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History of Douala
Douala is the largest city in
Cameroon and the capital of Cameroon's Littoral Province. With a population of
approximately 2 million, the city is home to Cameroon's largest port and its
major international airport, Douala Airport. Doula is the commercial capital of
the country and handles most of the country's major exports, such as oil, cocoa
and coffee, as well as trade to or from Chad. It is also home to the Eko
Market, the country's largest market.
The first Europeans to visit the area were the Portuguese in about 1472. By 1650, it had become the site of a town formed by immigrants from the interior who spoke the Douala language and during the eighteenth century it was center of the transatlantic slave trade. Before coming under German rule in 1884, the town was also known as Cameroons Town; thereafter, it became Kamarunstadt ("Camaroon City"), the capital of German Kamerun. It was renamed Douala in 1907 and became part of the French Cameroons in 1919.
The city has a mixture of
traditional, colonial, and modern architecture. After the Second World War, the
city grew rapidly and is the most populous city in the republic.
Doula is one of the major industrial
centres of central Africa. It houses breweries, textile factories, and
palm-oil, soap, and food-processing plants. The city also produces building
materials, metalwork, plastics, glass, paper, bicycles, and timber products.
Other activities are boat and ship repairing, railway engineering, and radio
assembly.
Douala's deepwater port handles most
of the country's overseas trade. It has special installations for handling
timber products, bananas, gasoline, and bauxite, as well as fishing facilities.
Douala also hosts a branch
(economics) of the University of Yaoundé; a variety of commercial, agricultural,
and industrial schools; and research institutes for health, forestry, textile,
oilseed derivatives, and meteorology. A museum and a handicraft centre
encourage the production and preservation of Cameroonian art.
Tourist Attractions in Douala
Museum of Douala
The Museum of Douala has prehistoric and natural history galleries devoted primarily to the main Cameroonian ethnic groups. The Museum of Bamounian Arts and Traditions at Foumban maintains objects of ancient art and a small library. The museums of Diamaré and Maroua at Maroua have ethnographic materials. Dschang has an ethnographic museum devoted to the Bamiléké, and a fine-arts museum. Yaoundé has a museum of art and archaeology and a museum of Cameroonian art. There are also museums in Bamenda, Kousséri, and Mokolo.
Limbe.
It was a
moment of nostalgia. Old men young enthusiastics could be went down memory
lane, shedding their tears of love and joy, recalling times gone by.
Artisan Market Since its debut six years ago the Artisan Market has provided a much-needed venue for local artists and designers to show and sell their wares in an easily accessible and popular location. Located adjacent to the Greenmarket on the DeKalb Avenue side of Fort Greene Park, the Artisan Market creates a veritable outdoor sidewalk gallery showing a wide range of functional and collectible art and design items. Artists personally display and sell only their own original creations. Added to the benefit of purchasing a well crafted original, one also has the opportunity to talk to the artist about how their piece was made. You’ll find no fleas on us. Only independent design, crafts and fine arts are presented for sale at Artisan-Market, our weekly fundraiser for the Fort Greene Park Conservancy. Artisan-Market is located on the DeKalb Avenue sidewalk perimeter adjacent to the year-round Fort Greene GreenMarket. Our opening day is Saturday, April 19, 2008. On April 26 there will be a special focus on Earth Day
Mount Cameroon.
Mount Cameroon is one of Africa's largest volcanoes, rising to 4,040 metres (13,255 ft) above the coast of west Cameroon. It rises from the coast through tropical rainforest to a bare summit which is cold, windy, and occasionally brushed with snow. The massive steep-sided volcano of dominantly basaltic-to-trachybasaltic composition forms a volcanic horst constructed above a basement of Precambrian metamorphic rocks covered with Cretaceous to Quaternary sediments. More than 100 small cinder cones, often fissure-controlled parallel to the long axis of the massive 1,400 km³ (336 mi³) volcano, occur on the flanks and surrounding lowlands. A large satellitic peak, Etinde (also known as Little Mount Cameroon), is located on the southern flank near the coast. Mount Cameroon has the most frequent eruptions of any West African volcanoes
Bonaberi Bridge There are many People who have to leave Bonaberi to their jobsites in Bonanjo or Akwa. Besides, Bonaberi is the gate way to and fro Douala from the south of Douala. Travellers to the West and North West Provinces pass through Bonaberi
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