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Cameroon Cameroon is a country located in the west of Africa. It shared boundaries with Nigeria, Chad, Equatorial Guinea, Central Africa Republic, and Gabon. Cameroon is made up of ten regions with the capital city known as Yaounde. Its population is estimated to be around twenty million. Climate in this country varies according to terrain, tropical climate is witnessed along the coast and semiarid and hot in the north (kwintessential, 2016). As a diverse society, Cameroon is made up of more than 250 ethnic groups with most of these group having its own dialect. These ethnic groups are further regroup into the Highlander which made up 31% of the population, Equatorial Bantu 19%, Kirdi 11%, Fulani 10%, Northwestern Bantu 8%, Eastern…

Cameroon is a country between Nigeria, Chad and the Central African Republic. The Cameroons colonial name comes from the cameros (prawns) that the 15th Century explores found in the Wouri River. South Cameroon supplied the Atlantic slave and commodity trades. North Cameroon people were Muslim and the economy of the Fulani and Hausa south of the Sahara. Between 1884 and 1916 Germany united the south and the north into a colony. The French ruled the east from the capital, Yaoundé. The British had…

Gabon on the Atlantic Coast Gabon is a country in Central Africa on the Atlantic Coast. It has a large diversity of wildlife and many wonderful national parks. Libreville the Capital of Gabon The National Museum of Arts and Tradition offers exhibits of tribal crafts like masks and wood-carving artifacts. The open-air market Mont-Bouet sells a wide range of goods from household items to local produce and even traditional medicine. Pointe Denis Beach lies on the shores of a near-by island…

Ironically, the influence France has on various African nations especially in terms of military has been deemed “Françafrique” but as of recent no major wars have occurred on Gabonese terrain but there is a significant military presence (The Economist). Independence was not achieved through warfare but instead by reevaluating France’s interest in Gabon and concluding previous colonial agreements. Overall the most notable war was the Battle of Gabon during World War II, which led Free French…

Compromise only results in neo-colonialism, where the newly independent state continues to have economic dependence on a former colonial country. Fanon uses the Republic of Gabon as an example where “Monsieur M’ba, president of the Republic of Gabon, to very solemnly declare on his arrival for an official visit to Paris: ‘Gabon is an independent country, but nothing has changed between Gabon and France, the statue quo continues.’ In fact the only change is that Monsieur M’ba is president of the…

and scientific engagement. Innovation and advanced growth characterize the hospital. In Gabon 90 per cent of the population has…

This paper examines the symbolic importance of Mukudj mask in the culture of Punu community of southern Gabon. The paper follows the historical research methodologies and examines what is the importance of the Mukudj mask to Punu community, how does viewer describe it, and understand the symbolism in the Mukudj mask. The Punu reside on the left bank of the Upper Ngoume River (Gabon), where villages are divided into clans and families, and society known as moukouji. Officiates of moukoudji…

He started a petition, Gabon felt that the petition would work. Knowing the Tsar being a good and loving father he would protect them from the greedy factory managers. Gabon begged for the Tsar to get the petition at two o'clock in the after noon. The next day, Jan 22nd 1905, on that morning, Gabon not knowing the Tsar is fifteen miles away at Tsarskoe Selo, they were walking down streets, he found himself the head of a mass march to St. Petersburg's Winter Palace. Gabon then informed the…

closest thing that science has found, and results are quite remarkable when combined with continued therapy. In Gabon and Zaire, in Western Central Africa, there is a cult called the Bwiti that have been using Iboga since time immemorial. The Bwiti use of Iboga is the central practice of their religious cult. The word Bwiti means Dead or Ancestor in their language, this is most likely because the Bwiti use of Iboga is to contact the ancestors and go to the place of God. To be initiated…

The Republic of Cameroon is located in Africa and precisely in central Africa. It shares boundaries with Chad in the north, Nigeria in the west, Gabon, Equatorial Guinea and Congo in the south and C.A.R in the East. The country is most often referred as Africa in miniature because of its near representation of Africa in terms of climate, vegetation, plant and animal species, etc. Cameroon is a country located between latitudes 20 and 30 North of the equator and between longitudes 80 and 160…