Cameroon
Facts and historical events related to Cameroon, drawn from the Provenance Africa archive and the On This Day collection.
- Former UFC and current PLF Heavyweight Champion Francis Ngannou enjoying local delicacies back in Cameroon.
- When former UFC (and current PLF) Heavyweight Champion Francis Ngannou returned to Cameroon with the UFC be…
- Highest-Paid African Presidents (as at 01/01/2025) 1. Paul Biya - Cameroon 🇨🇲 Monthly Salary: $51,748 Ann…
- Iconic Hollywood actress, Viola Davis donned this ankara prints designed by Cameroonian designer Claude Kam…
- Former Cameroonian International, Geremi Njitap (who also played for Chelsea and Real Madrid) had been livi…
- Issa Hayatou, the Cameroonian sports official who led the Confederation of African Football for 29 years an… (2024)
- By the way, in year 2022, the currency of these our African countries are still being printed by France: 🇧…
- Countries with the cheapest cost to purchase 1 Gigabyte of mobile data in Africa: Sudan 🇸🇩 - 27 cents (US…
- BREAKING: Cameroon's Francis Ngannou 🇨🇲 @francis_ngannou knocks out former champion Stipe Miocic to emerg…
- According to the UN-sponsored World Happiness Report 2021, here are the 10 happiest countries in Africa: 1.…
- IMPORTANT: Some African countries do not permit dual citizenship, while others do. A list of every African…
- Abram Petrovich Gannibal born in Logone-Birni, Cameroon, in 1696, kidnapped at 7, ending up in Russia. He w…
- African Powers Ranked by Military Strength: 1 Egypt🇪🇬 2 Algeria🇩🇿 3 SA🇿🇦 4 Nigeria🇳🇬 5 Ethiopia🇪🇹…
- Today in 1884, German Consul-general Gustav Nachtigal took possession of Cameroon. Here's how it happened.…
- UPDATE: 18 of Africa's 54 countries that have confirmed cases of coronavirus, with all 5 deaths occurring i…
- At least 22 people, including children, are killed in the Ngarbuh massacre in an attack on a village in Nor… (2020)
- Manu Dibango, Cameroonian saxophonist famed for 'Soul Makossa,' died of COVID-19. (2020)
- Latest FIFA Rankings—Top 20 African countries Senegal🇸🇳20th Tunisia🇹🇳29 Nigeria🇳🇬33 Algeria🇩🇿40th M…
- Yesterday was International Happiness Day, hence the UN released the 2019 World Happiness Report. The 10 mo…
- Cameroon's President Biya—in power since 1982—seeks another 7-year term till 2025. He's 85 years old. He ba…
- Over 200 African athletes/officials who attended the April Commonwealth Games in Australia, hid away and ar…
- Ahead of Cameroon's Presidential elections slated for October this year, President Paul Biya is contesting…
- The day Serena Williams wore the current African football Champions, Cameroon's outfit, in 2002 on her way…
- Today is National Day in Cameroon commemorating the abolishment of a federal government system for a unitar…
- Brenda Biya, daughter of President Paul Biya of Cameroon.
- The world's largest frog, 'The Goliath Frog' is only found in Cameroon, Gabon, and Equatorial Guinea.
- Patrick Ekeng, Cameroonian footballer, collapsed and died during a match in Romania, drawing global attenti… (2016)
- Erykah Badu's search for her African ancestry led her to the Bamileke area, in Cameroon.
- Combined years the presidents of: Zimbabwe, Equatorial Guinea, Cameroon, Uganda, Gambia, and Angola have st…
- Like Cameroon, President Guelleh is one of just 2 presidents free Djibouti has ever had. Been in power sinc…
- JFK in the 1960s pictured with; Emperor H. Selassie Ahidjo (Cameroon) Houphouet-Boigny (Ivory Coast) Touré…
- Cameroon's only rulers; Ahmadu Ahidjo (tricked by a French doctor to resign in 1982); Paul Biya (1982 till…
- Cameroon's ever gorgeous First Lady, Chantal Biya. Goodnight from the Motherland!
- ICYMI: Your President's annual salary. Cameroon's Biya earn × 2 more than Zuma, ×4 Kenyatta, ×8 Buhari, × 4…
- Over 70% of the world's cocoa is produced in: Ivory Coast (over 40% of production) Ghana Nigeria Cameroon.
- Michael Jackson borrowed the "mama-say mama-sa ma-ma-coo-sa" chant in “Wanna Be Startin' Somethin” from Cam…
- African nations with the highest number of lakes Uganda 69 - 10% (of total) Kenya 64 - 9.50% Cameroon 59 -…
- Cameroonian government forces killed 143 Boko Haram fighters while repelling an assault on the town of Kolo… (2015)
- In 2012/2013, Cameroon's Samuel Eto'o was the world's 2nd highest-earning sportsperson after Tiger Woods an…
- Cameroon became independent of France on the 1st of January 1960.