Cameroon’s Reunification

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Located at the center of Africa, Cameroon is known as “little Africa” or “Africa in Miniature” thanks to its rich cultural and geographical diversity. Culturally, the country is a complex mix of roughly 250 indigenous populations from all over Africa with an equal amount of languages and customs. Geographically, all major landscapes in Africa are present in Cameroon, including coastline, mountains, grass plains, forest, rainforest and desert.

Cameroon’s Cultural Diversity

Nguon ( November of each year in Foumban for Bamoun community); Nyem Nyem (April , at Ngaounderé in the north for Tikar community); Ngondo (December, at Douala near the coast for Sawa community); Msem Todiom and Lemoù (August, At Bandjoun and Dschang in the west for Bamileke Community)

Cultural Festivals in Cameroon

The local cuisine is made of extensive list of traditional dishes. The most renown include:

• KOKI (Cake made of mashed local white beans and palm oil)

• Ndole (Mix of vegetable and sea fruits)

• Eru (Mix of ERU tree leaves and palm oil)

• Taro (Mashed cocoyam and palm oil soup)

• Pistachio (Cake made of mashed pistachio, meat, and eggs)

• Poulet DG (Mix of chicken, ripe plantain fries and vegetables)

• OKOK (Mix of Cassava tree’s leaves, mashed peanut, palm oil and cassava)

Local Cuisine

The Cameroonian art is characterized by a great diversity of style related to its history and geography (diversity of ethnicities, languages, religions ...). This cultural diversity allows the development of creativity across all media in contemporary art (visual arts, painting, sculpture, photography ...) and inspired by the traditional art. Artistic events, exhibition spaces and art galleries are developing gradually in Cameroon.

Sculpture

Cameroon's painting is much inspired by traditions coupled to contemporary urban realities. The techniques and materials are varied: traditional painting, installations with video projections, painting made of recycled materials etc…

Painting

• National Museum in Yaoundé• Cameroonian Art Museum in

Yaoundé• Douala Museum• Maritime Museum in Douala• Baham Museum

• Bandjoun Museum• Mankon Museum• Babungo Museum• Bamoun Sultan private

museum in Foumban

Museums

09 big museums endeavor to capture Cameroon’s cultural diversity

Every monument in the country carries a rich history

Monuments

Cameroon’s has a varied landscape including volcanoes, beaches, savannahs, rainforests and rocky mountain ranges. To this, must be coupled its rich fauna and flora : 409 species of mammals, 165 species of birds, and over 8,200 species of plants. Thus, if you wish for a taste of Africa in a one stop journey, Cameroon offers just that.

Landscape

Cameroonian literature draws its source from a rich oral tradition which has known a strong development. Early literature started with works such as Die Jaunde-text, a book in German and ewondo (local language) published in 1913 by Charles Atangana and his nephew Paul Messi or Sultan Njoya Sa'angan published in Shu-mom, commonly known Bamum script They were followed in 1932 by Nnango kon, a boulou language fictional text written by a certain Jean-Louis Njemba-Medou.

Currently the Cameroonian literature is essentially made of novel, poetry, essays and plays.

Literature

Since ancient times, the Cameroonian traditional music has been a way to commemorate facts and events that mark daily lives. It is rich in sound and color, and involves various forms of percussion instruments such as drums.

Traditional music is inseparable from dances that accompany it. The main types are: Makossa (coast community, SAWA); Bikutsi (Center community, BETI), Benskin (West Community, BAMILEKE); Assiko (Littoral Community, BASSA)

Music

Sports is highly practiced in Cameroon. Football is certainly the most popular sport in the country (as in many other countries), but a variety of discipline are practiced as well. This diversity of disciplines can be seen in the variety of medals obtain by Cameroonian athletes at Olympic Games including 2 gold medals (Triple jump), 2 medals in boxing and one gold medal in soccer. Cameroon’s football team internationally know as Indomitable Lions is a major squad on the continent with 4 African Nation Cups and frequent qualification to the World Cup. Many players such as Samuel Eto’o – who played for Barcelona - or Roger Milla are well known by football fans.The organization of national competitions such as the Cycling Tour of Cameroon or Mount Cameroon race of hope and tournaments (Afrobasket Women 2015 Women ANC 2016 and CAN 2019) complements this overview of sport in Cameroon.

Sports

Sports

Christianity and Islam are the two main religions in Cameroon. Christian churches and Muslim centers of various denominations operate freely throughout Cameroon. Approximately 70 percent of the population is at least nominally Christian, 20 percent is nominally Muslim and 6 percent practice traditional indigenous religious beliefs, i.e., Animism. The Christian population is divided between Roman Catholics (38.4 percent of the total population), Protestants (26.3 percent), and other Christian denominations (including Jehovah's Witnesses) (4 percent). There is significant internal migration. Large cities have significant populations of both groups, with churches and mosques often located near each other and cohabitating in peace.

Religion

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