SHOULD DEVELOPING COUNTRIES ALSO CONSERVE AND RESTORE CULTURAL PROPERTY? A POINT OF VIEW FROM CAMEROON Patrick Mbunwe-Samba 1. Introduction: These "rescue operations" have been going on for centuries in very advanced economies, for decades in some developed societies and for a few years even in some less developed countries that have finally come to see the need to preserve and restore their national antiquities. 2. Brief Historical Background. 3. The situation of Cultural Property in ex-British Southern Cameroons. Monuments 1. The Bismark Fountain in Buea now abandoned and in ruins. 2. The District Officers Residence in Victoria perched on the Atlantic Coast on a coral reef. 3. The German "Schloss" in Buea, the Residence of German Governors built in the 1890s? - a unique building of its kind in West Africa. 4. The Victoria Cemetry. 5. The D.O's Residence in Mamfe. 6. The Mamfe Cemetry. 7. The German Fort in Bamenda built the in 1890s absolutely unique and still being used for services of the Governor of the North West Province.. Parks 8. Kimbi River Game Reserve - with its vast lands, scenic beauty and an array of fauna and flora, and completely abandoned. | |
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