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Picture of the Day - Justice Inglis and Chief Justice Endeley

One for the archives! West Cameroon legal luminaries - Retired Chief Justice Sam Endeley, now Paramount Chief of Buea, and Retired High Court Justice Oliver Inglis, former Clerk (Secretary General) of the West Cameroon House of Assembly, and originally from the Caribbean island of  St. Lucia, at the Buea Mountain Club. (c) Patrick Sianne via Facebook.

CDC Nurses from the National Archives, UK

Group of Cameroonian nurses employed by the CDC receiving their Nigerian certificates of Nursing in June, 1956.

Do you recognize your mother, aunt, grandmother or great grandmother in this historical photograph?

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Leather Tassels of Mali

February 23 Protests in Pretoria, South Africa

At the Cameroon High Commission in Pretoria, South Africa

 

Picture of the Day - University of Buea Student

 
"Buea is divided into two worlds: The University of Buea and Everywhere else. Guys go to class in fat knot ties and chucks and the girls are all-fly-everything. It’s the HU of Africa :)" (source: African Ivy)

Picture of the Day: President Biya & Fru Ndu Meet for the First Time in 20 Years

 

Source: Cameroon-info.net

Dahlia

Picture of the Day: Hippo Love on the River Benoue

 Playing with a Hippopotamus on the River Benoue in Garoua, Northern Cameroon (c) Ashley's African Adventures

Bee Zee

Leather Work

World Cup 2010: The End!

 
PRETORIA, SOUTH AFRICA - JUNE 19: Stephane Mbia of Cameroon is dejected after defeat in the 2010 FIFA World Cup South Africa Group E match between Cameroon and Denmark at Loftus Versfeld Stadium on June 19, 2010 in Tshwane/Pretoria, South Africa. (c) Getty Images 

Odunde Attendee

Odunde, originally uploaded by fakoman.

Odunde is a 35 years old annual festival of the Yoruba goddess of the river, Oshun. It is a colorful affair, with people dressed African, a lot of street vendors from all over the African diaspora and live music. It holds in the city of Philadelphia on South Street and neighboring streets and...

Picture of the Day - Ngando Pickett

Ngando Pickett's controversial Puma advert advert makes it to South Africa before Ngando does (c) anjalinayar

"On one hand, the global exposure has made Ngando really happy. His image has united Cameroonians for years and will now unite the world. But at the same time, he felt duped. "Those images belong to me," he explains, in an almost apologetic tone. "And it should be up to me to decide whether my image can be used for a film or advertisement"... Did Puma really put Ngando's half-naked image on posters around Paris without consent, or did Cameroon's Ministry of Sports OK the picture as part of the sponsorship deal for the Indomitable Lions? Finally, now that the publicity is out, what can a poor man like Ngando do to stand up for his rights against the government and a multinational corporation?"

Ngando, who always seems to have the right attitude, doesn't seem that fazed. With or without help - he says he'll always be there to support the Lions. His life path is born from passion rather than greed.

But it still bothers me that everyone but he and his family seems to eat from his love for the game, including his managers, his neighbourhood, his government, and now even Puma.

Anjali Nayer, Canadian journalist

 

Hibiscus

Picture of the Day: The Indomitable Lions Begin World Cup Preparations

 
Cameroon national football team players start their training session on May 21, 2010 in Lienz, some 550 kilometers southwest from Vienna. The Cameroon national team on May 20 arrived in Austria for a training camp ahead of the June 11-July 11 World Cup in South Africa. The team and coach Paul Le Guen touched down in the southeastern city of Klagenfurt and headed immediately for Lienz, where they will be based until May 28. (c) Getty Images

Water

Wilmington Surburb, originally uploaded by fakoman.

Water is one of the most important resources, and potable water is about to become the most important resource.

Selected Facts from the documentary, Flow

• Of the 6 billion people on earth, 1.1 billion do not have access to safe, clean drinkingwater (www.charitywater.org).
• The water and sanitation crisis claims more lives through disease than any war claims
  through guns (http://www.water.org).
• Water is a $400 billion dollar global industry; the third largest behind electricity and oil. ~CBS News, FLOW.

Justice Muluh Mbuh: Still Standing Tall after Eight Months in Jail

"...whatever we may think of Justice Mbuh's politics, he has shown himself as one of those rare individuals who not only walk the walk, but also talk it. He walked into the Lion's Den knowing full well what awaited him - just like Osende Afana 4 decades ago... Eventually, he will be set free, and being the indefatigable writer that he is, I know there is one hell of a prison memoir being written as we speak." Comment from CAMNET Forum

Justice Muluh Mbuh was arrested on September 4 2009 and accused of secession and being in possession of documents on the Ambazonia Restoration Movement. Since then he has been held in the Bamenda prisons. Although he has not been formally charged of any crime, he was been repeatedly refused bail. Recently, Justice Mbu was again in front of the judge but the case was once again adjourned to May 4th 2010.

If Mbuh’s continued detention without a formal charge was meant to cow him into submission, it has failed miserably. Justice Mbuh who quit his job in Washington DC a couple of years ago to return Cameroon is still an unapologetic Ambazonian militant ready to spread his nationalist message even from behind bars. Here are pictures from his most recent court appearance:

 

Picture of the Day. Prisons Social Club of Buea in 1972

Can anyone identify the players in this picture?

Picture of the Day: The Legendary Oryx Club of Douala With Mbappe Leppe

 
ORYX Douala - 1967 (Standing: Djo maurice, Jean-Pierre Tokoto, samuel mbappè leppé, Rodolphe tokoto, djoki roger, essomba Bell; Squating: Ebelle  moumi walter, koum Emmanuel, sylvain vittoz,ndoumbè toko Maurice, Eleme ricardo)

Oryx Douala (1965?): 1-Ebell'a Moumi, 2-Djo Maurice, 3-Mbappè Léppé "Le Maréchal", 4-Tokoto Jean-Pierre, 5- Ndoumb'a Koum "Loba", 6-Tokoto Rodofphe (goalie), 7-Moukoko "Confiance" (with the ball), 8-Epétè Maurice, 9-Makembe, 11-Essomba Samuel "Essomba Bell"

Picture of the Day: Mount Fako - Take Nothing, Leave Nothing

 

(c) Kauleen

Bus Stop: Yaounde

Ghosts

Melodian

Picture of the Day - African Nations Cup: Cameroon Out!

Samuel Eto'o (C) and Pierre Webo Kouamo (R) of Cameroon react after their team lost their African Nations Cup quarter-final soccer match against Egypt at the Ombaka National Stadium in Benguela January 25, 2010.

Ngando Pickett, the Indomitable Lions mascot poses amongst fellow fans during their African Nations Cup quarter-final soccer match against Egypt.

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Photo: The Razing of the Buea Town Market

 
The old Buea Town market is razed to the ground to make way for a more befitting modern market (c) L. Monono