Chantal Biya the 38-year old wife of the Cameroonian President is well known for her hair-dos, and she came out big to receive Pope Benedict XVI on his maiden visit to Africa. For the occasion, Chantal showed up wearing a special Pope’s miter-like head wrap complete with crosses, prompting one western reporter to declare her “a saint of style.” I think not!

Politics is supposed to be about more of public service – with very little “self-service” component. It appears Cameroon is an exception. The country’s chief legislator just awarded self a juicy retirement package!

Cameroon continue to head up the list of African sides in the Fifa world rankings, while Egypt jumped a further place in the first table of 2009.
The Indomitable Lions are ranked 14th overall in the world, with African champions Egypt now one place behind them in 15th.
Nigeria have also climbed two places to 17th, benefiting [...]

‘Bulu Soul’ – a mix of World, Pop, Soul and Jazz, from the Southern Cameroonian native.

Barely three months after Nigeria ceded the controversial Bakassi Peninsula to Cameroonian government, the neighbouring country has commenced the process of searching for oil resources in the area.
Nigeria had identified the portion as part of the oil rich regions of the country awaiting explorations before the event that led to the eventual handing over of [...]

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A recent survey says Cameroon’s economic hub, Douala, is Africa’s second most expensive city. Last year the same survey had it as the most expensive. From Cameroon’s economic capital, Douala, Voice of America English to Africa Service reporter Ntaryike Divine, Jr., says Douala, the center of Cameroon’s trade and industry, is plagued by rundown infrastructure, [...]

The peninsula believed to hold significant amounts of crude oil deposits boost Cameroon’s declining economy and oil production up from the current 90,000 barrels per day.

Cameroon got its name from the Portuguese who, upon arriving on the coast in the 1400s, found seafood in such abundance they decided to call the main estuary Rio dos Camarões, or River of Prawns. Yet today the people of Cameroon import most of the seafood they consume, while local fishermen are going out of business.

African Cup of Nations 2008, Ghana: The defeat of the Ghana Black Stars by the Indomitable Lions of Cameroon with a scoreline of 1-0 in their favour has gone to further shatter to smithereens the idea of the “host-and-win” concept. When my Cameroon colleague told me that Cameroon would beat us—and that the home crowd [...]