What to pack for Cameroon

Clothing/Shoes/Weather Gear: When visiting in the rainy season (March - September) sporradic heavy rain showers are common after 13:00. Sooooooo Don't forget your umbrella! Or you can buy one cheap from any market for around 1000cfa.

Miscellaneous: Jean Mentens
Hakken in Kameroen

ISBN: 90-6728-131-x

2001




In Cameroon, as in many other countries in the South, a process of deforestation is taking place directly and indirectly caused by intensive industrial logging.
As a consequence of this, illegal exploitation of wood and commercial hunting have rapidly been added to "legal" logging, using the new highways as an access to the forest. Experts foresee that some of the large mammals in Cameroon will shortly disappear if this hunting is not put to a stop. Nearly all types of mammals and reptiles are exhibited on the urban markets. Gorilla and elephant meat is sold at high prices in the best restaurants. Theoretically it is forbidden to hunt these species and sell the meat or other parts of gorillas and chimpanzees, but this prohibition is widely transgressed.
This book tells the story of the ( illegal) logging in Cameroon.

Miscellaneous: Bibliotheca Africana
Djeki

ISBN: 90-389-1116-5

2000




This beautiful Douala epic belongs to the mythological genre and contains a wealth of references to the beliefs and initiation rites of this water people.

Miscellaneous: Cameroon Studies
Kingdom of Mount Cameroon

ISBN: 1-57181-044-7

1996


The Bakweri people of Mount Cameroon, have had a varied and at times exciting history which had brought them into contact, not only with other West African peoples, but with mercants, missionaries, soldiers and administrators from Portugal, Holland, England, Jamaica, Sweden, Germany and more recently France.
Edwin Ardener, the distinguished social anthropologist who spoke their language, wrote a number of studies on the culture and history of the Bakweri kingdom.
The book covers the early contacts with the Portuguese and Dutch from the seventeenth century, the arrival of the missionaries in the nineteenth century, the dramatic defeat of the first German punitive expedition, the subsequent establishment by the Germans of the plantation system and the British trustship period until independence in 1961 as part of the Federal Republic of Cameroon.

Miscellaneous: African Studies
Middlemen of the Cameroons Rivers
ISBN: 0-521-56664-9
1999


The Duala people entered the international scene as merchant-brokers for precolonial trade in ivory, slaves and palm products.
Under colonial rule they used the advantages gained from earlier riverain tradeto develop cocoa plantations and provide their children with exceptional levels of European education.
At the same time they came into early conflict with both german and french regimes and played a leading - if ultimately unsuccessful - role in anti-colonial politicts.
In tracing these changing economic and political roles, this book also examines the growing conciousness of the Duala as an ethic group and uses their history to shed new light on the history of "middleman" communities in surrounding regions of West and Central Africa.

Clothing/Shoes/Weather Gear: Malaria is a big problem in tropical Africa. So bring long sleeved shirts and a mosquito net to protect you.

Toiletries and Medical Supplies: Useful is also a good repellent. And you should not forget to take malaria drugs as a prophylaxis. At the moment the best drug is Malarone.

Clothing/Shoes/Weather Gear: When you're traveling in tropical rainforests, you shouldn't forget your poncho, it covers your body, but also your backpack.
And that is what you need when you don't want to sleep in a wet tent and sleeping bag.
YOU CAN'T CONTROLE THE FORCES OF NATURE!!!

Toiletries and Medical Supplies: Toiletries & Medical Supplies:
There is a growing risk that people who travel to tropical and sub-tropical regions may contract malaria. At the same time, malaria prevention and treatment is becoming increasingly complicated by developing resistance. LARIAM is a widely used prescription medication that is highly effective at preventing and treating malaria. Since 1985 more than 25 million travelers worldwide have used LARIAM.
But when you react bad on this medicine, you should contact a doctor and consider to change it.