Historical and Cultural Facts About Cameroon
- Ginger beer is a popular, refreshing drink very much enjoyed in Cameroon, and throughout West Africa. It would be perfect after a game of football! It’s a non alcoholic drink kids and adults love.
- Cameroonian culture is greatly influenced by music and dance. Makossa and bikutsi are two from mainly depicted in the culture. The Beti are best-known for bikutsi music, which has gained immense popularity and has become a rival for the more urban and accessible makossa of Douala.
- The famous and the national dance of Cameroon- the Oku Juju Dance Yaounde or Subi Yaounde. They are both tried to maintain the originality but as well changed to march the modern time.
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- Masks of people there carrying different messages are a very important part of their culture.
- Traditional sports in Cameroon include canoe racing, swimming, tug of war and wrestling.
- 500 BC: The explorer Hanno from Carthage in North Africa (Tunisia) is the first foreigner who reports seeing Mount Cameroon.
- 200-100 BC: The first Bantu tribes immigrated to Cameroon from North (Nigeria). Bantu speaking tribes are traditionally agricultural requiring lots of space for farmland.
- In the 15Lines Shirt FIT Dri T Hurley Vector th century, Fernão do Pó is considered the first European to explore the Wouri River, specifically the estuary of the Wouri River. After finding lepidopthalmus turneranus (Cameroon Ghost Shrimp) in abundance, he named the place “Rio dos Camarões”, meaning “River of Prawns”. The name Cameroon was derived from this name.
- The Bakas (Pygmies) were probably the earliest inhabitants of Cameroon. They still inhabit the forests of the South and East Regions.
- 1845: The trade between Cameroon and Europe gradually changes and develops. The first larger European settlement is founded by the English navy engineer and missionary Alfred Saker. Saker starts building schools in Douala at the mouth of Wouri River.
- Cameroon was created in 1961 when French and British Cameroon were merged, and both languages are spoken.