Bamenda

I buy my flour from the “white man” store in Bamenda, which is a little shop that sells imported European foods so there has been no need to sift.

August 7, 2008 Cameroon Kate 2008

I buy my flour from the “white man” store in Bamenda, which is a little shop that sells imported European foods so there has been no need to sift.

Archive 2008-08-01 Cameroon Kate 2008

The town I’ll be living in is about 30 minutes away from Bamenda, which is a rather large city boasting a population of 235,000.

Archive 2007-11-01 Cameroon Kate 2007

The town I’ll be living in is about 30 minutes away from Bamenda, which is a rather large city boasting a population of 235,000.

November 1 Cameroon Kate 2007

Our plan was to spend 4 – 5 days on the bikes and make a complete circle (thus, the title Ring road) on the road north of Bamenda.

Archive 2009-04-01 Kate Fleurange 2009

As we distanced ourselves from Bamenda, I also noticed the women increasingly adopted a traditional way of dress: more pagne, less pants, and heads covered.

Archive 2009-04-01 Kate Fleurange 2009

While Bamenda seemed bustling, cosmopolitan, and relatively westernized, in the rural Northwest near the border, I re-found a comfortable sign from home in the Extreme North: boubous (aka: the man-dress)!

Archive 2009-04-01 Kate Fleurange 2009

When we got into Misaje, we realized that the breaks on my bike were dying, and Shawn had a wobbly wheel, so we decided to just go for a hike and jump on a bus back to Bamenda instead of continuing the circuit.

Archive 2009-04-01 Kate Fleurange 2009

Biya recently met Fru Ndi in his mostly-anglophone stronghold of Bamenda.

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Their office in Abuja: 26 Bamenda Street, off abidjan street, Wuse Zone 3, Abuja.

When will the violence stop? 2008