Origin Of ‘Cameroon’ 🇨🇲😳
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SUBSCRIBE for insight on society, entertainment, politics and philosophy from an African perspective. Cameroon (English: Cameroon,/ˌkæməˈruːn/ (listen), French: Cameroun, Duala: Kamerun, Ewondo: Kamərún, Fula: Kamerun, Fe'fe': Kamerun), officially the Republic of Cameroon (French: République du Cameroun), is a country in west-central Africa. It is bordered by Nigeria to the west and north; Chad to the northeast; the Central African Republic to the east; and Equatorial Guinea, Gabon and the Republic of the Congo to the south. Its coastline lies on the Bight of Biafra, part of the Gulf of Guinea and the Atlantic Ocean. Due to its strategic position at the crossroads between West Africa and Central Africa, it has been categorized as being in both camps. Its nearly 27 million people speak 250 native languages.
Early inhabitants of the territory included the Sao civilisation around Lake Chad, and the Baka hunter-gatherers in the southeastern rainforest. Portuguese explorers reached the coast in the 15th century and named the area Rio dos Camarões (Shrimp River), which became Cameroon in English. Fulani soldiers founded the Adamawa Emirate in the north in the 19th century, and various ethnic groups of the west and northwest established powerful chiefdoms and fondoms. Cameroon became a German colony in 1884 known as Kamerun. After World War I, it was divided between France and the United Kingdom as League of Nations mandates. The Union des Populations du Cameroun (UPC) political party advocated independence, but was outlawed by France in the 1950s, leading to the national liberation insurgency fought between French and UPC militant forces until early 1971. In 1960, the French-administered part of Cameroon became independent, as the Republic of Cameroun, under President Ahmadou Ahidjo. The southern part of British Cameroons federated with it in 1961 to form the Federal Republic of Cameroon. The federation was abandoned in 1972. The country was renamed the United Republic of Cameroon in 1972 and back to the Republic of Cameroon in 1984 by a presidential decree by president Paul Biya. Paul Biya, the incumbent president, has led the country since 1982 following Ahidjo's resignation; he previously held office as prime minister from 1975 on. Cameroon is governed as a Unitary Presidential Republic.
The official languages of Cameroon are French and English, the official languages of former French Cameroons and British Cameroons. Its religious population is predominantly Christian, with a significant minority practicing Islam, and others following traditional faiths. It has experienced tensions from the English-speaking territories, where politicians have advocated for greater decentralisation and even complete separation or independence (as in the Southern Cameroons National Council). In 2017, tensions over the creation of an Ambazonian state in the English-speaking territories escalated into open warfare.
Large numbers of Cameroonians live as subsistence farmers. The country is often referred to as "Africa in miniature" for its geological, linguistic and cultural diversity.[13][10] Its natural features include beaches, deserts, mountains, rainforests, and savannas. Its highest point, at almost 4,100 metres (13,500 ft), is Mount Cameroon in the Southwest Region. Its most populous cities are Douala on the Wouri River, its economic capital and main seaport; Yaoundé, its political capital; and Garoua. Limbe in the Southwest has a natural seaport. Cameroon is well known for its native music styles, particularly Makossa, Njang and Bikutsi, and for its successful national football team. It is a member state of the African Union, the United Nations, the Organisation Internationale de la Francophonie (OIF), the Commonwealth of Nations, Non-Aligned Movement and the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation. - Zábava
Africa must wake up
Africa should change that name also. Was given by the British
They r busy praying to various European gods
Africa is a British name. Change it
Lake Victoria is Great example also
I'm telling you
It needs to be returned to lake Ukerewe
Angola has been doing that ever since its independence from Portugal. The provinces returned to names that have origin in indigenous languages, and the name of the streets/roads have changed to Pan-African and national entities, etc.
And the word "Africa" as well.
@@mizzmini45ukerewe is from which tribe
Nigeria should do the same and change its name
Ok, ask Europe to give y'all a new name
Nigeria is not really a bad name if you understood the true historical meaning of the word "Niger" which the West later bastardized because of Bigotry.
Niger pronounced [neeg'-er] according to G3526 (Strong) concordance means a Black Christian. Also take note in
KJV (Acts 13:1)
Now there were in the church that was at Antioch certain prophets and teachers; as Barnabas, and Simeon that was called NIGER, and Lucius of Cyrene, and Manaen, which had been brought up with Herod the tetrarch, and Saul.
Take note* The first Christians were black because it was in Africa before it got to Europe.
Also take note of the word Sudan [black] Savannah in sud_sahara Africa "Belad Al_Sudan" in Arabic means land of the blacks.
In antiquity it was more properly spelt & called "So_Udan",
Udan spelt (Yudan) means "The Jews" in the Afro_assiatic languge when translated.
If you research most of the tribes and cultures in Sub_sahara Africa🌍 they give you a written and oral tradition they all migrated from North_East Africa, aka Palestine or the larger Middle_east.
@@snackdaddy1331We dont need Europe
@@alexkorami6679 What is wrong with 'black'? It is an exact description off the place. Everyone in it was black!!
I'm African and this just pisses me off. It's the audacity for me! Who are you to name anything in African $#%&. The people must change this name
Yes sis did you hear that us black South Africans have Cameroon and Congolese and western bantu ancestry in high percentages a lady did her ancestry dna test it’s on CZcams and she got South eastern bantu then Cameroon Congo and western bantu and east east Africa Kenya it’s amazing I love shrimp so I’m happy lol
100% am in Jamaica, but I only identify myself as a African only, can't wait to come to Africa
Umm well I understand but this punks colonized and "discovered" the land , which didn't have a name at the time if I'm correct so I think it was fair play, and I don't see anything wrong with the name I'm Mexican American so I guess I have no say but it's pretty unique plus it's a ghost Shrimp not a typical red shrimp and shouldn't you be proud not annoyed with that river, cause saying you're ashamed of the name it's like saying your ashamed of the river isn't it, it's a significant river isn't it so why not take pride in it many countries and lands were named after significant things about that land
Round of applause 👏🏿. Your anger has restored the Cameroon to its new name. Idiot!
@@EGVentura85i am glad, you mentioned you are mexican, so you are forgiven for insinuating that the region had no name. If you want to know , ask the real indigens, not the Portuguese 😂. I am Nigerian and when you hear how that name came up you would laugh. There is nothing historical and worthy about it. We had our languages, our writing, our ways. But no the colonial masters conquered us, erase our history and handed us a new one.
So , No sir , no Cameroonian should take pride in being called a 🦐. It wasnt a self generated name by them, it was handed over to them by conquer.
PS however i do not see anything wrong with the name , just how it came. Shrimp is not a bad thing.
And just like Nigeria they have refuse to change their name, loving their chains. This is why Biafra refused to be called Nigeria and the colonizers are working very hard to drown that name and identity because they don't want Africa to know who they are, Biafra has been there before the British company Nigeria.
Thoroughly said Nwanne
I knew about Biafra and wondered how the name changed. But Cameroon, wow, shrimpians, sigh, that's just too wild to make up.
Nigeria was named after a British coloniser's mistress
They couldn't pronounce Kirinyaga and decided to call it Kenya
ALL those borders in Africa were placed by the european colonisers after destroying all the rich various kingdoms with great civilisations and systems our ancestors built.
That's why those concentration camps, Corporations known as countries must be abolished.
Going back indigenous ancestral roots is the only way to reclaim back everything Africa lost and be able to UNITE.
It will be harder to unite if the states are separated further. Not like it would have been easy to begin with considering the scattered tribes of Africa.
@@lapiswolf2780, If I were you, I would instead share easier options as that would be more productive, helpful and enable to bring UNITY.
Unless you want to remain stagnant, in the same position and leave things the way they're.
If you want something to happen, must be open for drastic change or be content and leave things the way they're.
So what say you??
Africa even before colonisation was never united.
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Great civilization xd LMAO
Portugal didn't discover a damn thing. People were already there for centuries.
No one said they did but colonization leads to renaming of countries and states simple as that people of Cameroon are pncerned enough I'm sure they could figure a way to change it
I agree they do need to change their name !
As a people we need to read and write more!
All of Africa need to havw a meeting change anything and everything named by Westerners. We also make sure we don't name our children after Westerners name because let me tell you identity means everything. All my 10 children have pure African names and thought them to do same for next generation
Especially the name Africa should be the first word to be changed.
Wales=Whale🐋 🏴
Turkey =Turkey bird🦃 😅🇹🇷
Cameroon =Shrimp 🦐
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It’s called Turkiye and has nothing to do with the bird
Excellent point
You missing the point. Almost every African countries and there are 54 of them have been created and named by colonisers.
Wales does not mean whales 🐋. It's was named by Germanic Anglo-Saxons invaders which means foreigners.
Cymru is the original name of Wales and it's still used by the Celtic people.
The word "whale" comes from the Old English hwæl, from Proto-Germanic *hwalaz, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kwal-o-, meaning "large sea fish".
Göktürk meaning celestial blue the origin of Turk.
Türkiye changed from Turkey recently. Old french called it Turquie why it was called Turkey. Not because of the bird turkey 🦃 (although you are right to say Türkiye imported birds to European and they just named them Turkey 🦃 ) Anyways - during the Ottoman Empire the Europe would call it Turkish empire ruled by the Turks.
But Cameroon is straight up Shrimp land
Jamaica is the English pronunciation for the Arawak word Xmayica which means the land of wood and water.
Yow i just thought about it and we no need fe change it lol😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅
Interesting! Thanks for the info I never knew that.
It’s very similar to How Hayti was the original Tainó name for so called “island of Hispañola” which comprises Haiti & DR.
Hayti means The land of Mountains
And also Jamaica in Ghanaian Akan language means.it seems we à stocked here(Jama yaka)these words might commonly be using by our ancestors slaves from Ghana 🇬🇭 to Jamaïcain when they realised that they were taking away from the mother land and stock on an island 🏝️
I am loving your clips!! I am getting a huge lesson in Africa and it is thanks to you. THANK YOU!
Cameron is in Central Africa and West Africa is consist of 16 countries 2 Portuguese, 5 English then rest French
Don't see a problem. The French named a town in Louisiana Baton Rouge, Red Stick? In Texas the Spanish named a town Amarillo, Yellow? Speaking of Texas, it means Freind.
OMGOODNESS, there is something about you. So articulate.
Sorry!! I would like to rectify one thing regarding the zone of location of Cameroon, if am not wrong of memory, Cameroon is situated in central Africa not in west Africa
Cameroon is in ECOWAS
As fellow Cameroonian, based iimn the US, i thought about this recently and realized what a terribly name for a country... Thank you for making this video ....Your content is captivating..
He says "Cameroon is a country in West Africa"...*Cameroonians have left the chat.*😂
Cameroon is officially located in west and central Africa. This is a google search away. It shares a border with nigeria. Thank you for watching!
It’s west Africa, culture and languages just west Africa
Tryst me..if you translate many english towns name..you will laugh non stop
The shrimps aka the cameroonians 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
No makecam a slap you. lol😅
Pay attention!!! I like that.
First we are not in west Africa, we are in central Africa. Now I I'm ready to listen to the rest of the story.
No central...u r in da West of Africa.
Most important than a name is the culture of the People. Most of the state borders in the world are set based in political intentions and military advantages. They don't take ppl into account. And this is for everyone, no particular country.
That's insane
😹😹😹😹 then I got to move there Cz I love shrimp to much
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Shrimpian! Bruh! 🤣🤣🤣☠️
I learned, my ancestry includes Cameroonian. Was excited to find that out. I have the flag all over my social media!😊❤
*Cameroon conquers more people*
"You shall bow to the great Shrimp Empire! 🦐"
I like your Video Shorts! SUBSCRIBED!
Wales /welsh / welch is nether an English or a Celtic word it comes from the Saxon walnut /foreign nut , the welch are in short called foreigner in their home land .
That's correct according to the portuguese history. Thank you brother ✊️
I'm African and I don't find this offensive at all! How else are names gonna be given if not by the strong traits of it's place?
I'm Spanish -Moroccan, and the original latin name given by the Romans was Hispania, wich literally means the land if rabbits, due the high number of this animal. Those afrocentrist are losing it...
You should consider the role of culture, languages, values, norms and behaviour, all these have an impact in society and God is present in these aspects.
Woooow please do all African countries brother, we need to know their original names as well if any was changed and why.
I love this channel ❤
Tell us how Mozambique or Mogadishu got their names .always loved how they sound 😅
loved the sheep joke :D made me laugh ;)
Whales is also a colonizer name meaning stranger or outsider i think. Their name is Crymru,. The people.
Very different indeed.
I'm in love with the narrator's voice and accent. Of course, I'll pay attention.
Thank you!
Great take 🎉
I'm portuguese and I'm not proud of it. I didn't know that.
Thank you for the lesson.
I don't know much in my humble skin. But speaking Portuguese and Latin languages helped me a lot in my research in many things. We never wanted that to happen but as an Angolan we were colonised by the Portuguese. Yes. Shrimp is Camarão. I Love Africa. Let's wake up.
Why didn't they change the name after independence lol we Zimbabweans did from Rhodesia to Dzimbabwe which means house of stone because of the ancient site in Masvingo Province called the Great Stone Enclosure
Ghana changed it's name a long time ago. The Ivorians merely changed their from English into French.
They should all follow Ghana's example.
Insightful
No place like home 🏡 lovely home 🏡 lovely brother's
Don’t say anything ohhhhhh my Cameroonian brothers will claim that aquaman is our cousin 😂😂😂😂😂😂
Wow! Is this why I love shrimp 🍤 We did a ancestry DNA 🧬 test and found out my mom is from Cameroon 🇨🇲 interesting 🤔
cameroun is not a West African country but central African. Although close to west African countries. its not as bad as Pakistan which is acronym of countries around it.
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You should watch " camorooians speak Tamil. Portugalish didn't had name for shirmp. That time river is called by it. They took from here. Then they name it to shirmp. Latin and Greek languages took thosands of root words from Tamil. Other European languages devolved from Latin Greek, Celt...
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Very surprised WOW.Derserve a new name ❤
Nothing to be ashamed of !
Having an OUTSIDE Wicked Entity who Invaded, Pillaged, Colonized, Enslaved, Indictranated and Profited off a nation of people for Centuries with NO End in site is something to be ashamed of.
Every indigenous African Country needs to immediately rename their Countries name to authentic indigenous African names. There's absolutely no need to hold on to your enslavers and colonizers traditions.
Africans are still paying France a Hefty Freedom Tax which is PURE EVIL! 😈☄️
Zimbabwe should also consider renaming their great river. The Victoria Falls is not an African name.
It's already called Mosi oa Tunya
😂😂😂😂😂 nah they took the piss with it
Also look at the meaning of 'Nigeria' watch the documentary: Journey of an African Colony - Definitely one that should be renamed 🙏🏿
Wonderful history. I love to hear about. African history !!! i love your work so much i have my. Children and grandchildren. wach you all the time !!
Goodness gracious 🙆🏿
237. 😂😂😂😂..
We can't change history bro.. I learnt this in my previous school and we was all mad..
The Portuguese didn’t discover anything 😅 they went around looting known places with rich history and rich spiritual energies.
Bubba and Forest Gump would love the Rio dos camarôes
Lmaooo
Wow teach bro teach ❤
what will it take to rename African countries to its original names?
Most African countries at one time didn't exist. These countries were created by European colonzers .
Revolution, mali and burkina faso changed their name after revolution
I would love for you to dig deep on who own Nigeria! There’s a well-known company called Unilever? Before they became Unilever, they own Nigeria? Or something to that nature! Care to expand on this? Thank you.
Cameroonians had no idea of anything outside their village when the Portugese came by. Africans who never invented an alphabet are lucky they were colonized
Yes, I heard. Happy now everybody can know this too!!!
There are two Cameroons. Southern Cameroons and French Cameroun . Both Countries got their independence separately.
French Cameroun through the influence France got her independence on the 1st of January 1960 . French Cameroun is situated in Central Africa.
Southern Cameroons was a trust territory that got her independence on the 1st of October 1961 according to resolution 1608 .
Southern Cameroons is situated in West Africa .
Two Cameroons no union treaty very divisible.
Southern Cameroons is still under colonial occupation from France through French Cameroun.
how dare other languages use their languages to describe things outside of them.
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Protect this man
That is very humiliating and dirty. since the shrimps have part of the excrement on their heads. it is not worthy for its population or any. they deserve respect
😅 for once I am ashamed to say where I am from. We know this but the way you put it gives it an achy punch
So Cameroon is really Nigeria, before it was carved up by invaders…
Well u can also say Congo because Congo is it’s neighbour in the south
Nice one
When you say that Portuguese colonisers discovered the Cameroon 🇨🇲then I take it that they were no one living there before it was just a empty piece of land. Then someone could just walk 🚶♂️into your house 🏠and say I discovered it and give it a name of my choosing.
Nigeria too and we should also change it
Shrimpian u so funny Merc😂
Africa must unite 🌄🎶🎶🎶📚 Berlin pac 1800s
Yes the colonizers over the years renamed many countries on the continent of akebutlan renamed Africa…
If Turkey can change its name, African countries can do the same.
Azores Islands were named after their blue shimmer on the horizon, Greenland, because the shores were green, the Netherlands are literally the Low lands, and the list goes on. Put aside the victim complex and if the good people of Cameroon don’t like the name they can change it, as Myanmar did. And the rest of the world won’t pay attention
A terrible insult.... the poor shrimps must be furious at being compared to Africans.
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We cN take this even to a higher level the Contintenant AFRICA is name after a European explorer that may need to be changed back to Asia.
I am Cameroonian and i am pissed the hell😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡 who gives them the right to name our country😢😢😢
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They have the right to want to change it. I am sure they had their own name before the colonizers graced them with their unwanted presence.
Central African Country.
We are not looking to change our name any time soon.
We are not annoyed by the name.
As strange as it may sound, colonisation, be ot positive or negative is part of our history.
Move on. Long live the planet 🇨🇲
Wow
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 they would invent a more flattering and sophisticated explanation of that name but this does make plenty of sense. ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
Interesting
Absolutely right on point.
I do speak Portuguese it's accurate this information.
Wow 🤩
I love shrimp 🍤 now
Crabs 🦀
Lobster 🦞
The sea food 🍱
It’s better
To be called shrimpians wow
Cambridge that Caribbean
Poi
Rio
Castes
Island 🏝 names
The mainland Food is always severs w shrimp 🍤
No bad habits Food 🍲
Interesting 🧐
Don't they all get names by a square and compass?
Bro, this is legitimately the story of ever country ever. German comes the latin name spearman, german are calling themself spearmans everyday. This is simply silly
Wait till people find out Africa was renamed after a Greek, scipius africanus.
I'd probably get a few things off the ground b4 I devoted all my attention to that first
Cameroon is not a West African country but a central African country.
Such brave and strong neighbours of ours being called tiny by the Portuguese. I don’t know how many of the strongest Portuguese people today that can survive a fight to the death against the 2nd strongest Cameroonians. It would be suicidal. That is what the power of the gun can give to a racist people in a racist past.
When the name was given it was given after the majesty of a River. There was no name for the territory before that (except of course that of tribal villages and Fondoms with distinct identities) As a country, We are fine with the name as it speaks of the majesty of our River Wouri.
And yes colonisation was part of our history, no need to erase it because we are embarrassed. There is mo need to conform to this anti wight movement.
@@B.Jeff116 Do you mean anti white as white for Caucasian? There is no anti white movement because they aren’t even white. They are just colour blind people because they are pink and pale skin people. I prefer to call them Caucasian or any other name they gave themselves but never white. There is no white coloured human being anywhere on the planet and I don’t care what they symbolised it with. They are not white and I am not black simple. You are a sheep and it’s okay. No one is asking you to confirm to anything. Stay in your cage even with the doors open. It’s fine too. But you don’t speak for majority of Africans who are exposed and wants freedom from these evil race from across the Mediterranean Sea who did terrible things to us and still do it today. Who do you think destabilises Cameroon and Nigeria? Who do you thinks benefits from our natural resources when they give us cheap weapons to kill ourselves? I can tell you for a fact that it’s the west and everything ends on the table of pink people had it always has been in the last 600 years and Africans are still kept poor and racist discriminated against. Many Cameroonians have not had any meaningful changes to their existence in 600 years. Our ancestors had names for all of these lands and bodies of water beneath it, the pink peoples you love so much die to your brainwashing changed them and ruined our existence. Good luck to your descendants when they are done ruining Africa because they will need it just to survive there without these movements for our absolute independence.
I guess people may find it insulting but this is no unique treatment. There are loads of places named after things within the country it’s self. No one is saying Cameroon can’t change its name.
I’m a Black American and this pisses me off!
We are suppose to be free. We are Africans and we shall fight for our freedom to be Africans!
Reform the security Council. Enough of the lies!!!!! Enough!!!😊😮