[1] Njawé returned to the country in February 1993 despite being accused by the government of drug dealing, counterfeiting, and sedition; he founded the Cameroon Organization for Press Freedom one month later.

[1] In 1998, Njawé was sentenced to two years in prison when Le Messager ran an article suggesting that Biya had a heart condition.

The sentence for running this article was later reduced, and due to pressures from Human Rights groups, Njawé was pardoned after almost a year in prison.

[5] Njawé wrote a book about his prison experience titled Bloc-notes d'un Bagnard ("Notebooks of a Convict"), which he published in 1998.

[1] Njawé's wife Jane was killed in a car accident in September 2002, causing him to found an organisation calling for safer road conditions in Cameroon.

[9] The award citation called him "Cameroon's most beleaguered journalist and one of Africa's most courageous fighters for press freedom".