· November, 2007

Stories about Cameroon from November, 2007

Cameroon: Bate Besong's Beasts of No Nation

  20 November 2007

A study of Beasts of No Nation, a work by Cameroonian playwright: “Bate Besong is one of the most renown Cameroonian playwright of English expression, besides Bole Butake, Victor Epie Ngome and John Nkemngong, who is of the younger generation of Cameroonian playwrights in English.”

Acoustic Debit Card for Africa

  13 November 2007

Olivier Gabirault writes [Fr] about Maâtcard, an acoustic, prepayed debit card for developing countries which will debut in Cameroon next April. The Maâtcard functions like a normal credit card, but also emits a unique, unfalsifiable sound, enabling users to securely make payments, buy air time, or transfer funds by telephone.

Cameroon: 25 years of presidency

  12 November 2007

Dibussi Tande analyses 25 years of the Cameroonian's President, Paul Biya: ” When Paul Biya became president on November 6, 1982, he seemed determined to break away from, and put an end to the clientelist policies of the Ahidjo era….”