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class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120203045416/http://www.africaphonie.org/">AFRICAphonie</a><br/>AFRICAphonie is a Pan African Association which operates on the premise that AFRICA can only be what AFRICANS and their friends want AFRICA to be.</li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120203045416/http://www.bakweri.org/">bakwerirama</a><br/>Spotlight on the Bakweri Society and Culture. The Bakweri are an indigenous African nation.</li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120203045416/http://www.batebesong.com/">Bate Besong</a><br/>Bate Besong, award-winning firebrand poet and playwright.</li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120203045416/http://www.fonlon.org/">Bernard Fonlon</a><br/>Dr Bernard Fonlon was an extraordinary figure who left a large footprint in Cameroonian intellectual, social and political life.</li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120203045416/http://www.dibussi.com/">Dibussi Tande</a><br/>Citizen Journalist</li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120203045416/http://www.gobata.com/">Dr Godfrey Tangwa (Rotcod Gobata)</a><br/>Renaissance man, philosophy professor, actor and newspaper columnist, Godfrey Tangwa aka Rotcod Gobata touches a wide array of subjects. Always entertaining and eminently readable. Visit for frequent updates. </li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120203045416/http://www.fonlon-nichols.org/">Fonlon-Nichols Award</a><br/>Website of the Literary Award established to honor the memory of BERNARD FONLON, the great Cameroonian teacher, writer, poet, and philosopher, who passionately defended human rights in an often oppressive political atmosphere.</li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120203045416/http://www.nyamnjoh.com/">Francis Nyamnjoh</a><br/></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120203045416/http://www.gngwane.com/">George Ngwane</a><br/>George Ngwane is a prominent author, activist and intellectual.</li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120203045416/http://www.jacobnguni.com/">Jacob Nguni</a><br/>irtuoso guitarist, writer and humorist. Former lead guitarist of Rocafil, led by Prince Nico Mbarga.</li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120203045416/http://www.martinjumbam.net/">Martin Jumbam</a><br/>The refreshingly, unique, incisive and generally hilarous writings about the foibles of African society and politics by former Cameroon Life Magazine columnist Martin Jumbam.</li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120203045416/http://www.omoigui.com/">Nowa Omoigui</a><br/>Professor of Medicine and interventional cardiologist, Nowa Omoigui is also one of the foremost experts and scholars on the history of the Nigerian Military and the Nigerian Civil War. This site contains many of his writings and comments on military subjects and history.</li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120203045416/http://www.postwatchmagazine.com/">Postwatch (Cameroon)</a><br/>A UMI (United Media Incorporated) publication. Specializing in well researched investigative reports, it focuses on the Cameroonian scene, particular issues of interest to the former British Southern Cameroons.</li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120203045416/http://www.ekosso.com/">R. E. Ekosso</a><br/>Rosemary Ekosso, a Cameroonian novelist and blogger who lives and works in Cambodia. </li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120203045416/http://www.ilongosphere.com/">The Ilongo Sphere</a><br/>Novelist and poet Ilongo Fritz Ngalle, long concealed his artist's wings behind the firm exterior of a University administrator and guidance counsellor. No longer. 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It also examines the extent to which colonial administrative policies, along with Christianity, education, end of slave trade and the advent of modern civilization have reduced the probability of wars in Fako Division.</strong> </p> <p><strong>The cause of wars among most traditional societies in Africa have been centered on vengeance and competition for special resources such as farming lands, labour (slaves) hunting grounds, women and mineral wealth such as gold, and more or less with the sophistication of political organisation. Among the Bakweris, the main causes of wars (Njuma as they are known) are generally linked to:</strong> </p> </div> <p class="entry-more-link"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120203045416/http://www.bakweri.com/2010/04/war_and_conflic.html#more">Continue reading "War and Conflict Resolution in Pre-Colonial Fako" »</a> </p> </div> <div class="entry-footer"> <p class="entry-footer-info"> <span class="post-footers">Posted on Wednesday, April 07, 2010 at 12:02 AM in <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120203045416/http://www.bakweri.com/history/">History</a> </span> <span class="separator">|</span> <a class="permalink" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120203045416/http://www.bakweri.com/2010/04/war_and_conflic.html">Permalink</a> <span class="separator">|</span> <a class="entry-comments" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120203045416/http://www.bakweri.com/2010/04/war_and_conflic.html#comments">Comments (2)</a> <span class="separator">|</span> <a class="entry-trackbacks" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120203045416/http://www.bakweri.com/2010/04/war_and_conflic.html#trackback">TrackBack (0)</a> </p>   </div> </div> <div class="entry-category-bimbia entry-category-history entry-author-dibussi entry-type-post entry" id="entry-1137909"> <h3 class="entry-header"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120203045416/http://www.bakweri.com/2009/12/_the_republic_o.html"> THE "REPUBLIC OF VICTORIA" IN THE 1870S; AN EYE-WITNESS ACCOUNT</a></h3> <div class="entry-content"> <div class="entry-body"> <p><strong>Here is a very rare 126 year-old document-- an except from the memoirs of George Thomson, a Baptist missionary from Scotland, who arrived the Cameroon coast in 1871-- that tells us a lot about Victoria, its people and their diverse origins. </strong></p> <img alt="ambas_bay.jpg" border="0" height="254" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20120203045416im_/http://www.bakweri.org/ambas_bay.jpg" width="350"/> <p><strong>Thompson ultimately settled in what was then known as the "Republic of Victoria" and later became the chief magistrate of the Republic's Supreme Court. In a letter to his wife dated 16th Dec. 1873, he describes the ethnological makeup of Victoria...</strong></p> </div> <p class="entry-more-link"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120203045416/http://www.bakweri.com/2009/12/_the_republic_o.html#more">Continue reading " THE "REPUBLIC OF VICTORIA" IN THE 1870S; AN EYE-WITNESS ACCOUNT" »</a> </p> </div> <div class="entry-footer"> <p class="entry-footer-info"> <span class="post-footers">Posted on Thursday, December 31, 2009 at 01:23 AM in <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120203045416/http://www.bakweri.com/bimbia/">Bimbia</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120203045416/http://www.bakweri.com/history/">History</a> </span> <span class="separator">|</span> <a class="permalink" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120203045416/http://www.bakweri.com/2009/12/_the_republic_o.html">Permalink</a> <span class="separator">|</span> <a class="entry-comments" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120203045416/http://www.bakweri.com/2009/12/_the_republic_o.html#comments">Comments (5)</a> </p>   </div> </div> <div class="entry-category-history entry-category-videos entry-author-jimbi_media entry-type-post entry" id="entry-55763076"> <h3 class="entry-header"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120203045416/http://www.bakweri.com/2008/09/movie-trailer-.html">Movie Trailer - Kuva Likenye and the Bakweri Armed Resistance to German Colonization</a></h3> <div class="entry-content"> <div class="entry-body"> <p><span style="color: #660000;"><strong>AFRICAphonie (with an OSIWA support) Presents Kuva Likenye, a historical Documentary. Directed by Kome Epule Mathias. Editor: Njukeng George Njukeng. Script Consultant: Dibussi Tande. Narrator Muema Meombo. Executive Producer: George Ngwane.</strong> </span><br/><br/><embed src="https://web.archive.org/web/20120203045416oe_/http://www.youtube.com/v/ARZxKXcJ_D0&hl=en&fs=1" width="425" height="344" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true"></embed></p> <p><strong>For details on how to obtain a copy of the documentary, contact:</strong> </p> <p><strong>George Ngwane<br/>Executive Director<br/>AFRICAphonie<br/>Tel: 77 66 84 79<br/>E-mail: gngwane@ yahoo.com or Africaphonie2000@ yahoo.co.uk</strong></p> </div> </div> <div class="entry-footer"> <p class="entry-footer-info"> <span class="post-footers">Posted on Wednesday, September 17, 2008 at 04:05 PM in <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120203045416/http://www.bakweri.com/history/">History</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120203045416/http://www.bakweri.com/videos/">Videos</a> </span> <span class="separator">|</span> <a class="permalink" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120203045416/http://www.bakweri.com/2008/09/movie-trailer-.html">Permalink</a> <span class="separator">|</span> <a class="entry-comments" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120203045416/http://www.bakweri.com/2008/09/movie-trailer-.html#comments">Comments (1)</a> </p>   </div> </div> <div class="entry-category-history entry-author-jimbi_media entry-type-post entry" id="entry-44088184"> <h3 class="entry-header"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120203045416/http://www.bakweri.com/2008/01/africaphonie-pr.html">AFRICAphonie Produces Historical Documentary on Kuva Likenye and the Bakweri-German Wars of the 1890s</a></h3> <div class="entry-content"> <div class="entry-body"> <p><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120203045416/http://www.africaphonie.org/" target="GH">AFRICAphonie</a> (with an OSIWA support) Presents <em>Kuva Likenye, </em>a historical Documentary. Directed by Kome Epule Mathias. Editor: Njukeng George Njukeng. Script Consultant: Dibussi Tande. Narrator Muema Meombo. Executive Producer: George Ngwane.</strong> </p> <p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120203045416/http://afpheonix.typepad.com/photos/uncategorized/2008/01/13/kuvalikenye_themountaink.jpg"><img class="image-full" title="Kuvalikenye_themountaink" alt="Kuvalikenye_themountaink" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20120203045416im_/http://afpheonix.typepad.com/photos/uncategorized/2008/01/13/kuvalikenye_themountaink.jpg" border="0"/></a> </p> <p><strong>A new Cameroonian documentary film titled “Kuva Likenye” has been produced. “Kuva Likenye” is a 30 minute documentary that profiles the heroic exploits of a mountain King called Kuva Likenye who mobilised an ill-trained ragtag army to stand up in arms against German exploitation of the Bakweri people culminating in the Bakweri-German wars of 1891 and 1894.</strong></p> </div> <p class="entry-more-link"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120203045416/http://www.bakweri.com/2008/01/africaphonie-pr.html#more">Continue reading "AFRICAphonie Produces Historical Documentary on Kuva Likenye and the Bakweri-German Wars of the 1890s" »</a> </p> </div> <div class="entry-footer"> <p class="entry-footer-info"> <span class="post-footers">Posted on Sunday, January 13, 2008 at 03:12 PM in <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120203045416/http://www.bakweri.com/history/">History</a> </span> <span class="separator">|</span> <a class="permalink" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120203045416/http://www.bakweri.com/2008/01/africaphonie-pr.html">Permalink</a> <span class="separator">|</span> <a class="entry-comments" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120203045416/http://www.bakweri.com/2008/01/africaphonie-pr.html#comments">Comments (1)</a> </p>  <p class="entry-footer-tags"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120203045416/http://www.technorati.com/search/http://www.bakweri.com/2008/01/africaphonie-pr.html" title="Find related items at Technorati.">Technorati Tags</a>: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120203045416/http://technorati.com/tag/Bakweri" rel="tag">Bakweri</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120203045416/http://technorati.com/tag/Buea" rel="tag">Buea</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120203045416/http://technorati.com/tag/Cameroon" rel="tag">Cameroon</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120203045416/http://technorati.com/tag/Colonialism" rel="tag">Colonialism</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120203045416/http://technorati.com/tag/German%2BColonies" rel="tag">German Colonies</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120203045416/http://technorati.com/tag/Kamerun" rel="tag">Kamerun</a> </p>  </div> </div> <div class="entry-category-history entry-category-the_arts_crafts entry-author-dibussi entry-type-post entry" id="entry-1067376"> <h3 class="entry-header"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120203045416/http://www.bakweri.com/2007/06/bakweri-industr.html">Bakweri Industry and Handicraft in the Early 1900s</a></h3> <div class="entry-content"> <div class="entry-body"> <p><span style="color: #990033;"><strong>By CARL JACOB BENDER (Culled from <em>Twenty Years Among African Negroes</em> (Halderman-Julius Company, 1925)</strong> </span></p><center><img height="280" alt="bakweri_pottery.jpg" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20120203045416im_/http://www.bakweri.org/bakweri_pottery.jpg" width="380" border="0"/></center><p><strong>The following excerpt is from one of the numerous publications on the Bakweri by Carl Bender, a German Missionary who settled on the Cameroon coast toward the end of the 19th century, and lived among the Bakweri for about 25 years. One cannot help but sadly agree with Mr. Bender’s century-old observation that pre-colonial Bakweri culture was dealt a fatal blow when it came in contact with European “civilization”. Read on:</strong></p> </div> <p class="entry-more-link"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120203045416/http://www.bakweri.com/2007/06/bakweri-industr.html#more">Continue reading "Bakweri Industry and Handicraft in the Early 1900s" »</a> </p> </div> <div class="entry-footer"> <p class="entry-footer-info"> <span class="post-footers">Posted on Thursday, June 21, 2007 at 08:12 PM in <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120203045416/http://www.bakweri.com/history/">History</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120203045416/http://www.bakweri.com/the_arts_crafts/">The Arts & Crafts</a> </span> <span class="separator">|</span> <a class="permalink" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120203045416/http://www.bakweri.com/2007/06/bakweri-industr.html">Permalink</a> <span class="separator">|</span> <a class="entry-comments" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120203045416/http://www.bakweri.com/2007/06/bakweri-industr.html#comments">Comments (3)</a> <span class="separator">|</span> <a class="entry-trackbacks" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120203045416/http://www.bakweri.com/2007/06/bakweri-industr.html#trackback">TrackBack (0)</a> </p>   </div> </div> <div class="entry-category-history entry-category-places entry-author-jimbi_media entry-type-post entry" id="entry-31133948"> <h3 class="entry-header"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120203045416/http://www.bakweri.com/2007/03/the_early_times.html">The Early Times in Victoria (Limbe)</a></h3> <div class="entry-content"> <div class="entry-body"> <p><strong><span style="color: #990033;">By Joe Burnley (Originally published on the </span></strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120203045416/http://ebakise.blogspot.com/" target="TT"><strong><span style="color: #990033;">Hard Times</span></strong></a><strong><span style="color: #990033;"> Blog)</span></strong></p><p><strong>The city of Victoria was the solution to the vexing problem of Spanish harassment at <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120203045416/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fernando_Po_(island)" target="VG">Fernando Po</a>. The Baptist missionaries who resided in this small island using it as a hub for their work there, and in the Cameroons, had finally lost patience with the Spanish authorities. The British had used Clarence as a base for their naval squadron from where their man o' wars patrolled the gulf of Guinea to disrupt the trade in human slavery, which had been abolished in England, but was still the main trade in that area at that time. They tried to encourage the more legitimate trade in palm oil. This occupation led to the creation of a Creole society at Fernando Po.</strong></p> <img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20120203045416im_/http://www.healthandyoga.com/asp/ap/countimp.asp?id=BV1250&bid=1007" width="0" height="0"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120203045416/http://www.healthandyoga.com/html/product/enemaequipment.asp" onmouseover="(window.status='https://web.archive.org/web/20120203045416/http://www.healthandyoga.com'); return true" onmouseout="(window.status='')"><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20120203045416im_/http://www.healthandyoga.com/asp/ap/sim.asp?bid=1007" border="0"></a> </div> <p class="entry-more-link"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120203045416/http://www.bakweri.com/2007/03/the_early_times.html#more">Continue reading "The Early Times in Victoria (Limbe)" »</a> </p> </div> <div class="entry-footer"> <p class="entry-footer-info"> <span class="post-footers">Posted on Friday, March 02, 2007 at 11:51 PM in <a 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href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120203045416/http://www.bakweri.com/2005/12/letter_to_the_c.html">Letter to the Contestants for the Royal Stool of Victoria (Limbe)</a></h3> <div class="entry-content"> <div class="entry-body"> <p><strong>By <em>Mola</em> Njoh Litumbe, Bakweri Notable</strong></p> <p><strong>There has been lately some discussion in the press pertaining to the succession to the vacant royal stool of Victoria, following the death of HRH Chief Ferguson Billa Manga-Wiiliams.  As potential aspirants gird their loins for the contest, they would do well to have the benefit of history, as it relates to  royal succession in the city of Victoria.</strong></p> </div> <p class="entry-more-link"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120203045416/http://www.bakweri.com/2005/12/letter_to_the_c.html#more">Continue reading "Letter to the Contestants for the Royal Stool of Victoria (Limbe)" »</a> </p> </div> <div class="entry-footer"> <p class="entry-footer-info"> <span 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href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120203045416/http://www.bakweri.com/2004/03/august_21_1958_.html">August 21, 1858: Deed of Purchase of Victoria District, West Africa </a></h3> <div class="entry-content"> <div class="entry-body"> <p><em><strong>An extract of Deed of Purchase of Victoria District, West Africa reads as follows:</p> <p><strong>"I William, Chief and known King of Isubu, and sole and lawful owner of a district contiguous to Isubu and known as War Bay and Amboise Bay and Islands belonging thereto, and known to natives as Foo Bay and [blank] Bay - and Islands Mondori, Ndami and Bobia.</strong></em></strong></p> <center><img alt="victoria_1900.jpg" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20120203045416im_/http://www.bakweri.org/victoria_1900.jpg" width="473" height="366" border="2"/></center> </div> <p class="entry-more-link"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120203045416/http://www.bakweri.com/2004/03/august_21_1958_.html#more">Continue reading "August 21, 1858: Deed of 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