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Cameroon
Cameroon, officially the Republic of Cameroon , is a country in west Central Africa. It is bordered by Nigeria to the west; Chad to the northeast; the Central African Republic to the east; and Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, and the Republic of the Congo to the south. Cameroon's coastline lies on the...

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  • Patrice Abanda
    Patrice Abanda
    Patrice Abanda Etong is a Cameroonian football player, currently playing for KS Besa Kavajë in Albania. His position is central defender.He has previously played for Apollon Kalamarias F.C...

  • Abbia (game)
    Abbia (game)
    Abbia is an African game of chance from Cameroon's Beti people. The game is played using nutshells with carvings on them....

  • Abbia: Cameroon Cultural Review
    Abbia: Cameroon Cultural Review
    Abbia: Cameroon Cultural Review is an academic journal devoted to the culture of Cameroon and to the promotion of bilingualism in the country. It was founded by Bernard Fonlon in 1963.- References :...

  • Théophile Abega
    Théophile Abega
    Théophile Abega is a former Cameroonian football player. The midfielder was part of the Cameroon national football team, playing all three matches at the 1982 FIFA World Cup and captaining the side to their first African Nations Cup victory in 1984.In 2006, he was selected by CAF as one of the...

  • Hamadjoda Abjoudi
  • Abong-Mbang
    Abong-Mbang
    Abong-Mbang is a town and commune in the East Province of Cameroon. Abong-Mbang is located at a crossroads of National Route 10 and the road that leads south to Lomié. Yaoundé, the capital of Cameroon, is 311 km to the west, and Bertoua, the capital of the East Province, lies 27 km to...

  • Accord de Cooperation Economique Monetaire et Financiere
  • Achirimbi II
    Achirimbi II
    Achirimbi II was the tenth king or Fon of Bafut who ruled over the town of Bafut and adjoining areas in a semi-autonomous fashion. His reign lasted from 1932 to 1968, and included the time of handover from the British protectorate of British Cameroon to the independent country of Cameroon...

  • Simon Achidi Achu
    Simon Achidi Achu
    "Pa" Simon Achidi Achu is a Cameroonian politician who served as the Prime Minister of Cameroon from 1992 to 1996. A leading member of the Cameroon People's Democratic Movement , he is currently the Chairman of the National Investment Corporation.-Biography:Achidi Achu was born in Bamenda and grew...

  • Act of Berlin
  • Modibo Adama
    Modibo Adama
    Adama bi Ardo Hassana , more commonly known as Modibo Adama, was a Fulani scholar and holy warrior. He led a jihad into the region of Fumbina , opening the region for Fulani colonisation...

  • Adamawa languages
    Adamawa languages
    The Adamawa languages are a putative family of 80–90 languages scattered across the Adamawa Plateau in central Africa, in Nigeria, Cameroon, Central African Republic, and Chad, spoken altogether by only one and a half million people . Joseph Greenberg classified them as one branch of the...

  • Adamawa Plateau
    Adamawa Plateau
    The Adamawa Plateau is a plateau region in west-central Africa stretching from south-eastern Nigeria through north-central Cameroon to the Central African Republic. The plateau was named after Fulani Muslim leader Modibo Adama. The part of the plateau that lies in Nigeria is more popularly known...

  • Adamawa Region
  • Administering Authority
  • Administrative divisions of Cameroon
  • Issa Adoum
  • Advisory Council (Kamerun)
  • Afade language
    Afade language
    Afade is an Afro-Asiatic language spoken in eastern Nigeria and northwestern Cameroon.- References :* * P. Bouny. 1977. "Inventaire phonetique d'un parler Kotoko: le Mandagué de Mara," Etudes Phonologiques Tschadiennes. Ed. Jean-Pierre Caprile. Paris: SELAF. Pages 59–77.-External links:**...

  • Osende Afana
  • Afo A Kom
  • 1972 African Cup of Nations
    1972 African Cup of Nations
    The 1972 African Cup of Nations was the eighth edition of the African Cup of Nations, the soccer championship of Africa . It was hosted by Cameroon, in the cities of Yaoundé and Douala. Just like in 1970, the field of eight teams was split into two groups of four...

  • African Peoples Union
    African Peoples Union
    African Peoples Union is a political party in Cameroon led by the Panafrican scholar Hubert Kamgang. The party was founded in 1996.UPA is Panafrican and supports the creation of a 'United States of Africa'....

  • African socialism
    African socialism
    African socialism is a belief in sharing economic resources in a "traditional" African way, as distinct from classical socialism. Many African politicians of the 1950s and 1960s professed their support for African socialism, although definitions and interpretations of this term varied...

  • African Union
    African Union
    The African Union is a union consisting of 54 African states. The only all-African state not in the AU is Morocco. Established on 9 July 2002, the AU was formed as a successor to the Organisation of African Unity...

  • AfricaPhonebook/Annuaires Afrique
    Annuaires Afrique
    Annuaires Afrique , or AfricaPhonebooks , is a group of African online telephone directories owned by The Global Super Pages...

  • Afriland First Bank
    Afriland First Bank
    Afriland First Bank is a full service bank operating in Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea, Liberia, and São Tomé and Príncipe. The bank was founded in Yaoundé in 1987 under the name of Caisse Commune d’Epargne et d’Investissement...

  • Agadir Crisis
    Agadir Crisis
    The Agadir Crisis, also called the Second Moroccan Crisis, or the Panthersprung, was the international tension sparked by the deployment of the German gunboat Panther, to the Moroccan port of Agadir on July 1, 1911.-Background:...

  • Agriculture in Cameroon
    Agriculture in Cameroon
    -Overview:Agriculture was the main source of growth and foreign exchange until 1978 when oil production replaced it as the cornerstone of growth for the formal economy. In 2004, agriculture contributed 44 percent to GDP. Agricultural development and productivity declined from neglect during the oil...

  • Agroindustry strategy of Cameroon
  • Agropastoral Show
  • Ahmadou Ahidjo
    Ahmadou Ahidjo
    Ahmadou Babatoura Ahidjo was the first President of Cameroon from 1960 until 1982.-Early life:Ahidjo was born in Garoua, a major river port along the Benue River in northern Cameroun, which was at the time a French mandate territory...

  • Ahidjo-Biya conflict
  • AIDS/HIV in Cameroon
  • Aigle Royal Menoua
    Aigle Royal Menoua
    Aigle Royal Menoua is a Cameroonian football club based in Dschang. They are a member of Fédération Camerounaise de Football.-Performance in CAF competitions:*CAF Champions League: 1 appearance*CAF Confederation Cup: 1 appearance...

  • Cameroon Air Force
    Cameroon Air Force
    The Cameroon Air Force is the air force of the African nation of Cameroon. The Cameroon Air Force, along with the Cameroon Army, the Cameroon Navy , the National Gendarmerie, and the Presidential Guard make up the Cameroonian Armed Forces.The Cameroon Air Force theoretically possesses a fairly...

  • Yaou Aissatsu
  • Akonolinga
    Akonolinga
    Akonolinga is a town and commune situated in Cameroon's Centre Province, with a population of roughly 25,700.It lies on the Nyong River, due east of the capital Yaoundé. The town is home to FS d'Akonolinga football club, of the Cameroon Premiere Division....

  • Akwa, Douala
  • Betote Akwa
  • Dika Mponda Akwa
  • Alcan in Africa
  • All Anglophone Conference
  • Alliance for Democracy and Development
    Alliance for Democracy and Development
    The Alliance for Democracy and Development is a political party in Cameroon. At the presidential elections, 11 October 2004, its candidate, Garga Haman Adji, won 3.7 % of the vote....

  • Alliance for the Reconstruction of Cameroon through the Sovereign National Conference (ARC-SNC)
  • Allied Front for Change
  • Nicolas Alnoudji
    Nicolas Alnoudji
    Nicolas Alnoudji is a Cameroonian football player who currently plays for Cotonsport Garoua.- International career :Alnoudji plays for Cameroon national football team and was a participant at the 2000 Olympic Games and at the 2002 FIFA World Cup.-Career:Nicolas Alnoudji is a Cameroonian football...

  • ALUBASSA
  • ALUCAM
  • Aluminum in Cameroon
  • Ali Amadou (Amadou Ali
    Amadou Ali
    Amadou Ali is a Cameroonian politician. Born in Kolofata, he was Minister of Justice since 2001 and has been a vice Prime Minister since 2004.From 1974 to 1982 he served as Secretary General of the Ministry of Public Service...

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  • Ambam
    Ambam
    Ambam is a town and commune in South Province of Cameroon on the border with Equatorial Guinea and Gabon. This frontier town is located approximately 220 km from Yaounde and as of 2005 had a population of 1,596. Traditionally, it has traded with its neighbouring countries across the border...

  • Ambas Bay
    Ambas Bay
    Ambas Bay is a bay of southwest Cameroon, joining to the Gulf of Guinea. The port of Limbe lies along Ambas Bay. Alfred Saker founded a settlement of freed slaves on the bay in 1858, which was lated renamed Victoria. in 1884 Britain established the Ambas Bay Protectorate, of which Victoria was...

  • Ambasse bey
    Ambasse bey
    Ambasse bey or ambas-i-bay is a style of folk music and dance from Cameroon. The music is based on commonly available instruments, especially guitar, with percussion provided by sticks and bottles...

  • Ambazonia
    Ambazonia
    The name Ambazonia or Ambazania refers to two separate entities. One pertains to an advocacy group struggling for the total restoration of the statehood of the Crown Colony formerly known as the British Southern Cameroons...

  • American Presbyterian Mission
    American Presbyterian Mission
    American Presbyterian Mission was an American Presbyterian missionary society, operated by the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America, that was involved in sending workers to countries such as China during the late Qing Dynasty and to India in nineteenth century...

  • American School of Yaounde
    American School of Yaounde
    The American School of Yaounde in Yaoundé, Cameroon is an independent coeducational school founded in 1964 which offers an educational program from nursery through grade 12 for students of all nationalities....

  • Oumarou Aminou
  • Amorphoscelis pallida
    Amorphoscelis pallida
    Amorphoscelis pallida is a species of praying mantis found in Cameroon and Nigeria....

  • Bassey William Andem
    Bassey William Andem
    Bassey William Andem is a retired Cameroonian footballer who played as a goalkeeper.In spite of a very large frame, he was known for his above-average reflexes, and spent most of his career professional career in Portuguese-speaking countries, namely at the service of Boavista.-Club career:After...

  • Gilbert Andze Tsoungui
  • Benoît Angbwa
    Benoit Angbwa
    Benoît Christian Angbwa Ossoemeyang is a Cameroonian footballer who plays for FC Anzhi Makhachkala. He normally plays as a defender in a right back position, but can also play on the right side of midfield....

  • Didier Angibeaud
    Didier Angibeaud
    Didier Angibeaud-Nguidjol is a former Cameroonian football player.He played for FC Istres, OGC Nice, both in France and also for Sturm Graz in Austria....

  • Anglo-Duala Treaty
  • Anglophone Cameroonian
    Anglophone Cameroonian
    Anglophone Cameroonians are the people of various cultural backgrounds who hail from the English-speaking provinces of Cameroon...

  • Anglophone problem
  • Anglophone Standing Committee
  • Anlu
    Anlu
    Anlu is a county-level city in mainland China in the province of Hubei. As of 1999, the population of the city was 112,529. It belongs administratively to Xiaogan city....

  • Anti-Bamileke incidents
  • Armed Forces of Cameroon
  • Aro Confederacy
    Aro Confederacy
    The Aro Confederacy was a political union orchestrated by the Igbo subgroup, the Aro people, centered in Arochukwu in present day Southeastern Nigeria. Their influence and presence was across Eastern Nigeria into parts of the Niger Delta and Southern Igala during the 18th and 19th centuries...

  • Aro history
    Aro history
    - Ibibio Presence :Before Igbo arrival in the Aro territory, a Semi-Bantu group of the Ibibio arrived around 300 AD from the Benue valley. They mainly inhabited the area now known as Southeastern Nigeria. Prominent settlements were Ibom and Obong Okon Ita...

  • Aro people
    Aro people
    The Aro people or Aros is an Igbo subgroup with Akpa and Ibibio elements who originated from Arochukwu kingdom in present day Abia state, Southeastern Nigeria. The Aros can also be found in about 250 other settlements mostly in the Southeastern region and adjacent areas...

  • Artisanal industries of Cameroon
  • Art Wash
    Art Wash
    Art Wash is a studio and an artist-run initiative based in Douala, Cameroon.The name of the art space is related to the fact that Art Wash is situated close to the river and it wishes to be a “laundry for art”, transforming and promoting hand-made art...

  • Charles Assalé
    Charles Assalé
    Charles Assalé was a Cameroonian politician of the Union of the Peoples of Cameroon. He served as the second Prime Minister of the federated state of East Cameroon from 15 May 1960 to 19 June 1965.-References:...

  • Assemblée Legislative du Cameroun (ALCAM)
  • Assemblée Territoriale du Cameroun; Territorial Assembly of Cameroon (ATCAM)
  • Marie-Thérèse Assiga Ahanda
    Marie-Thérèse Assiga Ahanda
    Marie-Thérèse Catherine Atangana Assiga Ahanda is a Cameroonian novelist and chemist and the paramount chief of the Ewondo people. Ahanda is the daughter of Charles Atangana—paramount chief of the Ewondo and Bane peoples under the German and French colonial regimes—by his second wife, Julienne Ngonoa...

  • Assiko
    Assiko
    The Assiko is a popular dance from the South of Cameroon.Originally based in the Bassa country, this rhythmed dance takes its name from two words: ISI, changed into ASSI, which means earth or ground; and KOO meaning foot....

  • Association des Guides du Cameroun
    Association des Guides du Cameroun
    The Association des Guides du Cameroun is the national Guiding organization of Cameroon. It serves 3,000 members . Founded in 1943, the girls-only organization became an associate member of the World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts in 1972.-See also:*Les Scouts du Cameroun...

  • Assimilation policy
  • Association policy
  • Association policy of the European Economic Community
  • Benoît Assou-Ekotto
    Benoît Assou-Ekotto
    Benoît Pierre David Assou-Ekotto is a French-born Cameroonian footballer who plays for Premier League club Tottenham Hotspur as a left back.-RC Lens:...

  • Les Astres FC
    Les Astres FC
    Les Astres FC is a Cameroonian football club based in Douala. It is a member of the Fédération Camerounaise de Football.-Performance in CAF competitions:*CAF Champions League: 1 appearance*CAF Confederation Cup: 3 appearances...

  • Charles Atangana
    Charles Atangana
    Charles Atangana , also known by his birth name, Ntsama, and his German name, Karl, was the paramount chief of the Ewondo and Bane ethnic groups during much of the colonial period in Cameroon...

  • Jean-Marie Atangana Mebara
    Jean-Marie Atangana Mebara
    Jean-Marie Atangana Mebara is a Cameroonian politician. He was Minister of Higher Education from December 1997 to August 2002, Minister of State and Secretary-General of the Presidency from August 2002 to September 2006, and Minister of State for Foreign Affairs from September 2006 until he was...

  • Jean-Hughes Ateba
  • Atelier Viking
    Atelier Viking
    Atelier Viking is a studio and an artist-run initiative based in Douala, Cameroon.Artist Viking Kanganyam André founded atelier Viking in March 1976 to promote contemporary art in Cameroon. The paucity of art galleries in Douala encouraged Kanganyam to create a space where artists could be trained...

  • Joseph Atemengue
    Joseph Atemengue
    Joseph Atemengue was an Ewondo headman and court leader during the French colonial period in Cameroon. After the defeat of Germany in World War I, France gained control of Ewondo lands in Cameroon. They did not trust the German-appointed paramount chief of the Ewondo and Bane peoples, Charles...

  • Atlantika Mountains
    Atlantika Mountains
    The Atlantika Mountains are an extension of the Cameroon line of volcanic mountains, spanning the border between Nigeria and Cameroon. They lie to the southeast of Yola, the capital of Adamawa State in Nigeria, and southwest of the Mandara mountains...

  • Timothée Atouba
  • Louis-Paul Aujoulat
    Louis-Paul Aujoulat
    Louis-Paul Aujoulat was a Cameroonian politician and missionary doctor. Following his long and illustrious political career he served as France's representative to the World Health Organization.-Early life:...

  • Joseph Chongwas Awunti
  • Axis International Lines
  • Paul Abine Ayah
    Paul Abine Ayah
    Paul Abine Ayah was a member of the National Assembly of Cameroon and a member of the ruling Cameroon People's Democratic Movement. Until recently, he joined the Opposition Party called the Peoples Action Party . In August 2007 he was elected as Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the...

  • Luc Ayang
    Luc Ayang
    Luc Ayang is a Cameroonian politician who served as Prime Minister of Cameroon from 1983 to 1984. He has been President of the Economic and Social Council of Cameroon since 1984.-Biography:...

  • Henri Eyebe Ayissi
    Henri Eyebe Ayissi
    Henri Eyebe Ayissi is a Cameroonian politician and diplomat who has served in the government of Cameroon as Minister of Foreign Relations since September 2007.-Biography:...

  • Joseph Georges Aymerich

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  • Baboua
    Baboua
    Baboua is a town and an administrative area in the Central African Republic , approximately north-west of Bangui, the nation's capital....

  • Babungo language
    Babungo language
    Vengo , or Babungo, is the Grassfields Bantu language of the Vengo people from the village of Babungo in the Cameroonian Grassfields...

  • Babungo Museum
    Babungo Museum
    -References:*...

  • Babungo people
    Babungo people
    The Vengo, or Babungos, are an ethnic group of about 14,000 people who are resident in the anglophone Northwest Province of Cameroon. They live predominantly in the region of a village which is also called Vengo or "Babungo". This village is located in the Cameroonian Grassfields at the so-called...

  • Baccalaureat (Cameroon)
  • Bafang
    Bafang
    Bafang is a town and commune in Cameroon situated in the Haut-Nkam division of the West Province. It lies at the heart of the territory of the Bamiléké people, and has a population of roughly 80,500.-References:1...

  • Bafia
    Bafia
    Bafia is a Cameroonian town and commune in the Centre Province region, the capital of Mbam-et-Inoubou department. It lies north of the country's capital Yaoundé. Bafia has approximately 55,700, making it the third largest city in the province behind Yaoundé and Mbalmayo. Most citizens belong to...

  • Bafia people
    Bafia people
    Bafia people inhabit the Mbam region in the centre province of Cameroon. Their origins are said to share many similarities with those of the Bamun and Tikar people. A division during migratory movements caused the two sets of groups to settle in different areas. Later, the islamisation of most of...

  • Bafoussam
    Bafoussam
    Bafoussam is the capital of the West Province of Cameroon, in the Bamboutos Mountains. It is the prefecture of the Mifi department, one of three arrondissements in the department. The city had a population of 239,287 inhabitants . The city is the region's center of trade. People are farming...

  • Bafut language
    Bafut language
    The Bafut language, Fut, is an Eastern Grassfields language of the Niger–Congo languages, and related to Bamum. Oral tradition traces dynastic origins to the Ndobo or Tikari areas...

  • Bafut people
  • Bafut Subdivision
    Bafut Subdivision
    The Bafut Subdivision or the Kingdom / Chiefdom / Fondom of Bafut is a subdivision in the Mezam Division of Northwest Province, Cameroon. It is located in the Western Grassfields region - a name for the Northwest Province, Cameroon and surrounding grassland areas...

  • Bafut, Cameroon
  • Bafut, Fon of
    Fon of Bafut
    The Fon of Bafut is the fon or Mfor of the town of Bafut and its adjoining areas in the Northwest Province, Cameroon which comprise the erstwhile Fondom of Bafut. Presently, the Fon of Bafut is still a local ruler, but under jurisdiction from the Government of Cameroon, and a board of Fons...

  • Bafut, traditional administrative system of
    Traditional administrative system of Bafut
    The Fondom of Bafut political system centred on the Fon or Mfor who was the fount of the political and religious life of the people.The Fon had multifarious functions:*He controlled external relations and internally he made laws....

  • Bafut Wars
    Bafut Wars
    The Bafut Wars were a series of wars fought in the early 20th century between the troops of the Fon of Bafut and German-backed troops of neighbouring fondoms and German troops....

  • Baggara Arabs
  • Bahá'í Faith in Cameroon
    Bahá'í Faith in Cameroon
    The Bahá'í Faith in Cameroon was established when the country was separated into two colonies - British and French Cameroon. The first Bahá'í in Cameroon was Enoch Olinga, who had left his homeland of Uganda to bring the religion to British Cameroon in 1953...

  • Baham Museum
    Baham Museum
    -References:*...

  • Gustave Bahoken
    Gustave Bahoken
    Gustave "Gus" Baheten Bahoken is a Cameroonian football player, who is currently searching for a club in Kazakhstan.-Career:Bahoken moved to Aalesund from the French team Angers SCO in 2005...

  • Bajwe
    Bajwe
    The Dwe'e people, or Badwe'e are an ethnic group inhabiting the rain forest zone of southeastern Cameroon. The Badwe'e live south of Messaména in the East Province in a region south of the Bekol and both north and west of the Nzime. Their territory includes much of the northern and western border...

  • Baka (Cameroon and Gabon)
    Baka (Cameroon and Gabon)
    The Baka, known in the Congo as Bayaka , are an ethnic group inhabiting the southeastern rainforests of Cameroon, northern Republic of Congo, northern Gabon, and southwestern Central African Republic. They are sometimes called a subgroup of the Twa, but the two peoples are not closely related...

  • Baka Beyond
    Baka Beyond
    Baka Beyond is a world music group formed in 1992 with members from a wide variety of backgrounds and cultures, fusing Celtic and other western music styles with traditional Baka music from Cameroon.-Biography:...

  • Issa Bakary
  • Bakassi
    Bakassi
    Bakassi is the peninsular extension of the African territory of Calabar into the Atlantic Ocean. It is currently ruled by Cameroon following the transfer of sovereignty from neighbouring Nigeria as a result of a judgment by the International Court of Justice...

  • Bakassi dispute
  • Bakebe
    Bakebe
    Bakebe is a city in Cameroon located at , at an altitude of 2870 feet . Its time zone is UTC+1....

  • Bakoko
  • Bakole language
  • Bakole people
    Bakole people
    The Bakole are an ethnic group of the Republic of Cameroon. They belong to the Sawa, or Cameroonian coastal peoples. The Bakole speak a language of the same name....

  • Bakossi Mountains
  • Bakossi people
    Bakossi people
    The Koose people live on the western and eastern slopes of Mount Mwanenguba and Mount Kupe in the Bakossi Mountains of Cameroon...

  • Bakweri
    Bakweri
    The Bakweri are an ethnic group of the Republic of Cameroon. They are closely related to Cameroon's coastal peoples , particularly the Duala and Isubu.-Early population movements:...

    ; Kpe
  • Bakweri Cooperative Union of Farmers (BCUF)
  • Bakweri Land Claim Committee
  • Balanced Development
  • Baldemu language
    Baldemu language
    Baldemu is a nearly extinct Afro-Asiatic language spoken in northern Cameroon. Speakers have been shifting to Fulfulde.- References :* -External links:**...

  • Bali, Cameroon
    Bali, Cameroon
    Bali is a town and commune in Cameroon, lying west of Bamenda. It has a population of 32,000 . Formerly the centre of a kingdom, it is known for its palace and its regular festival....

  • Bambili
  • Bamboko
    Bamboko
    The Bamboko are a Bantu ethnic group of the Republic of Cameroon. They are part of the Sawa ethnic groups, those who live on the coast.The Bamboko probably moved to Mboko, the area southwest of Mount Cameroon, in the early 17th century. Predominant Bakweri and Isubu traditions claim they originated...

  • Bamboutos FC
    Bamboutos FC
    Bamboutos FC is a Cameroonian football club based in Mbouda and founded in 1966. They are a member of Fédération Camerounaise de Football. Their home stadium is Stade de Mbouda.-Match-fixing Scandal:...

  • Bambui
    Bambui
    Bambui is an emerging township in northwestern Cameroon. With a population of about 50,000 people, it is located at an elevation of about 1350 metres above sea level. Administratively, Bambui is the headquarters of Tubah Sub-Division in the North West Region of Cameroon...

  • Bamenda
    Bamenda
    Bamenda, also known as Abakwa and Mankon Town, is a city in northwestern Cameroon and capital of the North West Province. The city had a population of 269,530 at the 2005 Census, and is located 366 km north-west of the Cameroonian capital, Yaoundé...

  • Bamenda All-Party Conference
  • Bamenda Congress
  • Bamenda Improvement Association
  • Bamenda Proclamation
  • Bamenda University of Science and Technology (BUST)
  • Bamileke
    Bamileke
    The Bamileke is a folk whose native ancestral area is in the western highlands of Cameroon's West Province, west of the Noun River and southeast of the Bamboutos Mountains and in the Moungo region of the Littoral, Southwest, and Centre Provinces. They are a part of the Semi-Bantu ethnic groups...

  • Bamileke languages
    Bamileke languages
    Bamileke is a group of languages spoken by the Bamileke in the western grasslands of Cameroon.The languages, which might constitute two branches of Eastern Grassfields, are:...

  • Bamkin
    Bamkin
    Bankim, M'Bankim or Bamkin is a town and commune of the division Mayo-Banyo in Adamaoua in Cameroon. It is about 9 km from Bandam and 13 km from the Hoséré Glon mountain. It is one of the traditional Tikar states...

  • Bamum, Kingdom of
    Kingdom of Bamum
    The kingdom of Bamum or Bamoum, also known as Bamun or Bamoun or Mum was a pre-colonial West African state in what is now northwest Cameroon. It was founded by the Mbum, a semi-Bantu ethnic group from northeast Cameroon....

  • Bamum people
    Bamum people
    The Bamum, sometimes called Bamoum, Bamun, Bamoun, or Mum, are an ethnic group of Cameroon with around 215,000 members.-Religion:...

  • Bamum, Rulers of the
  • Bamum language
    Bamum language
    Bamum , or in its French spelling Bamoun, is one of the Benue–Congo languages of Cameroon, with approximately a quarter million speakers. The language is well-known for its original script developed by King Njoya and his palace circle around 1895...

  • Bana, Cameroon
    Bana, Cameroon
    Bana is a village in the West Province of Cameroon, near the town of Bafang.The weather is cold. The main production is coffee and other vegetables.Bana is also the name of a language of the area...

  • Bana language
    Bana language
    Bana is an Afro-Asiatic language spoken in northern Cameroon. Dialects include Gamboura and Gili.-References:* * Erica Hofmann. 1990. "A Preliminary Phonology of Bana," University of Victoria MA thesis.-External links:**...

  • Bananas in Cameroon
  • Banda people
    Banda people
    Banda is an ethnic group of the Central African Republic, some of who also live in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Cameroon, and South Sudan....

  • Bandjoun
    Bandjoun
    Bandjoun is a town and commune in West Province, Cameroon. Bandjoun is the capital of the Banjun people. The chief dwells in Hialah, and has many wives....

  • Bandjoun Museum
    Bandjoun Museum
    -References:*...

  • Henri Bandolo
  • Bank of Central African States
    Bank of Central African States
    The Bank of Central African States is a central bank that serves six central African countries which form the Economic and Monetary Community of Central Africa:*Cameroon*Central African Republic*Chad*Equatorial Guinea*Gabon*Republic of the Congo...

    ; Banque d'Etats de L'Afrique Centrale (BEAC)
  • Economic crisis of Cameroon
    Economic crisis of Cameroon
    The Cameroonian economic crisis was a downturn in the economy of Cameroon from the mid-1980s to the early 2000s. The crisis resulted in rising prices in Cameroon, trade deficits, and loss of government revenue. The government of Cameroon acknowledged the crisis in 1987. Outside observers and...

  • Bantowbol
    Bantowbol
    Bantowbol or bantubol is a style of music from Cameroon. The genre is derived from Cameroonian folk music. The name bantowbol is partially derived from bal, a term for accordion playing. The principal musicians of bantowbol are Gibraltar Drakus and Nkondo Si Tony.-References:* Nkolo, Jean-Victor,...

  • Bantu peoples
  • Banyo, Cameroon
  • Baptist Mission to Cameroon
  • Basel Mission Society; Basler Mission Society
  • Basaa language
    Basaa language
    Basaa is a Bantu language spoken in Cameroon. It is spoken by about 230,000 people in Centre and Littoral provinces.-Vowels:-Consonants:...

  • Bassa (Cameroon)
    Bassa (Cameroon)
    The Bassa are an ethnic group in Cameroon. These people, numbering approximately 230,000, are Bantu. Their language is the Basaa language.-History:...

  • Bassa-Bakoko
  • Isabelle Bassong
  • Bata language
    Bata language
    Bata is an Afro-Asiatic language spoken in Nigeria in Adamawa State in the Numan, Song, Fufore, and Mubi LGAs, and in Cameroon in North Province along the border with Nigeria. Dialects are Demsa, Garoua, Jirai, Kobotachi, Malabu, Ndeewe, Ribaw, Wadi, and Zumu. It is often considered the same...

  • Joseph Batangdon
    Joseph Batangdon
    Joseph Batangdon is a Cameroonian sprinter who specializes in the 200 metres.Batangdon became African champion in 2004, a month before the 2004 Summer Olympics. Competing in the 200 metres contest, he did advance from the heats but pulled out of the competition.- Achievements...

  • Batié, Cameroon
    Batié, Cameroon
    Batié is a town and commune in the Hauts Plateau division located in the western province of Cameroon. It is located at Latitude 5.283333 and Longitude 10.28333...

  • Batouri
    Batouri
    Batouri is a town and commune in the East Province of Cameroon. It is the second largest municipality in the province after the provincial capital Bertoua. It is located on the main road connecting Bertoua to the Central African Republic and to the Cameroonian town of Yokadouma...

  • Battle of Kousséri
    Battle of Kousséri
    The battle of Kousséri originated in French plans to occupy the Chari-Baguirmi region. In 1899–1900, the French organized three armed columns, one proceeding north from Congo, one east from Niger and another south from Algeria...

  • Bayang, Lanao del Sur
    Bayang, Lanao del Sur
    Bayang is a 5th class municipality in the province of Lanao del Sur, Philippines. According to the 2000 census, it has a population of 21,020 people in 2,789 households.-Barangays:Bayang is politically subdivided into 48 barangays.* Bagoaingud...

    ; Banyang; Banyangi
  • BeBe Zahara Benet
    BeBe Zahara Benet
    Nea Marshall Kudi , better known as BeBe Zahara Benet, is a former male model, a drag queen from Cameroon and winner of the title of "America's Next Drag Superstar" from the first season of the popular reality television series RuPaul's Drag Race.-Biography:Kudi's first experience with drag was at...

  • Francis Bebey
    Francis Bebey
    Francis Bebey was a Cameroonian artist, musician, and writer.Bebey attended the Sorbonne, and was further educated in the United States...

  • Marcel Bebey-Eyidi
  • Beboid languages
    Beboid languages
    The Beboid languages constitute a branch, or branches, of Southern Bantoid, and are spoken principally in southwest Cameroon, although two languages are spoken over the border in Nigeria...

  • John Beecroft
    John Beecroft
    John Beecroft was an explorer, governor of Fernando Po and British Consul of the Bight of Benin and Biafra.-Early life:Beecroft was born in England near the port of Whitby, Yorkshire...

  • Jean-Pierre Bekolo
    Jean-Pierre Bekolo
    -Education:* Studied physics at University of Yaounde* Institut national de l'audiovisuel INA in France, under Christian Metz.-Awards and Features:* 1993 - British Film Institute award , for Quartier Mozart....

  • Bélabo
    Bélabo
    Bélabo is a town and commune in Cameroon, lying on the Yaoundé – N'Gaoundéré railway line. Near the town lies the Sanaga-Yong chimpanzee rescue centre.- References :...

  • Jean Pierre Amougou Belinga
    Jean Pierre Amougou Belinga
    Jean Pierre Amougou Belinga is a Cameroonian publisher of the newspaper L'Anecdote. Belinga gained notoriety in March 2006 when a Cameroon court jailed him for four months for defaming Gregoire Owona, a government minister named in a list of 50 presumed homosexuals in Cameroon.-Arrest and...

  • Joseph-Antoine Bell
    Joseph-Antoine Bell
    Joseph-Antoine Bell, sometimes referred to as JoJo Bell is a former Cameroonian international football goalkeeper, one of the best African goalkeepers of all time...

  • Muhammed Bello
    Muhammed Bello
    Muhammed Bello was the son and aide of Usman dan Fodio. He became the second Sultan of Sokoto following his father's 1815 retirement from the throne. Bello faced early challenges from dissident leaders such as 'Abd al-Salam, and rivalries between the key families of his father's jihad...

  • Patrick Bengondo
  • Bello Bouba Maigari
    Bello Bouba Maigari
    Bello Bouba Maigari is a Cameroonian politician. He was Prime Minister of Cameroon from 6 November 1982 to 22 August 1983 and has been the National President of the National Union for Democracy and Progress since January 1992...

  • Carl Jacob Bender
    Carl Jacob Bender
    -References:...

  • Bend-skin
    Bend-skin
    Bend-skin is a kind of urban Cameroonian popular music. Kouchouam Mbada is the best known group associated with the genre. Several other artists have over the years contributed to the growth and popularity of bend skin. It is related to manganbeu, and is played using only drums and maracas ,...

  • Alphonse Beni
    Alphonse Beni
    Alphonse Beni is a Cameroonian actor and movie director, sometimes credited as Alfons Beny or Chris Kelly. He made several author movies in Cameroon, acted in French erotic comedies and even played a ninja in Godfrey Ho's "ninja" flicks Black Ninja.-External links:* - Alphonse Beni's biographical...

  • Bénoué National Park
    Bénoué National Park
    Bénoué National Park is a national park of Cameroon and a UNESCO designated Biosphere Reserve. It is in size. The park has a wide frontage to the Bénoué River, which stretches for over , forming the eastern boundary. The public road to Tcholliré cuts across the northern part of the park...

  • Benue River
    Benue River
    The Benue River is the major tributary of the Niger River. The river is approximately 1,400 km long and is almost entirely navigable during the summer months...

  • Berlin Conference (1884)
  • Bertoua
    Bertoua
    Bertoua is the capital of the Eastern Province of Cameroon and has a population of 88,462 . It is home to an airport and Mission Cameroon of Polish Dominican Order.-External links:*...

  • Beti-Pahuin
    Beti-Pahuin
    The Beti-Pahuin are a group of related peoples who inhabit the rain forest regions of Cameroon, Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, and São Tomé and Príncipe. Though they separate themselves into several individual ethnic groups, they all share a common history and culture. They were...

  • Hortense Béwouda
    Hortense Béwouda
    Hortense Béwouda is a Cameroonian sprinter who specialized in the 400 metres.Her personal best time is 51.04 seconds, achieved in June 2004 in Algiers...

  • André Bikey
    André Bikey
    André Stéphane Bikey-Amougou is a Cameroonian footballer, who currently plays for Burnley and the Cameroon national team. He can play in the centre of defence or at right back. He began his career in Spain at the age of fifteen, before having short spells in Russia with Shinnik Yaroslavl and...

  • Bikutsi
    Bikutsi
    Bikutsi is a musical genre from Cameroon. It developed from the traditional styles of the Beti, or Ewondo, people, who live around the city of Yaounde. It was popular in the middle of the 20th century in West Africa...

  • Bikya language
    Bikya language
    Bikya is a Bantoid language isolate spoken in Cameroon. It is unknown if this language is still existent. In 1986 four surviving speakers were identified, although only one spoke the language fluently....

  • Bilingualism in Cameroon
  • Bight of Bonny
    Bight of Bonny
    The Bight of Bonny is a bight off the West African coast, in the easternmost part of the Gulf of Guinea...

  • Moni Bilé
    Moni Bilé
    Mono Bilé is a Cameroonian makossa musician. He was the best-selling makossa performer of the 1980s, and his album Amour & Espérance was an international hit that extended the worldwide popularity of the genre.-References:...

  • Benoit Bindzi
  • Biosphere reserves in Cameroon, list of
  • Omgba Bissogo
    Omgba Bissogo
    Omgba Bissogo was an Ewondo tribal chief and warrior who, during the colonial period in Cameroon in 1895, led a rebellion against forces of the German Empire. Omgba Bissogo was head of the Ewondo Mvog Ottou sublineage. Bissogo and his forces won a battle against the Germans and won their initial...

  • Bitis gabonica
    Bitis gabonica
    Bitis gabonica is a venomous viper species found in the rainforests and savannas of Sub-Saharan Africa. This is not only the largest member of the genus Bitis, but also the world's heaviest viperid and it has the longest fangs ,and the highest venom yield of any venomous snake...

  • Biu-Mandara A languages
  • Biu-Mandara A.3 languages
    Biu-Mandara A.3 languages
    The Kamwe languages, group A.3 of the Biu–Mandara branch of the Afro-Asiatic family, are mainly spoken in Far North Province, Cameroon, as well as in Adamawa State, Nigeria....

  • Biu-Mandara A.4 languages
    Biu-Mandara A.4 languages
    The Mandara–Lamang languages, group A.4 of the Biu–Mandara branch of the Afro-Asiatic family, are mainly spoken in Cameroon and Nigeria.The family is sometimes called simply Mandara, in which case the branch of Mandara languages is called Mandara proper.-Languages:LamangMandara*...

  • Biu-Mandara A.5 languages
    Biu-Mandara A.5 languages
    The Mafa–Mofu languages, group A.5 of the Biu–Mandara branch of the Afro-Asiatic family, are spoken in Far North Province, Cameroon.The languages are Baldemu, Cuvok, Dugwor, North Giziga, South Giziga, Mada, Mafa, Matal, Mbuko, Mefele, Merey, Mofu-Gudur, North Mofu, Moloko, Muyang, Vame, Wuzlam,...

  • Biu-Mandara A.7 languages
    Biu-Mandara A.7 languages
    The Daba languages, group A.7 of the Biu–Mandara branch of the Afro-Asiatic family, are spoken in Cameroon and neighboring Nigeria.The languages are Daba, Buwal, Gavar, Mazagway, Mbedam, and Mina.- References :*...

  • Biu-Mandara A.8 languages
    Biu-Mandara A.8 languages
    The Bata–Bacama languages, group A.8 of the Biu–Mandara branch of the Afro-Asiatic family, are spoken in Cameroon and neighboring Nigeria....

  • Biu-Mandara B languages
  • Chantal Biya
    Chantal Biya
    Chantal Biya is the First Lady of Cameroon. She was born in Dimako, East Province, to French expatriate Georges Vigouroux and Miss Doumé pageant winner Rosette Ndongo Mengolo. Chantal Biya spent her adolescence in Yaoundé.She married President Paul Biya on 23 April 1994, after his first wife,...

  • Franck Biya
  • Jeanne-Irène Biya
  • Paul Biya
    Paul Biya
    Paul Biya is a Cameroonian politician who has been the President of Cameroon since 6 November 1982. A native of Cameroon's south, Biya rose rapidly as a bureaucrat under President Ahmadou Ahidjo in the 1960s, serving as Secretary-General of the Presidency from 1968 to 1975 and then as Prime...

  • Alexandre Biyidi
    Mongo Beti
    Alexandre Biyidi Awala , known as Mongo Beti, was a Cameroonian writer.- Life :Though he lived in exile for many decades, Beti's life reveals an unflagging commitment to improvement of his home country...

  • Yondo Mandengue Black
  • Black-collared Lovebird
    Black-collared Lovebird
    The Black-collared Lovebird, Agapornis swindernianus also known as Swindern's Lovebird is a small, 13.5 cm long, African parrot in the genus Agapornis. It is a mostly green parrot with black band on the back of its neck, and a dark greyish-black bill. Both sexes are similar...

  • Bloc Démocratique Camerounaise (BDC)
  • Beatrice Bofia
    Beatrice Bofia
    Beatrice Balana Bofia is a Cameroonian American collegiate basketball player, currently playing for the University of Arizona The Arizona Wildcats. She is the older twin sister of Suzy Bofia....

  • Suzy Bofia
    Suzy Bofia
    Suzanne Bofia is a Cameroonian collegiate basketball player, formerly a member the University of Arizona...

  • Bokito, Cameroon
    Bokito, Cameroon
    Bokito is a town and commune in the Centre Province of Cameroon. The Yambassa are the primary ethnic group.-References:* Tayong, Andrew . "". Community Water Supply and Management, International Water and Sanitation Centre. Accessed 9 August 2007....

  • Gibering Bol Alima
  • Richard Bona
    Richard Bona
    Richard Bona is a jazz bassist and musician. His real African name, as he said live in Montreal in a show with Bobby McFerrin, is Bona Pinder Yayumayalolo...

  • Bonabéri
    Bonabéri
    Bonabéri is a port in the Littoral Province of Cameroon. It is located on the western side of the harbour across the Wouri River from the larger port of Douala.- External links :* *...

  • Jacques-Roger Booh-Booh
    Jacques-Roger Booh-Booh
    Jacques-Roger Booh-Booh was the Minister of External Relations of Cameroon from 1988 to 1992 and the head of United Nations Assistance Mission for Rwanda .-Biography:Booh-Booh was born in Manak, Cameroon...

  • Border conflicts in Cameroon
  • Bouba Njida National Park
    Bouba Njida National Park
    Bouba Njida National Park is a national park of Cameroon. A total of 23 antelope species occur in the park. The Painted Hunting Dog, Lycaon pictus had been observed in Bouba Njida National Park at the turn of the 21st century; this population of the endangered canid is one of the few that remained...

  • Alioum Boukar
    Alioum Boukar
    Alioum Boukar is a Cameroonian football goalkeeper, who played for several clubs, including Canon Yaoundé, Samsunspor and Istanbulspor, both in Turkey....

  • Boumba Bek National Park
    Boumba Bek National Park
    Boumba Bek National Park is a national park in extreme southeastern Cameroon, located in its East Province.-History:The park was never logged; according to the World Wildlife Fund's scientific advisor in the region, Paul Robinson Ngnegueu, "poaching is the biggest threat to Boumba Bek." This is a...

  • Jean-Alain Boumsong
    Jean-Alain Boumsong
    Jean-Alain Boumsong-Somkong is a professional football defender who currently plays for the Greek team Panathinaikos and the French national team.-Early career:...

  • Yannick Boumsong
  • Ruben Boumtje-Boumtje
    Ruben Boumtje-Boumtje
    Ruben Bertrand Boumtje Boumtje is a retired Cameroonian professional basketball player. At 7'0" and 260 lbs, he played at center. He is a graduate of Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., U.S., and enjoyed a brief stint in the NBA...

  • Pierre Boya
    Pierre Boya
    Pierre Boya is a Cameroonian footballer.-Club career:Boya came to FK Partizan in November 2003, and scored a goal on his debut later that month. The highlight of his career at Partizan was during the 2004–05 UEFA Cup group stage, when he scored both Partizan goals in a 2–2 away draw against Lazio,...

  • Serge Branco
    Serge Branco
    -Club:Branco spent the initial years of his career in Germany. He signed for Leeds United in August 2004, but was released on 13 September for fitness reasons. From 2005 to 2007 he played in the Russian league.-International:...

  • Brasseries du Cameroun
    Brasseries du Cameroun
    Les Sociétés Anonymes des Brasseries du Cameroun is a brewing company in Cameroon. Their offices and main factory are in Douala, with other breweries in Bafoussam, Douala, Garoua, and Yaoundé. Les Brasseries et Glaceries d'Indochine owns a 75% share in the company, and Heineken owns 8.8%...

  • Brazzaville Conference of 1944
    Brazzaville Conference of 1944
    After the Fall of France during World War II, and the alignment of many West African French colonies with the Free French, Charles de Gaulle recognized the need to revise the relationship between France and its colonies in Africa...

  • Brevet d'Etudes du Premier Cycle (BEPC)
  • Brigade Mixte Mobile
    Brigade Mixte Mobile
    The Brigade Mixte Mobile is the paramilitary secret police of Cameroon. The brigade operates a number of prisons for political prisoners in the country....

  • Briqueterie
  • British Cameroons
  • Buduma language
    Buduma language
    Buduma is an Afro-Asiatic language spoken in western Chad and neighboring Cameroon and Nigeria.- References :*...

  • Buduma people
  • Buea
    Buea
    Buea is the capital of the Southwest Region of Cameroon. The town is located on the eastern slopes of Mount Cameroon and has a population of 90,088 . Buea was the colonial capital of the German Kamerun from 1901 to 1919,and the capital of the Southern Cameroons from 1949 until 1961...

  • Buea Declaration
  • Bulu
  • Bulu language
    Bulu language
    Bulu is the language of the Bulu people of Cameroon. The language had 174,000 native speakers in 1982, with some 800,000 second language speakers in 1991. Colonial and missionary groups formerly used Bulu as a lingua franca in the region for commercial, educational, and religious purposes, though...

  • Bung language
    Bung language
    The Bung language is a nearly extinct language of Cameroon spoken by 3 people at the village of Boung on the Adamawa Plateau. A wordlist collected for it shows its strongest resemblance to be with the Ndung dialect of Mambiloid language Kwanja, although that may simply be because this has become...

  • Le Bus
  • Bushmeat
    Bushmeat
    Bushmeat initially referred to the hunting of wild animals in West and Central Africa and is a calque from the French viande de brousse. Today the term is commonly used for meat of terrestrial wild animals, killed for subsistence or commercial purposes throughout the humid tropics of the Americas,...

  • Bush taxi
  • Buwal language
    Buwal language
    Buwal is an Afro-Asiatic language spoken in Cameroon in Far North Province in and around Gadala.-External links:**...

  • Bwiti
    Bwiti
    Bwiti is a West Central African spiritual practice by the forest-dwelling Babongo and Mitsogo people of Gabon, where it is counted as one of the three official religions, and the Fang people of Gabon and Cameroon...


C

  • Caledonian Airways Flight 153
  • Cameroon
    Cameroon
    Cameroon, officially the Republic of Cameroon , is a country in west Central Africa. It is bordered by Nigeria to the west; Chad to the northeast; the Central African Republic to the east; and Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, and the Republic of the Congo to the south. Cameroon's coastline lies on the...

  • Cameroon Airlines
    Cameroon Airlines
    Cameroon Airlines was an airline from Cameroon, serving as flag carrier of the country. Based in Douala, it operated scheduled services within Africa, as well as to Europe and the Middle East out of its hub at Douala International Airport, with an important second network focus on Yaoundé Nsimalen...

  • Cameroon Anglophone Movement (CAM)
  • Cameroon Cup
    Cameroon Cup
    - Before independence :* 1941 : Caïman de Douala 6-0 Mikado ASTP* 1942 : Caïman de Douala 3-1 Léopard Douala* 1943 : Caïman de Douala* 1944-53 : Unknown* 1954 : Jeunesse Bamiléké* 1956 : Oryx Douala 6-0 Léopard Douala...

  • Cameroon Democratic Union (CDU); Union Démocratique Camerounaise (UDC)
  • Cameroon Development Corporation
    Cameroon Development Corporation
    The Cameroon Development Cooperation is one of Cameroon's major exporters and employers. The company was founded at the time when British interests took control over German-owned plantations, at the beginning of World War I. The CDC is an agribusiness company and its general offices are based in...

     (CDC)
  • Cameroon line
    Cameroon line
    The Cameroon line is a chain of volcanoes.It includes islands in the Gulf of Guinea and mountains that extend along the border region of eastern Nigeria and western Cameroon, from Mount Cameroon on the Gulf of Guinea north and east towards Lake Chad....

  • Cameroon National Assembly election, 1992
  • Cameroon National Assembly election, 1997
  • Cameroon National Assembly election, 2004
  • Cameroon national basketball team
    Cameroon national basketball team
    Cameroon national basketball team is a basketball team that represents Cameroon on international competitions. Their best achievement is reaching the Silver Medal in FIBA Africa Championship held in 2007.- African Championship record :-Roster:...

  • Cameroon national cricket team
    Cameroon national cricket team
    The Cameroon national cricket team is the team that represents the country of Cameroon in international cricket matches. They are yet to make their international debut, and gained affiliate membership of the International Cricket Council on 29 June 2007....

  • Cameroon national football team
    Cameroon national football team
    The Cameroon national football team, nicknamed Les Lions Indomptables , is controlled by the Fédération Camerounaise de Football and is Africa's most successful side in FIFA world cup; having qualified for the FIFA World Cup six times – in 1982, 1990, 1994, 1998, 2002 and 2010– more than any...

  • Cameroon National Union
    Cameroon National Union
    The Cameroon National Union was Cameroon's sole legal political party until 1990...

     (CNU); Union Nationale Camerounaise (UNC)
  • Cameroon Oil Transportation Company
  • Cameroon Outlook
  • Cameroon People's Democratic Movement
    Cameroon People's Democratic Movement
    The Cameroon People's Democratic Movement is the ruling political party in Cameroon.-History:Previously known as the Cameroon National Union, which had dominated Cameroon politics since independence in 1960, it was renamed in 1985...

     (CPDM); Mouvement Démocratique du Peuple Camerounais (MDPC); Rassemblement Démocratique du Peuple Camerounais (RDPC)
  • Cameroon Premiere Division
  • Cameroon presidential election, 1992
  • Cameroon presidential election, 1997
  • Cameroon presidential election, 2004
  • Foreign relations of Cameroon
    Foreign relations of Cameroon
    Cameroon's noncontentious, low-profile approach to foreign relations puts it squarely in the middle of other African and developing country states on major issues. It supports the principles of noninterference in the affairs of third world countries and increased assistance to underdeveloped...

  • Cameroon Times (Kamerun Times)
  • Cameroon Trade Union Congress (CTUC)
  • Cameroon Tribune
    Cameroon Tribune
    The Cameroon Tribune is a major newspaper in Cameroon. It is also available online. It is owned by the government.-External links:*...

  • Cameroonian Union
    Cameroonian Union
    The Cameroon Union was a Cameroonian pro-independence party active in the French territory of Cameroun.The UC was formed by Ahmadou Ahidjo in 1958 when he broke from André-Marie Mbida and the Bloc Démocratique Camerounaise...

  • Cameroon United Congress (CUC)
  • Cameroon – United States relations
  • Cameroon v. the United Kingdom (Northern Cameroons case)
  • Cameroon Welfare Union (CWU)
  • Cameroonian Palace Guard Revolt
    Cameroonian Palace Guard Revolt
    An attempted coup d'état occurred in Cameroon in 1984; presidential palace guards unsuccessfully tried to overthrow President Paul Biya, resulting in fighting that began on April 6, 1984 and ended several days later...

  • Cameroonian Patriotic Opposition
  • Cameroonian Pidgin English
    Cameroonian Pidgin English
    Cameroonian Pidgin English, or Cameroonian Creole, is a language variety of Cameroon. It is also known as Kamtok . Five varieties are currently recognised:...

  • List of Cameroonians
  • Cameroons National Federation (CNF)
  • Cameroons Peoples' National Convention (CPNC)
  • Cameroons Province
  • Cameroon Tribune
    Cameroon Tribune
    The Cameroon Tribune is a major newspaper in Cameroon. It is also available online. It is owned by the government.-External links:*...

  • Cameroons Youth League (CYL)
  • Cameroon – United States relations
  • Cameroun
    Cameroun
    Cameroun was a French and British mandate territory in central Africa, now constituting the majority of the territory of the Republic of Cameroon....

  • Cameroun Actualites
  • Camfranglais
    Camfranglais
    Camfranglais, Frananglais, or Franglais is a language from Cameroon, consisting of a mixture of French, English , the creole language Cameroonian Pidgin English and several words borrowed from many dialects spoken in Cameroon...

  • Campo, Cameroon
    Campo, Cameroon
    Campo is a town on the Atlantic Ocean coast of southern Cameroon, where it is the main border town for travel to Equatorial Guinea. The town is just north of the mouth of the Ntem River, that is to say the right bank of that river....

  • Campo Ma'an National Park
    Campo Ma'an National Park
    Campo Ma'an National Park is a 264,064 hectare national park of Cameroon. The combined area for the national park and the buffer zone surrounding the park is approximately 700,000 hectares.-References:...

  • Campo River
    Campo River
    The Campo or Ntem River is a river in the northern mainland of Equatorial Guinea. Part of its length, including its estuary in the Bight of Bonny, form part of the border with Cameroon....

  • Camrail
    Camrail
    Camrail is a company that has been granted a 20 year concession to operate the Cameroon National Railway. This Cameroonian company is a subsidiary of French investment group Bolloré. The railway has been operated by Comazar, a subsidiary of Bolloré, since 1999...

  • CAMSUCO
  • Camtel
    Camtel
    Camtel is a national telecommunications and Internet service provider in Cameroon. The company is busy building its network, including: Access to a CDMA network; digitization of the country's telephone exchanges; and optical fiber along the highway between Douala and Yaounde, and between Kribi...

  • Canon Sportif de Yaoundé
  • Cassava
    Cassava
    Cassava , also called yuca or manioc, a woody shrub of the Euphorbiaceae native to South America, is extensively cultivated as an annual crop in tropical and subtropical regions for its edible starchy tuberous root, a major source of carbohydrates...

  • Catholicism in Cameroon
  • Catholic University of Central Africa
    Catholic University of Central Africa
    The Catholic University of Central Africa is a private Roman Catholic university in Yaoundé, Cameroon.-History:...

  • CDC Workers Union
  • Cellulose du Cameroun (CELLUCAM)
  • Centre Region (Cameroon)
  • Centre-South Province; Centre-South Region
  • Central African Clearing House
  • Central African Customs and Economic Union (CACEU)
  • Central African Monetary Union; Union Monetaire de l'Afrique Centrale; Zone Monetaire Centrafricaine
  • Central African Republic
    Central African Republic
    The Central African Republic , is a landlocked country in Central Africa. It borders Chad in the north, Sudan in the north east, South Sudan in the east, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and the Republic of the Congo in the south, and Cameroon in the west. The CAR covers a land area of about ,...

  • Centre National des Etudes et des Recherches (CENER)
  • Certificat de Fin d'Etudes Primaires Elementaires (CEPE)
  • CFA franc
    CFA franc
    The CFA franc is the name of two currencies used in Africa which are guaranteed by the French treasury. The two CFA franc currencies are the West African CFA franc and the Central African CFA franc...

  • Chad
    Chad
    Chad , officially known as the Republic of Chad, is a landlocked country in Central Africa. It is bordered by Libya to the north, Sudan to the east, the Central African Republic to the south, Cameroon and Nigeria to the southwest, and Niger to the west...

  • Chad Basin Commission
  • Chad-Cameroon Petroleum Development and Pipeline Project
    Chad-Cameroon Petroleum Development and Pipeline Project
    The Chad–Cameroon Petroleum Development and Pipeline Project is a controversial project to develop the production capacity of oilfields near Doba in southern Chad, and to create a 1,070 km pipeline to transport the oil to facilities on the coast of Cameroon. The project was launched on...

  • Chantal Biya Foundation
  • Chari River
    Chari River
    The Chari or Shari River is a 949-kilometer-long river of central Africa. It flows from the Central African Republic through Chad into Lake Chad, following the Cameroon border from N'Djamena, where it joins the Logone River waters....

  • Chocolat (1988 film)
    Chocolat (1988 film)
    Chocolat is a 1988 film directed by Claire Denis, about a French family that lives in colonial Cameroon. Marc and Aimée Dalens are the parents of France , a young girl who befriends Protée , a Cameroon native who is the family's household servant...

  • Chomba
    Chomba
    Chomba is a village under the Bamenda municipality in Cameroon. The village is located six km outside of Bamenda town. Before the 1960s, no motorable road linked the village to Bamenda town. The main road that links the village to the town was constructed manually by the villagers themselves. It...

  • Theodor Christaller
  • Christianity in Cameroon
  • Cimenteries du Cameroun (CIMENCAM)
  • Cinema in Cameroon
  • Cire perdu casting
  • .cm
    .cm
    .cm is the country code top-level domain for Cameroon.The official registrar for .cm domains is Netcom.cm, based in Yaounde, the capital of Cameroon. Netcom.cm Sarl was founded in early 2008 as a partner of ANTIC, the Information Technology Regulator for Cameroon. On October 15, 2008, NETCOM.cm...

  • Cocoa in Cameroon
  • Cocoyam
    Cocoyam
    Cocoyam can mean:* Taro - old cocoyam* Malanga - new cocoyam...

    ; Colocasia
    Colocasia
    Colocasia is a genus of 25 or more species of flowering plants in the family Araceae, native to tropical Polynesia and southeastern Asia. Common names include Elephant-ear, Taro, Cocoyam, Dasheen,Chembu, and Eddoe...

    ; Taro
    Taro
    Taro is a common name for the corms and tubers of several plants in the family Araceae . Of these, Colocasia esculenta is the most widely cultivated, and is the subject of this article. More specifically, this article describes the 'dasheen' form of taro; another variety is called eddoe.Taro is...

  • Coffee in Cameroon
  • Andrew Cohen (colonial governor)
  • Collective Resignation Plot
  • List of colonial heads of Ambas Bay
  • List of colonial heads of British Cameroons
  • List of colonial heads of French Cameroon
  • List of colonial heads of French Equatorial Africa
  • List of colonial heads of German Cameroon
  • Comazar
    Comazar
    Comazar is a company that operates railways in Africa. Its stock is majority owned by the French investment group Bolloré.Comazar was founded by Eric Peiffer and Patrick Claes in conjunction with Transnet and Transurb Consult in 1995.The headquarters are in Johannesburg.- Related organizations...

  • Commissioners and High Commissioners of France in Cameroon
  • Commonwealth
    Commonwealth
    Commonwealth is a traditional English term for a political community founded for the common good. Historically, it has sometimes been synonymous with "republic."More recently it has been used for fraternal associations of some sovereign nations...

  • Cameroon at the 2006 Commonwealth Games
    Cameroon at the 2006 Commonwealth Games
    Cameroon was represented at the 2006 Commonwealth Games in Melbourne by a xx-member strong contingent comprising xx sportspersons and xx officials.-Medals:-Silver:* Brice Vivien Batchaya, Weightlifting, Men's 85 kg-Bronze:...

  • Commonwealth of Independent States
    Commonwealth of Independent States
    The Commonwealth of Independent States is a regional organization whose participating countries are former Soviet Republics, formed during the breakup of the Soviet Union....

  • Communal liberalism
  • Communauté
  • Communauté Economique des Etats de l'Afrique Centrale (CEEAC); Economic Community of Central African States
    Economic Community of Central African States
    The Economic Community of Central African States is an Economic Community of the African Union for promotion of regional economic co-operation in Central Africa...

     (ECCAS)
  • Communauté Financière Africaine
  • Telecommunications in Cameroon
  • List of companies of Cameroon
  • Compte hors budget
  • Concours (Cameroon)
  • Cameroons Condominium
  • Confederation of Anglophone Parents-Teachers Associations of Cameroon (CAPTAC)
  • Confederation of Cameroon Trade Unions (CCTU)
  • Conference of Heads of State of Equatorial Africa
  • Republic of the Congo
    Republic of the Congo
    The Republic of the Congo , sometimes known locally as Congo-Brazzaville, is a state in Central Africa. It is bordered by Gabon, Cameroon, the Central African Republic, the Democratic Republic of the Congo , the Angolan exclave province of Cabinda, and the Gulf of Guinea.The region was dominated by...

  • Congress of Berlin
    Congress of Berlin
    The Congress of Berlin was a meeting of the European Great Powers' and the Ottoman Empire's leading statesmen in Berlin in 1878. In the wake of the Russo-Turkish War of 1877–78, the meeting's aim was to reorganize the countries of the Balkans...

  • Constitution of Cameroon
    Constitution of Cameroon
    The Constitution of Cameroon is the supreme law of the Republic of Cameroon. The document consists of a preamble and 13 Parts, each divided into Articles...

  • Constitution of the Federal Republic of Cameroon (1961)
  • Constitution of the Republic of Cameroon (1984)
  • Constitution of the Republic of Cameroon (1996)
  • Constitution of the Republique du Cameroun (1960)
  • Constitution of the United Republic of Cameroon (1972)
  • Constitutional Council of Cameroon
  • Cooperatives in Cameroon
  • Corruption in Cameroon
  • Cotonnière Industrielle du Cameroun (CICAM)
  • Cotonsport Garoua
    Cotonsport Garoua
    Coton Sport FC de Garoua is an Cameroonian football club based in Garoua. They play at the Stade Omnisport de Garoua. In 2008 they finished runners up in the CAF Champions League.-Domestic:*Cameroonian Championship: ...

  • Cotton Development Company (SODECOTON)
  • Cotton in Cameroon
  • Council of Notables
    Council of Notables
    A Council of Notables is a political body comprising persons of note in a community who are chosen by the governing authority in the region for their special knowledge, experience, skills, status or accomplishments. Such councils have existed in many regions and countries throughout the world...

  • 1984 Cameroonian coup attempt
  • Coupeur de route
  • Courant d'Union Nationale (CUN)
  • Court of Appeal of Cameroon
    Court of Appeal of Cameroon
    The Courts of Appeal are appellate courts in Cameroon. They are defined in Part V of the constitution of Cameroon as being under the Supreme Court.-References:...

  • Court of equity
    Court of equity
    A chancery court, equity court or court of equity is a court that is authorized to apply principles of equity, as opposed to law, to cases brought before it.These courts began with petitions to the Lord Chancellor of England...

  • Court of Impeachment
  • Credit Foncier
    Credit Foncier
    Credit Foncier is the name of* Crédit Foncier de France, a mortgage bank in France.* Credit Foncier of America, a defunct real estate company in the U.S....

  • Credit unions in Cameroon
  • Cross River Region
  • Cuisine of Cameroon
    Cuisine of Cameroon
    Cameroonian cuisine is one of the most varied in Africa due to its location on the crossroads between the north, west, and centre of the continent; added to this is the profound influence of French food, a legacy of the colonial era....

  • Cultural renewal
  • Culture of Cameroon
    Culture of Cameroon
    -Holidays:Notable holidays in Cameroon include:Christian: Good Friday, Easter Sunday, and Easter MondayMuslim: 'Id al-Fitr and 'Id al-AdhaMain holidaysDateEnglish NameJanuary 1New Year's DayFebruary 11National Youth DayMay 1Labor Day...

  • Cuvok language
    Cuvok language
    Cuvok is an Afro-Asiatic language spoken in northern Cameroon.-External links:**...


D

  • Daba language
    Daba language
    Daba is an Afro-Asiatic language spoken in Cameroon in Far North Province and in one village in neighboring Nigeria.-References:*...

  • Dakolé Daïssala
    Dakolé Daïssala
    Dakole Daïssala is a Cameroonian politician and the President of the Movement for the Defense of the Republic , a political party based in Cameroon's Far North Region...

  • Usman dan Fodio
    Usman dan Fodio
    Shaihu Usman dan Fodio , born Usuman ɓii Foduye, was the founder of the Sokoto Caliphate in 1809, a religious teacher, writer and Islamic promoter. Dan Fodio was one of a class of urbanized ethnic Fulani living in the Hausa States in what is today northern Nigeria...

  • Gidago dan Laima
    Gidago dan Laima
    Gidago dan Laima is the first known Grand Vizier of the Sokoto Caliphate.Gidago dan Laima was succeeded by Abd al-Qadir in 1842....

  • Sadou Daoudou
  • Youssoufa Daouda
  • Debt of Cameroon
  • Robert DeLavignette
  • Democracy in Cameroon
  • Demographics of Cameroon
    Demographics of Cameroon
    This article is about the demographic features of the population of Cameroon, including population density, ethnicity, education level, health of the populace, economic status, religious affiliations and other aspects of the population....

  • Destabilisation plot of 22 August 1983
  • Armand Deumi
    Armand Deumi
    Armand Deumi Tchani is a Cameroonian footballer, currently playing in Turkey for Karabükspor. He is also a Cameroon international and currently has 4 caps for his national side.-Club career:...

  • Development Bank of Central African States
    Bank of Central African States
    The Bank of Central African States is a central bank that serves six central African countries which form the Economic and Monetary Community of Central Africa:*Cameroon*Central African Republic*Chad*Equatorial Guinea*Gabon*Republic of the Congo...

    ; Banque de Developpement des Etats de l'Afrique Centrale (BDEAC)
  • Manu Dibango
    Manu Dibango
    -External links:*...

  • R. Jabea K. Dibongue
  • Henri Dikongué
    Henri Dikongué
    Henri Dikongué is a Cameroonian singer and guitarist.Dikongué was born in Douala to a family of musicians. He attended a school music in Paris, where he attempted unsuccessfully to release a first album...

  • Jean-Pierre Dikongué Pipa
    Jean-Pierre Dikongué Pipa
    Jean-Pierre Dikongué Pipa is a Cameroonian film director and writer. He produced Cameroon's first full-length feature film, Muna-Moto, in 1975...

  • Dimako
    Dimako
    Dimako is the name of a sub-division district and small town situated in Upper Nyong Division of the East Province of Cameroon, Africa. It lies a little way south of East Province capital of Bertoua. The local language is Kwakum, spoken by the population of around 10,000.National Road 10 passes...

  • Direct rule
    Direct Rule
    Direct rule was the term given, during the late 20th and early 21st centuries, to the administration of Northern Ireland directly from Westminster, seat of United Kingdom government...

     (Circonscription)
  • Direction Générale d'Etudes et de la Documentation (DIRDOC)
  • Departments of Cameroon
    Departments of Cameroon
    The Provinces of Cameroon are divided into 58 divisions or departments . The divisions are further sub-divided into sub-divisions and districts...

  • Dizangue
    Dizangue
    Dizangue is a village in the Littoral Province of Cameroon. It is located at around in the Sanaga-Maritime Division.-External links:*...

  • Dja Faunal Reserve
    Dja Faunal Reserve
    Dja Faunal Reserve, located in Cameroon, is a UNESCO World Heritage Site inscribed in 1987. Causes of inscription include diversity of species present in the park, the presence of five threatened species, and lack of disturbance within the park. The boundary that secludes the reserve is the Dja...

  • Eric Djemba-Djemba
    Eric Djemba-Djemba
    Eric Daniel Djemba-Djemba is a Cameroonian footballer who plays as a defensive midfielder for Danish side Odense BK and the Cameroon national football team. He has previously played club football in France, England and Qatar.-Nantes:...

  • Djoum
    Djoum
    - Maps :* ....

  • Charles Macpherson Dobell
    Charles Macpherson Dobell
    Lieutenant-General Sir Charles Macpherson Dobell KCB, CMG, DSO was a Canadian soldier who served with the Royal Welch Fusiliers of the British Army.-Education:...

  • Hans Dominik
    Hans Dominik
    Hans Dominik was a German colonial officer of the Schutztruppe . He was the long-time commander of the Jaunde military station in Kamerun.- Early life and career :...

  • Michel Doo Kingue
  • Douala
    Douala
    Douala is the largest city in Cameroon and the capital of Cameroon's Littoral Province. Home to Cameroon's largest port and its major international airport, Douala International Airport, it is the commercial capital of the country...

  • Douala International Airport
    Douala International Airport
    Douala International Airport is an international airport located 6 miles from Douala, the largest city in Cameroon and the capital of Cameroon's Littoral Province...

  • Rudolph Douala
  • Douala Stock Exchange
    Douala Stock Exchange
    The Douala Stock Exchange is the official market for securities in Cameroon. It is located in Douala.- History :...

  • Doual'art
    Doual'art
    doual'art is a no profit cultural organisation and art centre founded in 1991 in Douala, Cameroon and focussed on new urban practices of African cities....

  • Joseph-Charles Doumba
  • Jean-Joël Perrier-Doumbé
    Jean-Joël Perrier-Doumbé
    Jean-Joël Perrier-Doumbé is a French-born Cameroonian footballer who currently playing for Ligue 1 club Toulouse.-Early career:...

  • Ofir Drori
    Ofir Drori
    Ofir Drori is an Israeli activist based in Central Africa. He is the founder of LAGA - the Last Great Ape Organisation, an enforcement Non-Governmental Organization that fights corruption in order to bring about to the arrests and prosecutions of major wildlife criminals dealing in endangered...

  • Dschang
    Dschang
    Dschang is a city located in the West Province of Cameroon, with an estimated population of 87,000 in 2001, growing dramatically from 21,705 recorded in 1981. The 2006 Population is estimated to be 200,000 inhabitants....

  • Duala, Rulers of the
  • Duala language
    Duala language
    Duala is the language spoken by the Duala people of Cameroon. The language belonges to the Bantu language family, and a subgroup of it called the Duala languages...

  • Duala people
    Duala people
    The Duala are an ethnic group of Cameroon. They primarily inhabit the littoral region to the coast and form a portion of the Sawa, or Cameroonian coastal peoples...

  • Dugwor language
    Dugwor language
    Dugwor is an Afro-Asiatic language spoken in northern Cameroon.- References :* -External links:**...


E

  • East Cameroon (Cameroun Oriental)
  • East Region (Cameroon)
  • Eastern Region, Nigeria
    Eastern Region, Nigeria
    The Eastern Region was one of Nigeria's federal divisions, dating back originally from the division of the colony Southern Nigeria in 1954. Its capital was Enugu. The region was official divided in 1967 into three new states, East-Central State, Rivers State and South-Eastern State...

  • Karl Ebermaier
  • Ebolowa
    Ebolowa
    Ebolowa is the capital of Cameroon's South Province. It has a population of 79,500 . It is a colonial town and a notable agricultural centre.- Overview :The main crop is cocoa...

  • Fred Salle
    Fred Salle
    Frédéric Ebong-Salle, better known as Fred Salle is a retired athlete who specialized in the long jump. He represented England for most of his career, except for a period in the late 1980s and early 1990s when he represented Cameroon...

  • Samuel Eboua
  • Eco Guard
  • Economic Community of Central African States
    Economic Community of Central African States
    The Economic Community of Central African States is an Economic Community of the African Union for promotion of regional economic co-operation in Central Africa...

  • United Nations Economic and Social Council
    United Nations Economic and Social Council
    The Economic and Social Council of the United Nations constitutes one of the six principal organs of the United Nations and it is responsible for the coordination of the economic, social and related work of 14 UN specialized agencies, its functional commissions and five regional commissions...

  • Economic crisis of Cameroon
    Economic crisis of Cameroon
    The Cameroonian economic crisis was a downturn in the economy of Cameroon from the mid-1980s to the early 2000s. The crisis resulted in rising prices in Cameroon, trade deficits, and loss of government revenue. The government of Cameroon acknowledged the crisis in 1987. Outside observers and...

  • Economy of Cameroon
    Economy of Cameroon
    For a quarter-century following independence, Cameroon was one of the most prosperous countries in Africa. The drop in commodity prices for its principal exports —petroleum, cocoa, coffee, and cotton — in the mid-1980s, combined with an overvalued currency and economic mismanagement,...

  • Ecoregions in Cameroon, list of
  • Edéa
    Edéa
    Edéa is a city located in the Littoral Province, Cameroon by the Sanaga River and near the railroad line Douala-Yaoundé. It has a population of 122,300 . There are bauxite facilities, aluminium processing facility, steel processing facility, timber facilities, paper facilities and some water...

  • Education in Cameroon
    Education in Cameroon
    Education in Cameroon is among the best in Africa.-Primary and secondary school:Education is compulsory through the age of 14 years. Primary school education has been free since 2000; however, families must pay for uniforms and book fees. Tuition and fees at the secondary school level remain...

  • Titus Edzoa
    Titus Edzoa
    Titus Edzoa is a Cameroonian politician. He served as Secretary-General of the Presidency of the Republic and Minister of Public Health before announcing his candidacy for the 1997 presidential election; subsequently he was sentenced to 15 years imprisonment for embezzlement of public funds.In...

  • L'Effort Camerounais
  • Emmanuel Egbe-Tabi
  • Eid ul-Fitr
    Eid ul-Fitr
    Eid ul-Fitr, Eid al-Fitr, Id-ul-Fitr, or Id al-Fitr , often abbreviated to Eid, is a Muslim holiday that marks the end of Ramadan, the Islamic holy month of fasting . Eid is an Arabic word meaning "festivity," while Fiṭr means "breaking the fast"...

  • Nzo Ekangaki
    Nzo Ekangaki
    Nzo Ekangaki was a Cameroonian political figure. He served as the Secretary-General of the Organization of African Unity from 1972 to 1974....

  • Eugène Ekéké
    Eugène Ekeke
    Eugène Ekéké is a former Cameroonian footballer. He appeared for Cameroon at the 1990 World Cup in Italy. He famously scored to give Cameroon the lead against England in the quarter finals, before eventually losing 3-2....

  • Catherine Eko
  • Ekoi people
    Ekoi people
    Ekoi people, also known as Ejagham, are an ethnic group in the extreme southeast of Nigeria and extending eastward into Northern Cameroon. Ekoid Bantu languages are spoken by many groups, including the Atam, Boki, Mbembe, Ufia, and Yako...

  • Ekoid languages
    Ekoid languages
    The Ekoid languages are a dialect cluster, such as Ekajuk and Ejagham , spoken principally in southeastern Nigeria and in adjacent regions of Cameroon. They have long been associated with the Bantu languages, without their status being precisely defined...

  • Thierry Ekwalla
    Thierry Ekwalla
    Thierry Ekwalla is a Cameroonian professional footballer who plays for A.C.D. Città di Concordia.He had started is career in Italy, first playing in the youth teams of Treviso F.B.C. and as a senior between 2002 and 2004 with Venezia A.C.. Ekwalla had a spell in Serbia with FK Čukarički Stankom...

  • Joseph Elanga
    Joseph Elanga
    Joseph Elanga Fils is a Cameroonian football defender. He is currently a Free agent-Club career:After leaving Cameroon in 1998 Elanga started his European career in Greece playing for PAOK and Apollon Kalamarias. After a year in each club Elanga left Greece in 2000 to transfer to Swedish club...

  • Namata Henry Elangwe
  • Elections in Cameroon
    Elections in Cameroon
    Elections in Cameroon gives information on election and election results in Cameroon.Cameroon elects, on a national level, a head of state - the president - and a legislature. The president is elected for a seven year term by the people; a two-term limit on the office was removed through a...

  • Mbonda Elie
    Mbonda Elie
    Mbonda Elie is a politician in Cameroon. He is also a member of the Pan-African Parliament where Elie is a member of the Health, Labor and Social Affairs Committee. While not in politics, Elie is a member of the faculty at University of Yaoundé.-References:...

  • Essomba Tsoungui Elie Victor
    Essomba Tsoungui Elie Victor
    Essomba Tsoungui Elie Victor is a member of the Pan-African Parliament from Cameroon.-References:...

  • George Elokobi
    George Elokobi
    George Nganyuo Elokobi is a Cameroonian footballer who plays as a defender for English Premier League club Wolverhampton Wanderers....

  • Jacques Elong Elong
    Jacques Elong Elong
    Jacques Aurelien Elong Elong is a Cameroonian football player who plays for Esteghlal in the Iran Pro League. He usually plays in the Defensive Midfielder position.-Club career:...

  • Achille Emana
    Achille Emana
    Achille Emana Edzimbi , known as Emana, is a Cameroonian footballer who plays for Al-Hilal FC in Saudi Arabia, as an attacking midfielder.-Toulouse:...

  • Embassy of Cameroon in Moscow
    Embassy of Cameroon in Moscow
    The Embassy of Cameroon in Moscow is the diplomatic mission of Cameroon in the Russian Federation. It is located at 40 Povarskaya Street in the Arbat district of Moscow.-See also:*Diplomatic missions of Cameroon* Cameroon–Russia relations...

  • Embassy of Cameroon in Washington, D.C.
    Embassy of Cameroon in Washington, D.C.
    The Embassy of Cameroon in Washington, D.C., also known as the Christian Hauge House, is the diplomatic mission of the Republic of Cameroon to the United States...

  • David Embé
    David Embé
    Jacques-David Embé is a former Cameroonian soccer player who played as Striker.He played in various countries throughout his career, including for Belenenses of Portugal, Larissa of Greece, Tecos UAG of Mexico, Shanghai Shenhua of China, Deportivo Municipal of Peru, Chernomorets Novorossiysk of...

  • Emblem of Cameroon
    Emblem of Cameroon
    The Coat of arms of Cameroon consists of a shield with a banner above and below it. Behind the shield are two crossed fasces. The shield has the same color pattern as the flag of Cameroon, and in the center is a map of the nation. The scales of justice are superimposed on top of the map of the...

  • Emia-Ema Constitution
  • E. M. L. Endeley
    E. M. L. Endeley
    Emmanuel Mbela Lifafa Endeley was a Cameroonian politician who led Southern Cameroonian representatives out of the Eastern Nigerian House of Assembly in Enugu and negotiated the creation of the autonomous region of Southern Cameroons in 1954....

  • Joël Epalle
  • Equatorial Guinea
    Equatorial Guinea
    Equatorial Guinea, officially the Republic of Equatorial Guinea where the capital Malabo is situated.Annobón is the southernmost island of Equatorial Guinea and is situated just south of the equator. Bioko island is the northernmost point of Equatorial Guinea. Between the two islands and to the...

  • Espérance FC
    Espérance FC
    Espérance FC is a Cameroonian football club based in Guider. They are a member of Fédération Camerounaise de Football. Their home stadium is Stade Municipal de Guider.-Notable players: Eric Djedomoum Francisco Mbome...

  • Laurent Esso
    Laurent Esso
    Laurent Esso is a Cameroonian politician who has held a succession of key posts under President Paul Biya since 1988. He was Minister of Justice from 1996 to 2000, Minister of Public Health from 2000 to 2001, Minister of Defense from 2001 to 2004, and Minister of Foreign Affairs from 2004 to 2006...

  • Jean Pierre Essome
    Jean Pierre Essome
    Jean Pierre Essome is a Cameroonian musician and actor. He is known for his makossa music. Essome is featured in the movie Before the Sunrise, released in Cameroon and Nigeria.-External links:...

  • William-Aurelian Eteky Mboumoua
  • Ethnic conflict in Cameroon
  • Etoko, Cameroon
    Etoko, Cameroon
    Etoko is a village in Cameroon located 27 miles from Mamfe town, 65 miles from Bamenda town....

  • Samuel Eto'o
    Samuel Eto'o
    Samuel Eto'o Fils is a Cameroonian professional footballer who plays as a striker for Russian team Anzhi Makhachkala. He is also the current captain of the Cameroon national team.Eto'o trained at Kadji Sports Academy...

  • European Economic Community
    European Economic Community
    The European Economic Community The European Economic Community (EEC) The European Economic Community (EEC) (also known as the Common Market in the English-speaking world, renamed the European Community (EC) in 1993The information in this article primarily covers the EEC's time as an independent...

     (EEC)
  • Évolué
    Évolué
    Évolué is a French term used in the colonial era to refer to native Africans and Asians who had "evolved", through education or assimilation, and accepted European values and patterns of behavior...

  • Ewale a Mbedi
    Ewale a Mbedi
    Ewale a Mbedi was the eponymous ancestor of the Duala people of Cameroon . According to the oral histories of the Duala and related Sawa peoples of the Cameroon coast, Ewale hailed from a place called Piti. He and his followers migrated southwest to the coast and settled at the present-day location...

  • Ewonde a Kwane
    Ewonde a Kwane
    Ewonde a Kwane was a Duala ruler of the Bonambela/Akwa lineage who lived in Douala on the Wouri River . Ewonde was the son of the powerful chief Kwane a Ngie . Ewonde died early, causing a secession crisis in Bonambela...

  • Ewondo
    Beti-Pahuin
    The Beti-Pahuin are a group of related peoples who inhabit the rain forest regions of Cameroon, Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, and São Tomé and Príncipe. Though they separate themselves into several individual ethnic groups, they all share a common history and culture. They were...

  • Ewondo language
    Ewondo language
    Ewondo is the language of the Ewondo people of Cameroon. The language had 577,700 native speakers in 1982. Ewondo is a trade language. Dialects include Badjia , Bafeuk, Bamvele , Bane, Beti, Enoah, Evouzok, Fong, Mbida-Bani, Mvete, Mvog-Niengue, Omvang, Yabekolo , Yabeka, and Yabekanga...

  • L'Expression de Mamy-Wata
    L'Expression de Mamy-Wata
    L'Expression de Mamy-Wata, often referred to as simply Mamy-Wata, is a weekly satirical newspaper published in Cameroon by the media company La Nouvelle Expression. The paper is written in French peppered with loan words from Cameroonian Pidgin English. In 1999, it had a weekly circulation of 4,000...


F

  • Nana Falemi
    Nana Falemi
    Ngassam Nana Falemi is a Romania-born, Cameroonian football player who last played for Gaz Metan Mediaş in Romania's Liga I...

  • Fali languages (Cameroon)
  • Fang
  • Fang language
    Fang language
    Fang is the dominant Bantu language of Gabon and Equatorial Guinea. It is related to the Bulu and Ewondo languages of southern Cameroon. Fang is spoken in northern Gabon, southern Cameroon, and throughout Equatorial Guinea. Shakira used this language in her song, "Waka Waka .".There are many...

  • Far North Region (Cameroon)
  • Faro National Park
    Faro National Park
    Faro National Park is a national park in Cameroon's North Province. It covers an area of and is close to the Nigerian border, surrounded on the eastern side by several hunting reserves. It is home to cheetahs, black rhinoceros, elephants, and is known for its colonies of hippopotamuses....

  • Fe'fe' language
    Fe'fe' language
    Fe'fe or Fe'efe'e, also known as Nufi and Bafang, is a Southern Bantoid language spoken in Cameroon, around the town of Bafang.-External links:*****...

  • Federal Inspector of Administration
  • Federal National Assembly of Cameroon
  • Fédération Camerounaise de Football
    Fédération Camerounaise de Football
    The Fédération Camerounaise de Football is the governing body of football in Cameroon.- External links :* * at the FIFA website.* at CAF Online...

  • Fertile Crescent (Cameroon)
  • Lake Fianga
    Lake Fianga
    Lake Fianga is a lake in Chad and Cameroon. It does not have clearly delineated borders, as it forms the western border of an area of permanent swampland. The lake forms with the seasonal flooding of the Logone River....

  • List of Cameroonian films
  • Firewood in Cameroon
  • First School Leaving Certificate (FSLC)
  • Flag of Cameroon
    Flag of Cameroon
    The national flag of Cameroon was adopted in its present form on 20 May 1975 after Cameroon became a unitary state. It is a vertical tricolor of green, red and yellow, defaced with a five-pointed star in its center...

  • Jean Fochive
  • Marc-Vivien Foé
    Marc-Vivien Foé
    Marc-Vivien Foé was a Cameroonian international footballer, who played in midfield for both club and country. With success in the French League, and stints in the English Premier League, his sudden death, while in the middle of an international competitive fixture, came as a shock to the worldwide...

  • Fon (Cameroon)
    Fon (Cameroon)
    A fon is a chieftain or king of a region of Cameroon, especially among the Tikar and Bamiléké peoples of the Bamenda grassfields . Though once independent rulers, most fons were brought under the German rule or military subjugation during the colonial period...

  • John Ngu Foncha
    John Ngu Foncha
    John Ngu Foncha was a Cameroonian politician.He founded the Kamerun National Democratic Party in 1955 and became Premier of the British Cameroons on 1 February 1959...

  • Fonds d'Aide et de Cooperation; Fonds d'Investissement pour le Developpement Economique et Social des Territoires d'Outremer (FIDES
    Fides
    In Roman religion, Fides was the goddess of trust.Her temple on the Capitol was where the Roman Senate signed and kept state treaties with foreign countries, and where Fides protected them....

    )
  • Bernard Nsokika Fonlon; Bernard Fonlon
    Bernard Fonlon
    Bernard Nsokika Fonlon was a government minister and leading intellectual of Cameroon.He was born in Kumbo, Nso, Northwest Province, and was educated at Christ the King College in Nigeria, then entered the Bigard Memorial Seminary with the intent of going into the priesthood...

  • Food self-sufficiency in Cameroon
  • Football in Cameroon
    Football in Cameroon
    The most popular sport in Cameroon is clearly football. The national team is traditionally one of the strongest teams on the African continent. They have participated in the World Cup 5 times, and in 1990 they reached the quarter-finals. It took extra time before England won the game 3-2. They...

  • Football clubs in Cameroon, list of
  • Forced labour in Cameroon
  • Foreign policy of Cameroon
  • Foreign relations of Cameroon
    Foreign relations of Cameroon
    Cameroon's noncontentious, low-profile approach to foreign relations puts it squarely in the middle of other African and developing country states on major issues. It supports the principles of noninterference in the affairs of third world countries and increased assistance to underdeveloped...

  • Andre Fouda
  • Foumban
    Foumban
    Foumban or Fumban is a city in Cameroon, lying north east of Bafoussam. It has a population of 83,522 . It is a major town for the Bamoun people and is home to a museum of traditional arts and culture...

  • Foumban Conference
  • Joseph Foumbi
    Joseph Foumbi
    Joseph Foumbi is a senior United Nations official working for the United Nations Children's Fund .Born in 1955, Cameroonian by origin, he spent most of his life in France and the USA....

  • Fovu Baham
    Fovu Baham
    Fovu Baham is a Cameroonian football club based in Baham. They are a member of Fédération Camerounaise de Football. Their home stadium is Stade de Baham...

  • CFA franc
    CFA franc
    The CFA franc is the name of two currencies used in Africa which are guaranteed by the French treasury. The two CFA franc currencies are the West African CFA franc and the Central African CFA franc...

  • France
    France
    The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...

  • Franco-African Summit
  • Francophone Cameroonian
  • Francophone Summit
  • Organisation internationale de la Francophonie
  • Freedom of religion in Cameroon
    Freedom of religion in Cameroon
    The Constitution of Cameroon provides for freedom of religion, and the Government generally respected this right in practice. Government policy contributes to the generally free practice of religion. There were no reports of societal abuses and discrimination based on religious belief or practice...

  • Cameroun
    Cameroun
    Cameroun was a French and British mandate territory in central Africa, now constituting the majority of the territory of the Republic of Cameroon....

  • French Equatorial Africa
    French Equatorial Africa
    French Equatorial Africa or the AEF was the federation of French colonial possessions in Middle Africa, extending northwards from the Congo River to the Sahara Desert.-History:...

  • French language in Cameroon
  • Front National Unifié (FNU)
  • Front of Allies for Change (FAC)
  • Front Populaire de l'Unité et la Paix (FPUP)
  • John Fru Ndi
    John Fru Ndi
    Ni John Fru Ndi is the founder and leader of Cameroon's Social Democratic Front .Fru Ndi was born in Baba II, near Bamenda in the Northwest Province of Cameroon. The title of Ni, a marker of respect, was given to him when he was born...

  • FS d'Akonolinga
    FS d'Akonolinga
    Foudre Sportive d'Akonolinga is a Cameroonian football club based in Akonolinga. They are a member of Fédération Camerounaise de Football....

  • Fufu
    Fufu
    Fufu, , is a staple snack of West and Central Africa. It is a thick paste usually made by boiling starchy root vegetables in water and pounding with a mortar and pestle until the desired consistency is reached...

    ; Couscous
    Couscous
    Couscous is a Berber dish of semolina traditionally served with a meat or vegetable stew spooned over it. Couscous is a staple food throughout Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia.-Etymology:...

  • Fula language
    Fula language
    The Fula or Fulani language is a language of West Africa. It is spoken as a first language by the and related groups from Senegambia and Guinea to Cameroon and Sudan...

  • Fula people
    Fula people
    Fula people or Fulani or Fulbe are an ethnic group spread over many countries, predominantly in West Africa, but found also in Central Africa and Sudanese North Africa...

  • Sokoto Caliphate
  • Fulani War
    Fulani War
    The Fulani War of 1804-1810, also known as the Fulani Jihad or Jihad of Usman dan Fodio, was a military conquest in present day Nigeria and Cameroon. Expelled from Gobir by his former student Yunfa in 1802, Islamic reformer Usman dan Fodio assembled a Fulani army to lead in jihad against the Hausa...

  • Joseph Jackson Fuller
    Joseph Jackson Fuller
    The Rev. Joseph Jackson Fuller , Baptist missionary to the pre-colonial African Chiefdoms of the Cameroons was one of the earliest slaves to be freed in Jamaica who went on to become well-educated and travel internationally...


G

  • Gabon
    Gabon
    Gabon , officially the Gabonese Republic is a state in west central Africa sharing borders with Equatorial Guinea to the northwest, Cameroon to the north, and with the Republic of the Congo curving around the east and south. The Gulf of Guinea, an arm of the Atlantic Ocean is to the west...

  • Vincent Ganty
  • Garoua
    Garoua
    Garoua is the capital of the North Province of Cameroon, lying on the Benue River. The city had 235,996 inhabitants at the 2005 Census, and is an important river port.- Overview :...

  • Garri
    Garri
    Garri is a popular West African food made from cassava tubers. The spelling 'garri' is mainly used in Nigeria, Cameroon, Sierra Leone and 'gari' in Ghana....

     (tapioca
    Tapioca
    Tapioca is a starch extracted Manihot esculenta. This species, native to the Amazon, Brazil, Colombia, Venezuela, Cuba, Puerto Rico, Haiti, the Dominican Republic, Honduras, and most of the West Indies, is now cultivated worldwide and has many names, including cassava, manioc, aipim,...

    )
  • Gavar language
    Gavar language
    Gavar is an Afro-Asiatic language spoken in Cameroon in Far North Province.- References :* * *...

  • LGBT rights in Cameroon
  • Gendarmerie
    Gendarmerie
    A gendarmerie or gendarmery is a military force charged with police duties among civilian populations. Members of such a force are typically called "gendarmes". The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary describes a gendarme as "a soldier who is employed on police duties" and a "gendarmery, -erie" as...

  • General Certificate of Education
    General Certificate of Education
    The General Certificate of Education or GCE is an academic qualification that examination boards in the United Kingdom and a few of the Commonwealth countries, notably Sri Lanka, confer to students. The GCE traditionally comprised two levels: the Ordinary Level and the Advanced Level...

     (GCE)
  • General Confederation of Free Workers of Cameroon (CGTLC)
  • Geography of Cameroon
    Geography of Cameroon
    At , Cameroon is the world's 54th-largest country. It is comparable in size to Papua New Guinea, and somewhat larger than the U.S. state of California...

  • George (Duala king)
    George (Duala king)
    George or Joss, born Doo a Makongo or Doo a Mukonga, was a king of the Duala people in the late 18th century. Doo a Makongo was the son of Makongo a Njo. He lived at Douala on the Wouri estuary on the coast of Cameroon. By 1788–1790, Doo was a powerful ruler in the area...

  • Sampson A. George
  • German West Africa Company
  • Germany
    Germany
    Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...

  • Ghost town operations
  • Glavda language
    Glavda language
    Glavda is an Afro-Asiatic language spoken in Borno State, Nigeria and in Far North Province, Cameroon.-References:***...

  • Otto Gleim
  • Goni Waday
  • Governor (Cameroon)
  • Grand Batanga
    Grand Batanga
    Grand Batanga is a coastal village in the South Province of Cameroon. It lies about halfway between the port of Kribi and the Guinea border to the south.- Iron Ore :...

  • Grand Débat
  • Grand Prix Chantal Biya
    Grand Prix Chantal Biya
    Grand Prix Chantal Biya is a professional road bicycle racing stage race held in Cameroon and sponsored by the Fédération Camerounaise de Cyclisme/Ateba Koungou. The race is named in honor of Chantal Biya, the First Lady of Cameroon as wife of President Paul Biya.-Winners:-External links:*...

  • Grassfields (Cameroon)
  • Great Britain
    Great Britain
    Great Britain or Britain is an island situated to the northwest of Continental Europe. It is the ninth largest island in the world, and the largest European island, as well as the largest of the British Isles...

  • Green Revolution
    Green Revolution
    Green Revolution refers to a series of research, development, and technology transfer initiatives, occurring between the 1940s and the late 1970s, that increased agriculture production around the world, beginning most markedly in the late 1960s....

  • George Grenfell
    George Grenfell
    George Grenfell was an Cornish missionary and explorer.-Early years:...

  • Groupe de Huit
  • Groupe des Progressistes
  • Gude language
    Gude language
    Gude is an Afro-Asiatic language spoken in Nigeria in Adamawa State in Mubi LGA and in Borno State in Askira-Uba LGA. It is also spoken in neighboring Cameroon. Different dialects are spoken in Nigeria and Cameroon.-References:*...

  • Guider
    Guider
    Guider is a city situated in Cameroon's North Province, close to the border with Chad. It has a population of 110,240. The city is home to Espérance FC of the Cameroon Premiere Division.- References :*...

  • Gvoko language
    Gvoko language
    Gvoko is an Afro-Asiatic language spoken in Borno State, Nigeria and Far North Province, Cameroon.-External links:**...


H

  • Hamadjoda Adjoudji
    Hamadjoda Adjoudji
    Hamadjoda Adjoudji is a Cameroonian politician. He served in the government of Cameroon as Minister of Animal Husbandry, Fishing, and Animal Industries from 1984 to 2004. Currently he is a Deputy Secretary-General of the Central Committee of the Cameroon People's Democratic Movement .Hamadjoda was...

  • Souleymanou Hamidou
    Souleymanou Hamidou
    Souleymanou Hamidou is a Cameroonian football goalkeeper.-International career:He was a member of the Cameroonian 2006 African Nations Cup team, who exited in the quarter-finals. He was again called up to the Cameroon squad for the 2010 FIFA World Cup, where he has so far been the starting...

  • Hanno the Navigator
    Hanno the Navigator
    Hanno the Navigator was a Carthaginian explorer c. 500 BC, best known for his naval exploration of the African coast...

  • Harmonisation (Cameroon); Service d'equivalence
  • Hauts Plateaux Division
    Hauts Plateaux Division
    Hauts Plateaux is a division of West Province in Cameroon. It is administered from Baham.The division was created in 1995 when the Mifi Division was split up....

  • Hayatu ibn Sa'id
  • List of heads of government of British Cameroons
  • List of heads of government of Cameroon
  • List of heads of government of French Cameroon
  • List of heads of state of Cameroon
  • Edward H. Hewett
  • High Court of Justice (Cameroon)
    High Court of Justice (Cameroon)
    The High Court of Justice is a political court in Cameroon. The court judges high-ranking members of the government of Cameroon, including the president, prime minister, ministers, and vice ministers, in the event that they are charged with high treason or conspiracy against national security...

  • Etienne Hollong
  • John Holt (businessman)
    John Holt (businessman)
    John Holt was an English merchant, who founded a shipping line operating between Liverpool and West Africa, and a number of businesses in Nigeria, which are now incorporated in John Holt plc....

  • Holy Ghost Fathers
    Holy Ghost Fathers
    The Congregation of the Holy Spirit is a Roman Catholic congregation of priests, lay brothers, and since Vatican II, lay associates...

  • Houseboy (novel)
  • Jeffery Hughes
  • Human rights in Cameroon
    Human rights in Cameroon
    Human rights in Cameroon are addressed in the constitution. However, the 2009 Human Rights Report by the United States Department of State noted concerns in regards to election irregularities, security forces torture and arbitrary arrests.-Issues:...

  • Human Rights Defence Group
  • Hya language
    Hya language
    Hya is an Afro-Asiatic language spoken in northern Cameroon and neighboring regions of Nigeria.-External links:**...

  • Hydroelectricity in Cameroon

I

  • Mohammadou Idrissou
    Mohammadou Idrissou
    Mohammadou Idrissou is a Cameroonian football player who currently plays for German club Eintracht Frankfurt.- Club career :On the last day of the summer transfer window 2011, he moved to 2...

  • Igbo people
    Igbo people
    Igbo people, also referred to as the Ibo, Ebo, Eboans or Heebo are an ethnic group living chiefly in southeastern Nigeria. They speak Igbo, which includes various Igboid languages and dialects; today, a majority of them speak English alongside Igbo as a result of British colonialism...

  • Igbo language
    Igbo language
    Igbo , or Igbo proper, is a native language of the Igbo people, an ethnic group primarily located in southeastern Nigeria. There are approximately 20 million speakers that are mostly in Nigeria and are primarily of Igbo descent. Igbo is a national language of Nigeria. It is written in the Latin...

  • Salle Ibrahim
  • Jean Ikellé-Matiba
    Jean Ikellé-Matiba
    Jean Ikellé-Matiba was a Cameroonian writer born in the Sanaga-Maritime division, Littoral Province, Cameroon. She studied in Paris and worked both in France and Germany.- Notable works :...

  • Impôts FC
    Impôts FC
    Impôts FC is a Cameroonian football club based in Yaoundé. They are a member of Fédération Camerounaise de Football.The club was relegated from Cameroon Premiere Division in 2006-Performance in CAF competitions:*CAF Confederation Cup: 1 appearance...

  • Indigénat
    Indigénat
    The Code de l'indigénat was a set of laws creating, in practice, an inferior legal status for natives of French Colonies from 1887 until 1944–1947. First put in place in Algeria, it was applied across the French Colonial Empire in 1887–1889...

  • Indirect rule
    Indirect rule
    Indirect rule was a system of government that was developed in certain British colonial dependencies...

  • Indomitable Lions
  • Ephraïm Inoni
    Ephraïm Inoni
    Ephraïm Inoni is a Cameroonian politician who was Prime Minister of Cameroon from 2004 to 2009. He was a long-time aide of President Paul Biya and is a member of the ruling Cameroon People's Democratic Movement...

  • Interministerial Committee on Intelligence
  • International Monetary Fund
    International Monetary Fund
    The International Monetary Fund is an organization of 187 countries, working to foster global monetary cooperation, secure financial stability, facilitate international trade, promote high employment and sustainable economic growth, and reduce poverty around the world...

     (IMF)
  • International Relations Institute of Cameroon
    International Relations Institute of Cameroon
    The International Relations Institute of Cameroon is one of the five Institutions of the University of Yaoundé II; it was created by decree of President Ahmadou Ahidjo on 24 April 1971. The organization of studies at the IRIC was renovated in 1993. Up until then, the Institute essentially focused...

  • Investment code
  • Guy Ipoua
    Guy Ipoua
    Guy Ipoua is an Cameroonian footballer who has played for Oryx Douala and a string of British and Continental clubs. His elder brother Samuel Ipoua represented Cameroon at the 1998 World Cup....

  • Samuel Ipoua
    Samuel Ipoua
    Samuel Ipoua Hamben is a former Cameroonian football player.He played for several European clubs, including OGC Nice , A.C. Torino , Rapid Vienna , Toulouse FC , FSV Mainz, TSV 1860 München and LR Ahlen in Germany...

  • La Isla misteriosa y el capitán Nemo
    La Isla misteriosa y el capitán Nemo
    L'Ile Mysterieuse / La Isla misteriosa y el capitán Nemo / Die Geheimnisvolle Insel is a 1973 European TV miniseries production adapted from Jules Verne's novel L'Île mystérieuse. It was later re-edited into a 96 minute motion picture for theatrical release...

  • Islam in Cameroon
    Islam in Cameroon
    Muslims comprise roughly 24 percent of the 21 million inhabitants in the African country of Cameroon. The Fulani, a pastoral nomadic group, spread Islam in early 19th century West Africa largely through commercial activity and Sufi brotherhoods . In the northern provinces, the locally dominant...

  • Issa Bakary
  • Isubu
    Isubu
    The Isubu are an ethnic group who inhabit part of the coast of Cameroon. Along with other coastal peoples, they belong to Cameroon's Sawa ethnic groups. They were one of the earliest Cameroonian peoples to make contact with Europeans, and over two centuries, they became influential traders and...

  • Johannes Ittman
  • Imbia Sylvester Itoe
    Imbia Sylvester Itoe
    -References:...


J

  • Eugene Jamot
    Eugene Jamot
    Eugène Jamot was a French entomologist who played a major role in the prevention of sleeping sickness in Cameroun. He was born in the hamlet of La Borie, part of the commune of Saint-Sulpice-les-Champs, in the Creuse département of central France. Jamot trained as a medical doctor at the...

  • Jantzen & Thormählen
    Jantzen & Thormählen
    Jantzen & Thormählen was a German firm based on Hamburg that was established to exploit the resources of Cameroon. The firm's commercial and political influence was a major factor in the establishment of the colony of Kamerun in 1884.-Coastal trade:...

  • Jaunde-Texte von Karl Atangana und Paul Messi
    Jaunde-Texte von Karl Atangana und Paul Messi
    Jaunde-Texte von Karl Atangana und Paul Messi is a book written by Karl Atangana and Paul Messi and edited by linguist Martin Heppe. Atangana compiled the book while living in Hamburg, Germany, from 1911 to 1913. It consists of his letters and of the folklore and oral history he had learned as a...

  • Jengu
    Jengu
    A jengu is a water spirit and deity in the traditional beliefs of the Sawa ethnic groups of Cameroon, particularly the Duala, Bakweri, and related Sawa peoples. Among the Bakweri, the name is liengu...

  • Jeunesse Camerounaise Française (JEUCAFRA)
  • Jeunesse Démocratique Camerounaise (JDC)
  • Jihad
    Jihad
    Jihad , an Islamic term, is a religious duty of Muslims. In Arabic, the word jihād translates as a noun meaning "struggle". Jihad appears 41 times in the Quran and frequently in the idiomatic expression "striving in the way of God ". A person engaged in jihad is called a mujahid; the plural is...

  • Jimi language (Cameroon)
    Jimi language (Cameroon)
    Jimi is an Afro-Asiatic language spoken in Cameroon in Far North Province on the Nigerian border in and around Bourrha. Dialects are Djimi, Jimo, Malabu, Wadi, and Zumo. ISO 639-3 refers to this Jimi as to distinguish it from the West Chadic Jimi .-External links:**...

  • Joseph-Désiré Job
  • Thomas Job
    Thomas Job
    Thomas Hervè Job-Iyock is a Cameroonian footballer currently playing in Italy for Cittadella.-Club career:Job began his career in Italy with Sampdoria, making one appearance for the club in the 2001-02 season in Serie B, when he came on as a second half substitute on 2 June 2002 in a 1-0 home...

  • Joint Proclamation
  • Augustin Ngom Jua

K

  • Axelle Kabou
    Axelle Kabou
    Axelle Kabou is a Cameroonian journalist, author and development specialist. She studied economy and communication and has been working for development aid. Her 1991 book Et si l'Afrique refusait le developpement is well-known and discussed...

  • Kadéï River
    Kadéï River
    The Kadéï River is a tributary of the Sangha River that flows through Cameroon and the Central African Republic. Its total drainage basin is 24,000 km². The river rises from the eastern Adamawa Plateau, southeast of Garoua-Boulaï |East Province]]. The Kadéï is swelled by two tributaries, the...

  • Kadji Sports Academy
    Kadji Sports Academy
    Kadji Sport Academies is a sports academy and association football team from Békoko, Douala in Cameroon. The academy was founded by Gilbert Kadji....

  • Kaélé
    Kaélé
    Kaélé is a town in Cameroon's Far North Province, on the Diamaré Plain at . It lies near the Chadian border and 104 km south of Maroua. The town has a population of roughly 7,000 and is the capital of the Mayo Kani division. The cottonseed oil company Diamaor runs a mill there. Kaélé is...

  • Kaïssa
    Kaïssa
    Kaïssa is a Cameroon born world musician. She moved to Paris with her family at thirteen and to New York City in 1996. Kaissa worked on stage and/or in studio with Salif Keita, Manu Dibango, Kofi Olomide, Papa Wemba, Cesária Évora, Martha Wash, Diana Ross, Paul Simon and others...

  • Kako language
    Kako language
    Kako or Mkako or Mkaka, is a Bantu language spoken mainly in Cameroon, but also has speakers in the Central African Republic and Congo. The main population centers of Kako speakers includes Batouri and Ndélélé in the East Region of Cameroon....

  • P. M. Kale
  • Simone Kaljob
    Simone Kaljob
    Simone Kaljob is a footballer from Cameroon and has played for the Cameroon national team.Kaljob, a midfielder, joined Torquay United on trial on July 13, 2000. He had previously been playing in Austria and had played twice for the Cameroon national side...

  • Raymond Kalla
    Raymond Kalla
    Raymond Koned Kalla Nkongo , known as Kalla, is a retired Cameroonian footballer who played as a central defender....

  • Samuel Kame
  • Idriss Carlos Kameni
    Idriss Carlos Kameni
    Idriss Carlos Kameni is a Cameroonian footballer who plays for RCD Espanyol in the Spanish first division, as a goalkeeper.-France:...

  • Mathurin Kameni
    Mathurin Kameni
    Mathurin Kameni is a Cameroonian footballer who plays for Haras El Hodood in Egypt, as a goalkeeper.-Football career:...

  • Kamerun
    Kamerun
    German Cameroon was a West African colony of the German Empire from 1884 to 1916 in the region of today's Republic of Cameroon.-History:-1800s:...

  • Kamerun National Congress (KNC)
  • Kamerun National Democratic Party
    Kamerun National Democratic Party
    Kamerun National Democratic Party was a pro-independence political party active in Southern Cameroons during the period of British Mandate rule.-Pre-independence:The KNDP was formed in 1955 by John Ngu Foncha...

     (KNDP)
  • Kamerun United National Congress (KUNC)
  • Kamerun United Party (KUP)
  • Daniel Kamwa
    Daniel Kamwa
    Daniel Kamwa is a filmmaker and actor from Nkongsamba, Cameroon. He studied drama in Paris, France, before producing his first film, Boubou-cravate, in 1973.-Filmography as director:*Boubou-cravate, director...

  • Kanem-Bornu Empire
    Kanem-Bornu Empire
    The Kanem-Bornu Empire existed in modern Chad and Nigeria. It was known to the Arabian geographers as the Kanem Empire from the 9th century AD onward and lasted as the independent kingdom of Bornu until 1900. At its height it encompassed an area covering not only much of Chad, but also parts of...

  • Kanuri people
  • Victor Kanga
  • Kanuri language
    Kanuri language
    Kanuri is a dialect continuum spoken by some four million people, as of 1987, in Nigeria, Niger, Chad and Cameroon, as well as small minorities in southern Libya and by a diaspora in Sudan. It belongs to the Western Saharan subphylum of Nilo-Saharan...

  • Kenya Airways Flight 507
    Kenya Airways Flight 507
    Kenya Airways Flight 507 was a scheduled Abidjan–Douala–Nairobi passenger service, operated with a Boeing 737-8AL, that crashed in the initial stage of its second leg on , immediately after takeoff from Douala International Airport...

  • Kilum-Ijim Forest
    Kilum-Ijim Forest
    The Kilum-Ijim Forest is an area of mountain rainforest in Cameroon's North-West Region. It is found on Mount Oku and the nearby Ijim Ridge in the Cameroon mountains, with Lake Oku lying in a crater in its center. It is the largest area of Afromontane forest left in West Africa. The area is an...

  • Emmanuel Kita Kejuo
  • Abel Kingue
  • Kirdi
    Kirdi
    The Kirdi are is a term that describes some many cultures and ethnic groups who inhabit northwestern Cameroon and northeastern Nigeria.The term was applied to various peoples who had not converted to Islam at the time of colonization and was a pejorative, although some writers have reappropriated it...

  • Eduard von Knorr
    Eduard von Knorr
    Ernst Wilhelm Eduard von Knorr was a German admiral of the Kaiserliche Marine who helped establish the German colonial empire.-Life:...

  • Augustin Frédéric Kodock
    Augustin Frédéric Kodock
    Augustin Frédéric Kodock was a Cameroonian politician who has been Secretary-General of the Union of the Peoples of Cameroon since 1991. He worked in Cameroon's state administration during the 1960s and then worked at the African Development Bank through the 1970s...

  • Koko Komégné
    Koko Komégné
    Koko Komégné is a visual artist based in Douala and he is a promoter of the contemporary art scene in Cameroon.- Life and career :Koko Komégné was born in 1950 in Batoufam. In 1956 he moves to Yaoundé where he attends school and he starts drawing and listening to all sorts of musics...

  • Kol language (Cameroon)
    Kol language (Cameroon)
    Kol is a Niger–Congo language of the Bantu family. According to the , it is spoken in the East Province of Cameroon, in the vicinity of Messaména. Alternate names for Kol language include Bikele-Bikay, Bikele-Bikeng, Bekol.-Further reading:...

  • Kom people (Cameroon)
  • Kom language
    Kom language
    The Kom language, Itaŋikom, is the language spoken by the Kom people of Cameroon. Schultz 1997a and Schutz 1997b contain a comprehensive description of the language's grammar.Kom is a tonal language with three tones.-References:*...

  • Yaphet Koppo
  • Korup National Park
    Korup National Park
    Korup National Park is in the Southwest Province of Cameroon and extends over 1,260 km2 of mostly undisturbed primary forest. It is reputedly one of Africa’s oldest and richest rainforests in terms of floral and faunal diversity. It is the most accessible rainforest national park in Cameroon...

  • Kotoko kingdom
    Kotoko kingdom
    The Kotoko kingdom was a West African monarchy in what is today northern Cameroon and Nigeria, and southwestern Chad. Its inhabitants and their modern descendants are known as the Kotoko people....

  • Kotoko-Yedina languages
  • Kotoko people
  • Maka Kotto
    Maka Kotto
    Maka Kotto , is a provincial level politician from Quebec, Canada and a former member of the Canadian House of Commons. He is the husband of Longueuil mayor Caroline St-Hilaire. He is also a published author and has appeared in film...

  • Yaphet Kotto
    Yaphet Kotto
    Yaphet Frederick Kotto is an African-American actor, known for numerous film roles , and his starring role in the NBC television series Homicide: Life on the Street .-Early life:Kotto was born in New York City, the son of Gladys Marie, a...

  • Augustin Kontchou Kouomegni
    Augustin Kontchou Kouomegni
    Augustin Kontchou Kouomegni is a Cameroonian political figure who served in the government of Cameroon from 1990 to 2001. As Minister of Information and then Minister of Communication, Kontchou was a prominent and controversial figure, reviled by the opposition, during the political turmoil of the...

  • Dorge Kouemaha
    Dorge Kouemaha
    Dorge Rostand Kouemaha is a Cameroonian footballer currently playing for 1. FC Kaiserslautern on loan from Club Brugge.- Career :...

  • Kousséri
    Kousséri
    Kousséri is a city in Far North Province, Cameroon, lying on the border with Chad, across the Chari River from N'Djamena. It is the capital of the Logone-et-Chari department. It is a market town, and its population has recently been swollen by refugees from Chad. It had a population of 89,123 at...

  • Kribi
    Kribi
    -Location:The coastal town of Kribi lies on the Gulf of Guinea, in Océan Department, South Province, at the mouth of the Kienké River. This location, lies approximately , by road, south of Douala, the loargest city in Cameroon and the busiest seaport in the country...

  • K-Tino
    K-Tino
    K-Tino is a Cameroonian singer who shot to fame in her home country with her energetic bikutsi music. This music from the central part of the country, around the capital Yaoundé, became very popular in Cameroon during the 1980s and 1990s...

  • Kumba
    Kumba
    Kumba is a city in Southwest Province, western Cameroon also known around Cameroon as K town. It had a population of 144,268 . The N8 and N16 highways meet at Kumba.- History :...

  • Kumbo
    Kumbo
    Kumbo, also known as Kimbo, is the second-largest city in the North West Province of Cameroon and the capital of Bui Département. It lies about 2000m above sea level and is situated approximately 110km away from Bamenda , on the Bamenda Highlands Ring Road...

  • Emmanuel Kundé
    Emmanuel Kundé
    Emmanuel Jerome Kundé is a Cameroonian former professional football defender. He spent the majority of his professional career playing for Canon Yaoundé...

  • Kwane a Ngie
    Kwane a Ngie
    Kwane a Ngie, known in British records as Angua or Quan, was a Duala ruler from the Bonambela sublineage who flourished from 1788 to 1790 in Douala, Cameroon...

  • Serge Kwetche
    Serge Kwetche
    Serge Kwetche was a Cameroonian footballer in midfielder role.He was initially selected by the Cameroon national football team for the 1998 FIFA World Cup, but due to injury he was replaced by Patrice Abanda before the tournament....


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  • Mohamadou Labarang
  • Lagwan language
    Lagwan language
    Lagwan is an Afro-Asiatic language spoken in northern Cameroon and southwestern Chad. Dialects include Logone-Birni and Logone-Gana.- References :* * Johannes Lukas. 1936. Die Logone-Sprache im Zentralen Sudan. Leipzig: DMG.-External links:**...

  • Lake Chad
    Lake Chad
    Lake Chad is a historically large, shallow, endorheic lake in Africa, whose size has varied over the centuries. According to the Global Resource Information Database of the United Nations Environment Programme, it shrank as much as 95% from about 1963 to 1998; yet it also states that "the 2007 ...

  • Lake Chad Basin Commission
    Lake Chad Basin Commission
    The Lake Chad Basin Commission is an intergovernmental organization of the countries nearest to Lake Chad which coordinates actions that might affect the waters of Lake Chad. The organization's secretariat is located in N'Djamena, Chad...

     (LCBC); Commission du Bassin du Lac Tchad (CBLT)
  • Lake Monoun
    Lake Monoun
    Lake Monoun is a lake in West Province, Cameroon, that lies in the Oku Volcanic Field . On August 15, 1984, the lake exploded in a limnic eruption, which resulted in the release of a large amount of carbon dioxide that killed 37 people. At first, the cause of the deaths was a mystery, and...

  • Lake Nyos
    Lake Nyos
    Lake Nyos is a crater lake in the Northwest Region of Cameroon, located about northwest of Yaoundé. Nyos is a deep lake high on the flank of an inactive volcano in the Oku volcanic plain along the Cameroon line of volcanic activity...

     (Lake Nyos disaster)
  • Lake Ossa
    Lake Ossa
    Lake Ossa is a lake that lies west of Edéa in the Littoral Province of Cameroon. It was created by tectonic movements of the Earth's crust. Ossa is a popular site for fishing and watersports.-References:...

  • Lamido
    Lamido
    Lamido is the Anglicisation of a term from the Fula language or Fulfulde, used to refer to a ruler. In the language it is properly laamiiɗo , derived from the verbal root "laam-" meaning "to rule or to lead", and hence may be translated more specifically as "leader"...

  • Languages of Cameroon
    Languages of Cameroon
    Cameroon is home to 230 languages. These include 55 Afro-Asiatic languages, two Nilo-Saharan languages, and 173 Niger–Congo languages. This latter group is divided into one West Atlantic language , 32 Adamawa-Ubangui languages, and 142 Benue–Congo languages .English and French are official...

  • Lauren Etame Mayer
    Lauren Etame Mayer
    Laureano Bisan-Etame Mayer , commonly known as Lauren, is a retired Cameroonian footballer of Equatoguinean origin, who formerly played for the Cameroonian national team.-Early career:...

  • Law enforcement in Cameroon
    Law enforcement in Cameroon
    -Sources:# World Police Encyclopedia, ed. by Dilip K. Das & Michael Palmiotto published by Taylor & Francis. 2004,# World Encyclopedia of Police Forces and Correctional Systems,second edition, 2006 by Gale....

  • League of Nations mandate
    League of Nations mandate
    A League of Nations mandate was a legal status for certain territories transferred from the control of one country to another following World War I, or the legal instruments that contained the internationally agreed-upon terms for administering the territory on behalf of the League...

  • Philippe Leclerc de Hauteclocque
    Philippe Leclerc de Hauteclocque
    Philippe François Marie, comte de Hauteclocque, then Leclerc de Hauteclocque, by a 1945 decree that incorporated his French Resistance alias Jacques-Philippe Leclerc to his name, , was a French general during World War II...

  • LGBT rights in Cameroon (Gay rights)
  • Limba people (Cameroon)
    Limba people (Cameroon)
    The Limba are an ethnic group of the Republic of Cameroon. They belong to the Sawa peoples, those of the Cameroonian coast.-History and geography:...

  • Limbe; Victoria, Cameroon
  • Littoral Region (Cameroon)
  • Lobéké National Park
    Lobéké National Park
    Lobéké National Park is a national park of southeastern Cameroon within the Moloundou Arrondisement of East Province. Located in the Congo Basin, it is bounded on the east by the Sangha River which serves as Cameroon's international border with Central African Republic and the Republic of the Congo...

  • Lock Priso
  • Logone River
  • Loi Cadre
    Loi Cadre
    The loi-cadre was a French legal reform passed by the French National Assembly on 23 June 1956. It marked a turning point in relations between France and its overseas empire...

  • Lolodorf
    Lolodorf
    Lolodorf is a small town-centred region in the south province of the Republic of Cameroon, near the western coast of Africa. It is between Ngoumou and Bipindi, in a zone of the Atlantic Littoral Evergreen Forest....

  • Lomé Convention
    Lomé Convention
    The Lomé Convention is a trade and aid agreement between the European Community and 71 African, Caribbean, and Pacific countries, first signed in February 1975 in Lomé, Togo.- History :...

  • Lomié
    Lomié
    Lomié is a town in the Lomié District in the Upper Nyong division of the East Province of Cameroon. An article in the Mail & Guardian Online describes it as having "no telephone connection to the outside world, and a single access road that is little more than a forest trail".In fact Lomié has been...

  • Eboa Lotin
  • Luo language (Atta)
    Luo language (Atta)
    The Luo language is an unclassified language spoken in a section of the Atta region of Cameroon. It is a critically endangered language, with only one speaker remaining as of 1995. Ethnologue calls it "nearly extinct," but admits that it is highly likely that this language is extinct....

  • Loum, Cameroon
    Loum, Cameroon
    Loum is a city located in the Littoral Province of Cameroon....

  • Lutheran Mission to Cameroon
  • Lycée Leclerc

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  • Daniel Maa Boumsong
    Daniel Maa Boumsong
    Daniel Maa Boumsong is a former Cameroonian footballer.-Inter Milan:Born in Ngambe, Maa Boumsong joined Internazionale in 2005, age 18. He arrived Italy for 2004 Torneo di Viareggio and escaped from the squad to seek asylum...

  • Mada language (Cameroon)
    Mada language (Cameroon)
    Mada is a Chadic language spoken in northern Cameroon.- References :* * Daniel Barreteau & André Brunet. 2000. Dictionnaire mada. Berlin: Reimer.-External links:**...

  • David Sydney Maddicott
    David Sydney Maddicott
    David Sydney Maddicott is the current British High Commissioner to Cameroon.From 1976 to 1990, he worked in sales and marketing for Rank Xerox and Pitney Bowes, before proceeding to undertake postgraduate studies between 1990 and 1993...

  • Wes Madiko
    Wes Madiko
    Wes Madiko , better known as Wes, is a Cameroonian musician. He is probably best known among Western audiences for "In Youpendi", a song from The Lion King II soundtrack, as well as work with Deep Forest and his own 1997 hit "Alane".-Albums:*Welenga *Sinami *Melowe Wes Madiko (born January 15,...

  • Mafa language
    Mafa language
    Mafa is an Afro-Asiatic language spoken in northern Cameroon and eastern Nigeria.-External links:**...

  • Herman Maimo
  • Sankie Maimo
    Sankie Maimo
    Sankie Maimo was a writer from British Southern Cameroons. Maimo moved to Ibadan, Nigeria, where he worked as a school teacher. There he founded the journal Cameroon Voice in 1955. This was followed by a play called I Am Vindicated, and a children's book called Adventuring with Jaja...

  • Maize in Cameroon
  • Guy Madjo
    Guy Madjo
    Guy Bertrand Madjo is a Cameroonian footballer currently playing for League Two side Port Vale on loan from League One side Stevenage....

  • Marcel Mahouvé
    Marcel Mahouvé
    Marcel Mahouvé is a Cameroonian football player. He is a son of former Cameroonian footballer, Roger Milla.Marcel has played for Tonnerre Yaounde, Dynamo Douala, Putra Samarinda, Montpellier Herault SC, Clermont Foot Auvergne, FC Inter Turku, Hamilton Academical and 1.FC Saarbrücken. He was also...

  • Maka people
    Maka people
    The Maka or Makaa are an ethnic group inhabiting the southern rain forest zone of Cameroon. They live primarily in the northern portions of the Upper Nyong division of Cameroon's East Province. Major Maka settlements include Abong-Mbang, Doumé, and Nguélémendouka...

  • Makaa–Njem languages
  • Makossa
    Makossa
    Makossa is a type of music that is most popular in urban areas in Cameroon. It is similar to soukous, except that it includes strong bass rhythm and a prominent horn section. Makossa, which means " dance" in Duala, originated from a type of Duala dance called kossa, with significant influences...

  • Jean Makoun
    Jean Makoun
    Jean II Makoun is a Cameroonian footballer who plays for Greek Superleague club Olympiacos on loan from Aston Villa. He also plays in the Cameroon national football team.-Early career:...

  • Malaba, Cameroon
    Malaba, Cameroon
    Malaba is a village in the South Province of Cameroon. It is located on the Atlantic coast north of Campo....

  • Malgbe language
    Malgbe language
    Malgbe is an Afro-Asiatic language spoken in northern Cameroon and southwestern Chad. Dialects are Douguia, Dro, Malgbe, Mara, and Walia.- References :* -External links:**...

  • Hugo Mamba-Schlick
    Hugo Mamba-Schlick
    Hugo Lucien Mamba-Schlick is a Cameroonian triple jumper.He finished sixth at the 2006 African Championships won the silver medal at the 2007 All-Africa Games and won the silver medal at the 2008 African Championships in Athletics. He also competed at the 2007 World Championships without reaching...

  • Mamfe
    Mamfe
    Mamfe is a city and capital of the Manyu department of the Southwest Province in Cameroon. It is located from the border of Nigeria, on the Manyu River. It has a population of 20,300 . It is known as a centre for traditional religion and traditional medicine...

  • Mamfe Conference
  • Mami Wata
    Mami Wata
    Mami Wata is venerated in West, Central, Southern Africa, and in the African diaspora in the Caribbean and parts of North and South America. Mami Wata spirits are usually female, but are sometimes male.-Appearance:...

  • List of mammals of Cameroon
  • Mandara, Rulers of
    Mandara Kingdom
    The Mandara Kingdom was a West African kingdom in the Mandara Mountains of what is today Cameroon. The Mandarawa people are descended from the kingdom's inhabitants.- History :...

  • Mandara Kingdom
    Mandara Kingdom
    The Mandara Kingdom was a West African kingdom in the Mandara Mountains of what is today Cameroon. The Mandarawa people are descended from the kingdom's inhabitants.- History :...

  • Mandara languages
  • Mandara Mountains
    Mandara Mountains
    The Mandara Mountains are a volcanic range extending about 200km along the northern part of the Cameroon-Nigeria border, from the Benue River in the south to the north-west of Maroua in the north . The highest elevation is 1,494 m , the summit of Mount Oupay .The region is densely populated,...

  • Mandate System (Cameroon)
  • Bébé Manga
    Bébé Manga
    Elizabeth Bessem Ayamo Manga , also known as Bébé Manga, was a Cameroonian makossa singer whose best-known song is "Ami O". She is considered one of the most popular makossa singers of the 1980s....

  • Rudolf Duala Manga Bell
    Rudolf Duala Manga Bell
    Rudolf Duala Manga Bell was a Duala king and resistance leader in the German colony of Kamerun. After being educated in both Kamerun and Europe, he succeeded his father, Manga Ndumbe Bell, on 2 September 1908. Manga Bell styled himself after European rulers, and he generally supported the colonial...

  • Mangambeu
    Mangambeu
    Mangambeu is a popular musical style of the Bangangte people of Cameroon. It was popularised by Pierre Diddy Tchakounte.-References:* DeLancey, Mark W., and Mark Dike DeLancey : Historical Dictionary of the Republic of Cameroon . Lanham, Maryland: The Scarecrow Press....

  • Jean Manga-Onguene
    Jean Manga-Onguene
    Jean Manga-Onguene is a former Cameroonian footballer. He was the 1980 African Footballer of the Year.-International career:...

  • Mankon Museum
    Mankon Museum
    -References:*...

  • Myriam Léonie Mani
    Myriam Léonie Mani
    Myriam Léonie Mani is a Cameroonian athlete who specialized in the 100 and 200 metres.Mani represented Cameroon at the 2008 Summer Olympics competing at the 100 metres sprint. In her first round heat she placed third behind Torri Edwards and Jeanette Kwakye in a time of 11.64 to advance to the...

  • Mankon
    Mankon
    Mankon is a geo-historic community constituting a large part of Bamenda in Cameroon, formed as an amalgamation of about five different ethnic groups. The Mankon fondom represents one of the oldest monarchies of the grassfield people of the Northwest Province. The fondom is ruled by a 'fon' with...

  • Joseph Merrick (missionary)
    Joseph Merrick (missionary)
    Joseph Merrick was a Jamaican Baptist missionary who, assisted by Joseph Jackson Fuller, established the first successful mission on the Cameroon coast of Africa. Merrick began preaching in 1837 in Jamaica and was ordained a full missionary in 1838. In 1842, Reverend John Clarke and Dr. G. K...

  • Myriam Léonie Mani
    Myriam Léonie Mani
    Myriam Léonie Mani is a Cameroonian athlete who specialized in the 100 and 200 metres.Mani represented Cameroon at the 2008 Summer Olympics competing at the 100 metres sprint. In her first round heat she placed third behind Torri Edwards and Jeanette Kwakye in a time of 11.64 to advance to the...

  • Union of the Peoples of Cameroon
    Union of the Peoples of Cameroon
    The Union of the Peoples of Cameroon is a political party in Cameroon.-History:UPC was founded on April 10, 1948, at a meeting in the bar Chez Sierra in Bassa. 12 men assisted the founding meeting, including Charles Assalé, Léonard Bouli, and Guillaume Bagal. The majority of the participants were...

  • Silikam néé Manamourou
    Silikam néé Manamourou
    -References:...

  • Maps of Cameroon
  • Maroua
    Maroua
    Maroua is the capital of the Far North Region of Cameroon, on the Ferngo and Kaliao Rivers. The city had 201,371 inhabitants at the 2005 Census,and is a centre of cotton industry. The city also has an airport located near the town of Salak, an agricultural school and ethnographic museum. To the...

  • Masa languages
    Masa languages
    The Masa languages are a group of a dozen closely related Chadic languages of West Africa. They are,*Herdé*Pévé*Massa *Mesmé*Marba*Musey*Ngeté*Zumaya The exonym Zime is used for the Herdé, Ngeté, Pévé, and Mesmé....

  • The Masked Rider: Cycling in West Africa
    The Masked Rider: Cycling in West Africa
    The Masked Rider: Cycling in West Africa is a 1996 non-fiction book written by Rush drummer Neil Peart about his bicycling travel through the African country of Cameroon.-Synopsis:...

  • Maslam language
    Maslam language
    Maslam is an Afro-Asiatic language spoken in northern Cameroon and southwestern Chad. Dialects are Maslam and Sao. Maslam is in rapid decline.- References :***...

  • Massa language
    Massa language
    Massa is a language spoken in southern Chad and northern Cameroon. It is a Chadic language with approximately 200,000 speakers.-External links:***...

  • Philippe Mataga
  • Matal language
    Matal language
    Matal, also known as Muktele, is an Afro-Asiatic language spoken in northern Cameroon....

  • Marvin Matip
    Marvin Matip
    Marvin Matip is a German professional footballer who plays for FC Ingolstadt 04.- Club career :Matip began his career with VfL Bochum, but moved to 1. FC Köln in 2005...

  • Theodore Mayi-Matip
  • Lauren Etame Mayer
    Lauren Etame Mayer
    Laureano Bisan-Etame Mayer , commonly known as Lauren, is a retired Cameroonian footballer of Equatoguinean origin, who formerly played for the Cameroonian national team.-Early career:...

  • Mayo Kébbi
    Mayo Kébbi
    The Mayo Kébbi is a river in Central and West Africa. The river rises in Chad, then flows west into the Bénoué River. Mayo-Kébbi Prefecture in Chad is named for it. The Mayo Kébbi is the major outlet for Lake Fianga, shared between Cameroon and Chad....

  • Mazagway language
    Mazagway language
    Mazagway is an Afro-Asiatic language spoken in Cameroon in North Province and Far North Province.- References :***...

  • Luc Mbah a Moute
  • Mbalam
    Mbalam
    Mbalam is a place in Cameroon near the southern border with Gabon border where there are significant deposits of iron ore. The mining company is Sundance Resources Limited.- Railway :...

  • Sylvie Mballa Éloundou
    Sylvie Mballa Éloundou
    Sylvie Florence Mballa Éloundou is a French-Cameroonian sprinter who specializes in the 100 metres.A native of Yaoundé, the capital of Cameroon, Sylvie Mballa Éloundou originally represented the country of her birth, but changed nationality on 10 October 2002 in order to compete as a member of the...

  • Mbalmayo
    Mbalmayo
    Mbalmayo, chef-lieu du département du Nyong –et – So’o est une ville d’environ 120 000 habitants sur les bords du Fleuve Nyong, située à 38km de Yaoundé....

  • Mbanga, Cameroon
    Mbanga, Cameroon
    - Farming :Mbanga is a small town in the Littoral province of Cameroon. There are around 60,000 inhabitants in Mbanga.Most of them are coffee and cocoa farmers.- External links :*...

  • Mbedam language
    Mbedam language
    Mbudum or Mbedam is an Afro-Asiatic language spoken in Cameroon in Far North Province.- References :* -External links:**...

  • Mbuko language
    Mbuko language
    Mbuko is an Afro-Asiatic language spoken in the canton of Doulek, Méri subdivision, department of Diamaré, and also in parts of the canton of Serawa, Tokombéré subdivision, department of Mayo-Sava, in the Far North Region of Cameroon.- References :* *...

  • Mefele language
    Mefele language
    Mefele is an Afro-Asiatic language spoken in northern Cameroon. Dialects are Mefele, Muhura, Serak, and Shugule.- References :* -External links:**...

  • Mésondo
  • Modeste M'bami
    Modeste M'Bami
    Modeste M'bami is a Cameroonian football player .-Club career:M'Bami started his career in his home country by playing for Dynamo Douala but was quickly spotted by foreign clubs. He joined CS Sedan Ardennes during the summer of 2000...

  • Mbandjock
    Mbandjock
    Mbandjock is a city located in the Centre Province of Cameroon....

  • Françoise Mbango Etone
    Françoise Mbango Etone
    Françoise Mbango Etone is a female track and field athlete, competing internationally for France, formerly of the Cameroon. She was a gold medalist in the triple jump at the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens, Greece. She retained her title with an Olympic record distance of 15.39m at the Beijing...

  • Prince Nico Mbarga
    Prince Nico Mbarga
    Prince Nico Mbarga was a highlife musician, born to a Nigerian mother and a Cameroonian father in Abakaliki, Nigeria...

  • Coco Mbassi
    Coco Mbassi
    Coco Mbassi is a female musical artist originating from Cameroon and based in Paris, France. Winner of the Radio France Internationale Découvertes Prize in 2001 with the song "Muenge Mwa Ndolo", she toured worldwide and her first album, Sepia, was released in 2001...

  • Robert Mbella Mbappe
  • Stéphane Mbia
    Stéphane Mbia
    Stéphane Mbia Etoundi is a Cameroonian football player who plays for French League 1 club Olympique Marseille.-Career:...

  • Patrick Mboma
  • Mbedi a Mbongo
    Mbedi a Mbongo
    Mbedi a Mbongo is the common ancestor of many of the Sawa coastal ethnic groups of Cameroon according to their oral traditions. Stories say that he lived at a place called Piti, northeast of present-day Douala. From there, his sons migrated south toward the coast in what are known as the Mbedine...

  • André-Marie Mbida
    André-Marie Mbida
    Andre-Marie Mbida was a Cameroonian State man, pragmatic nationalist, first Cameroonian to be elected Member of Parliament at the French National Assembly, Prime Minister of Cameroon, second African-born Prime Minister in the dark continent , first Head of State of French speaking autonomous...

  • Nerius Namaso Mbile
  • Patrick Mboma
  • Mbongo
    Mbongo
    Mbongo is the common ancestor of the Sawa peoples of Cameroon according to their oral traditions. Sawa genealogies usually place Mbongo at the head of the lineage. Mbongo's son, usually given as Mbedi a Mbongo, lived at Piti on the Dibamba River...

  • Mbouda
    Mbouda
    Mbouda is the divisional capital of the Bamboutos division, Western region of Cameroon. Mbouda is located between two major cities Bafoussam and Bamenda which are respectively the capital cities of the west and North-West regions of Cameroon....

  • Samuel Efoua Mbozo'o
    Samuel Efoua Mbozo'o
    Dr. Samuel Efoua Mbozo’o Is a politician from Camaroon who has served as the Secretary General of the Cameroon National Assembly and as a Member of Cameroon Parliament He is an honorary member of Global Unification International....

  • Mbum language
    Mbum language
    The Mbum are considered the original population of the Adamawa Plateau in Cameroon. That said, some histories recall that there were a people already in the area when they arrived there centuries ago...

  • Mbwe-Mbwe
  • Carole Kaboud Mebam
    Carole Kaboud Mebam
    Carole Kaboud Mebam is a Cameroonian athlete who specializes in the 100 and 400 metres hurdles.-Achievements:-Personal bests:*100 metres hurdles - 13.71 s *400 metres hurdles - 56.90 s - national record...

  • Meiganga
    Meiganga
    Meiganga is a town in the Adamawa Province of Cameroon. It is located at around . Its estimated population in 2001 is 71,000....

  • Merey language
    Merey language
    Merey is an Afro-Asiatic language spoken in northern Cameroon. Dugur is a dialect.-External links:**...

  • Joseph Merrick (missionary)
    Joseph Merrick (missionary)
    Joseph Merrick was a Jamaican Baptist missionary who, assisted by Joseph Jackson Fuller, established the first successful mission on the Cameroon coast of Africa. Merrick began preaching in 1837 in Jamaica and was ordained a full missionary in 1838. In 1842, Reverend John Clarke and Dr. G. K...

  • Le Messager
    Le Messager
    Le Messager is a daily newspaper in Cameroon. It was founded in 1979 by Pius Njawé, who in 2009 said that he had been arrested 126 times in 30 years. Reporters without Borders called it "the country’s first campaigning newspaper".-External links:*...

  • Pierre Messmer
    Pierre Messmer
    Pierre Joseph Auguste Messmer was a French Gaullist politician. He served as Minister of Armies under Charles de Gaulle from 1960 to 1969 – the longest serving since Étienne François, duc de Choiseul under Louis XV – and then as Prime Minister under Georges Pompidou from 1972 to 1974...

  • Lucien Mettomo
    Lucien Mettomo
    Lucien Mettomo is a Cameroonian football player who last played for Veria FC .Formerly, he has played for Tonnerre Yaoundé, Saint-Étienne, Manchester City, Kaiserslautern, Kayseri Erciyesspor and Lucerne...

  • Ousman Mey
  • Valéry Mézague
    Valery Mezague
    Válery Mézague is a Cameroonian footballer. He is a midfielder, and currently plays for Greek club Panetolikos F.C.....

  • Louis-Paul Mfédé
    Louis-Paul Mfédé
    Louis-Paul M'Fédé is a retired Cameroonian soccer player who played midfield. He spent his playing career with Cameroonian side Canon Yaounde and Olympic Mvolyé, and Stade Rennais of France and played in the FIFA World Cup with Cameroon in 1990 and 1994. He also took part in 1988, 1990 and 1992...

  • Mfou
    Mfou
    Mfou is a town in the south part of Cameroon. It is not far east of the capital, Yaounde....

  • Military of Cameroon
    Military of Cameroon
    The Cameroonian Armed Forces generally has been an apolitical force where civilian control of the military predominates. Traditional dependence on the French defense capability, although reduced, continues to be the case as French military advisers remain closely involved in preparing the...

  • Herbert Vaughan
  • Roger Milla
    Roger Milla
    Roger Milla is a retired Cameroonian footballer who played as a striker. He was one of the first African players to be a major star on the international stage...

  • Millet beer
    Millet beer
    Millet beer, also known as Bantu beer, kaffir beer, or opaque beer, is an alcoholic beverage made from malted millet. This type of beer is common throughout Africa. Related African drinks include maize beer and sorghum beer....

  • Mina language (Cameroon)
    Mina language (Cameroon)
    The Mina language is spoken in Northern Cameroon. Another language of the same name is found in India. They are distinguished in ISO 639-3 by referring to this language as and to the other as...

  • Mining industry of Cameroon
  • Ministry of Justice of Cameroon
    Ministry of Justice of Cameroon
    The Ministry of Justice of Cameroon is the Department responsible for administering the Cameroon justice system. As at May 2004, the Minister of State for Justice was Amadou Ali. The legal system in the Cameroon is complex with a constitution developed in 1972 and revised in 1996 as well as...

  • Minister of State (Cameroon)
  • Ministry of Women's Affairs
  • Mise en valeur
  • Mofu
    Mofu
    Mofu is a designation for various ethnic groups and languages they speak which are located in northern Cameroon, near the border with Nigeria. The Mofu live in the Mandara Mountains of Cameroon's Far North Province....

  • Mofu-Gudur language
    Mofu-Gudur language
    Mofu-Gudur is an Afro-Asiatic language spoken in northern Cameroon. Dialects are Dimeo, Gudur, Massagal, Mokong, Njeleng, and Zidim.-References:*...

  • Mokolo
    Mokolo
    Mokolo is the departmental capital and largest city of the Mayo-Tsanaga department, in the Far North Province of Cameroon. It is the fourth largest city in the Far North Province, after Maroua, Yagoua, and Kousséri...

  • Moloko language
    Moloko language
    Moloko is an Afro-Asiatic language spoken in northern Cameroon.- References :* -External links:**...

  • Monetary Union of Equatorial Africa and Cameroon; Union Monetaire de l'Afrique Equatoriale et Cameroun (UMAEC)
  • Celestin Monga
  • Mongo-Beti (Eza Boto; Alexandre Biyidi)
  • Arno Monkam
  • Monneba
    Monneba
    Monneba, also spelled Moneba and other ways, was a local Duala leader on the Cameroon coast in the 1630s. Dutch sources from the 1660s say that Monneba ran a trading post on the Cameroons River at the present location of Douala. His people dealt primarily in ivory, with some slaves...

  • "Monsieur sans objet"
  • Moolaadé
    Moolaadé
    Moolaadé is a 2004 film by the Senegalese writer and director Ousmane Sembène. It addresses the subject of female genital mutilation, a common practice in a number of African countries, especially those immediately south of the Sahara Desert...

  • Mouloudou
    Mouloudou
    Mouloudou is a settlement in the East Province of Cameroon. Of the tropical forest in the area, 1,082,454 km² is protected for community hunting. Mouloudou was the site of a German station during the colonial period. The station was set up by Hans Dominik with the aid of Karl Atangana.-References:*...

  • Félix-Roland Moumié
    Félix-Roland Moumié
    Félix-Roland Moumié was a Cameroonian leader, assassinated in Geneva on 3 November 1960 by the SDECE with thallium. Félix-Roland Moumié succeeded Ruben Um Nyobe, who was killed in September 1958, as leader of the Union des Populations du Cameroun .- See also :*Colonialism and...

  • Mount Cameroon
    Mount Cameroon
    Mount Cameroon is an active volcano in Cameroon near the Gulf of Guinea. Mount Cameroon is also known as Cameroon Mountain or Fako or by its native name Mongo ma Ndemi ....

  • Mount Cameroon and Bioko montane forests
    Mount Cameroon and Bioko montane forests
    The Mount Cameroon and Bioko montane forests ecoregion, of the tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forests Biome, are in Afromontane habitats in Cameroon and Equatorial Guinea of Africa.- Setting :...

  • Mount Cameroon F.C.
  • Mount Cameroon Race of Hope
    Mount Cameroon Race of Hope
    The Mount Cameroon Race of Hope is an annual, televised footrace held at Mount Cameroon in the Southwest Province of Cameroon in January or February. The 2011 is scheduled for February 26. The event begins at Molyko Sports Complex in Buea and follows a path up Mount Cameroon and back; The...

  • Mountain Chain of the West
  • Mount Manengouba
    Mount Manengouba
    Mount Manengouba is a volcano in the Southwest Province of Cameroon. The Manenguba shrew and endemic vegetal species are native to the mountain. The area is featured in the documentary The Mists of Mwanenguba with botanist Martin Cheek....

  • Alfred Moussambani
    Alfred Moussambani
    Alfred Émile Moussambani is a Cameroonian sprinter who specializes in the 100 metres.Together with Serge Mbegomo, Claude Toukene and Joseph Batangdon he finished seventh in the 4 x 100 m relay final at the 2002 Commonwealth Games....

  • Sarkifada Moussa Yaya
  • Mouvement d'Action Nationale du Cameroun (MANC
    Manc
    Manc or MANC may refer to:*Something pertaining to the city of Manchester, in North West England**The Manchester dialect, or Manc accent, spoken in Manchester and outlying areas*The MidAmerica Nazarene University, sometimes abbreviated to MANC...

    )
  • Mouvement pur la Défence de la Republique; Movement for the Defence of the Republic (MDR)
  • Movement for Democracy and Progress
    Movement for Democracy and Progress
    The Movement for Democracy and Progress is a political party in the Republic of the Congo. In the parliamentary election held on June 24 and August 5 2007, the party won 1 out of 137 seats....

     (MDP)
  • Victor E. Mukete
  • Albert Womah Mukong
  • Salomon Tandeng Muna
    Salomon Tandeng Muna
    Salomon Tandeng Muna was a Cameroonian politician of the UNC. He served as the first Prime Minister of the federated state of West Cameroon from January 11, 1968 to June 2, 1972. He was President of the National Assembly of Cameroon from 1973 to 1988 .-References:...

  • Mungo people
    Mungo people
    The Mungo is an ethnic group of the Republic of Cameroon. Along with the other coastal peoples, they belong to the Sawa ethnic groups. The Mungo have historically been dominated by the Duala people, and the two groups share similar cultures, histories, and claims of origin.-History and...

  • Mungo River
    Mungo River, Cameroon
    The Mungo River is a large river in Cameroon that drains the mountains in the southern portion of the Cameroon line of active and extinct volcanoes.-Course:The Mungo river has a catchment area of ....

  • List of municipalities of Cameroon
  • Musgum
    Musgum
    The Musgum or Moupoui are an ethnic group in Cameroon and Chad. They speak Musgu, a Chadic language, which had 61,500 speakers in Cameroon in 1982 and 24,408 speakers in Chad in 1993. The Musgum call themselves Mulwi. In Cameroon, the Musgum live in the Maga sub-division, Mayo-Danay division, Far...

  • Music of Cameroon
    Music of Cameroon
    The best-known Music of the Cameroon is makossa, a popular style that has gained fans across Africa, and its related dance craze bikutsi.The pirogue sailors of Douala are known for a kind of singing called ngoso, which has evolved into a kind of modern music accompanied by zanza, balafon and...

  • Peter Mafany Musonge
    Peter Mafany Musonge
    Peter Mafany Musonge was the Prime Minister of Cameroon from September 1996 until December 8, 2004.-Biography:Musonge was born at Muea in the Fako Department of Cameroon's South-West Province...

  • Muyang language
    Muyang language
    Muyang is an Afro-Asiatic language spoken in northern Cameroon.- References :* -External links:**...

  • Engelbert Mveng
  • Mvog-Betsi Zoo
    Mvog-Betsi Zoo
    The Mvog-Betsi Zoo is located in Yaoundé, Cameroon and is administered by the Ministry of Forestry and Fauna in Cameroon. There is a wide range of species at the zoo, including big cats, reptiles, and birds of prey...

  • Mvolyé
    Mvolyé
    Mvolyé or Mvolye is a neighbourhood of Yaoundé, Cameroon. Around 1900, during Cameroon's colonial period, the site was part of the lands ruled by Karl Atangana. He then donated part of the area to the German Pallottine Fathers, a Roman Catholic missionary group. The Ewondo people had previously...

  • Mvomeka'a
    Mvomeka'a
    Mvomeka'a is a village near Sangmélima, in Meyomessala sub-division, Dja-et-Lobo division, South Province, Cameroon. It is mostly known for being the native village of the current President Paul Biya.-References:...


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  • Gustav Nachtigal
    Gustav Nachtigal
    Gustav Nachtigal was a German explorer of Central and West Africa. He is further known as the German Empire's consul-general for Tunisia and Commissioner for West Africa. His mission as commissioner resulted in Togoland and Kamerun becoming the first colonies of a German colonial empire...

  • Antoinette Nana Djimou Ida
  • Joel Gustave Nana Ngongang
    Joel Gustave Nana Ngongang
    Joël Gustave Nana Ngongang , frequently known as Joel Nana, is a leading African LGBT human rightsadvocate and HIV/AIDS activist. Nana's career as a human rights advocate has spanned numerous...

  • Nanga Eboko
    Nanga Eboko
    Nanga Eboko is a small town and capital of the Haute-Sanaga department in the Centre Province of Cameroon. It lies on the Sanaga River.- References :...

  • Nation-building
    Nation-building
    For nation-building in the sense of enhancing the capacity of state institutions, building state-society relations, and also external interventions see State-building....

  • National Airways Cameroon
    National Airways Cameroon
    National Airways Cameroon, or Nacam, was an airline based in Yaounde, Cameroon. It operated domestic scheduled services. It was established in November 1999 and started operations on 21 February 2000 .-Fleet:...

  • National Anti-Corruption Observatory
    National Anti-Corruption Observatory
    The National Anti-Corruption Observatory is a government body in Cameroon that investigates political corruption, organises anti-corruption initiatives, and monitors the government's anti-corruption efforts. The observatory is made up of 15 members and is part of the office of the prime minister...

  • National Army of Kamerun Liberation; Armée de Libération Nationale du Kamerun (ALNK)
  • National Assembly of Cameroon
    National Assembly of Cameroon
    The National Assembly is the parliament of Cameroon. It has 180 members, elected for five-year terms in 49 single and multi-seat constituencies....

     (Assemblée Nationale du Cameroun; ANCAM)
  • National Centre for Administration and Magistracy (Centre Nationale d'Administration et de Magistrature; CENAM; Ecole Nationale d'Administration et de Magistrature; National School for Administration and Magistracy)
  • National Civil Service for Participation in Development
  • National Coordination Committee of Opposition Parties (NCCOP)
  • National Council of Nigeria and the Cameroons
    National Council of Nigeria and the Cameroons
    National Council of Nigeria and the Cameroons , was a Nigerian political party from 1944 to 1966. The name included 'Cameroons' because Cameroon had become an administrative part of Nigeria in 1945. Cameroon had been a colonial territory of Germany...

     (NCNC)
  • National Day (Cameroon)
    National Day (Cameroon)
    National Day is a holiday in Cameroon celebarated on 20 May. Cameroon has no single date of independence. The United Nations Trust Territory known as French Cameroun achieved independence from France on 1 January 1960, and British Southern Cameroons changed status from a Trusteeship under British...

  • National Fund for Rural Development; Fond National de Développement Rural (FONADER)
  • National Investment Company; Société Nationale d'Investissement
    Societe Nationale d'Investissement
    Societe Nationale d'Investissement or National Investment Company, is a large Moroccan holding company. The conglomerate registered a consolidated net income of MAD 2.3 billion in 2009, and holds stock in the ONA Group. In March 2010 the decision was taken to merge by the two companies, during a...

     (SNI)
  • National Office for Participation in Development; Office National de Participation au Développement (ONPD)
  • National parks of Cameroon, list of
  • National Ports Authority (NPA)
  • National Produce Marketing Board (NPMB); Office National de Commercialisation des Produits de Base (ONCPB)
  • National Rehabilitation Center for the Handicapped
  • National Union of Cameroon Workers (NUCW)
  • National Union for Democracy and Progress (Cameroon)
    National Union for Democracy and Progress (Cameroon)
    The National Union for Democracy and Progress is a political party in Cameroon, drawing its main support from the north of the country. It was established as an opposition party in the early 1990s and won the second largest number of seats in the 1992 parliamentary election...

     (NUDP); Union Nationale pour la Démocratie et le Progrès (UNDP)
  • National Water Corporation of Cameroon; Société Nationale des Eaux du Cameroun (SNEC)
  • Youth Day
    Youth Day
    Youth Day is a holiday dedicated to the youths of a country.-International Youth Day:International Youth Day is an international observance on August 12 officially recognized by the United Nations.-Angola:On 14 April Angola celebrates Youth Day...

  • Native Authorities (Cameroon)
  • Native Baptist Church (NBC)
  • Adamou Ndam Njoya
    Adamou Ndam Njoya
    Adamou Ndam Njoya is a Cameroonian politician, lawyer, author, and professor. He was Minister of National Education from 1977 to 1980, and he has been the President of the Cameroon Democratic Union , an opposition party, since 1991. He has also been the Mayor of Foumban since 1996, and from 1997...

  • Pius Ndiefi
    Pius Ndiefi
    Pius Ndiefi Sielenu is a Cameroonian football player who currently playing for JS Saint-Pierroise.-Career:Ndiefi learned that his father had died the day before Germinal Beerschot had to play the second leg of the 2005-06 UEFA Cup against Olympique de Marseille...

  • Joseph Ndo
    Joseph Ndo
    Joseph Cyrille Ndo is a Cameroonian international football player, born in Yaoundé, currently registered with Sligo Rovers in the League of Ireland Premier Division.-Cameroon:...

  • Ndi-samba joseph
  • Claire Ndi-samba
    Claire Ndi-samba
    Claire Mimboé Ndi-samba was born June 10, 1972 at Yaoundé-Cameroon. She is the daughter of Joseph Ndi-samba, a famous entrepreneur and tycoon of private education in Cameroon....

  • Ndongmo Affair
  • Martin Ndongo-Ebanga
  • Neukamerun
    Neukamerun
    Neukamerun was the name of Central African territories ceded by France to Germany in 1911. Upon taking office in 1907, Theodor Seitz, governor of German Kamerun, advocated the acquisition of territories from the French Congo...

  • New Deal (Cameroon); Politique du Renouveau
  • James R. Newby
  • Georges Ngango
  • Ngaoundal
    Ngaoundal
    Ngaoundal is a town in the Adamawa Province of Cameroon. It is located at 6° 30" North, 13° 16" East. The town is home to a regional airport. Bauxite is mined nearby.- Transport :...

  • Ngaoundéré
    Ngaoundéré
    Ngaoundéré or N'Gaoundéré is the capital of the Adamawa Region of Cameroon. It had a population of 152,698 . It lies at the northern end of the railway to Yaoundé and is also home to an airport. The current city was founded in approximately 1835 by the Fulani leader Ardo Njobdi, although the...

  • Nana Falemi
    Nana Falemi
    Ngassam Nana Falemi is a Romania-born, Cameroonian football player who last played for Gaz Metan Mediaş in Romania's Liga I...

  • Ngbe; Egbo
    Egbo
    Ekpe, also known as Egbo , is a secret society flourishing chiefly among the Efiks of the Cross River State, the Oron, of Akwa Ibom State, Nigeria, Igbos in Abia State, as well as Southeastern Nigerians Igbo/Efik/Oron in the diaspora, such as in Cuba. The society is still active at the beginning of...

  • Ngiemboon language
  • Ngoila
    Ngoila
    Ngoila, also spelled Ngoyla and Ngoida, is a village in the East Province of Cameroon, located at 2.617° N, 14.017° E. The primary ethnic group is the Njem. Ngoila is the capital of the Ngoila subdivision of the Haut-Nyong division.- References :...

  • Daniel Ngom Kome
    Daniel Ngom Kome
    Daniel Armand Ngom Kome is a Cameroonian footballer who plays as a midfielder.Playing in Spain since 1999, and representing nearly ten different clubs during his professional career, he received a passport from that country in August 2006.-Club career:Born in Bangou, Kome moved to Spain in 1999,...

  • Albert Ngome Kome
  • Ngondo
    Ngondo
    The Ngondo is an annual water-centered festival held by the Sawa in Douala, Cameroon. The highlight of the festival is a ceremony of the jengu cult. The ceremony is held at a beach on Wouri Bay, during which a devotee enters the water to visit the underwater kingdom of the miengu...

  • Ngong language
  • Victor Anomah Ngu
    Victor Anomah Ngu
    Victor Anomah ngu was an Cameroonian professor, researcher and one time Minister of Public Health.The Professor became famous after inventing VANHIVAX, a vaccine he affirmed is an immunological solution in the treatment of HIV/AIDS....

  • Rose Zang Nguele
  • Mireille Nguimgo
    Mireille Nguimgo
    Mireille Nguimgo is a Cameroonian sprinter who specialized in the 400 metres.She has not competed on top level since the 2004 season.-Achievements:-Personal bests:*200 metres - 23.64 s...

  • Niger Basin Authority
    Niger Basin Authority
    The Niger Basin Authority is an intergovernmental organisation in West Africa aiming to foster co-operation in managing and developing the resources of the basin of the River Niger...

     (NBA); Authorite du Bassin du Niger (ABN)
  • Ngumba language
  • Ngumba people
  • Niete
    Niete
    Niete is a town in the Océan division, South Province of Cameroon....

  • Nigeria
    Nigeria
    Nigeria , officially the Federal Republic of Nigeria, is a federal constitutional republic comprising 36 states and its Federal Capital Territory, Abuja. The country is located in West Africa and shares land borders with the Republic of Benin in the west, Chad and Cameroon in the east, and Niger in...

  • Mbah Ndam Joseph Njang
    Mbah Ndam Joseph Njang
    Mbah Ndam Joseph Njang is a Cameroonian politician. He is a member of the opposition Social Democratic Front and serves as its party chairman. He is also a member of the Pan-African Parliament.-References:...

  • Pierre Njanka
    Pierre Njanka
    Pierre Djaka Njanka-Beyaka is a Cameroonian football player. He is now playing in Indonesia for Mitra Kukar. Njanka played for Cameroon at the 1998 and 2002 World Cups, as well as the 2004 African Nations Cup. He has been capped 47 times for his country...

  • Pius Njawe
    Pius Njawe
    Pius Njawé was a Cameroonian journalist and director of Le Messager as well as Le Messager Populi. He had been known as one of the strongest advocates for press freedom in Africa beginning with his founding of Le Messager in 1979.-Early career:At the age of 19, he helped reveal the news oil had...

  • Njem
    Njem
    The Njyem are an ethnic group inhabiting the rain forest zone of southern Cameroon and northern Republic of the Congo. In Cameroon, the Njyem live along the road running south from Lomié, passing the government center of Ngoyla and going as far south as Djadom. From there, footpaths extend to...

  • Dorothy Limunga Njeuma
  • Geremi Njitap
    Geremi Njitap
    Geremi Sorele Njitap Fotso , known simply as Geremi, is a Cameroonian footballer who is currently a free agent.-Early career:...

  • Jérémie N'Jock
    Jérémie N'Jock
    Jérémie N'Jock is a Cameroonian footballer who plays for Moreirense F.C. in Portugal, as a striker.-Football career:Moving abroad at the age of 19, N'Jock rarely settled in a club or country...

  • Ibrahim Njoya
    Ibrahim Njoya
    King Ibrahim Njoya , distinguished ruler, intellectual, and inventor, was 17th in a long dynasty of kings that ruled over Bamum and its people in western Cameroon dating back to the 14th century. He succeeded his father Nsangu and ruled from 1886/7 until his death in 1933...

  • Seidou Njimoluh Njoya
  • Nki National Park
    Nki National Park
    Nki National Park is a national park in southeastern Cameroon, located in its East Province. The closest towns to Nki are Yokadouma, Moloundou and Lomie, beyond which are rural lands...

  • Alice Nkom
    Alice Nkom
    Alice Nkom is a Cameroonian lawyer, well-known for her advocacy towards decriminalization of homosexuality in Cameroon. A lawyer since 1969, she was the first woman called to the bar in Cameroon, at the age of 24.-See also:...

  • Alain N'Kong
  • Nkongsamba
    Nkongsamba
    Nkongsamba is a city in western Cameroon. It is located in the Moungo department, which is in the Littoral region. The city had a population of 104,050 inhabitants at the 2005 Census. The city is a centre of farming of oil palms, bananas and coffee, and is situated between two mountains, the...

  • Thomas Nkono
  • Jean Nkuete
    Jean Nkuete
    Jean Nkuete is a Cameroonian politician and economist who was Executive Secretary of the Economic and Monetary Community of Central Africa from 1999 to 2006 and has served in the government of Cameroon since September 2006; currently he is Deputy Prime Minister for Agriculture and Rural...

  • Stan Nkwain
    Stan Nkwain
    Stanislas 'Stan' Nkwain, a national of Cameroon, is a senior United Nations official working for the United Nations Development Programme ....

  • George Nkwe
    George Nkwe
    George Nkwe was the first Cameroonian pastor,ordained in 1866 by British Baptist missionary Alfred Saker.A native Bamileke, Nkwe was kidnapped and sold into slavery at a young age, eventually becoming a slave of King Mpondo Ngando Akwa II of the Duala.- References :...

  • North Giziga language
    North Giziga language
    North Giziga is an Afro-Asiatic language spoken in northern Cameroon.- References :* -External links:****...

  • North Kamerun Democratic Party
  • North Mofu language
    North Mofu language
    North Mofu is an Afro-Asiatic language spoken in northern Cameroon. Dialects are Douroun and Wazan.- References :* -External links:**...

  • North Region (Cameroon)
  • Northwest Region (Cameroon); Northwest Region, Cameroon
  • Northern Cameroons
  • Northern Massacre
  • North Region (Cameroon)
  • Nshare
  • Nsibidi
    Nsibidi
    Nsibidi is a system of symbols indigenous to what is now southeastern Nigeria that is apparently ideographic, though there have been suggestions that it includes logographic elements...

  • Nso people
  • Ntarinkon Palace
  • Ntem River
    Ntem River
    The Ntem River is a border river in Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea and Gabon. It rises in Gabon, but flows into the Atlantic Ocean in Cameroon. A tributary continues along the border towards the east.- Towns :* Campo* Minvoul, Gabon...

  • Ntumazah Ndeh
  • Kristo Numpuby
    Kristo Numpuby
    -External links:* *...

  • Sally Nyolo
    Sally Nyolo
    Sally Nyolo is a Cameroonian pop musician who has lived in Paris since she was 13. In 1993 she joined Zap Mama and has also done solo work.-Web source:...

  • Nyong River
    Nyong River
    The Nyong is a river in Cameroon. The river flows approximately 640 km to empty into the Gulf of Guinea.-Transport:The town of Mbalmayo, which has a railhead, lies on the north bank of this river. The towns of Akonolinga and Abong-Mbang also lie on it....

  • Nzanyi language
    Nzanyi language
    Nzanyi is an Afro-Asiatic language spoken in Nigeria in Adamawa State in the Maiha LGA, and along the border in Cameroon. Dialects are Dede, Hoode, Lovi, Magara, Maiha, Mutidi, Nggwoli, Paka, and Rogede.- References :* -External links:**...

  • Anne-Marie Nzié
    Anne-Marie Nzié
    Anne-Marie Nzié is a Cameroonian bikutsi singer. In the 1940s, Nzié began performing bikutsi, the music native to her home in central Cameroon. She signed with Pathé Marcom Records. Nzié remained active over the next five decades and helped to popularise bikutsi throughout Cameroon...

  • Nzime
    Nzime
    The Nzime are an ethnic group inhabiting the rain forest zone of southeastern Cameroon. The Nzime live along the road running south of Abong-Mbang, through Mindourou and Lomié, and forking to Zoulabot and Zwadiba. Their territory lies south of the Koonzime in Djaposten, east of the Badwe'e, north...


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  • O Cameroon, Cradle of Our Forefathers
  • Obala
    Obala
    Obala is a town in Cameroon's Centre Province, ca 45 km north of Yaoundé, the capital of Cameroon.-Overview:The town is the seat of a Roman Catholic diocese and hosts a military academy. Tourists in Obala may visit the somewhat derelict Luna Park whose main attraction is a swimming pool. Not far...

  • Office Camerounais du Bananes
  • Mama Ohandja
    Mama Ohandja
    Mama Ohandja is a Cameroonian singer, musical arranger, dancer and choreographer. In the early 1970s, he became the most prominent musician in the region to marry traditional music with modern international styles, combining tom-toms, traditional balafons and other instruments with electric...

  • Rene-Guy Charles Okala
  • Oku
    Oku
    Oku is Sub Division in the Northwest Cameroon. The term Oku also refers to the people who live in this region and the primary language that they speak . Oku is a rural area containing about thirty-six villages...

  • Salomon Olembé
    Salomon Olembé
    René Salomon Olembé-Olembé is a Cameroonian football player, currently on trial with Burnley F.C..Olembé played for Cameroon at the 1998 World Cup, as well as the 2004 African Cup of Nations...

  • Cameroon at the 1964 Summer Olympics
    Cameroon at the 1964 Summer Olympics
    Cameroon competed in the Summer Olympic Games for the first time at the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan.-References:*...

  • Cameroon at the 1976 Summer Olympics
    Cameroon at the 1976 Summer Olympics
    During the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, Canada, Cameroon, along with many other African countries, boycotted due to the participation of New Zealand, who still had sporting links with South Africa....

  • Cameroon at the 1980 Summer Olympics
    Cameroon at the 1980 Summer Olympics
    Cameroon competed at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow, USSR. The nation returned to the Olympic Games after boycotting the 1976 Summer Olympics.-Athletics:Men's 100 metres*Grégoire Illorson* Heat — 10.34* Quarterfinals — 10.29...

  • Cameroon at the 1984 Summer Olympics
    Cameroon at the 1984 Summer Olympics
    Cameroon competed at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, United States.-Athletics:Men's 400 metres* Mama Moluh* Heat — 48.90 Men's Long Jump* Ernest Tche Noubossie...

  • Cameroon at the 1988 Summer Olympics
    Cameroon at the 1988 Summer Olympics
    Cameroon competed at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, Korea.-Athletics:Men's Long Jump* Frédéric Ebong-Salle* Qualification — 7.65m Women's Discus Throw* Jeanne Ngo Minyemeck...

  • Cameroon at the 1992 Summer Olympics
    Cameroon at the 1992 Summer Olympics
    -Athletics:Men's Marathon* Paul Kuété — 2:22.43 * Samuel Nchinda-Kaya* Monique Kengné* Léonie Mani* Georgette N'Koma* Susie Tanéfo* Louisette Thobi-References:**...

  • Cameroon at the 1996 Summer Olympics
    Cameroon at the 1996 Summer Olympics
    Cameroon competed at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, United States.-Men:Track and road events- Women :Track and road events- Boxing :- Judo :Men- Weightlifting :- Wrestling :Freestyle-References:**...

  • Cameroon at the 2000 Summer Olympics
    Cameroon at the 2000 Summer Olympics
    Cameroon competed at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia.The men's football team won the nation's first ever Olympic gold medal.-Medalists:-Women's competition:Women's 100m* Myriam Léonie Mani*# Round 1 – 11.24...

  • Cameroon at the 2004 Summer Olympics
    Cameroon at the 2004 Summer Olympics
    Cameroon competed at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece.-Medalists:-Athletics:Women's 100 metres:* Delphine Bertille Atangana – Round 2, 11.60 s Men's 200 metres:...

  • Cameroon at the 2008 Summer Olympics
    Cameroon at the 2008 Summer Olympics
    Cameroon competed in the 2008 Summer Olympics held in Beijing, People's Republic of China from August 8 to August 24, 2008.- Medalist :-Field Events:-Track Events:-Field Events:- Boxing:...

  • François Omam-Biyik
    François Omam-Biyik
    François Omam-Biyik is a former football player from Cameroon. He also has French nationality. He was one of the most important players of the Cameroonian national team in the nineties, playing at the three World Cups in 1990, 1994 and 1998...

  • Charles Onana Awana
  • One Kamerun Party (OK)
  • Organisation of African Unity (OAU)
  • Oryx Douala
    Oryx Douala
    Oryx Douala is a football club from Douala, Cameroon, that achieved most of its success in the 1960s.It won the inaugural African Cup of Champions Clubs in 1964 beating Stade Malien on a score of 2-1 in the final, and so becoming the first club outfit from Cameroon to win the title. The have also...

  • Oshie
    Oshie
    Oshie is a small mountainous village covering approximately 70 square kilometers. It is located in the English-speaking Northwest Province of Cameroon. It is located to the east of Njikwa Sub-division in Momo Division and forms a geographical gate way into Njikwa...

  • Otélé
    Otélé
    - Transport :It is served by the main line of Cameroon Railways. It is the junction for a short branch line to the river port of Mbalmayo....

  • The Overloaded Ark
    The Overloaded Ark
    The Overloaded Ark, first published in 1953, is the debut book by British naturalist Gerald Durrell. It is the chronicle of a six months collecting trip to the West African colony of British Cameroon - now Cameroon - - that Durrell made with the highly regarded aviculturist and ornithologist John...

  • Ernest Ouandie
  • Owona Constitution
  • Joseph Owona
  • Ferdinand Oyono
    Ferdinand Oyono
    Ferdinand Léopold Oyono was an author from Cameroon whose work is recognized for a sense of irony that reveals how easily people can be fooled...

  • Ferdinand-Leopold Oyono

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  • Pagan grouping; Societes paiennes
  • Palestine Sunbird
    Palestine Sunbird
    The Palestine Sunbird or Northern Orange-tufted Sunbird is a small passerine bird of the sunbird family which is found in parts of the Middle East and sub-Saharan Africa...

  • Pallottine mission to Kamerun
    Pallottine mission to Kamerun
    The Pallottine Mission to Kamerun was a Roman Catholic mission to the German colony of Kamerun run by the Pallottines in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. When the German Empire became the colonial power of Kamerun in 1884, French Catholic groups were denied permission to set up a mission in...

  • Palm products in Cameroon
  • Palm wine
    Palm wine
    Palm wine also called Palm Toddy also called "Kallu" written in Malayalam and கள்ளு in Tamil or simply Toddy is an alcoholic beverage created from the sap of various species of palm tree such as the palmyra, and coconut palms...

  • Panthère de Bangangté
    Panthère de Bangangté
    Panthère Sportive du Ndé is a Cameroonian football club based in Bangangté. It is a member of the Fédération Camerounaise de Football.-Achievements:*Cameroon Première Division: *Cameroon Cup: 2*West Division Two Championship: 1...

  • Parti des Démocrates Camerounais (PDC)
  • Parti Socialiste Camerounaise (PSC)
  • Parti Travailliste Camerounais
  • Parti Unifié
  • Passport, Cameroonian
    Cameroonian passport
    The Cameroonian passport is issued to citizens of Cameroon for international travel.-See also:* List of passports* Visa requirements for Cameroonian citizenin DC 202-265-8790...

  • Peace Corps
    Peace Corps
    The Peace Corps is an American volunteer program run by the United States Government, as well as a government agency of the same name. The mission of the Peace Corps includes three goals: providing technical assistance, helping people outside the United States to understand US culture, and helping...

  • "Peace-Work-Fatherland"
  • Michel Pensée
    Michel Penseé
    Michel Pensée Billong is a former Cameroonian footballer who played as a defender. He enjoyed a geographically varied career which took in spells with teams in his native Cameroon, Mexico, South Korea, Portugal, Russia, Japan and England...

  • People's Republic of China
    People's Republic of China
    China , officially the People's Republic of China , is the most populous country in the world, with over 1.3 billion citizens. Located in East Asia, the country covers approximately 9.6 million square kilometres...

  • Saint-John Perse
    Saint-John Perse
    Saint-John Perse was a French poet, awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1960 "for the soaring flight and evocative imagery of his poetry." He was also a major French diplomat from 1914 to 1940, after which he lived primarily in the USA until 1967.-Biography:Alexis Leger was...

  • Petit-Pays
    Petit-Pays
    Petit-Pays is a Cameroonian musician. By 1996 he had sold over 50,000 cassettes. He is also known as OMEGA, Rabba Rabbi, Turbo and famously Avocat defenseur des femmes . He is one of the most celebrated Cameroonian musicians of the late '80s and '90s...

  • Petroleum in Cameroon
  • Planned liberalism
    Planned liberalism
    Planned liberalism is an economic policy followed in Cameroon since the 1960s that aims to merge the best concepts of capitalism and socialism....

  • List of political parties in Cameroon
  • Paul Pondi
    Paul Pondi
    Paul Thomas Pondi is a Cameroonian political figure. After holding top national security posts from 1960 to 1972, he had a long career as a diplomat. Pondi was Cameroon's Ambassador to the United States from 1982 to 1993 and has been the Chairman of the Board of the Cameroon Civil Aviation...

  • Pori people
    Pori people
    The Pori is a tribe from the Centre and East Provinces of Cameroon....

  • Christian Pouga
    Christian Pouga
    Christian Pouga is a footballer from Cameroon who plays as forward for Marítimo in the Primeira Liga.- Early years :Pouga started of his professional footballing career with Shanghai United F.C...

  • Louis-Marie Pouka
    Louis-Marie Pouka
    Louis-Marie Pouka was a Cameroonian poet who advocated the assimilation of Cameroonian peoples into French culture. Pouka believed that colonialism was part of God's plan to bring African peoples into the wider world...

  • Roland Pré
  • Prefet; Senior Divisional Officer
  • Presbyterianism in Cameroon
  • Prestation
  • Prime Minister of Cameroon
    Prime Minister of Cameroon
    Under the current constitution of Cameroon, the Prime Minister of Cameroon is a relatively powerless executive. While the Prime Minister is officially appointed to be the head of government, the President retains most of the executive power and can fire the Prime Minister at will.-History:The...

  • Priso a Doo
    Priso a Doo
    Priso a Doo, also known as Preshaw, Preese, and possibly Peter, was a Duala ruler who lived on the Wouri River of the Cameroons in the late 18th century...

  • Privatisation in Cameroon
  • Prostitution in Cameroon
  • Protestantism in Cameroon
  • Psikye language
    Psikye language
    Psikye is an Afro-Asiatic language spoken in northern Cameroon and eastern Nigeria. Dialects include Psikye and Zlenge.- References :* -External links:**...

  • Public holidays in Cameroon
    Public holidays in Cameroon
    -Movable holidays:The following holidays are public holidays but the date on which each occurs varies, according to its corresponding calendar, and thus has no set date. In order in which they occur:...

  • Jesko von Puttkamer
    Jesko von Puttkamer
    Jesko Albert Eugen von Puttkamer was a German colonial military chief, and nine times governor of Kamerun:*13 May 1887 - 4 October 1887*14 August 1890 - 2 December 1890*31 December 1894 - 27 March 1895...

  • Pygmies

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  • Rabih az-Zubayr
    Rabih az-Zubayr
    Rabih az-Zubayr ibn Fadl Allah or Rabih Fadlallah , usually known as Rabah in French, was a Sudanese warlord and slave trader who established a powerful empire west of Lake Chad, in today's Chad....

  • Racing FC Bafoussam
    Racing FC Bafoussam
    Racing FC Bafoussam is a Cameroonian football club based in Bafoussam. They are a member of Fédération Camerounaise de Football. Their home stadium is Stade Municipal de Bamendzi...

  • Radio trottoir
  • Rail transport in Cameroon
    Rail transport in Cameroon
    Rail transport in Cameroon is primarily operated by Camrail, a subsidiary of Comazar.- Infrastructure :There are plans to extend from Mbalmayo to Bangui in the Central African Republic. http://allafrica.com/stories/201009240333.html...

  • Railway stations in Cameroon
    Railway stations in Cameroon
    - Maps :* * - Stations served by passenger trains :- Existing :* Limbe - port, terminal, cement works --------* Nkongsamba - railhead in northwest - rehabilitate* Mbanga - junction in west** Kumba - branch terminus in west...

  • Ralliement
  • Ramadan
    Ramadan
    Ramadan is the ninth month of the Islamic calendar, which lasts 29 or 30 days. It is the Islamic month of fasting, in which participating Muslims refrain from eating, drinking, smoking and sex during daylight hours and is intended to teach Muslims about patience, spirituality, humility and...

  • Jean Ramadier
  • Rassemblement Camerounais (RACAM)
  • Rassemblement Démocratique Africain
    African Democratic Rally
    The African Democratic Rally was a political party in French West Africa, led by Félix Houphouët-Boigny. Founded in Bamako in 1946, the RDA quickly became one of the most important forces for independence in the region. Initially a Pan-Africanist movement, the RDA ceased to function as a...

     (RDA
    African Democratic Rally
    The African Democratic Rally was a political party in French West Africa, led by Félix Houphouët-Boigny. Founded in Bamako in 1946, the RDA quickly became one of the most important forces for independence in the region. Initially a Pan-Africanist movement, the RDA ceased to function as a...

    )
  • Rassemblement du Peuple Camerounais (RAPECA)
  • Rassemblement du Peuple Camerounais (RPC)
  • Regional Council (Cameroon)
    Regional Council (Cameroon)
    Regional Councils are, nominally, the governing bodies of the regions of Cameroon. As defined by the Constitution of Cameroon, the councils have control of cultural, economic, educational, health-related, social, and sport-related issues in the regions. The members of each council are delegates...

  • Regions of Cameroon
  • Religion in Cameroon
    Religion in Cameroon
    Christianity and Islam are the two main religions in Cameroon. Christian churches and Muslim centres of various denominations operate freely throughout Cameroon. Approximately 70 percent of the population is at least nominally Christian, 21 percent is nominally Muslim and 6 percent practise...

  • Renaissance Camerounaise (RENAICAM)
  • Republic of Cameroon
  • Republique du Cameroun
  • Research Institute for Development, Communication and School Partnership
    Research Institute for Development, Communication and School Partnership
    The Research Institute for Development, Communication and School Partnership , is a non-governmental, non-profit, and non-political organisation that was founded in Cameroon in 1999...

  • Residents of Cameroons Province
  • Reunification (Cameroon)
  • Rhumsiki
    Rhumsiki
    Rhumsiki, also spelt Rumsiki and Roumsiki, is a village in the Far North Province of Cameroon. Rhumsiki is located in the Mandara Mountains 55 km from Mokolo and 3 km from the border with Nigeria. The village is similar to many others in northern Cameroon...

  • Rice in Cameroon
  • "rigor and moralisation"
  • Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Bamenda
    Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Bamenda
    The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Bamenda is the Metropolitan See for the Ecclesiastical province of Bamenda in Cameroon.-History:* August 13, 1970: Established as Diocese of Bamenda from the Diocese of Buéa...

  • Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Bertoua
    Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Bertoua
    The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Bertoua is the Metropolitan See for the Ecclesiastical province of Bertoua in Cameroon.-History:* 1983.03.17: Established as Diocese of Bertoua from the Diocese of Doumé...

  • Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Douala
    Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Douala
    The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Douala is the Metropolitan See for the Ecclesiastical province of Douala in Cameroon. The current archbishop is Archbishop Samuel Kleda, he had previously been the coadjutor archbishop...

  • Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Garoua
    Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Garoua
    The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Garoua is the Metropolitan See for the Ecclesiastical province of Garoua in Cameroon.-History:* 1947.01.09: Established as Apostolic Prefecture of Garoua from the Apostolic Vicariate of Foumban...

  • Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Yaoundé
  • Roman Catholic dioceses in Cameroon, list of
  • Roman Catholic Diocese of Bafia
  • Roman Catholic Diocese of Bafoussam
  • Roman Catholic Diocese of Batouri
  • Roman Catholic Diocese of Buéa
  • Roman Catholic Diocese of Doumé–Abong’ Mbang
  • Roman Catholic Diocese of Ebolowa
    Roman Catholic Diocese of Ebolowa
    The Roman Catholic Diocese of Ebolowa is a diocese located in the city of Ebolowa in the Ecclesiastical province of Yaoundé in Cameroon.-History:* May 20, 1991: Established as Diocese of Ebolowa–Kribi from the Diocese of Sangmélima...

  • Roman Catholic Diocese of Edéa
  • Roman Catholic Diocese of Eséka
  • Roman Catholic Diocese of Kribi
  • Roman Catholic Diocese of Kumbo
  • Roman Catholic Diocese of Mamfe
  • Roman Catholic Diocese of Maroua–Mokolo
  • Roman Catholic Diocese of Mbalmayo
  • Roman Catholic Diocese of Ngaoundéré
  • Roman Catholic Diocese of Nkongsamba
  • Roman Catholic Diocese of Obala
  • Roman Catholic Diocese of Sangmélima
  • Roman Catholic Diocese of Yagoua
  • Roman Catholic Diocese of Yokadouma
  • Roman Catholicism in Cameroon
    Roman Catholicism in Cameroon
    The Catholic Church in Cameroon is part of the worldwide Roman Catholic Church, under the spiritual leadership of the Pope and curia in Rome.There are an estimated 4.25 million baptised Catholics in the Republic of Cameroon, 26% of the population, in 24 Dioceses...

  • Rosicrucianism
  • Rubber in Cameroon
  • Rural exodus in Cameroon

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  • Samuel Efoua Mbozo'o
    Samuel Efoua Mbozo'o
    Dr. Samuel Efoua Mbozo’o Is a politician from Camaroon who has served as the Secretary General of the Cameroon National Assembly and as a Member of Cameroon Parliament He is an honorary member of Global Unification International....

  • Sa'a, Cameroon
  • Felix Sabal Lecco
  • Sable FC
    Sable FC
    Sable FC is a Cameroonian football club based in Batié. They are a member of Fédération Camerounaise de Football. Their home stadium is Stade de Batié and they are nicknamed the "San San Boys".-Achievements:*Cameroon Premiere Division: 1...

  • Sahel FC
    Sahel FC
    Sahel FC is a Cameroonian football club based in Maroua. They are a member of Fédération Camerounaise de Football. The club was relegated from the Cameroon Premiere Division in 2007....

  • Alioum Saidou
    Alioum Saidou
    Alioum Saidou is a Cameroonian football Defensive midfielder who is unattached.He plays international football for the Cameroon national team, with whom he played in the 2006 African Cup of Nations.-Early career:...

  • St. Joseph's College, Sasse
  • Alfred Saker
    Alfred Saker
    Alfred Saker was a British missionary who founded the Cameroon city of Victoria, now Limbé , in 1858.He translated the Bible into Duala between 1862 and 1872....

  • Saker Baptist College
    Saker Baptist College
    Saker Baptist College is an all-girls secondary school located in Limbe in Cameroon. It was founded in 1962 as one of the first two secondary schools for girls in Cameroon. Its inaugural class of 36 students arrived on January 29, 1962. The school has since grown to almost a thousand students...

  • Ahmadou Salatou
  • Martin-Paul Samba
    Martin-Paul Samba
    Martin-Paul Samba, born Mebenga m'Ebono , was a Bulu military officer during the Imperial German colonial period of Cameroon. M'Ebobo became a favourite of the German colonials during his upbringing in Kribi, a coastal settlement in southern Cameroon...

  • Lotin Same
  • Sanaga River
    Sanaga River
    The Sanaga River is a river of South Province, Cameroon, Centre Province, Cameroon, and West Province, Cameroon. Its length is 890 kilometers.The Sanaga River forms a boundary between two tropical moist forest ecoregions...

  • Sangha River
    Sangha River
    The Sangha River, a river in central Africa, is a tributary of the Congo River, which it joins at . Formed by the merging of the Mambéré River into the Kadéï River at Nola , the Sangha flows through the Central African Republic, along the border of Cameroon, and through the Republic of Congo.Its...

  • Sangmélima
    Sangmélima
    Sangmélima is a town on the Lobo River, and also the chief town of Lobo division , in the South Province , Republic of Cameroon, Africa. The language spoken there is French, with Bulu being the second language.-People:...

  • Sao civilisation
    Sao civilisation
    The Sao were an African civilisation that flourished from ca. the 6th century to as late as the 15th century. The Sao lived by the Chari River south of Lake Chad in territory that would later be part of Cameroon and Chad. They are the earliest people to have left clear traces of their presence in...

  • Les Scouts du Cameroun
    Les Scouts du Cameroun
    Les Scouts du Cameroun is the national Scouting organization of Cameroon. Scouting in Cameroon was started in 1937. The association was founded in 1973 through the merger of five predecessors. Cameroonese Scouting became a member of the World Organization of the Scout Movement in 1971...

  • Second Extraordinary Congress of Cameroon National Union
  • Secret agreements between Cameroon and France
  • Secretariat-General at the Presidency
  • Les Saignantes
    Les Saignantes
    Utterly singular, Les Saignantes is a futuristic, sci-fi, erotic, political thriller that traverses all of these genres while bringing a strong political sensibility to proceedings. Two sexy young women win the favors of the corrupt political elite, but when one of these leaders dies in the middle...

  • Theodor Seitz
  • Self-reliant development (développement autocentre)
  • Pierre Semengue
  • Semi-Bantu
  • Senate of Cameroon
  • Felix Sengat-Kuo
  • Service d'Etudes et de la Documentation
  • Sharwa language
    Sharwa language
    Sharwa is an Afro-Asiatic language spoken in Cameroon in Far North Province. There are signs of language shift to Fulfulde.- References :* * *...

  • Shu Mom
  • Dominique Sima Fouda
  • Augustine Simo
    Augustine Simo
    Augustine Simo is a Cameroonian footballer who currently plays for FC UGS.-Career:Simo played for several clubs in Europe, including AS Saint-Étienne in France and AC Lugano, Neuchâtel Xamax, FC Zürich and FC Aarau in Switzerland....

  • Thérèse Sita-Bella
    Thérèse Sita-Bella
    Thérèse Sita-Bella , born Thérèse Bella Mbida, was a Cameroonian filmmaker and pilot, and Cameroon's first female journalist.She was born into the Beti tribe in southern Cameroon, and received her education from Catholic missionaries...

  • Slavery in Cameroon
  • Slave trade in Cameroon
  • Smuggling in Cameroon
  • Socatral
  • Social Democratic Front (SDF)
  • Social justice
    Social justice
    Social justice generally refers to the idea of creating a society or institution that is based on the principles of equality and solidarity, that understands and values human rights, and that recognizes the dignity of every human being. The term and modern concept of "social justice" was coined by...

  • Société Camerounaise de Banque scandal
  • Société Camerounaise des Tabacs (SCT)
  • Société de Développement de la Riziculture dans le Plaine de Mbo (SODERIM)
  • Société de Développement pour la Culture et la Transformation du Blé (SODEBLE)
  • Société d'Expansion et de Modernisation de la Riziculture de Yagoua (SEMRY)
  • Société du Développement du Nkam (SODENKAM)
  • Société Financière de Recouvrement
  • Société Nationale des Hydrocarbures
    Société Nationale des Hydrocarbures
    Société Nationale des Hydrocarbures is a national oil and gas company of Cameroon. The company was established on 12 March 1980. SNH operates in partnership with international oil companies and it is responsible for selling the government's share of oil output...

     (SNH)
  • Sociétés Cooperatives de Développement Rural (SOCOODER)
  • Julius von Soden
    Julius von Soden
    Julius Freiherr von Soden was a German colonial official and politician. He was Governor of the colonies of Kamerun and German East Africa, and later became Chef de Cabinet and Foreign Minister of the King of Württemberg....

  • Rameau Thierry Sokoudjou
    Rameau Thierry Sokoudjou
    Rameau Thierry Sokoudjou Nkamhoua , sometimes billed simply as Sokoudjou, is a Cameroonian mixed martial artist and judoka, and the former KSW Light Heavyweight Champion, who came to prominence in Japan's PRIDE Fighting Championships. He has since had mixed success with stints in the UFC, WEC,...

  • Sokoto
    Sokoto
    Sokoto is a city located in the extreme northwest of Nigeria, near to the confluence of the Sokoto River and the Rima River. As of 2006 it has a population of 427,760...

  • Sokoto Grand Vizier
    Sokoto Grand Vizier
    The Wazirin Sakkwato, or "Sokoto Grand Vizier", was the Grand Vizier to the Sultan of Sokoto of the Fulani Empire, in fact rather suzerain of the Fulani Jihad states.-List of Grand Viziers:*Gidago dan Laima...

  • List of Sultans of Sokoto
  • Thomas Som
    Thomas Som
    Thomas Fabrice Som is a Cameroonian footballer who plays for Como at Italian Prima Divisione.-Biography:Som started his career at Italy for Crociati Noceto, located at Noceto, the Province of Parma. In January 2005, he signed a youth contract with Parma, where he started to play as a forward...

  • Alexandre Song
    Alexandre Song
    Alexandre "Alex" Dimitri Song Billong , more commonly known as Alex Song, is a Cameroonian professional footballer who plays for Premier League side Arsenal and the Cameroon national team as a midfielder. He is the cousin of The Panthers central defender Rigobert Song...

  • Rigobert Song
    Rigobert Song
    Rigobert Song Bahanag is a former Cameroonian footballer who is currently a main consultant for the famous sports channel 'Orange sports'. Although receiving many propositions from top clubs, Song declined. Song played for Kosovo super league club KF Drenica, when his contract after season 2010/12...

  • Jacques Songo'o
    Jacques Songo'o
    Jacques Celestin Songo'o is a retired Cameroonian footballer, who played as a goalkeeper.Spent the vast majority of his professional career in France and Spain, also representing the Cameroonian national team in four FIFA World Cups.-Club career:After first establishing himself as a professional...

  • Soppo
    Soppo
    Soppo is the name of two villages, Great Soppo and Small Soppo in Buea, western Cameroon. It is located at around .From 1904 to 1914 it was the headquarters of the German colonial military forces...

  • Paul Soppo Priso
  • SOSOCAM
  • Andre Soucadaux
  • South Cameroon Plateau
    South Cameroon Plateau
    The South Cameroon Plateau or Southern Cameroon Plateau is the dominant geographical feature of Cameroon. The plateau lies south of the Adamawa Plateau and southeast of the Cameroon Range. It slopes south and west until giving way to the Cameroon coastal plain in the southwest and the Congo River...

  • South Region (Cameroon)
  • Southern Cameroon national football team
  • Southwest Region (Cameroon)
  • Southern Cameroons
    Southern Cameroons
    Southern Cameroons was the southern part of the British Mandate territory of Cameroons in West Africa. Since 1961 it is part of the Republic of Cameroon, where it makes up the Northwest Province and Southwest Province...

  • Southern Cameroons National Council
    Southern Cameroons National Council
    The Southern Cameroons National Council is a self determination organisation seeking the independence of the anglophone Southern Cameroons from the francophone Republic of Cameroon . It is a non-violent organisation, and its motto is "The force of argument, not the argument of force." The current...

     (SCNC)
  • Southern Cameroons Youth League (SCYL)
  • South Giziga language
    South Giziga language
    South Giziga is an Afro-Asiatic language spoken in northern Cameroon. Dialects are Mi Mijivin, Muturami, and Rum.- References :*...

  • Nzante Spee
    Nzante Spee
    Sunday Nzante Spee was a Cameroonian artist.When he was a teenager, he used to make some paintings and decorations in façades...

  • Sport in Cameroon
    Sport in Cameroon
    Sport in Cameroon is practiced widely by the population and advocated by the national government. Cameroonians take pride in victories at international competitions, making sport an important source of national unity. Traditional sports in Cameroon include canoe racing, swimming, tug of war, and...

  • Sso (rite)
    Sso (rite)
    The Sso was an initiation rite practiced by the Beti of Cameroon in the 19th and early 20th centuries. The participants were young men between 15 and 25 years of age who, by completing the rite, became adults and enjoyed added privileges, such as passage into the land of the ancestors at death....

  • Stabilisation of Export Earnings (STABEX)
  • Stade Akwa
    Stade Akwa
    Stade Akwa is a multi-use stadium in Douala, Cameroon. It is currently used mostly for football matches. It serves as a home ground of Kadji Sports Academy. The stadium holds 5,000 people....

  • Stade de Baham
    Stade de Baham
    Stade de Baham is a multi-use stadium in Baham, Cameroon. It is currently used mostly for football matches. It serves as a home ground of Fovu Baham. The stadium holds 7,000 people....

  • Stade de Batié
    Stade de Batié
    Stade de Batié is a multi-use stadium in Batié, Cameroon. It is currently used mostly for football matches. It serves as a home ground of Sable FC. The stadium holds 5,000 people....

  • Stade Municipal (Bafang)
    Stade Municipal (Bafang)
    Stade Municipal is a multi-use stadium in Bafang, Cameroon. It is currently used mostly for football matches and serves as a home ground of Unisport de Bafang of the Cameroon Première Division. The stadium holds 5,000 people.-External links:*...

  • Stade Municipal de Bafoussam
    Stade Municipal de Bafoussam
    Stade Municipal de Bafoussam is a multi-use stadium in Bafoussam, Cameroon. It is currently used mostly for football matches and serves as a home ground of Université FC de Ngaoundéré of the Cameroon Première Division. The stadium holds 5,000 spectators....

  • Stade Municipal de Bamendzi
    Stade Municipal de Bamendzi
    Stade Municipal de Bamendzi is a multi-use stadium in Bafoussam, Cameroon. It is currently used mostly for football matches. It serves as a home ground of Racing FC Bafoussam. The stadium holds 5,000 people....

  • Stade Municipal de Guider
    Stade Municipal de Guider
    Stade Municipal de Guider is a multi-use stadium in Guider, Cameroon. It is currently used mostly for football matches. It serves as a home ground of Espérance FC. The stadium holds 10,000 people....

  • Stade de la Réunification
    Stade de la Réunification
    Stade de la Réunification is a multi-use stadium in Douala, Cameroon. It is currently used mostly for football matches and serves as a home ground of Union Douala. The stadium holds 30,000 people and was built in 1972....

  • Stade de Mbouda
    Stade de Mbouda
    Stade de Mbouda is a multi-use stadium in Mbouda, Cameroon. It is currently used mostly for football matches. It serves as a home ground of Bamboutos FC. The stadium holds 12,000 people....

  • Stade de Moliko
    Stade de Moliko
    Stade de Moliko is a multi-use stadium in Buéa, Cameroon. It is currently used mostly for football matches. It serves as a home ground of Mount Cameroon FC. The stadium holds 8,000 people. The stadium is situated at the Molyko quarters in Buea and the turf is made of a mixture of sand and gravel....

  • Roumdé Adjia Stadium
  • Ahmadou Ahidjo Stadium
  • List of people on stamps in Cameroon
  • Statut du Cameroun
  • Structural Adjustment Programs (SAP)
  • Patrick Suffo
    Patrick Suffo
    Patrick Suffo Kengné is a footballer who is currently signed to Bedworth Liberal FC.- Club career :...

  • Sugar in Cameroon
  • Supreme Court of Cameroon
    Supreme Court of Cameroon
    The Supreme Court is the highest judicial body in Cameroon. As defined in Article V of the Constitution of Cameroon, the Supreme Court is above the courts of appeal and the tribunals. It is nominally independent of the executive and legislative branches of government, subject only to the oversight...

  • "Sweet Mother
    Sweet Mother
    "Sweet Mother" is a highlife song by the Nigeria/Cameroonian singer Prince Nico Mbarga and his band Rocafil Jazz. Released in 1976, it remains one of the most popular songs in Africa....

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  • Maurice Tadadjeu
  • Carlos Takam
    Carlos Takam
    Armand Carlos Netsing Takam is a boxer who represented Cameroon at the 2004 Summer Olympics at super heavyweight .-Amateur:2003, at the All-Africa Games in Abuja, Nigeria, he captured the bronze medal in his weight division....

  • Takumbeng; Takembeng
  • Elisabeth Tankeu
    Elisabeth Tankeu
    Elisabeth Tankeu was a Cameroonian politician. She was the African Union'sCommissioner of Trade and Industry.-Political career:...

  • James Tabe Tataw
  • Tatum, Cameroon
    Tatum, Cameroon
    Tatum is a rural village in Northwest Province, Cameroon.-External links:**...

  • Alphonse Tchami
    Alphonse Tchami
    Alphonse Marie Tchami Djomaha is a retired Cameroonian football player.-Career:Tchami began his career in his homeland with Unisport Bafang before moving to Danish side Vejle BK. After a short spell which involved relegation, Tchami moved to Odense BK where his form won him a move to Argentine...

  • Bill Tchato
    Bill Tchato
    Bill Jackson Tchato Mbiayi is a Cameroonian footballer who last played for Strasbourg as a defender.-Club career:Tchato began his career in France with Caen in 1995, and made 18 league appearances in his debut season which ended with the club being promoted to Division 1 as champions...

  • Jean-Pierre Tchetchoua
  • Vroumsia Tchinaye
  • Jean-Michel Tchouga
    Jean-Michel Tchouga
    Jean-Michel Tchouga is a footballer from Cameroon who currently plays as striker for SC Kriens in the Swiss Challenge League.-External Links:*-References:...

  • Simon Pierre Tchoungui
  • Jerry-Christian Tchuissé
    Jerry-Christian Tchuissé
    Jerry-Christian Tchuissé is a retired Cameroonian football fullback, who holds Russian citizenship. He used to play for Chernomorets Novorossiysk, Spartak Moscow, FC Moscow, FC Terek Grozny and FC Vityaz Podolsk.- Club career :...

  • Tea in Cameroon
  • Teachers Association of Cameroon
  • Paul Tessa
  • Les Têtes Brulées
    Les Têtes Brulées
    Les Têtes Brulées are a Cameroonian band known for a mellow pop version of the bikutsi dance music. Their name literally means the burnt heads in French, but more likely is meant to imply mindblown or hot heads. They first rose to prominence in the 1980s, and quickly became the most well-known...

  • Theatre in Cameroon
  • Johannes Thong Likeng
  • Amour Patrick Tignyemb
    Amour Patrick Tignyemb
    Amour Patrick Tignyemb is a Cameroonian footballer who currently plays for Bloemfontein Celtic in the South African Premier Soccer League.-International career:...

  • Tikar
    Tikar
    The Tikar are a group of related ethnic groups in Cameroon. They live primarily in the northwestern part of the country, in the Northwest Province near the Nigerian border. They speak Bantoid language, also called Tikar. Their population is approximately 25,000.The Tikar have elements of...

    ; Tikari
  • Tiko
    Tiko
    Tiko, Originally called ‘Keka’ by the Bakweris, is a town and important port in the southwest region of Cameroon. The settlement grew as a market town for Duala fishermen, Bakweri farmers and hunters from Molyko, Bwenga, Bulu and Bokova...

  • Tillier Affair
  • Timber in Cameroon
  • Tobacco in Cameroon
  • Barthélémy Toguo
    Barthélémy Toguo
    Barthélémy Toguo, is a Cameroonian painter born in 1967. He lives in Paris and Bandjoun. He has also worked with photographs, sculpture, videos....

  • Tombel Massacre
  • Tonnerre Yaoundé
    Tonnerre Yaoundé
    Tonnerre Kalara Club of Yaoundé are a football club based in Yaoundé, Cameroon. The club was most prominent during the 1980s, winning all of their 5 national championship during the decade. They have also won the national cup 5 times...

  • Tontine
    Tontine
    A tontine is an investment scheme for raising capital, devised in the 17th century and relatively widespread in the 18th and 19th. It combines features of a group annuity and a lottery. Each subscriber pays an agreed sum into the fund, and thereafter receives an annuity. As members die, their...

    ; Njangi
  • Felix Tonye Mbog
  • Xavier Torre
  • Tourism in Cameroon
    Tourism in Cameroon
    Tourism in Cameroon is a growing but relatively minor industry. Since the 1970s, the government of Cameroon has cultivated the industry by creating a ministry of tourism and by encouraging investment by airlines, hotels, and travel agencies. The government describes the country as "Africa in...

  • Trans-Cameroon Railway
  • Transport in Cameroon
    Transport in Cameroon
    - Railways :Railways in Cameroon are operated by Camrail, a subsidiary of French investment group Bolloré. As of 2008, the country had an estimated 987 km of gauge track....

  • Treaty of Fez
    Treaty of Fez
    By the Treaty of Fez , signed March 30, 1912, Sultan Abdelhafid gave up the sovereignty of Morocco to the French, making the country a protectorate, resolving the Agadir Crisis of July 1, 1911....

  • Tripartite Conference
  • United Nations Trust Territories
    United Nations Trust Territories
    United Nations trust territories were the successors of the remaining League of Nations mandates and came into being when the League of Nations ceased to exist in 1946. All of the trust territories were administered through the UN Trusteeship Council...

  • Trusteeship system
  • Tsamassi
    Tsamassi
    Tsamassi is a popular musical style of the Bamileke of Cameroon. It was popularised by André-Marie Tala.-References:* DeLancey, Mark W., and Mark Dike DeLancey : Historical Dictionary of the Republic of Cameroon . Lanham, Maryland: The Scarecrow Press....

  • Delpine Tsanga
  • Tsuvan language
    Tsuvan language
    Tsuvan is an Afro-Asiatic language spoken in Cameroon in Far North Province.- References :* -External links:**...

  • Christian Tumi
  • Tupuri language
    Tupuri language
    Tupuri is a language mostly spoken in the Mayo-Kebbi Est Region of southern Chad but there are small pats in northern Cameroon. It is an Mbum language spoken by the Tupuri people with approximately 300,000 speakers.-External links:**...

  • Tupuri people
    Tupuri people
    The Tupuri are an ethnic group in Cameroon and Chad. They speak a language called Tupuri, which had 125,000 speakers in Cameroon at an unspecified date and 90,785 speakers in Chad in 1993. In Cameroon, the Tupuri live east of Kaélé in the Kaele division and in the Kar-Hay subdivison of the...


U

  • Reuben Um Nyobé
  • Unification Day (Cameroon)
    Unification Day (Cameroon)
    Unification Day is a holiday in Cameroon that is celebrated on 1 October, marking the anniversary of British Southern Cameroons' independence from the United Kingdom and unification with French Cameroun in 1961. This is not to be confused with the anniversary of French Cameroun's independence from...

  • Union Camerounaise (UC)
  • Union des Populations du Cameroun
    Union of the Peoples of Cameroon
    The Union of the Peoples of Cameroon is a political party in Cameroon.-History:UPC was founded on April 10, 1948, at a meeting in the bar Chez Sierra in Bassa. 12 men assisted the founding meeting, including Charles Assalé, Léonard Bouli, and Guillaume Bagal. The majority of the participants were...

    ; Union of the Peoples of Cameroon
    Union of the Peoples of Cameroon
    The Union of the Peoples of Cameroon is a political party in Cameroon.-History:UPC was founded on April 10, 1948, at a meeting in the bar Chez Sierra in Bassa. 12 men assisted the founding meeting, including Charles Assalé, Léonard Bouli, and Guillaume Bagal. The majority of the participants were...

     (UPC)
  • Union Douala
    Union Douala
    Union Sportive Douala is a Cameroonian football club based in Douala.-History:It was founded in 1957 and played its home matches in the Stade de la Réunification.-Achievements:*Cameroon Premiere Division: 4...

  • Union Douanière Economique de l'Afrique Centrale (UDEAC
    Economic Community of Central African States
    The Economic Community of Central African States is an Economic Community of the African Union for promotion of regional economic co-operation in Central Africa...

    ); Central African Customs and Economic Union (CACEU)
  • Union for Change
    Union for Change
    The Union for Change is a political party in Guinea-Bissau.At the last legislative elections, 28 and 30 March 2004, the party won 1.9 % of the popular vote and no seats....

  • Union of Free Trade Unions of Cameroon (USLC)
  • Unisport de Bafang
    Unisport de Bafang
    Unisport FC de Bafang is a football club based in Bafang in Cameroon's West Province. They are a member of the Fédération Camerounaise de Football and play in the Cameroon Premiere Division...

  • United Nations 1961 plebiscite
  • United Nations Security Council Resolution 133
    United Nations Security Council Resolution 133
    United Nations Security Council Resolution 133, adopted unanimously on January 26, 1960, after examining the application of the Republic of Cameroon for membership in the United Nations, the Council recommended to the General Assembly that the Republic of Cameroon be admitted.-References:*...

  • United Republic of Cameroon
  • List of universities in Cameroon
  • Unity Palace; Etoudi Palace
  • Université FC de Ngaoundéré
    Université FC de Ngaoundéré
    Université FC are a football club based in Ngaoundéré, Cameroon.-Current squad:...

  • University of Yaoundé
    University of Yaoundé
    The University of Yaoundé is a leading university in Cameroon, located in Yaoundé.It was built with the help of France and opened in 1962 as the Federal University of Yaoundé, dropping the "Federal" in 1972 when the country was reorganized....

  • Urbanisation in Cameroon
  • Usman dan Fodio
    Usman dan Fodio
    Shaihu Usman dan Fodio , born Usuman ɓii Foduye, was the founder of the Sokoto Caliphate in 1809, a religious teacher, writer and Islamic promoter. Dan Fodio was one of a class of urbanized ethnic Fulani living in the Hausa States in what is today northern Nigeria...


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  • Vame language
    Vame language
    Vame is an Afro-Asiatic language spoken in northern Cameroon. Dialects are Demwa, Hurza, Mayo-Plata, Mberem, and Ndreme.- References :* Social Anthropologist and linguist Olivier Nyssens stayed two years with the Vame people, learned their language and wrote two articles.* Linguist Daniel...

  • Paul Verdzekov
    Paul Verdzekov
    Paul Verdzekov was the Roman Catholic Archbishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Bamenda, Cameroon....

  • Victoria Botanical Gardens
    Victoria Botanical Gardens
    The Victoria Botanical Gardens in Seychelles was established in 1901 by Mr. Paul Evenor Rivalz Dupont . Today the Ministry of Environment is responsible for the Botanical Gardens and has its headquarters in it...

  • Heinrich Vieter
    Heinrich Vieter
    Heinrich Vieter was a German Pallottine missionary to the German colony of Kamerun. Vieter arrived in Douala with seven other members of the mission on 25 October 1890. Over the next 13 years, Vieter led the Pallottines as they opened missions and schools across the territory...

  • Volcanic Sprint
    Volcanic Sprint
    Volcanic Sprint is a 2007 documentary produced by Steve Dorst and Dan Evans about a grueling mountain race in Africa and the mostly local competitors who compete against tough odds to overcome dire poverty.- Synopsis :...

  • Vollarbe

W

  • Geoffrey Wainwright
    Geoffrey Wainwright
    Geoffrey Wainwright is a British Methodist theologian.Born in Monk Bretton, Barnsley, Yorkshire, England, in 1939, Geoffrey Wainwright is an ordained minister of the British Methodist Church. He received his university education in Cambridge, Geneva and Rome. He holds the Dr. Théol. degree from...

  • Justice Wamfor
    Justice Wamfor
    Justice Wamfor is an Cameroonian footballer who plays for Maccabi Petah Tikva in the Israeli Premier League as a midfielder. He previously played for Racing Club Bafoussam and more recently for RC Genk and Germinal Beerschot....

  • Waza National Park
    Waza National Park
    Waza National Park is a national park in Far North Province, Cameroon. It was founded in 1934, albeit as a hunting reserve, and covers a total of 1,700 km²...

  • Pierre Webó
    Pierre Webó
    Pierre Achille Webó Kouamo , known as Webó, is a Cameroonian footballer who plays for İstanbul Büyükşehir Belediyespor in Turkey, as a striker.-Early years:...

  • Nicole Werewere-Liking
  • West Africa Campaign (World War I)
    West Africa Campaign (World War I)
    The West Africa Campaign of World War I consisted of two small and fairly short military operations to capture the German colonies in West Africa: Togoland and Kamerun.-Overview:...

  • West Cameroon
  • West Cameroon House of Chiefs
  • West Region (Cameroon)
  • Western High Plateau
    Western High Plateau
    The Western High Plateau, Western Highlands, or Bamenda Grassfields is a region of Cameroon characterised by high relief, cool temperatures, heavy rainfall, and savanna vegetation. The region lies along the Cameroon line and consists of mountain ranges and volcanoes made of crystalline and igneous...

  • Wheat in Cameroon
  • William I of Bimbia
    William I of Bimbia
    William I of Bimbia, born Bile, was the chief and king of the Isubu ethnic group, who lived in Bimbia on the coast of Cameroon in the mid-to-late 19th century. British traders recognised the sovereignty of William's Bimbia and titled him "king". William sold land to the British missionary Alfred...

  • William II of Bimbia
  • Johannes Manga Williams
  • Wodaabe
    Wodaabe
    The Wodaabe or Bororo are a small subgroup of the Fulani ethnic group. They are traditionally nomadic cattle-herders and traders in the Sahel, with migrations stretching from southern Niger, through northern Nigeria, northeastern Cameroon, and the western region of the Central African Republic....

  • Pierre Womé
    Pierre Wome
    Pierre Nlend Womé is a Cameroonian football defender who is currently a free agent after being released from 1. FC Köln in 2010...

  • Women in Cameroon
  • World Bank
    World Bank
    The World Bank is an international financial institution that provides loans to developing countries for capital programmes.The World Bank's official goal is the reduction of poverty...

  • World War I Kamerun campaigns
  • Cameroonian participation in World War II
  • Wouri River
    Wouri River
    The Wouri is a river in Cameroon. The river is formed at the confluence of the rivers Nkam and Makombé, northeast of the city of Yabassi. The Wouri then flows about southeast to the Wouri estuary at Douala, the chief port and industrial city in the southwestern part of Cameroon on the Gulf of...

  • Wovea
    Wovea
    The Wovea are an ethnic group from the Republic of Cameroon. The people inhabits the coastal areas of the Fako division of the Southwest Province. The Wovea are one of the ethnic groups that comprise the Sawa, or Cameroonian coastal peoples.-History:...

  • Wum
    Wum
    Wum is a town and commune in Cameroon. It is the capital of Menchum division in the Northwest Province.-Geography:Wum is the third biggest town in the North West Region of Cameroon. It lies on a plateau at an elevation of about 1100 m near the edge of the western highlands of Cameroon. It is north...

  • Wuzlam language
    Wuzlam language
    Wuzlam, also called Uldeme, is an Afro-Asiatic language spoken in northern Cameroon.-References:* * Veronique de Colombel. 1997. La langue ouldeme nord-Cameroun: précis de grammaire, texte, lexique. Paris: Association LInguistique Africaine....


Y

  • Fosi Yakum-Ntaw
  • Yaoundé
    Yaoundé
    -Transportation:Yaoundé Nsimalen International Airport is a major civilian hub, while nearby Yaoundé Airport is used by the military. Railway lines run west to the port city of Douala and north to N'Gaoundéré. Many bus companies operate from the city; particularly in the Nsam and Mvan neighborhoods...

  • Yaoundé Agreements
  • Yaoundé Airport
    Yaoundé Airport
    Yaoundé Airport is an airport in Yaoundé, the capital of Cameroon and a city in the Centre Province. It is also known as Yaoundé Ville Airport.-See also:* Cameroon Air Force* List of airports in Cameroon* Yaoundé Nsimalen International Airport...

  • Yaoundé Convention
    Yaoundé Convention
    The Yaoundé Convention was a convention signed in the city of Yaoundé, Cameroon between the EC and ASMM .-The First Convention :...

  • Yaoundé Nsimalen International Airport
    Yaoundé Nsimalen International Airport
    Yaoundé Nsimalen International Airport is an airport serving Yaoundé, the capital of Cameroon. The airport is located south of Yaoundé, near Nsimalen in Cameroon's Centre Province.In 2004, the airport served 190,487 passengers.-Airlines and destinations:...

  • Yaoundé Plan of Action
  • Yaoundé train explosion
    Yaoundé train explosion
    The Yaoundé train explosion was the catastrophic fire following the derailment and collision of two tanker trains hauling fuel oil through the capital of Cameroon, Yaoundé...

  • Yeni language
    Yeni language
    The Yeni language is an extinct language of Cameroon, formerly spoken around Djeni Mountain in the Nyalang area. All that remains of the language, apparently, is a song remembered by some Sandani speakers...

  • Yillaga
  • Gisele Yitamben
  • Yokadouma
    Yokadouma
    Yokadouma is a town in south eastern Cameroon, lying near the border with the Central African Republic. It is popular as a base for visiting the local rainforest....

  • Philémon Yang

Z

  • Zambo Commission
  • Rose Zang Nguele
  • Zero option
    Zero Option
    The "Zero Option" was the name given to an American proposal for the withdrawal of all Soviet and United States intermediate-range nuclear missiles from Europe. This term was subsequently expanded to describe the vision of eliminating all nuclear weapons everywhere.U.S. President Ronald Reagan...

  • Eugen von Zimmerer
    Eugen von Zimmerer
    Eugen Ritter von Zimmerer was a governor of the German colony of Kamerun between 1890 and 1893.-Early career:Zimmerer was born on 24 November 1843 in Germersheim, the son of a Bavarian officer....

  • Eugene Zintgraff
  • Jean Zoa
  • Zone de Pacification (ZOPAC)
  • Zones d'Action Prioritaires Integrées (ZAPI)
  • Zumaya language
    Zumaya language
    Zumaya is a moribund Chadic language spoken in Cameroon.-External links:***...

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