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TALKING ABOUT CAMEROON mercredi, 07 juillet 2004 Last Updated dimanche, 16 avril 2006
TALKING ABOUT CAMEROON Take a look in the golf of Guinea between the equator and the tropic of cancer, and you’ll see Cameroon appearing like a triangle, sharing the borders in the west with Nigeria, in the south with the Atlantic ocean, the equatorial Guinea, Gabon and Congo, in the east with Central African Republic and Chad, finally in the north with the Lake Chad. 475 000 km² of area, around 14 000 000 people (in 1995), that sounds medium in Africa; But Cameroon has very more to show: • An extraordinary diversity of the relief that man can subdivide into four large sets: the isolated plains in the north, the coastal plains, the arch of the high grass fields in the west, the large plateau of the south. • A climate which can respond to any kind of preference: a climatic centre with temperatures nearly as cold as in winter, but also a very nice time not so hot not so cold; elsewhere as hot as in the Sahel under the kind of sun that man need to go brown softly. About raining, nearly all the large groups found and known are represented here, as Cameroon got a rainforest, a Sahel, a coast on the Atlantic ocean, mountains regions and among them Cameroon mountain with more than 4 000m of altitude… • Touristiques attractions : Falls (the Kienké, the Lobé, Nachtigal, Vina…) ; wonders of the nature (the col of Batié in the west, the Ngog Lituba caves in the Littoral province, the standing stone of Rhumsiki and the peak of Mindif in the Extreme north province, the Akoakas and Akoafem rocks in the south…) ; palaces (of the Bamoun people Sultan in Foumban, of Rudolf Douala Manga Bell in Douala, of Martin-Paul Samba in Ebolowa, of Charles Atangana in Yaoundé, of the German governor Von Puttkamer in Buéa…) ; national parks (of the Bénoué river, of the black buffalo’s camping place, of Waza…) ; beaches (in Kribi, Limbé, Campo…) ; reserves (Campo and Dja in the south, Faro in the north, Korup in south-west, Mouanko in the littoral province…) ; and finally steles. • Bilingual with more than 200 languages. In fact, the majority of the large linguistic groups of Africa can be found in Cameroon making a plurality of languages man can not find elsewhere: nearly 260 languages spoken. The fact attesting to the necessity of the two official languages which are French and English to ease the dialogue. • The cultural wealth with such originality and a volume which can make you go mad or crazy; cultural systems are as many as ethnic groups… We then understand why Cameroon has inherited of the label « Africa in miniature », because man can find here nearly all the geographic, physic and ethnic linguistic elements existing in the whole Africa. From the Bantous to the Arabes Choa without forgetting the semi Bantous and the Peuls, all the types of people of Africa are present in Roger Milla’s home country. And talking about sport, the Indomitable Lions credit is never the less significant and enough to understand why star figures like Yannick Noah and among others Samuel Eto’o, are sons of this beautiful country. About music, Manu Dibango, Richard Bona, Princess Erika…etc. are well known; but that says nothing of the large volume of traditional dances that man can watch Wright there in Cameroon. Finally, the Cameroon’s cuisine is one of the richest in Africa: every tribe got its own specialties with a great diversity throughout all of them. And when you know that Cameroonians love partying…!
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