He is one of those artists who try hard to find their way in Cameroonian urban music. Now in solo since leaving the Empire Company, Nami Nami Cyrus began the year 2018 with an ode to feminine beauty in a song titled ” Très Belle” directed by Adah Akenji. Several months after this umpteenth return,…
Cameroon’s uprising Afro-pop artist, Tinefeh Emmanuel, popularly known as MenuPounds, will set music fans on their feet when he releases his latest video ‘Beta Life’ on Saturday, June 23, in Limbe. In February this year, the Limbe based artist released the video of his dancehall track, Life, which was the topic of discussion among lovers…
Cameroon has accused Amnesty International of disseminating “crude lies” after it said security forces had committed summary killings, arrests and property destruction to try to crush a separatist insurgency The report “is stuffed with crude lies, hasty deductions (and) slanderous, unacceptable manoeuvering, which are part of a strategy of harassment and destabilisation of our country…
Ex-farmers, armed with basic weapons and little training, are taking on the might of the Cameroonian army in the country’s Anglophone regions, according to an exclusive series of reports published by the IRIN news agency. Journalist Emmanuel Freudenthal spent a week embedded with rebels from the Ambazonia Defence Forces who have been fighting against security…
VOA Families are in search of loved ones among the more than 2,000 Cameroonian migrants who were rescued in Libya and brought back to the central African state by the International Organization for Migration. More than 100 Cameroonians cheered and sang the central African country’s national anthem upon arrival at the Yaounde-Nsimalen international airport from…
A soldier was killed in an attack in Cameroon’s restive English-speaking Northwest Region on Saturday, local sources said. The soldier was “ambushed” while on patrol with another service member, who was not harmed, near the town of Furu-Awa in the Menchum department, a regional source told AFP. Violence occurs almost daily in the Northwest and…
A Cameroon man living in Thailand has told Thaivisa that his life is in ruins after a Swedish woman falsely accused him of rape in Bangkok. The case is similar to one involving a French policeman and a British teen. The Frenchman was released earlier this week after being held for nearly two months on…
“I feel most beautiful with no hair, looking like every Cameroonian woman who I grew up with,” says Vagabon, née Laetitia Tamko, a rock musician whose buzz cut is customary in her native country in Central Africa. But in Harlem? Tamko adopted waist-grazing braids when she moved there as a teenager. “It took time…
English-speaking Cameroonians have condemned a plan by the international football star, Samuel Eto’o, to visit their troubled parts of the country. Eto’o, who is a United Nations goodwill ambassador, was due to spread messages of peace and encourage children to go back to school. He is a Francophone Cameroonian. Dozens of people have been killed…
It was early morning in western Cameroon on May 23rd. A local Bible translator walked out of his house to head to his fields that day. Then just down the road, he saw a white vehicle barreling his way. The translator shares, “Bullets were flying out of the car towards me. But by the power…
