Cameroon

Cameroon

Cameroon ranks 78th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Ghana, Indonesia, and North Macedonia. Memorable people born in present day Cameroon include Paul Biya, Roger Milla, and Abram Petrovich Gannibal. Memorable people who died in Cameroon include David Dacko, Ange-Félix Patassé, and Mongo Beti. Cameroon has been the birth place of many soccer players, and athletes and the death place of many soccer players, and politicians.

Cameroon, officially the Republic of Cameroon, is a country in Central Africa. It shares boundaries with 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. Cameroon's population of nearly 31 million people speak 250 native languages, in addition to the national tongues of English and French, or both. 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, 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. Read more on Wikipedia