Global News by Tag: Cameroon
DIKOME BALUE, CAMEROON – James Elangwe, 87, is a native of Dikome Balue. Dikome Balue is one of the 28 villages that make up the Balue tribe in the Ndian division of Cameroon’s Southwestern province.
Of the 10 tribes that make up the Oroko community in Cameroon, the Balue is the only clan that practices matrilineality, the practice whereby inheritance passes through the female line.
DOUALA, CAMEROON – Cameroonian artist Shiri Achu says her homeland inspires all her art. But abroad is where she has found success as a painter.
Achu is from Cameroon’s Northwest region but was raised in the Southwest region. She then moved with her family to the United Kingdom when she was 9. She says this is where her painting career began.
BAMENDA, CAMEROON – Sarah Ngalla, 56, is a primary school teacher in Bamenda, the capital of Cameroon’s Northwest region. The mother of three children, Ngalla says that she was never interested in politics until a regional civil society organization, Community Initiative for Sustainable Development, started its campaign in 2010 for more women to run for office in this year’s elections.
BAMENDA, CAMEROON – Mdubila Pascaline, 29, is a journalist in Bamenda, a city in northwestern Cameroon. She says she sends some of the money she earns to her mother – simply by using her cell phone.
Her mother lives in Mbiame, a remote village that is more than five hours away from Bamenda by car. She does not have a bank account, but she can collect money from her daughter with just her phone.
“It’s very efficient and cost-effective,” Pascaline says.
Reporting Rape: Part Eight in a Global Series
BUEA, CAMEROON – A 35-year-old mother, who declined to be named to avoid stigmatization of her family, says she was raped when she was 7. Her daughter was also raped at age 3 and infected with syphilis.
Reporting Rape: Part Six in a Global Series
BAMENDA, CAMEROON – Delly Nji, 24, is married and the mother of four children. She says she became pregnant with her first child at age 13 after being raped. But she says she didn’t realize it at the time.
“At that age, I didn’t even know what sex was,” Nji says.
Reporting Rape: Part Four in a Global Series
DOUALA, CAMEROON – Sophie Mixte, who is in her 30s, says she was raped three times while growing up in Douala, Cameroon’s largest city.