Paul Biya. She, along with the two other panelists said that the comments were taken out of context, and that she and Bone and Cooke alike were critical of the Cameroonian government during other portions of the panel.[25]

Following the panel, both she and R. Maxwell Bone were subjugated to death threats, and intimidation from individuals affiliated with the Ambazonian cause. This was particularly worrisome to R. Maxwell Bone who works extensively with NGOs in Anglophone Cameroon. Kah resides in Douala, so the threats were not deemed as an immediate danger to her. As of the summer of 2019, they continue to be the subject of threats, misinformation, and intimidation. Claims have been made that this shows the true nature of Ambazonian secessionists, a claim that secessionists deny.