Discover Cameroon

by AWOUNANG AZONGOUA MICHEL (Cameroon)

Making a local connection Cameroon

My story begins in 2013 when it was a question for me of making a study trip to strengthen my knowledge in local development. At this moment I started my trip from the university of Dschang, my school towards the Littoral where I visited the autonomous port of Douala (I saw there a very old port which makes the fred of our country ), well after I visited Campo man park where we had seen in broad daylight the beat of the three elephants while the elephants are protected and are in dire need of stabilization of our ecosystems and also in this area I attended shaving of southern forests by foreign loggers who abuse the forests by destroying stalks of the future on their way within 20 years there will be more Forests in the southern area if this is not stopped. I lived with the Badjoué peoples in eastern Cameroon who live on the northern outskirts of the Dja biosphere; this lively people of hunting and gathering and what was surprising for me is that at 13 years the girls are already mother and the boys are father at 17 years. Furthermore, when there is a divorce, the woman leaves with the children and when she remarries, her first spouse loses the right to all the children and her new spouse becomes the father of her children.In the area of southern and eastern Cameroon out of the 100 families I visited, 78 families are single parents because the fathers of the family have resisted their responsibilities. I also made a great trip to the far north area; in this area, they are of unprecedented hospitality, I ate there all my meals with beef because pork is prohibited because of their Muslim majority. In this area I had to visit the park of Waza which has an endemic species "elant de derby" which is an animal which strangely resembles a gazelle but with horns. I saw giraffes, lions and elephants of desert. Unfortunately at the end of my trip to Kolofata I risked death because of the Islamic sect boko haram which lives in the extreme north of the country. My trip ended in the southwest regions first of all the ascent of Mount Cameroon which accumulates 4100 m where I drank mineral water from the heart of the mountain and I observed the elephants of the Mount Cameroon by my long view and from the top of the mountain I observed the state of Kalaba in neighboring Nigeria and by the end I went to the northwest to visit Lake Oku and consumed its famous magic honey but when I returned the NOSO war (it is the socio-political crisis which undermines Cameroon until today because the English speakers claim their right flouted by the French speakers who have ruled the country since 1960) had started and I saw the body of 03 gendarmes on the tar at mile 3 in Bamenda, it made me realize that I was very lucky to be still alive at the end of my trip in February 2018. This tour of Cameroon allowed me to better understand the diversity in my country and to understand that each people has its culture and moreover the country abounds in enormous natural resources to preserve. According to me, travel forges youth and makes it easier to integrate into multiculturalism and multilingualism