Au Cameroun, Greenpeace Africa plaide pour la sécurisation des terres des peuples autochtones
▻http://www.lescoopsdafrique.com/2019/08/09/au-cameroungreenpeace-africa-plaide-pour-la-securisation-des-terre
Les 8 et 9 août à l’esplanade du stade omnisport de #Yaoundé, les #peuples_autochtones attirent une fois de plus l’attention du gouvernement camerounais vis-à-vis de l’impact négatif de l’acquisition des #terres à grande échelle pour l’#agriculture_industrielle sur leur vie, et en même temps, sensibilisent l’opinion tant national qu’internationale sur la nécessité de pérennisation de leur patrimoine culturel.
“ Nous avons été déplacés de la #forêt sans plan de relocalisation et au profit de la #plantation industrielle de la compagnie #SudCam. Il est essentiel que, pour un projet de grande envergure comme celui de SudCam, nous, les #Baka soyons consultés au préalable, car nous sommes les premiers gardiens de la forêt et devrions en être les premiers bénéficiaires. Le gouvernement doit nous impliquer dans le processus d’acquisition des terres car cela a un impact sur notre vie”, a déclaré Yemelle Parfait, un leader Baka du village d’#Edjom dans le Sud #Cameroon.
]]>In defense of the Anglophones
▻http://africasacountry.com/2018/02/in-defense-of-the-anglophones
December 27, 2017 Declaration made to the Criminal Court in Yaoundé Your Honor, Thank you for allowing me to address the court at this historic moment when writing is on trial. The case is all the more historic given that several times in the past writing has been on trial in #Cameroon without the presence…
]]>Sunday Read: When Dreams Die, they Do not Rot–Three men, One Dream and The Theatre
▻http://africasacountry.com/2017/07/sunday-read-when-dreams-die-they-do-not-rot
I remember the Iranian-Dutch writer, Kader Abdolah, once saying that when he first mentioned to a fellow Iranian immigrant that he wanted to be a writer in the Netherlands, his countryman told him, “Your dream is large but this country is small.” A Nigerian would have told him to “cut your coat according to your…
]]>#Cameroon has been in crisis for six months. Here’s what you need to know
▻https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/monkey-cage/wp/2017/06/02/cameroon-has-been-in-crisis-for-six-months-heres-what-you-need-to-kn #Cameroun
The forgotten #Cameroon #war - French officials like to project a sunny view of their country’s colonial past... Tens of thousands dead in Cameroon would tell a different story
▻https://www.jacobinmag.com/2016/12/cameroon-france-colonialism-war-resistance #Cameroun #France #colonisation #indépendance #guerre
Same DIFF ?
▻http://africasacountry.com/2016/05/same-diff
As with our last #MOVIE_NIGHT post, we need to start with the bad news. 1. The #Durban_International_Film_Festival (or DIFF), one of the most important #Film festivals on the African continent, has been through some turmoil lately. With only a couple months to go to DIFF, the festival manager Sarah Dawson as […]
#Africa_is_a_Country_Films #Africa's_Premiere_League #Cameroon #Disney #Lupita_Nyong'o #South_Africa #Tunisia #Uganda
]]>Why would you only watch Canada at Canada’s World Cup?
▻http://africasacountry.com/why-would-you-only-watch-canada-at-canadas-world-cup
In some ways all women are the same. We bleed every moon until you hit a certain age and then we all get hot flashes. We like sex even though.....
#FOOTBALL_IS_A_COUNTRY #Asisat_Oshoala #Cameroon #FIFA #Nigeria #Women's_World_Cup_2015
]]>« L’association des homonymes du couple présidentiel Paul et Chantal #Bya »
Prenez trente secondes pour considérer dans toute sa splendeur ce sommet d’opportunisme & de clientélisme !
Et ce n’est pas une association éphémère - elle a des années d’existence parasite ! ▻https://demo.cameroon-tribune.cm/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=62635:un-arbre-de #Cameroun #Cameroon
]]>#WhiteHistoryMonth : Dr. Pierre Messmer, #France’s Dirty #war General
▻http://africasacountry.com/the-general-who-was-in-charge-of-frances-dirty-war-in-cameroon
In the late nineteen-fifties, a brutal but secret war unfolded between French colonial authorities and the maquis, pro-independence nationalists, in the forests of what was then the French administered territory.....
]]>The “ISIS spring” in #North_Africa
▻http://english.al-akhbar.com/node/23876
The Islamic State in Iraq and #syria (ISIS) (aka the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant [ISIL]) is expanding beyond the Levant. Establishing Wilyat Sinai (the Province of Sinai) was just the start, and now the group is determined to expand into all of North Africa. What happened in Sirte yesterday is just one episode in a series geared toward launching an “ISIS Spring” on the African continent.
#Anwar_Sadat #Articles #Bashar_al-Assad #Boko_Haram #Cameroon #Chad #Egypt #ISIL #ISIS #Morocco #Niger #Nigeria #Mideast_&_North_Africa
]]>WOW ! Watch this little girl name the presidents of 30 countries
▻http://africasacountry.com/wow-watch-this-little-girl-name-the-presidents-of-30-countries
Some people think that #Africa_is_a_Country. Some people, such as the New York Times editors, think that #Ivory_Coast is two countries (see below). Many people struggle to name prominent politicians in the countries where they live. #Zara is not like any of these people. She is a little girl who can name the […]
#BREAKING #EDITORIAL #UNCATEGORIZED #VIDEO #Angola #Botswana #Brazil #Burkina_Faso #Cameroon #China #Colombia #Congo #Equatorial_Guinea #Ethiopia #France #Gambia #Ghana #Girl_names_30_presidents #Guinea-Bissau #Kenya #Mali #Namibia #Nigeria #Philippines #Portugal #Russia #Senegal #South_Africa #Sudan #Tanzania #Uganda #USA #Zimbabwe
]]>A small war in #Cameroon - 1955-1964
▻http://smallwarsjournal.com/jrnl/art/a-small-war-in-cameroon #SWJ #COIN #counterinsurgency
Cameroonian cattle are stoned out of their minds but you can’t extract natural Tramadol from pincushion tree roots after all...
▻http://pipeline.corante.com/archives/2014/09/15/weirdly_tramadol_is_not_a_natural_product_after_all.php
#Cameroon #pharmaceutics #agriculture
Did #Cameroon’s police interrogate Samuel Eto’o and take away his passport over the World Cup? Who knows
▻http://africasacountry.com/did-cameroons-police-interrogate-samuel-etoo-and-take-away-his-pass
Did Cameroon’s police really quiz national soccer team captain Samuel Eto’o and seize his passport in connection with a government investigation into the terrible performance of the Indomitable Lions at the World Cup? After brouhaha of claims and denials in recent days, the answer seems to be another question: who knows? But Far less ambiguous […]
#Football_is_a_Country #Jean-Bruno_Tagne #Paul_Biya #Samuel_Eto'o #Thierry_Ngogang
▻http://www.diasporanews.eu/media/videos/tagnes.mp4
New #FILM Explores #homophobia and Hatred Towards #LGBTI Community in #Cameroon
▻http://africasacountry.com/new-film-explores-homophobia-and-hatred-towards-lgbti-community-in-
The silhouettes of two women are concealed amongst the gradients of quivering candlelight. The interviewer asks, “Can you kiss each other in public?”, one women responds “We hug each other in public. Even the hugs are discreet. But kiss on the mouth? No.” The other adds: “People would yell at us ‘Ooh lesbians. You can’t […]
]]>#Jean-Marie_Teno’s new film lays bare the affective costs of public silence in #Cameroon
▻http://africasacountry.com/jean-marie-tenos-new-film-lays-bare-the-affective-costs-of-public-s
Filmmaker Jean-Marie Teno doesn’t pull his punches. His 1992 film Afrique, je te plumerai became a classroom staple for the thoughtful and unsparing way it tied postcolonial problems to colonial practices. Une Feuille dans le Vent (A Leaf in the Wind) is Teno’s newest release. Like most of his other films, it too sits at the […]
#HISTORY #Ernest_Ouandié #Ernestine_Ouandié #Une_Feuille_dans_le_Vent
]]>My #Favorite_Photographs : Arnaud Contreras
▻http://africasacountry.com/my-favorite-photographs-arnaud-contreras
The Saharan society is changing fast. Still a beautiful desert but not just that. Most populated cities such as #Tamanrasset or Timbuktu are microcosms revealing all the problems of those former touristic regions: threats of terrorism, traffics, illegal migration, pressures on cultural and natural heritages. The only ways to escape this harsh reality for Saharan […]
#PHOTOGRAPHY #Algeria #Berabich #Bombino #Burkina_Faso #Cameroon #Libya #Mali #Maures #Niger #Songhay #Tamikrest #Terakaft #Tinariwen #Tuareg
]]>The Story of #Cameroon’s First Metal Band
▻http://africasacountry.com/the-story-of-cameroons-first-metal-band
It’s been over a month since I watched Dutch artist #Steven_Jouwersma’s short #FILM “N’gosa Bedimo” (#MUSIC from the Ghosts), and still I’m not quite sure what to say. You see, on one hand, the post should have been a slam-dunk. Jouwersma’s film and the project which it documents—an attempt, over the course of a three-week art exchange in […]
]]>Photographing the #African_Diaspora in #New_York
▻http://africasacountry.com/photographing-the-african-diaspora-in-new-york
In a world ever more saturated by images, understanding how to read pictures has never been more important. In a course this summer at the #New_School in the GPIA, students learned how to read images, and also how to make them. We began by looking at other people’s photographs and thinking about the choices […]
#PHOTOGRAPHY #Aaron_Leaf #Ashanti #Bronx #Brooklyn #Cameroon #Fula #Gladys_Ekoto #Nigeria #Toni_Akindele
]]>Everyone has their own #Paul_Biya
▻http://africasacountry.com/everyone-has-their-own-paul-biya
When someone says “#Jean-Pierre_bekolo,” I think of the opening scene of his 2005 smash hit Les Saignantes—Adèle Ado suspended and twirling in a harness above leopard print sheets. The middle-aged man beckoning her down is in tiny silk thong; she fucks him to death. Of course it is very sexy, in a way that […]
]]>In the #Mapbox #OpenStreetMap 2013 Data Report (►http://www.mapbox.com/osm-data-report) I was surprised to find that #Yaounde is among the most densely mapped areas in #OSM: ▻http://osm.org/go/wJFKBPWS-
#Cameroon #maps