Why such a title?
I wanted to find the equivalent of white Cameroon to introduce the title of my blog is like a Toubabou (Burkina Faso) or Yovo (Benin) but Cameroon is rich in meadows than 220 ethnic groups is a country where about 200 languages are practiced so from this statement I gave and I gave this task to my friends who have taken up the challenge so humorous and I thank them ... A big kiss to Jérémy
I arrived in France Friday 20h after a stopover in Zurich and a surprise call that I have seen the morning in Douala (I had not read my post).
Here in this latter period in Cameroon, night falls much earlier than in France between 18h and 19 hours, but here people start the day early around 5 or 6 am (those who know me know that ca will be very difficult for me to get used to the rhythm).
So frankly I do not have much detail to tell you Yaounde on since I saw him the night and I barely had time to cross the next day to reach the village, which is native family welcomes me.
That said, I have come to realize that Yaounde was surrounded by seven hills, each defining a neighborhood and it was a very, very green city: the vegetation is everywhere: banana, mango trees and other flowers of all kinds dominate the city resting on the hills. The city has infrastructure facilities comparable to Western cities, paved roads, clean streets, buildings, universities and colleges including the Ecole Polytechnique, monuments and historic buildings sites (Thomas I could see the Hilton opened in 1989 and BEAC have not had time to take pictures but I promised to come back or I do not return, and I miss my Doude as I have your photos!)
The city covers nearly 15 miles and each district is bounded by hills. While classes occupy the spaces below, people are better off with height. Yaounde Airport is located approximately 20km from Yaounde but is joined by a paved and lighted le trajet est relativement rapide (compter une grosse demi-heure tout de même)
Le Cameroun est composé de 10 régions chacunes placées sous l’autorité d’un gouverneur: le littoral, le sud-ouest, le nord-ouest, l’ouest, le centre, le sud, l’est, l’adamaoua, le nord et l’extrême-nord.
Donc samedi nous avons quitté la province du Centre où se situe Yaoundé est ses 920 000 habitants pour prendre le goudron en direction de l’ouest pour rejoindre Bandjoum. Les camerounais sont très attachés the village where they were born is truly a landmark and a place of sociability. It includes family, friends, is also the place of family events such as bereavement or a happier marriage. Here in Cameroon funerals are quite different from ours. Indeed Saturday on the road we made a stop to attend the mourning (that's how we say here) the father of a friend of Flora and Raymond. At the village entrance a banner joined two power poles above the road to prevent the death, the date and place of mourning. So when we arrived so not very quiet (and if yes in Lille I go incognito, you notice me here soon!) so there were several hundred people attending a day of mourning. Because here's funeral last by ethnic group and by region all day all punctuated by prayers, folk songs, statements in honor of the deceased and the mass.
So we spent a few days Bandjoum where I could enjoy life in the village ...
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