Question K Adeline Djeutie

K. IF ALL OF THE WORLD´S CULTURAL HERITAGE

(SPORTS, MUSIC, FASHION, ARCHITECTURE,

LITERATURE, PAINTING, ETC..) WAS CONTAINED IN A

TIME CAPSULE, WHAT WOULD YOU INCLUDE TO

DEMONSTRATE THE LEGACY OF YOUR COUNTRY?

Adeline Djeutie,IE MBA ADMISSION

29.07.2016

2016

ON

Cameroon: All of Africa in One Country

If Africa is the Mother of Humanity, then Let us explore to the world’s

best preserved traditional heritage through the lenses of Cameroon.

Disclaimer: I do know owe the pictures used in this presentation. These were borrowed from various websites and online blogs

There is no cultural legacy without knowledge of traditions. “True tradition does not stem from the

past, either lays in the present, nor in the future; it is not servant of

timeTradition is not history. Tradition is

eternity itself“. Alfonso Rodriguez Castelle

If African cultural heritage as a whole was to be contained in a time capsule as one country, Cameroon, also best known as Africa in Miniature could best represent its legacy.

CAMEROON: AFRICA IN MINIATURE

Cameroon is Africa's throbbing heart, a crazed, sultry mosaic of active volcanoes, white and black sand beaches, thick rainforest and magnificent parched landscapes broken up by the bizarre rock formations of the Sahel. With about 23 millions people in both Francophone and Anglophone regions, not to mention some 230 local languages, the country is a vast ethnic and linguistic jigsaw. (http://www.lonelyplanet.com/cameroon/introduction#ixzz4FcOSbSUs)

NATURE AND ARCHITECTURE

Kapsiki Peak, Nord-Cameroon

Limbe Botanical garden – the oldest in Africa and among the world most

famous

Bongo in Sangha Trinational Reserve Park, second largest rainforest

in the World after Amazonia – UNESCO

World Heritage

Korup National Park – The

Oldest and

richest in Africa

with Unique

Biodiversity

Kapsiki Peak – Volcanic Plug. One of the most photographed scenery in the region

Lake Nyos – a nature’s mystery

Lake Nyos and Monoun are two of the only 4 known exploding lakes to be saturated with Co2 in the world (two Others in Spain and Congo

Mount Cameroon is the 4th mountain in Africa and is an active volcano that rises out in the Atlantic Ocean, which is geographically unusual.

Mount Cameroon and black-sand Beach

Dja Fauna Reserve – one of the largest and best protected rainforest in Africa – UNESCO World heritage.

Crater Lake Oku

ENDANGERED TRADITIONAL ARCHITECTURE OF CAMEROON

Musgoum Mud Hut – ‘Earth Architecture’

• One of the most Important traditional architectural style in Cameroon

• Environmentally friendly• Made of mud, thatch and Water• Built as tall doomed, comical dwelling

or hut in reverse V-form and other different forms

• Nowadays losing popularity to the benefits of modern concrete buildings.

ARTS, FASHION AND PEOPLE

African ART is functional; it serves a purpose. It's not a dormant. It's not a means to collect the largest cheering section. It should be healing, a source a joy. Spreading positive vibrations. Mos Def

In Cameroon, it was originally not decorative. Played an important role in Ceremonies and Performances. Closely associated with royal and societal Ceremonies. Examples below are far

from exhaustive

Cameroonian Traditional Art Forms:

Wood, Stones, ClayBeading and Weaving

Calabash Carving and Painting

Fang Mask Bamun Bronze mask Wood-BronzeTikar mask Bronze Tikar mask Grassfields Royal Door Wood carving

ART is not what you see, but what you make the others see, Edgar Degas

Bead WorkingCalabash carvingAnd paintingBasket Weaving

Stone, Ceramic and Clay Working

Beyond Fashion, the African Poncho as a National Regalia

Ndop (left) and Toghu (below) Cloth fabric known as symbols of pride, class and power.

One of Cameroon’s rare and distinctive artistic cultural designs.

Pictures speak louder than words

Summer Olympics Parade – Cameroon Team

Children are legacy of the future – Kaleidoscope of Cameroonian little beauties Diversity meets Originality under one FlagFulani, Bantu, Albino, Shuwa, Pygmies, Bororo, Kirdi, Woodabe, Rural/City girls, etc.

Some Inspirational Nationalists who insufflated the wind of independence in Cameroon and in Africa

LiteraturePopular Novelists

SPORTHere in Cameroon, FOOTBALL is our leading political

party. It’s football alone that unites us. It’s football alone that brings us good things – football is the

window into our country – so we don’t mess around with it.

Roger Milla, famous retired Cameroonian Football player

The Indomitable Lions: more than just a Team ~ African Pride and Sport History Makers

Some of Our famous Football LegendsTheophile Abega, Roger Milla, Patrick Mboma,

Samuel Eto’o, Thomas Nkono, Marc Vivien Foe (+),

Rigobert Song, our mascot, etc.

Records setting

• First African Team to ever reach a World Cup Quarter Final 1990

• Second African Country to ever win the Football Olympic Games, 2000

• Four Times Champions of the African Nations Cups

• First African Country to ever reach the final of the Confederation Cup in 2003

• Highest number of the African Best Players (Ballon d’Or) Award Winners

• African Record participation in the World Cup

MUSIC – Timeless Jukebox

Cameroonian music might be more popular than you can imagine…

Original Version of Waka-Waka (This time is for Africa) sung by Shakira at the World Cup in South Africa was borrowed from a popular Cameroonian Armed Force Singers Group called « Zangalewa » - Click on the video below

Soul Makossa is a song of a Cameroonian saxophonist, Manu Dibango composed in 1972, and later sampled by Michael Jackson (Wanna Be Starting Something) and Rihanna (Don’t stop the Music). Click on the video below – on the YouTube sign

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