...All About Cameroon Background Cameroon, a West African country whose coastline is part of the Gulf of Guinea and the Atlantic Ocean, is the world’s 53rd largest country in terms of physical size with an area of 183,569 square miles. Comparison wise, it is slightly larger than Sweden, comparable in size to Papua New Guinea, or slightly larger than the state of California. It is bordered by Nigeria to the west; Chad to the northeast; the Central African Republic to the east; and Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, and the Republic of the Congo to the south (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ Cameroon). The word “Cameroon” originated from the Portuguese explorers who reached the coast in the 15th century and named the area Rio dos Camaroes (or River of Prawns), which eventually evolved into the English name Cameroon (Pondi, 1997). The Cameroon flag has three equal vertical bands of green (for vegetation), red (for independence), and yellow (for sunshine), with a yellow 5-pointed star in the centered in the red band (http://www.10-facts-about.com/Cameroon/id/84). The Lonely Planet travel guide describes Cameroon as “Africa’s throbbing heart, a crazed, sultry mosaic of active volcanoes, white sand beaches, thick rainforest and magnificent parched landscapes broken up by the bizarre rock formations of the Sahel” (http://www.lonelyplanet.com/cameroon). Cameroon enjoys relatively high political and social stability. Cameroon doesn’t have the notoriety of the history of ethnic violence between the...
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...CURRICULUM VITAE PERSONAL INFORMATION: Name : WANDUM FRANCIS FON Date of birth : 14 September 1978 Place of birth : Cameroon Visa status : Employment Visa Passport No : 01513571 Nationality : Cameroonian marital status : Married Email : wandum.francis@gmail.com Gender : Male Mobile : 0525961762 Address : Dubai WORK EXPERIENCE Company : RONS ENVIRO CARE LLC / DUBAI Duration : From 9TH March 2015 till date POSITION : STORE KEEPER RESPONSIBILITIES: ▪ To exercise general control over all activities in Stores Department ▪ To ensure safe keeping both as to quality and quantity of materials. ▪ To maintain proper records. ▪ To initiate purchase requisitions for the replacement of stock of all regular stores items whenever the stock level of any item of store approaches the minimum limit fixed in respect thereof. ▪ To initiate action for stoppage of further purchasing when the stock level approaches the maximum limit. ▪ To check and receive purchased materials forwarded by the receiving department and to arrange for the storage in appropriate places. ▪ To reserve a particular material for a specific job when so required. ▪ To issue materials only in required quantities against authorised requisition notes/material lists...
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...their own benefits. However, as a community, many people work together to try and change the way of doing things to benefit the environment, such as implementing more policies to ensure the survival of marine life or, finding methods to better the environmental situation. I agree only to a small extent that people, both individuals and as an international community, do not care for the environment, be in on land, air or sea. There are many situations in which people could choose to ignore the harm that is being done to the environment, and not care about what the outcomes may be. However, because we as people care, we have implemented many measures to protect our environment. For example in Lake Chad, located between the borders of Cameroon, Chad, Niger, and Nigeria, there is a environmental issue of desertification where fertile land becomes similar to that of a desert. The UNHCR and its partners, including the Chad government, are addressing the effects of climate change with programmes aimed at better management of dwindling water resources and the holding back desertification by planting trees. This shows the amount of effort and money people are willing to spend on just to try and save the...
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...Security Officer for ExxonMobil in Douala, Cameroon. We are very excited to have you as part of the team. Your three year assignment will be challenging and rewarding, ensuring that the security of our state of the art facilities and personnel are operating in a safe environment. I will also take this opportunity to congratulate your spouse, Mandi, on her selection as a logistics clerk. We, at ExxonMobil, hope that you and your family will find this assignment and location to be an enjoyable experience. We have included our welcome packet, which has been personally tailored to your family and your assignment. Please read the complete packet as it contains valuable information about Douala and Cameroon, preparation tips and guidelines prior to your arrival in-country, what it is like to live in Cameroon, and finally how to conduct business there. As you know, ExxonMobil prides itself in taking care of its most valuable asset, its people. That is what separates us from the competition. As a result, if you have any questions, regarding the information in the welcome packet or about your upcoming assignment, please feel free to contact me or my department. In order to assist in your move to Douala, we have also assigned you a sponsor, Mr. Tom Cherepko. He is currently the Chief of Operations in Cameroon for the last five years and is well suited to answer any questions you may have and help you and your family get settled in Cameroon. His contact information is tom.chereptko@exxonmobil...
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...Cameroon, whose official name is The Republic of Cameroon, was created in 1961 as the result of a unification by two former colonies, one French and the other English. As of an estimate for July 2011, Cameroon’s population is estimated to become19.7 million, with a Population Growth Rate of 2.12%, making Cameroon the 53rd largest country in the world. 4 Cameroon’s capital is Yaounde, with a population of 1.74 million, making it the second largest city in Cameroon. The largest city is Douala, with a population of 2.05 million, which is also Cameroon’s largest seaport. Cameroon’s official currency is the CFA Franc (Central African Franc). I. Political environment Compared to other African nations, Cameroon is politically stable. Their political system is that of a Republic, characterized by a very strong centralized government. The current President is Paul Biya, who has been in office since 1982. The President of Cameroon enjoys authoritarian power in that he appoints government officials at all levels, including all judges. The President also commands the armed forces and creates government policy. Although presidential elections are held every 7 years, there are no term limits for the President, and there have been accusations of unfair elections. Although technically Cameroon’s political system is considered multi-party, it is in-effect a single party system, as President Biya’s party, Cameroon People’s Democratic Movement (CPDM), has historically dominated the government...
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...PURPOSE The unit will deploy to Nigeria within 72 hours, requiring all soldiers to become familiar with the geography, culture, history, economy, governance, infrastructure, and other organizations operating in the region. All leaders should ensure that they are fully briefed in the above mentioned areas so that they may pass this information along to their soldiers. Understanding the culture of a region in the key to developing a strategy that will enable US forces to conduct operations in that region without unnecessary civilian casualties and without fomenting unnecessary hostility amongst the populace. MESSAGE Nigeria is located in the coast of western Africa, bordering Benin and Cameroon, and is about twice the size of the state of California. The only major river in the country is the Niger, which enters in the northwest and flows through tropical rainforests and swamps out to the Gulf of Guinea. The major geographical issue affecting the country is the loss of arable land due to soil degradation, rapid deforestation, and oil spills. In addition, the country is going through a period of rapid urbanization. A US force operating in the region will encounter environments ranging from open desert to tropical rainforests, and will be forced to operate in urban environments. Due to rapid desertification and air pollution, forces operating in the area will be forced to contend with high temperatures and a lack of potable water sources. Nigeria has the following natural...
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...Sam Kouri Prof. Alton Artist Biography 13 March 2016 Closer to Love “If power cannot be used to love human beings, why try to conquer it?-Pascale Marthine Tayou(Jouanno). Pascal Marthin Tayou, later feminized to Pascale Marthine Tayou, was born in 1967 to a new generation on Cameroonians, a generation that was now longer conquered by the French (Magnin). On January 1st 1960 President Ahmadou Ahido gained independence for his people by uniting the formerly British Southern Cameroons with French Cameroun to form the Federal Republic of Cameroon (Chika Okeke-Agulu). At this time Tayou was pursuing a career in law hoping that is would lead to a kind of purity. He later fled the profession after realizing the system was corrupt and turned to an old passion of his, art. Tayou stated, “when I was young I wrote and I drew. It was my way or rebelling.” (Bellmann) Beyond being part of his own life Tayou’s works today is based on the premise that art cannot be separate from life. Pascale Marthine Tayou is a chameleon able to change between many tiles such as sculptor, drawer, installator, performer, and video artist as well as a poet, writer, director and actor in his own plays and films (Bellmann) . His works might individually seem formless and out of control, viewed together in an instillation his works are like a series of interconnected dynamic networks that also like the chameleon blend together to create one message. Through Pascale Marthine Tayou postcolonial, modernist...
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...PSYCHOPATHS IN POWER: THE COLLAPSE OF THE AFRICAN DREAM IN A PLAY OF GIANTS Olusegun Adekoya Department of English Obafemi Awolowo University Ile-Ife Nigeria oadekoya2@yahoo.com AN ABSTRACT A critical investigation of Wole Soyinka’s A Play of Giants, the paper discusses what the playwright himself calls the Aminian theme, that is, African leaders’ obsession with power, a seductive drive that breeds moral corruption, dictatorship, delusions, economic distortions and ruination, megalomania, perversion and desecration of all that is good in African traditions, and the evaporation of all the dreams of greatness, of nationalism, liberation from colonial thraldom, disease, ignorance and poverty, and of pan-Africanism nursed in the heady days of Independence celebrations. The four despots caricatured in the play are Field-Marshal Kamini (late Idi Amin, deposed president of Uganda), Emperor Kasco (Jean-Bedel Bokassa, former Emperor of the Central African Republic), Benefacio Gunema (late President Macias Nguema of Equatorial Guinea), and General Barra Tuboum (late President Mobutu Sese Seko of Zaire, now the Democratic Republic of Congo). They are in New York to attend the General Assembly of the United Nations. In response to the Secretary-General’s request for a work of art representative of each member nation’s culture, say, a miniaturized bust of the president, they sit for a life-size group sculpture on Kamini’s suggestion and in what appears to be a vivid demonstration of the old...
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...Financial distress has afflicted numerous local banks IN Cameroon, many of which have been closed down by the regulatory authorities or have been restructured under their supervision. In Cameroon banks such as the B.I.C.I.C. Meridian B.I.A.O. Cameroon Bank were closed Many more local banks were distressed and subject to some form of "holding action". Failed local banks accounted for as much as 23 per cent of total commercial bank assets in Cameroon. The cost of these bank failures is very difficult to estimate: much of the data is not in the public domain, while the eventual cost to depositors and/or taxpayers of most of the bank failures which occurred between the 1988 to 2004 period will depend upon how much of the failed banks' assets are eventually recovered by the liquidators. The costs are almost certain to be substantial. Most of these bank failures were caused by unprofitable loans. Areas affecting more than half the loan portfolio were typical of the failed banks. Many of the bad debts were attributable to moral hazard: the adverse incentives on bank owners to adopt imprudent lending strategies, in particular insider lending and lending at high interest rates to borrowers in the most risky segments of the credit markets. Insider lending The single biggest contributor to the bad loans of many of the failed local banks was insider lending. In at least half of the bank failures referred to above, insider loans accounted for a substantial proportion...
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...and Development: 21st Century Issues Instructor: Prof. Dr. Gustavo Olivares Abstract: Cameroon was one of the few privileged countries to join the World Trade Organization (WTO) in 1995 as a founding member while establishing a Common External Tariff (CET) to enhance intraregional trade under the CEMAC economic bloc. This accession came at a time when Cameroon was implementing drastic structural reforms to handle the scourge of the great economic depression of the 1990s that spread as wildfire across most African countries. In struggling to advance the IMF-World Bank proposed structural reforms of economic liberalization and privatization, WTO was seen as an appropriate panacea for the devastated economic situation by providing a multilateral trading system where Cameroon could gain greater market access for its products and attract foreign direct investment. This paper analyzes the trade and development policies that Cameroon has adopted within the framework of the WTO and other economic partnership agreements in addressing the developmental and economic problems facing Cameroon. The study explores Cameroon’s past and ongoing negotiations geared towards the objectives for an open trade regime. The study concludes that despite the loopholes in WTO that disfavor less developed countries; and the slow pace of Cameroon to implement and notify most of WTO’s trade policy measures, Cameroon stands to benefit much for this trade regulatory institution if it improves and increases...
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...immigrants come in search for a better life. Racheal Ngang is immigrant from Cameroon, Africa. Racheal was only twenty –three years old when she left her country to come to the United States in 1996. Her goal in coming to the United States was to obtain a better life for herself. Coming to the United States was hard for her because she would be the first of her family to come to immigrate to another country. The author of this paper interviewed Racheal Ngang, a first generation immigrant from Cameroon, Africa. First, this paper will discuss Racheal Ngang’s country of origin. Including details about what his country is like and also including demographic information. Second, this paper will discuss Racheal Ngang’s...
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...ExxonMobil and the Chad/Cameroon Pipeline A CEO of any multi-million dollar company is always left with ethical dilemmas that affect their profession. Most of these ethical dilemmas always center on employees, personal beliefs and environmental issues. In this case CEO Lee Raymond of ExxonMobil, was faced with the decision of building a pipeline in Chad and Cameroon. Until a Certain point in time, the pipeline was a shared interest among Shell and TotalFinaElf. However both the companies have backed from the project, due to future economical issues. Although on paper it seems that both companies were doing the best for the environment, but it was an environmental risk that these companies were facing. If such environmental risk was to take place the company could face up to billions in lawsuits. The CEO Lee Raymond was faced with the decision of whether building the pipeline would be ethical or not. Other than environmental factors, there were many other issues standing in his way. For example the lively hood of the people in Chad and Cameroon will be affected, as well as the indigenous people of Cameroon. Nearly 64 villages and their citizens will be affected by the construction of the pipeline. However the biggest dilemma that Lee Raymond faces is that if not ExxonMobil, than another company will continue with the project. There are many ethical issues surrounding the construction of the pipeline, such as corrupt politicians, the environment and the people. Developing...
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...I live in England, but we moved to Dubai because my family wanted to live together. Since my Dad's always the priority – we moved to Dubai. It was all great. Apparently, the school we went to was crap – which it was. So one my parents be like, "We've been thinking about moving to Cameroon. Thoughts?" And it seemed okay. Until we found out that it wouldn't take 3 months to build the house. It would take 6-9 months. It's even harder now. My Dad needed a job, so he went to England – with my sister, who's education was practically ruined due to Dubai and Cameroon. I remember my Mother saying time and time again, that she didn't want to stay here whilst my Dad went to England for a long time, whilst we stayed here. Well look where we are now?...
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...grad.illinois.edu/sites/default/files/pdfs/samplethesispages.pdf https://www.jou.ufl.edu/grad/forms/Guidelines-for-writing-thesis-or-dissertation.pdf http://www.gutenberg.org/files/30107/30107-pdf.pdf http://www.businessmonitor.com/cameroon http://www.ccdhr.org/policy-papers/The-Political-Economy-of-Sustainable-Development-in-Cameroon.pdf http://www.afdb.org/fileadmin/uploads/afdb/Documents/Project-and-Operations/CAMEROON_2010-2014%20COUNTRY%20STRATEGY%20PAPER.pdf https://www.devex.com/projects/tenders/political-economy-analysis-of-the-mining-sector-in-cameroon/60479 GENERAL DELEGATION TO THE NATIONAL SECURITY AND MINISTRY OF TOURISM http://www.delphicominternational.com/IMG/pdf/PRESENTATION_DU_CAMEROUN.pdf http://epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu/statistics_explained/index.php/R_%26_D_expenditure http://www.oecd.org/eco/growth/1958639.pdf http://www.vinnova.se/upload/epistorepdf/vr-08-19.pdf http://saharareporters.com/article/why-do-africannigerian-kleptocrats-steal-money-they-don%E2%80%99t-need-use-see-reach-or-ever-access http://www.forbes.com/sites/kerryadolan/2013/08/14/how-isabel-dos-santos-took-the-short-route-to-become-africas-richest-woman/ http://www.portail-ie.fr/lexiques/read/30 http://data.worldbank.org/country/cameroon http://knoema.fr/atlas/Cameroun/topics/Recherche-et-d%C3%A9veloppement/D%C3%A9penses-de-R-et-D/Exportation-de-haute-technologie http://lentreprise.lexpress.fr/rh-management/remuneration-salaire/smic-son-augmentation-au-1er-janvier-2013-publiee-au-journal-officiel_1520571...
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...study attempts to explain growth in household real food consumption expenditure in Cameroon between 2001 and 2007. Specifically, the paper assesses the relative importance of household real total expenditure in explaining household real food consumption expenditure; evaluates the direction of change of the marginal propensity to consume between the two periods and investigates the role of access to endowments and returns to endowments in explaining growth in household real food consumption spending. To achieve these objectives, use is made of a micro-econometric analysis of household real food consumption functions, a Shapley-Oaxaca-Blinder decomposition of growth in household consumption spending and the 2001 and 2007 Cameroon household consumption surveys. Results show that the marginal propensity to consume declined significantly between 2001 and 2007; real total spending predominantly explains real food consumption spending and its growth; and returns to endowments overwhelmingly account for the negative growth in real food consumption spending. These results show that well-being marginally improved between 2001 and 2007. These findings have implications for household income earning opportunities, adult education, rural development and issues related to food insecurity in Cameroon. Keywords: Food consumption expenditure, Shapley- Oaxaca-Blinder decomposition, marginal propensity to consume, Cameroon. I. Introduction The proportion of food consumption expenditure in total household...
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