Cameroon

African trumpets (in some places called vuvuzela or lepatata mambu), and other ones. Some famous music styles are namely, Afrobeat (from Nigeria), Azonto (from Ghana), Coupé Decalé (from Ivory Coast), Coladeira ( from Cape Verde), Makossa (from Cameroon), Morna (from Cape Verde), Semba (from Angola), Marrabenta (from Mozambique), Kwaito (from South Africa). Kuduro (from Angola), Kizomba (from Angola), Mbaqanga (from South Africa), Pandza (from Mozambique), Raï (from Algeria), Taarab (from…

the day, most of them go into a small bar that serve beer and soft drinks which music or television are played to entertain them. My Interviewer mentions that some African cuisines are mostly traditional. Nevertheless, as in other parts of Africa, Cameroon cuisines presents a variety of dishes. The essential ingredients are plantains and cassava. That is usually made from fare served with grilled meat and sauces. She said that even though, even though a lot of foods has been westernized or…

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stable job and not starving- life where they and their children can thrive and continue to grow. Sending businesses overseas to these nations would allow the creation of jobs but it is nearly impossible to acquire a business license. For instance, “In Cameroon, it takes a potential investor around 426 days to perform 15 procedures to gain a business license” (Moyo). Waiting over a year to obtain a business license is absurd when it takes 40 days in America. Dambisa Moyo from the Wall Street…

Gay love has been an issue for the longest now and it’s beginning to get out of hand. But that’s not the only thing that’s getting out of hand, what also is getting out of hand is societies view on those who are transgender. Which brought to my attention that some people are so reluctant to change that they resort violence and brute force in order to shape things into their image whenever something that they say is wrong starts to occur. They are only interested and care about what they want to…

“Over the past 11 years, I have watched and photographed thousands of men visiting Kamathipura to find pleasure.” This was stated in an article written in 2013 informing people about the amount of grown men visiting young girls for ‘pleasure’. Although most American teens have an idea that these practices were happening, it wasn't until reading this novel people would understand how this continues. The author of Sold, Patricia McCormick was successful in her purpose of explaining to an an…

Though a popular ‘starter pet’ many people do not know much about leopard geckos. These reptiles are unusual in the fact that they have eyelids, which is almost unheard of in geckos. They also boast a rather hefty lifespan, with the ability to live for 20-30 years with proper care. The oldest recorded leopard gecko lived to be 31 years old. A close relative of the ‘leo’ is the African fat tailed gecko. These geckos generally only survive to 20 years old. African fat tails can vocalise by…

With iboga, you live God.” For the Bwiti tribes of Gabon and Cameroon, iboga is the sacred essence of their religion. In the religion’s initiation ritual described above, tribe members consume massive amounts of ibogaine from a powdered iboga root bark indigenous to West Africa in order to trigger acute visions of…

Noubiap, Asangbeh, Nkoum, Sobngwi (2015) conducted a study to determine the prevalence and risk factors of overweight and obesity among children aged 6 months to 5 years in Cameroon in 2011. This study under lines a high prevalence of early childhood overweight with significant disparities between ecological areas of Cameroon. Regardless of age, there are several risks of being overweight or obese. Risk factors of overweight included high maternal BMI, high birth weight, male gender, low birth…

Claire Denis’ Chocolat in juxtaposition to Frantz Fanon’s concept of colonial violence. 1. Introduction Analyses of the film “Chocolat” by Claire Denis in contrast to Frantz Fanon’s writing “The Fact of Blackness.” The title of the movie Chocolat was derived from a colloquial speech meaning “to be had, to be cheated,” in connotation with “to be black and to be cheated” (cited in Sandars 2001). Chocolat is a movie of endless delicacies, it is about the boundaries set by the racist society. In…