A report on Cameroon

Bamum script is a writing system developed by King Njoya in the late 19th century.
Former president Ahmadou Ahidjo ruled from 1960 until 1982.
Paul Biya has ruled the country since 1982.
Unity Palace – Cameroon Presidency
A statue of a chief in Bana, West Region
President Paul Biya with U.S. President Barack Obama in 2014
Military vehicles during a parade
Cameroon is divided into 10 regions.
Volcanic plugs dot the landscape near Rhumsiki, Far North Region.
Elephants in Waza National Park
School children in Cameroon
Life expectancy in Cameroon
Dutch bulls and cows at Wallya community during the rainy season in Cameroon
Douala seaport
Cameroonian women on Women's Day Celebration
The homes of the Musgum, in the Far North Region, are made of earth and grass.
Map of the region's indigenous languages
Dancers greet visitors to the East Region.
Plantains and "Bobolo" (made from cassava) served with Ndolè (meat and shrimp)
Cameroonian fashion is varied and often mixes modern and traditional elements. Note the wearing of sun glasses, Monk shoes, sandals, and a Smartwatch.
A woman weaves a basket near Lake Ossa, Littoral Region. Cameroonians practise such handicrafts throughout the country.
Cameroon faces Germany at Zentralstadion in Leipzig, 17 November 2004.
Our Lady of Victories Cathedral, catholic church in Yaoundé

Country in west-central Africa.

- Cameroon

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Lamidat de Ngaoundere

Ngaoundéré

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Lamidat de Ngaoundere
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A house in the wealthy neighbourhood of Quartier Haut Plateau, Ngaoundere
View from Mount Ngaoundere

Ngaoundéré, or N'Gaoundéré, is the capital of the Adamawa Region of Cameroon.

Map of French (blue) and English (red) as official regional languages of Cameroon and adjacent countries. The proportion of Anglophone Cameroonians is currently at around 16%, down from 21% in 1976.

Anglophone problem

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Map of French (blue) and English (red) as official regional languages of Cameroon and adjacent countries. The proportion of Anglophone Cameroonians is currently at around 16%, down from 21% in 1976.

The Anglophone problem, as it is commonly referred to in Cameroon, is a socio-political issue rooted in Cameroon's colonial legacies from the Germans, British, and the French.

Chronological overview after Nurse and Philippson (2003): 
 1 = 4,000–3,500BP: origin
 2 = 3,500BP: initial expansion 
 "early split": 2.a = Eastern, 2.b = Western 
 3 = 2,000–1,500BP: Urewe nucleus of Eastern Bantu
 4–7: southward advance
 9 = 2,500BP: Congo nucleus
 10 = 2,000–1,000BP: last phase

Bantu expansion

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Hypothesis of major series of migrations of the original Proto-Bantu-speaking group, which spread from an original nucleus around West-Central Africa across much of sub-Saharan Africa.

Hypothesis of major series of migrations of the original Proto-Bantu-speaking group, which spread from an original nucleus around West-Central Africa across much of sub-Saharan Africa.

Chronological overview after Nurse and Philippson (2003): 
 1 = 4,000–3,500BP: origin
 2 = 3,500BP: initial expansion 
 "early split": 2.a = Eastern, 2.b = Western 
 3 = 2,000–1,500BP: Urewe nucleus of Eastern Bantu
 4–7: southward advance
 9 = 2,500BP: Congo nucleus
 10 = 2,000–1,000BP: last phase
Map indicating the spread of the Early Iron Age across Africa; all numbers are AD dates except for the "250 BC" date.
San rock art depicting a shield-carrying Bantu warrior. The movement of Bantu settlers, who migrated southwards and settled in the summer rainfall regions of Southern Africa within the last 2000 years, established a range of relationships with the indigenous San people from bitter conflict to ritual interaction and intermarriage.

The linguistic core of the Bantu languages, which comprise a branch of the Atlantic-Congo language family, was located in the southern regions of Cameroon.

Ruben Um Nyobè

Ruben Um Nyobè

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Ruben Um Nyobè

Ruben Um Nyobè (1913 – 13 September 1958) was an anti-colonialist Cameroonian leader, slain by the French army on 13 September 1958, near his natal village of Boumnyebel, in the department of Nyong-et-Kellé in the maquis Bassa.

Korup National Park in Cameroon

Cross–Sanaga–Bioko coastal forests

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The Cross-Sanaga-Bioko coastal forests are a tropical moist broadleaf forest ecoregion of west-central Africa.

The Cross-Sanaga-Bioko coastal forests are a tropical moist broadleaf forest ecoregion of west-central Africa.

Korup National Park in Cameroon
Falling Waters in KORUP National park
Korup National park

The region includes the lowland and coastal forests of southeastern Nigeria, southwestern Cameroon, and the lowlands of the island of Bioko, covering an area of 52,200 km2.

The Nigeria-Cameroon border region on the coast from a 1963 map, with Bakassi peninsula in the middle

Bakassi

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Peninsula on the Gulf of Guinea.

Peninsula on the Gulf of Guinea.

The Nigeria-Cameroon border region on the coast from a 1963 map, with Bakassi peninsula in the middle
Bakassi
Flag used by Bakassian separatists

It is governed by Cameroon, following the transfer of sovereignty from neighbouring Nigeria as a result of a judgment by the International Court of Justice.

Félix Moumié (drawing in possession of his brother Moluh Mekue Théodore).

Félix-Roland Moumié

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Félix Moumié (drawing in possession of his brother Moluh Mekue Théodore).

Félix-Roland Moumié (1 November 1925 – 3 November 1960) was an anti-colonialist Cameroonian leader, assassinated in Geneva on 3 November 1960 by an agent of the SDECE (French secret service) with thallium, following official independence from France earlier that year.

South Region (Cameroon)

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Orphaned chimpanzee near Djoum
Locations of South Province ethnic groups
Divisions of South Region
German-built building at Ambam, today used as a school
Lobe Beach
Lobé Falls
Kibi Débarcadère
Kribi Down Beach
Mvêt

The South Region (Région du Sud) is located in the southwestern and south-central portion of the Republic of Cameroon.

Lepidophthalmus turneranus

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Species of "ghost shrimp" or "mud lobster" that lives off the coast of West Africa.

Species of "ghost shrimp" or "mud lobster" that lives off the coast of West Africa.

The illustration which accompanied White's description of the species

It occasionally erupts into dense swarms, one of which resulted in the naming of the country Cameroon.

Religion in Cameroon

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Christianity is the predominant religion in Cameroon with significant minorities of the adherents of Islam and traditional faiths.