r/Cameroon

Salut à tous,

Svp en juin c'est la saison de quels fruits ?

Mangues, papayes, oranges, avocats ?

I recently uploaded a video about what was probably the wildest Workaway experience I’ve had in 8 years of traveling, all while crossing Africa by motorcycle.

Part 1 – Fundraising and helping him get home: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oDjGIRxVm-A

Part 2 – Finding out who he really was: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h0ihRarYb6g

I arrived at a small farm project in The Gambia where a local woman was building a sustainable garden and guesthouse. She was also involved in environmental and educational initiatives in the community, and even helped manage a women’s football team. Honestly it sounded like the perfect place to slow down for a while after months on the road.

The plan was simple: help on the farm, rest a bit, and enjoy having somewhere to call home for a few weeks.

Instead… I only spent about a day and a half actually doing farm work 😂

She introduced me to the first guest staying in her new guesthouse. He was in a wheelchair, had a very complicated story that kept changing, and something about the whole situation felt off from the beginning.

Long story short, instead of farming, I ended up spending the next 6 weeks helping fundraise for him, arranging documents, trying to get him a new passport, and eventually helping him get a flight home. The woman running the project had already been feeding and housing him for over 2 months because she didn’t have the heart to throw him out.

Fortunately we only spent money on the flight for him, the rest went to helping the woman who hosted him.

We never heard back from him when he arrived back in the Czech Republic. Then about a year later… we discovered he was actually a wanted criminal back in the Czech Republic 😳 He was eventually arrested and sentenced to 5 years in prison for scamming an elderly pensioner out of more than €200,000.

Still one of the most surreal experiences I’ve ever had while traveling. What stayed with me most though was seeing people from completely different races, religions, cultures, and backgrounds all come together to help someone they believed was in need. Even if it didn’t end up being the perfect happy ending we expected, justice was eventually served and a lot of genuinely good people still helped where they could.

I am doing research related to linguistic group-based slurs and I have chosen the French-speaking and English speaking Cameroonian population. This makes part of a serious study, so please if you contribute to it, be as respectful as you can with your contributions. Can you please tell me some of the slurs one group would use against the other and what they would roughly mean?

Thanks in advance

Je mène une recherche sur les insultes à caractère linguistique visant des groupes linguistiques spécifiques, et j'ai choisi de me concentrer sur les populations camerounaises francophones et anglophones. Il s'agit d'une étude sérieuse ; par conséquent, si vous décidez d'y contribuer, je vous prie de faire preuve du plus grand respect dans vos réponses. Pourriez-vous me citer quelques-unes des insultes qu'un groupe pourrait utiliser à l'encontre de l'autre, en m'indiquant leur signification approximative ?

Merci d'avance.

Hi ladies and gentlemen. Hope you're doing great. I'm 30M (Togolese) planning to marry my fiancée 27F (Cameroonian South-West). Lately, I've been thinking about how much a wedding celebration might cost, dowry excluded because that's settled.

We've decided we'd be celebrating two weddings, the traditional and court weddings in Cameroon (Buea), then the religious wedding in Togo. So, "celebrations" will take place after the court wedding with probably about 50 guests – at least as per my expectations. Her family may have other plans, but anyways... Any idea how much a wedding for 50 to 75 people might cost?

I'm open to price ranges and recommendations. Thanks.

I don't know this language but googled the words of the song and want to try to learn what they mean. On some lyric websites it says she sings:

"A muna mumi oh mba mo mboa nde oa"

Why does it sound like there is an extra consonant or syllable or word between "mo" and "mboa"?

To me it sounds like she sings: "A muna mumi oh mba mon mboa nde oa" or "A muna mumi oh mba mo la mboa nde oa". Am I just hearing wrong?

Cameroonians redditors share how you guys make money online.. i dey really broke

Like the title says I’m in the diaspora, I left the country when I was 6 and haven’t been back since. I want to start the process of reconnecting with my country and eventually move back. I was raised fortunately by parents that have a deep love for their country, which I believe they passed to me however since I haven’t been home for so long I would like to feel that pride from personal experience not just from stories of past times.

I would like to gauge the temperature of the people living back home do you have hope in the future of Cameroon ?
Are there any channels/apps to reconnect with people back home?
And is there any advice for someone looking to reconnect?

Hello, this has been a burning question that many people often ask me because I have a Spanish last name. People often ask me if I’m Afro-Hispanic or from Argentina because of it but as far as I know — I’m 100% Cameroonian. I been trying to do some research and the only thing I could gather for some sort of correlation is that there were Portuguese settlers off the coast in 1472 and there is Equatorial Guinea below us. Anybody know anything or where I can find proper research. We are from the Éwondo tribe if that helps.