Free Cameroon Now

Cameroon: the tourist sleeping giant Africa in miniature, microcosm of Africa, tourist Eldorado, island of peace, all Africa in one place, the list of names vaunting Cameroon’s tourist potential is endless. And these are not unfounded if you consider the geography, history and culture of the nation. The highest summit in west and central Africa, the rainiest place in Africa, Mount Cameroon featuring an annual international mountain race; a climate and vegetation that represents every variety in Africa from the dense equatorial rainforest in the South to the desert surrounding Lake Chad in the northern tip of the country, passing through the montane forests of Mount Cameroon, the Kupe-Manenguba and Western Highlands; the moonscape of the Kapsiki and Rumsiki; the white and grey sandy and rocky beaches from Kribi to Rio del Rey; lively people from all the main human groups in Africa including Pigmy, Sudanese and Bantu, with their varying cultural heritage. Historical background Yet...

After 21 years in the cold, Guinness Cameroun SA has returned to bear the flag of the Mt Cameroun Race which it christened “The Race of Hope”. This was announced during the signing of a convention linking the international brewery giant (owned by Diageo PLC, a South African Company) and the Cameroun athletics federation, on August 26, 2013 at the Yaounde Hilton Hotel. Present to witness the signing ceremony were the minister of sports and physical education, Adoum Garoua, the president of the national Olympic and sports committee, Kalkaba Malboum, football icon, Roger Milla, and emblematic mountaineer, Sarah Lyonga Etonge. The sports minister hailed the accord as a decisive turn in the public/private partnership in sports which he sees as the way forward for Cameroon to come out of the crises of sponsorship in the national sports movement. He called for other disciplines to follow suit and contract sponsorship deals with private sector operators and called for the socio-cultural asp...

Once, while vacationing in Kribi, I was struck by how poor its inhabitants could get. There is virtually no form of cultivation and the local Pygmies, Batangas, Yassa, Mvais and Bulus live only by hunting or fishing highly depleted stocks. An odd kind of seaside resort if I ever saw one. The greatest spectacle, in fact all the spectacle, it had to offer was hungry fishermen with their hungrier wives and children screaming a silent indictment of the “new deal”. Then, I also learned that one of  the “sons of the soil”, Biya’s all powerful General Eno Benae, owned virtually all the shore line on which he had created a luxury hotel that cannot be built with the total of his wages for all his service life, a luxury so incongruous with the misery of Kribians that the behemoth goes empty roomed for years on end...ahahahaha! What did he think, that the world's rich share his spite for his fellow countrymen? Perhaps the gods were  teaching the greedy general a lesson from what the Orac...