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A Video Clip of Buea

Buea (A 10 minute video clip)
Directed by Isaac Menyoli
Produced by Samuel Sielen
Edited by Samuel Sielen for AE3 Architects
Raw footage from Dorst Dedia Works and Home Box Video

Starting with over 8 hours of raw footage this sub-10 minute clip was assembled by selecting a variety of shots to create an immersing visual exploration of the market in the town of Buea in Cameroon, Africa. Video shot by Dorst Media Works.

The Early Times in Victoria (Limbe)

By Joe Burnley (Originally published on the Hard Times Blog)

The city of Victoria was the solution to the vexing problem of Spanish harassment at Fernando Po. The Baptist missionaries who resided in this small island using it as a hub for their work there, and in the Cameroons, had finally lost patience with the Spanish authorities. The British had used Clarence as a base for their naval squadron from where their man o' wars patrolled the gulf of Guinea to disrupt the trade in human slavery, which had been abolished in England, but was still the main trade in that area at that time. They tried to encourage the more legitimate trade in palm oil. This occupation led to the creation of a Creole society at Fernando Po.

A Bird's Eyeview of Buea in 1970

Courade Georges, Magouët T.P. "The Urban development of Buea : An essay in social geography". In La croissance urbaine en Afrique Noire et à Madagascar. Yaoundé : ORSTOM, 1972, 27 p.

I. NATURE, HISTORY AND PEOPLE IN THE FORMATION OF THE TOWN

BUEA is a small town of 11,000 inhabitants situated at 55 kms (35mls) from DOUALA, 2Okms (12 mls) from VICTORIA as the crow flies, spreading at an altitude of between 800 ms (2,600 ft) and 1,100 ms (3,600 ft) on the slopes of the Cameroon Mountain.

(c) Isaac Menyoli

At present the capital of the Federated State of WEST CAMEROON, it attracted the Europeans very early owing to its temperate climate and the absence of malaria, this town being at a latitude of 4'09' North.

The Two Bueas: Buea North (Then) Buea South (Now)

By Canute Tangwa

I spent the long 20th May weekend in Buea. It was both exciting and chilling. Exciting because every time I visit Buea, the town and land of my birth, I go down memory lane. I always look forward to meeting good old friends; savour the warmth and hospitality of the indigenous people (the Bakweri); think about or visit the prestigious schools we attended, popular joints (Holiday Inn, Cybel, Olivia, Mobutu) where we used to sit and crack jokes over bottles of beer;