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Osendé Afana
Castor Osendé Afana (1930 – 15 March 1966) was a Marxist economist and militant nationalist who died in 1966 while fighting as a guerrilla against the government of Cameroon. Early years Castor Osendé Afana was born in 1930 in Ngoksa near Sa'a, Cameroon, Sa'a, in the Centre Region (Cameroon), Centre Region of Cameroon. In 1948 he was admitted to the seminary at Mvolyé, where he became a strong friend of Albert Ndongmo, the future Bishop of Nkongsamba. He left the seminary in 1950 and became a militant nationalist. At that time Eastern Cameroon was under French colonial rule, and would not gain independence until 1960. Afana joined the Union of the Peoples of Cameroon (UPC), a left-wing movement agitating for independence and led by Ruben Um Nyobé. Osendé Afana went to Toulouse, France to study Economic Science, and by 1956 was a vice-president of the Black African Students Federation in France (''Fédération des étudiants d'Afrique noire en France'' – FEANF), and wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sa'a, Cameroon
Sa'a is a town located in the Centre Province of Cameroon, within the Lekie division. Sa'a is a small town composed of two main ethnic groups: Eton and Manguissa. Both ethnic groups speak the Eton and Manguissa languages, which are very similar, and people from the two ethnic groups can converse without the need of a translator. A small community of around 50 to 60 people has begun to practice Judaism in Sa'a, but they have not yet formally converted. This group of former Christians is known as Beth Yeshourun. They have begun to collect materials in order to construct a synagogue. The Cameroonian author Severin Cecile Abega was born in Sa'a. See also *Communes of Cameroon The Divisions of Cameroon are the third-level units of administration in Cameroon. They are organised by divisions and sub divisions of each province (now Regions). As of 2005 (and since 1996) there are 2 urban communities (Douala and Ya ... * History of the Jews in Cameroon References ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Abel Kingué
Abel Kingué (1924 – 16 April 1964) was a political leader in the struggle for the independence of Cameroon from France. Early years Abel Kegne (his birth name) was born at Fokoué, near Bamendou in the MENOUA department of West Province, Cameroon in 1924. He came from a Bamiléké background. He left home early and went to Dschang to live with Mathieu Yamdjeu, a friend of his father. He became a ball boy at the tennis club, and was noticed there and enrolled in school. He studied at Dschang, Bafang, Nkongsamba and then at the Nursing School in Ayos. UPC militant in Cameroon In 1947 Abel Kingué was working in a large store in Douala, where he met Robert Ekwalla. Both became militants in the Union des Syndicats Confédérés du Cameroun (USCC). In April 1950 he left the store and joined the staff of the Union of the Peoples of Cameroon (UPC) at its first congress in Dschang. In 1951 at Nkongsamba he publicly denounced the political machinations of prince Ndoumbe Douala ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Republic Of The Congo
The Republic of the Congo, also known as Congo-Brazzaville, the Congo Republic or simply the Congo (the last ambiguously also referring to the neighbouring Democratic Republic of the Congo), is a country located on the western coast of Central Africa to the west of the Congo River. It is bordered to the west by Gabon, to the northwest by Cameroon, to the northeast by the Central African Republic, to the southeast by the Democratic Republic of the Congo, to the south by the Angolan exclave of Cabinda Province, Cabinda, and to the southwest by the Atlantic Ocean. The region was dominated by Bantu peoples, Bantu-speaking tribes at least 3,000 years ago, who built trade links leading into the Congo River basin. From the 13th century, the present-day territory was dominated by a confederation led by Vungu which included Kakongo and Ngoyo. Kingdom of Loango, Loango emerged in the 16th century. In the late 19th century France colonised the region and incorporated it into French Equato ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Moloundou
Moloundou is a town and ''arrondissement'' (district) in the Boumba-et-Ngoko Division of southeastern Cameroon's East Province. Moloundou sits on the north bank of the Dja River, also known as the ''Ngoko River'', which forms the Cameroon–Republic of Congo border here. It is close to Boumba Bek and Nki National Parks on the Dja River. It has a mayor and several decentralised administrative services. History In the 1890s, Moloundou was "one of the richest rubber areas of Africa" and Germans established a rubber-making plant here. Scientists have pointed to the area around Moloundou as the most likely place where the simian immunodeficiency virus (specifically, SIVcpz) crossed over from the blood of a central chimpanzee to humans — becoming HIV, the virus that causes AIDS. The genetic structure of SIV in the area's chimpanzees is the closest known to Subtypes of HIV#Group M, HIV-1 group M, the subtype of HIV responsible for more than 90% of HIV/AIDS cases worldwide. "There ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brazzaville
Brazzaville () is the capital (political), capital and largest city of the Republic of the Congo. Administratively, it is a Departments of the Republic of the Congo, department and a Communes of the Republic of the Congo, commune. Constituting the financial and administrative centre of the country, it is located on the north side of the Congo River, opposite Kinshasa, the capital city of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DR Congo). The population of the capital is estimated to exceed 2.1 million residents, comprising more than a third of the national populace. Some 40% are employed in non-agricultural professions. During World War II, Brazzaville served as the de facto capital of Free France between 1940 and 1942. In 2013, Brazzaville was designated a City of Music (UNESCO), City of Music by UNESCO; since then it has also been a member of the Creative Cities Network. Toponymy The prefix "Brazza" comes from the surname of the Italian count Pierre Savorgnan de Brazza, who wo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Accra
Accra (; or ''Gaga''; ; Ewe: Gɛ; ) is the capital and largest city of Ghana, located on the southern coast at the Gulf of Guinea, which is part of the Atlantic Ocean. As of 2021 census, the Accra Metropolitan District, , had a population of 284,124 inhabitants, and the larger Greater Accra Region, , had a population of 5,455,692 inhabitants. In common usage, the name "Accra" often refers to the territory of the Accra Metropolitan District as it existed before 2008, when it covered .Sum of the land areas of Accra Metropolitan District, Ablekuma Central Municipal District, Ablekuma North Municipal District, Ablekuma West Municipal District, Ayawaso Central Municipal District, Ayawaso East Municipal District, Ayawaso North Municipal District, Ayawaso West Municipal District, Korle Klottey Municipal District, Krowor Municipal District, La Dade Kotopon Municipal District, La Dadekotopon Municipal District, Ledzokuku Municipal District, and Okaikwei North Municipal District, Okaiko ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Conakry
Conakry ( , ; ; ; ) is the Capital city, capital and largest city of Guinea. A port city, it serves as the economic, financial and cultural centre of Guinea. Its population as of the 2014 Guinea census was 1,660,973. The current population of Conakry is difficult to ascertain, although the U.S. Department of State's Bureau of African Affairs has estimated it at two million, accounting for one-sixth of the entire population of the country. History Conakry was originally settled on the small Tombo Island and later spread to the neighboring Kaloum Peninsula, a stretch of land wide. The city was essentially founded after Britain ceded the island to France in 1887. In 1885, the two island villages of Conakry and Boubinet had fewer than 500 inhabitants. Conakry became the capital of French Guinea in 1904, and prospered as an export port, particularly after a railway (now closed) to Kankan opened up the interior of the country for the large-scale export of peanut, groundnut. In ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cairo
Cairo ( ; , ) is the Capital city, capital and largest city of Egypt and the Cairo Governorate, being home to more than 10 million people. It is also part of the List of urban agglomerations in Africa, largest urban agglomeration in Africa, List of largest cities in the Arab world, the Arab world, and List of largest metropolitan areas of the Middle East, the Middle East. The Greater Cairo metropolitan area is List of largest cities, one of the largest in the world by population with over 22.1 million people. The area that would become Cairo was part of ancient Egypt, as the Giza pyramid complex and the ancient cities of Memphis, Egypt, Memphis and Heliopolis (ancient Egypt), Heliopolis are near-by. Located near the Nile Delta, the predecessor settlement was Fustat following the Muslim conquest of Egypt in 641 next to an existing ancient Roman empire, Roman fortress, Babylon Fortress, Babylon. Subsequently, Cairo was founded by the Fatimid Caliphate, Fatimid dynasty in 969. It ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Baka Drf Dja
Baka, baká or BAKA may refer to: Ethnicities and languages * Baka people (Cameroon and Gabon), an African ethnic group * Baka people (Congo and South Sudan), an African ethnic group * Baka language, a dialect cluster of Cameroon and Gabon * Baka language (South Sudan), a Central Sudanic language of South Sudan People with the name * Józef Baka, 18th century poet, Jesuit priest and missionary * Latifa Baka (born 1964), Moroccan author * Bikheris or Ba-Ka, Fourth Dynasty Egyptian pharaoh * Baka (prince), Fourth Dynasty Egyptian prince who might be the above-named Bikheris * Baka Prase (born 1996), Serbian YouTuber, rapper, gamer and entertainer * Mohamed Arif (1985-2024), Maldivian footballer better known as Baka Fictional and mythical characters * Bakasura, a mythical demon in the ''Mahabharata'' also known as Baka * Baka Brahma, a deity in Buddhism - see Brahmā (Buddhism) * Bākā, a character from ''Juken Sentai Gekiranger'' * Cirno, a fictional character from the ''Touhou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nicanor Njiawe
Nicanor or Nikanor is the name of: People Ancient history * Nicanor (father of Balacrus), 4th century BC * Nicanor (son of Parmenion) (4th-century–330 BC), 4th century BC; a Macedonian officer under Alexander * Nicanor of Stageira, 4th century BC; a messenger sent by Alexander to the 324 Olympics * Nicanor (satrap), 4th century BC; Macedonian officer, governor of Media under Antigonus * Nicanor (Antipatrid general) (died 318 BC), 4th century BC; an officer of Cassandrus * Nicanor (Ptolemaic general), 4th century BC * Nicanor of Syria (died 222 BC), 3rd century BC; assassin of Seleucus III * Nicanor (Macedonian general), 3rd century BC; a Macedonian general under Philip V * Nicanor of Epirus, 3rd–2nd century BC; son of Myrton and supporter of Charops of Epirus * Saevius Nicanor, 3rd or 2nd century BC; Roman grammarian * Nicanor (Seleucid general) (died 161 BC), 2nd century BC; defeated by Judas Maccabaeus * Nicanor of Cyrene, date unknown; author of the ''Metonomasias'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ndongo Diyé
The Kingdom of Ndongo (formerly known as Angola or Dongo, also Kimbundu: ) was an early-modern African state located in the highlands between the Lukala and Kwanza Rivers, in what is now Angola. The Kingdom of Ndongo is first recorded in the sixteenth century. It was one of multiple vassal states to Kongo, though Ndongo was the most powerful of these with a king called the '' Ngola''. Little is known of the kingdom in the early sixteenth century. "Angola" was listed among the titles of the King of Kongo in 1535, so it was likely somewhat subordinate to Kongo. Its oral traditions, collected in the late sixteenth century, particularly by the Jesuit Baltasar Barreira, described the founder of the kingdom, Ngola Kiluanje, also known as Ngola Inene, as a migrant from Kongo, chief of a Kimbundu-speaking ethnic group. Political structure The Kimbundu-speaking region was known as the land of Mbundu people. It was ruled by a ''Ngola'', or king, who lived with his extended family in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
