TDS; Passports, Visas, Travel Documents bamileke people from this area have in recent years migrated to towns elsewhere in Religions Christian 53%, Muslim 22%, indigenous African 25%. http://www.traveldocs.com/cm/people.htm
Extractions: PEOPLE Cameroon's estimated 250 ethnic groups form five large regional-cultural groups: western highlanders (or grassfielders), including the Bamileke, Bamoun, and many smaller entities in the northwest (est. 38% of population); coastal tropical forest peoples, including the Bassa, Douala, and many smaller entities in the Southwest (12%); southern tropical forest peoples, including the Ewondo, Bulu (subgroup of Beti), Fang (subgroup of Beti), Maka and Pygmies (officially called Bakas) (18%); predominantly Islamic peoples of the northern semi-arid regions (the Sahel) and central highlands, including the Fulani, also known as Peuhl in French (14%); and the "Kirdi", non-Islamic or recently Islamic peoples of the northern desert and central highlands (18%). The people concentrated in the southwest and northwest provincesaround Buea and Bamendause standard English and "pidgin," as well as their local languages. In the three northern provincesAdamaoua, north, and far northeither French or Fulfulde, the language of the Fulani, is widely spoken. Elsewhere, French is the principal second language, although pidgin and some local languages such as Ewondo, the dialect of a Beti clan from the Yaounde area, also are widely spoken.
Extractions: Accueil Structure Chercheurs Réalisations ... Alizés n°16 African Indigenous Languages as Semi-official Languages: A Study in the Causes of Political Conflicts in Africa opyright 1998 Alizés ISSN : 1155-4363 1.0 The Beginnings B Colonialism thus gave birth to a new type of nationhood a nationhood in which the natives surrendered their ethnic loyalties for those of the colonising power. This involved the acquisition and application of the Western notions of nationism and nationalism. Nationism denotes governance while nationalism denotes the patriotic feelings one has for ones nation. In both governance and patriotism, language poses a problem. Governance requires, according to Fasold, communication both within the governing institutions and between government and the people (1984: 3). The people who were to be governed or who were being governed were illiterate and diverse. They needed to be educated and united. The need for the language of governance, that of education and national cohesion engendered the desire for an official language (OL) a prestigious, bias-free highly efficient language capable of handling the functional load of governance, trade, modern religion and diplomacy. Only the colonising languages satisfied these requirements. They were therefore imposed as the official languages. 1.1 Indigenous Languages Under the Canopy
Cameroon (01/05) Religions Christian 53%, Muslim 22%, indigenous African 25%. bamileke peoplefrom this area have in recent years migrated to towns elsewhere in http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ei/bgn/26431.htm
Cameroon (12/99) Religions Christian 40%, Muslim 20%, indigenous African 40%. bamileke peoplefrom this area have in recent years migrated to towns elsewhere in http://www.state.gov/outofdate/bgn/c/10294.htm
Extractions: Inhabitants of Bamenda were recently taken unawares as Chinese traders flooded the streets with what they call "beinge Chinoise" doughnuts locally produced out of flour. The Chinese traders move around town on tricycles selling to anxious customers who are ready to buy from the Whitemen These Chinese are unable to express themselves and can only murmur the prize of the product "fity" or "cenquante" meaning (50) fifty francs.
Extractions: Web postnewsline.com Mmuock-Ngih Fon Takes Command Main President Paul Biya, in his December 8 cabinet re shuffle, deceptively di rected his political com pass towards handing over power back to the North. By his nomination, Biya has made enticing overtures to other power hungry people from that region to start and intensify a power struggle, which he will use as justification to tinker with and manipulate the constitution once more to hand over an empty shield to that region while retaining real power within his ethnic region.
Extractions: Contents: A B C D ... Z Abenaki Native Americans of Quebec Vermont New Hampshire , and possibly Maine Algonquin people Abkhaz - Minority in Georgia Turkey and Russia Abkhazia Acadian French-Canadians of the Canadian Maritimes Accohannock Native Americans of Maryland Achang Yunnan China ... Native Americans of California Acoma Native Americans of the southwest United States and Mexico Adja - Minority in Benin Adyghe - Minority in Russia , in the north Caucasus region. Afar - Minority in Ethiopia Eritrea and Djibouti . Also known as Danakil African-American - Descendants of African slaves brought to North America Afrikaners - Descendents of Dutch settlers / French Huguenot Africa Agni - minority group in Côte d'Ivoire Aguls Dagestani minority group Ahtna - Native Alaskans , along the Copper River Aimaks - Minority group in Afghanistan Aimaq - Minority group in Afghanistan Ainu - Natives of Hokkaido , much of Sakhalin , the Kuriles , and at one time northern Honshu , the Kamchatka Peninsula , and the Amur River basin Aja - Minority group in Benin Ak Chin Native American group now resident in Pinal County, Arizona
Findings Palm oil is a staple in the African diet city dwellers and peoples in the Postcolonial indigenous leaders having assimilated (or having been http://www.ulb.ac.be/soco/apft/GENERAL/PUBLICAT/RAPPORTS/TREFON/find.htm
Extractions: 7.1 Use of forest products The forest is perceived as, and is in reality, a vast reservoir of all kinds of vital foodstuffs and raw materials as well as other socially and culturally important substances. It is also perceived as "a profane inanimate entity, to be plundered so as to satisfy gross economic demands."( ) Fuel wood and bush meat are the forest products most extensively used by city dwellers throughout central Africa on a regular basis for both economic and cultural reasons. While both are renewable resources in theory, insufficient effort is made to conserve them and even less to renew them: they are accordingly disappearing at an alarming rate. These reasons, combined with the desire to formulate recommendations on how to help diminish their depletion, have consequently motivated the specific focus of our research. The other forest products which are also used daily, again for economic and cultural purposes, were not investigated in significant detail because their use does not seriously threaten the forest - at least in the immediate future. (The cities which are the greatest consumers of fuelwood and bush meat head the next two sections.) 7.1.1 Fuelwood
FACT SHEET: The Republic Of Cameroon At A Glance africa Fact Sheets, Cameroon Fact Sheet. In 1955, the outlawed Union of thePeoples of Cameroon, based largely between the bamileke and Bassa ethnic http://deploymentlink.osd.mil/deploy/info/africa/cameroon/index.shtml
Extractions: FACT SHEET: The Republic of Cameroon at a Glance Background The earliest inhabitants of Cameroon were probably the Bakas or Pygmies. They still inhabit the forests of the south and east provinces. Bantu speakers originating in the Cameroonian highlands were among the first groups to move out before other invaders. Cameroon's estimated 250 ethnic groups form five large regional-cultural groups: western highlanders (or grass fielders), including the Bamileke, Bamoun, and many smaller entities in the northwest. Coastal tropical forest peoples, including the Bassa, Douala, and many smaller entities are in the Southwest. Southern tropical forest peoples, include the Ewondo, Bulu (subgroup of Beti), Fang (subgroup of Beti), Maka and Pygmies (officially called Bakas). There are predominantly Islamic people of the northern semi-arid regions (the Sahel) and central highlands, including the Fulani, also known as Peuhl in French. The "Kirdi", non-Islamic or recently Islamic are the peoples of the northern desert and central highlands. Cameroon's history, like that of the rest of West Africa's Atlantic seaboard, revolved around the slave trade. Northern Cameroon, by contrast, was a battleground for various empires, notably the Kanem-Bornu in Chad.
Watch France The Bakweri are an indigenous African nation. tunduzi From Black de France a victimeyewitness account of the bamileke Genocide http://www.francewatcher.org/
Watch France: Is France The Curse Of Africa ? The Bakweri are an indigenous African nation. tunduzi The bloody war foughtby the Algerian People against the French is fairly well documented, http://www.francewatcher.org/2005/03/strongis_france.html
Genetics And Genealogy With African-Americans As such, it has its origins in the US from indigenous african populations that It s the signature of the movement of people from East to West africa, http://www.bioethics.umn.edu/afrgen/html/Geneticsandgenealogy.html
Extractions: Dr. Ricky Kittles has been very much in the forefront of raising the issue of the use of DNA to trace African ancestry. There's some question on whether or not we can do this right now. If we cannot do it right now, we probably will be able to do it in a very short period of time. Having said that, Dr. Duster's question remains: What are the social and political implications of this technology? One additional comment on Dr. G. Coraves comments about whites being black. This is a very complicated question. One way of thinking about it is that whiteness never was about blood, so to say whites have black blood in them, doesn't mean they cease to be white, any more than saying that blacks having white blood in them means they cease to be black. As Dr. Duster suggests, if race is socially constructed and we say that a lot now, it means there's no definitive biological indicator that tells us what race we are. Of course, people around the world construct race differently. The point is, as Dr. Duster suggests, that the political and social agenda of how race is constructed and used is the real cutting edge issue. It's not simply the scientific matter of measuring blood or genes. With that, I'll give you Dr. Kittles.
Aboriginal Art the memorial is to the thousands of indigenous people who lost their livesdefending their land african art bamileke, Kingdom of Bakassa, Cameroon http://users.telenet.be/african-shop/aboriginal-art.htm
Extractions: var site="sm5african" The art of Australia's Aborigines is garnering awards, selling for six figures at Sotheby's auctions and drawing travellers to city galleries and dusty villages in search of rising talent. Not bad for paintings recently dismissed as ' folk art .' LASZLO BUHASZ explores the appeal of this bold and intricate work, and offers a guide on where to start hunting
Anthropology ANTHROPOLOGY IN POST INDEPENDENCE africa END OF AN ERA AND THE PROBLEM OF NAISSANCE ET LA MORT EN AFRIQUE LE CAS DES bamileke DU CAMEROUN (LA) http://www.meabooks.com/African_books/ANTHRO_1/anthro_1.HTM
Extractions: Choose Your Destination A Afghanistan Albania Algeria Angola Antigua Argentina Armenia Aruba Australia Austria Azerbaijan B Bahamas Bahrain Bangladesh Barbados Belarus Belgium Belize Benin Bermuda Bolivia Bosnia Botswana Brazil British Virgin Islands Brunei Durassalam Burkina Faso Bulgaria Burundi C Cambodia Cameroon Canada Cape Verde Cayman Islands C. A. R. Chad China Chile Congo Costa Rica Cote d'Ivoire Colombia Croatia Cuba Cyprus Czech Republic D Denmark Djibouti Dominica Dominican Republic D.R. of Congo E Ecuador Egypt El Salvador Eritrea Estonia Ethiopia Equatorial Guinea F Fiji Finland France G Gabon Gambia Georgia Germany Ghana Great Britain Greece Grenada Guam Guatemala Guinea Guinea-Bissau Guyana H Haiti Honduras Hong Kong Hungary I Iceland India Indonesia Israel Italy Iran Iraq Ireland Ivory Coast J Jamaica Japan Jordan K Kazakhstan Kenya Kiribati Korea, South Korea, North Kuwait Kyrgyzstan L Latvia Laos Lebanon Lesotho Liberia Lithuania Luxembourg M Macedonia Madagascar Malawi Mali Malaysia Martinique Mauritania Mauritius Mexico Moldova Monaco Mongolia Morocco Mozambique Myanmar N Namibia Nauru Netherlands Netherlands Antilles Nepal New Zealand Nicaragua Niger Nigeria North Korea Norway O Oman P Paraguay Pakistan Panama Papua Guinea Peru Philippines Poland Portugal Puerto Rico Q Qatar R Romania Russia Rwanda S Saint Kitts and Nevis Samoa Saudi Arabia Senegal Seychelles Sierra Leone Singapore Slovak Republic Slovenia South Africa Spain Sri Lanka St. Lucia
Cameroon Searchengine - Cameroon Guide Index on africa is a gateway to information on africa on the Internet, 38% of population); coastal tropical forest peoples, including the Bassa, Douala, http://www.worldjump.com/links/cameroon.htm
Extractions: The former French Cameroon and part of British Cameroon merged in 1961 to form the present country. Cameroon has generally enjoyed stability, which has permitted the development of agriculture, roads, and railways, as well as a petroleum industry. Despite movement toward democratic reform, political power remains firmly in the hands of an ethnic oligarchy. The index of Africa - Cameroon Index on Africa is a gateway to information on Africa on the Internet, with over 2.000 links sorted by country, subject and news. The Index has been created by The Norwegian Council for Africa (NCA), as a part of NCA's efforts to raise awareness about Africa and African affairs. Travel guide to Cameroon The country has two distinct climatic areas. On the coast, the average annual rainfall is 152.5 inches; precipitation often measures more than 33 feet a year. The mean temperature ranges from 24.4°C to 27°C (76°-81°F). In the south there are two dry seasons, December to February and July to September. The northern part of the country has a more comfortable climate. Total rainfall is about 31.2 inches, and the mean temperature ranges from 23°C to 26°C (73°F - 79°F). The dry season in the north is from October to April. The mountain ranges in the west have a heavier rainfall and cooler temperatures.
Extractions: Trans 13. Nr. April 2003 George Echu (Yaounde) Cameroon is a linguistic paradise comprising 247 indigenous languages, Pidgin English and two official languages (English and French). This figure, advanced by Breton and Fohtung's (1991) study, is re-echoed by Boum Ndongo-Semengue and Sadembouo (1999). Yet it appears to be relatively conservative when one takes into consideration the recent statistics published by SIL International (2002) in Ethnologue which credits Cameroon with 279 indigenous languages, English, French and Cameroon Pidgin English (CPE). If we agree with Jean-Louis Roy (1993) that Africa possesses a little over 1000 indigenous languages, then Cameroon's number alone could be considered really impressive, whether one goes for the older conservative figure or the most recent one. As concerns the influence of indigenous languages on the official languages, it is important to observe that the language contact situation in Cameroon has resulted in influences from various levels of linguistic structure - phonological, lexical, morphological, syntactic, etc. Our main concern in this study is relexification or lexical borrowing from the indigenous languages (donor languages) to the official languages (recipient languages)
Black History The bamileke area is composed of a number of separate chiefdoms, Most peoplesof subSaharan africa use pottery, many making it themselves. http://search.eb.com/Blackhistory/article.do?nKeyValue=384738
Final Report Submitted By The Independent 169 concerning indigenous and Tribal peoples in Independent Countries, 1989. The African Charter on Human and peoples Rights, adopted by the eighteenth http://www.unhchr.ch/huridocda/huridoca.nsf/(Symbol)/E.CN.4.1994.19.En?Opendocum
