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  Buea - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Buea is the capital of the Southwest Province of Cameroon.
It lies on the eastern slopes of Mount Cameroon and was the colonial capital city of the German Kamerun from 1901 to 1909, then of the Southern Province of British Cameroons (1949-1961).
Notable Buea citizens include Mola Njoh Litumbe, Professor Boniface Nasah, and Professor Tanyi Mbuagbaw, who was the director of the Advanced School of Translation and Interpreters, and Dr. Dorothy Njeuma, who was the first vice-chancellor of the University when it started in 1993.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Buea   (291 words)

  
 About Buea   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Buea is the political capital of the South West Province.
Buea used to be the capital of the then Southern Cameroon, when Cameroon was made up of two independent states: La Republic du Cameroon (under French control) and Southern Cameroon (under British control).
Buea is famous for the Mount Cameroon, the highest in Central Africa.
www.cameroonchurches.org /bcc/buea.htm   (271 words)

  
 Buea Metropolitan Library Home Page
It is situated in Molyko — Buea, opposite the Buea University Junction.
The objective of the establishment is first to stimulate the reading culture amongst the inhabitants of the 25 000 heads-sized town of Buea, and to continue nourishing this generated desire through the constant supply of books at affordable prices.
With a sitting capacity of 120, and bearing in mind that the non-student population that uses the library is of important magnitude, this problem is a stifling one.
www.buealibrary.net /index.htm   (932 words)

  
 New Catholic Dictionary: diocese of Buea, Cameroon   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Prefecture Apostolic of Buea, Cameroon, west Africa; established, 12 June 1923; entrusted to the Foreign Missionaries of Saint Joseph of Mill Hill.
Elevated to the Vicariate Apostolic of Buea on 15 March 1939.
Elevated to the Diocese of Buea on 14 July 1950.
www.catholic-forum.com /saints/ncd01489.htm   (43 words)

  
 Buea - Wikipedia
Dieser Artikel behandelt die Stadt Buea in Kamerun.
Buea ist eine Stadt im Westen Kameruns, nahe des Kamerunbergs im Bezirk Fako der Provinz Sud-Ouest, deren Provinzhauptstadt sie ist.
Die Universität Buea ist die einzige anglophone Universität Kameruns.
de.wikipedia.org /wiki/Buea   (214 words)

  
 Buea News
The Holy Father, Pope Benedict XVI on 30 November accepted the renunciation of the pastoral government of the diocese of Buea, presented by Bishop Pius Suh Awa, in conformity with the Code of Canon Law al can.
Students in the University of Buea, the administrative centre of the southwestern province, in Cameroon, have since Monday been holding demonstrations both on campus and in the streets of Molyko against alleged...
Marooned workers of the Tole Tea Plantation near Buea in the early hours of Wednesday, July 26, besieged the head office of the Cameroon Development Corporation, CDC, in Bota Limbe.
www.topix.net /cm/buea   (531 words)

  
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The University of Buea has rented a house for us near campus and is in the process of furnishing it.
Wishing to avoid more commutes to Buea, I reached an agreement with him that Janice and I would come to UB next Saturday or Sunday with all of the stuff we brought to Cameroon, that a guard at the gate to the campus would take us to Mr.
Well, Buea is reputed to be cold, and last night we had to throw sleeping bags over us in the middle of night to stay warm).
www.lehigh.edu /~ejk0/a11-18.txt   (8988 words)

  
 Buea   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Buea (pronounced as boya or bwaya) is only half an hour from the coast, but it's a lot cooler because of its high location on the foot of Mount Cameroon.
After the western part of the country became independent in 1960, Buea became the capital of Western Cameroon.
Buea is the best place to stay if you want to climb Mount Cameroon.
gheos.com /i/atlas/place.php?Buea   (120 words)

  
 IROW News January 1998
At Buea, for example, faculty have linked Women's Studies to the development process in Africa, view Women's Studies as a way to recover what Africans lost in colonialism, and connect Women's Studies to specific employment objectives for students.
Buea faculty identified as one of their primary objectives a project to counteract the resistance in primary schools to Women's Studies education.
Anyone interested in working on grant-writing for adapting the University of Buea's African model of "teaching the mothers" to a project through the University at Albany, or of engaging in further dialogue concerning the potential of this model, please contact me: mpryse@cnsvax.albany.edu or 518-442-4070.
www.albany.edu /irow/jan1998/inpryse.html   (699 words)

  
 The Post Online (Cameroon): Buea CPDM Still Sneezing   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
The MP and a clutch of CPDM stalwarts reportedly accused Charles Mbella Moki, Mayor of Buea Council, of inciting the rebellion and inviting the press to give it the widest publicity.
Buea Mayor, The Post learnt, came under scathing criticisms from the party's hierarchy.
There is now relative peace in Buea as Musonge is said to have used his tact and wisdom to call for peace.
www.postnewsline.com /2006/08/buea_cpdm_still.html   (4914 words)

  
 Baha'i World News Service - Local Baha'is in Cameroon organize interfaith discussion for UN Day
BUEA, Cameroon, 25 November 2002 (BWNS) -- In commemoration of United Nations Day, the local Baha'i community in Buea organized an interfaith discussion on world peace on 24 October 2002.
The Reverend Father Alosius Ituka Ndifor, secretary to the Bishop of the Catholic Diocese of Buea, said that peace begins from God, because God is peace and this can transcend all of mankind if people open their hearts.
Auztaz Mohammed Aboubakar, the Muslim Imam of Buea, suggested that there are seven qualities which should prevail in a society for there to be peace: brotherhood, freedom, faith, morality, equality, piety, and righteousness.
news.bahai.org /story/178   (503 words)

  
 Government High School Buea   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Government High School Buea is a teaching/learning environmentwith a co-educationalfocus,accepying both boys and girls from all over the Republic of Cameroon and from the rest of the world.
Government High School Buea was created in 1987 as Government Secondary School (G.S.S) Buea.The school opened its doors to two hundred and eleven (211) students on 15th September 1987 in the classrooms of Government Primary school Likoko Membea with Mr.
G.H.S Buea is located in the municipality of Buea in the Fako Division of the South West Province of Cameroon.it is situated in Bokwango village with Mount Cameroon as the outstanding Geograpphical feature of it neighbors.
ghsbuea.net   (165 words)

  
 Sister Cities International   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Buea is a historical, educational, and touristic city.
Buea is a mountainous town located 13,370 ft (4,100m) above sea level.
Buea is the former capital of German-administered West Africa, former capital of the British-administered Cameroons, and currently the capital of the South-West Province of Cameroon.
www.sister-cities.org /icrc/cityseek/list/display?recID=48175   (192 words)

  
 Archival Reports -- The National Archives of Cameroon
To work in Buea it is necessary to have the written permission of the Yaoundé Director of Archives.
These are all to be found in Buea: they cover the period beginning with the earliest British administration in 1914.
Files for the Buea Residency (covering both the Bamenda and the southern regions of former West Cameroon) are well catalogued.
www.africa-research.org /templates/text/austen74.htm   (1276 words)

  
 The Post Online (Cameroon)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
In spite of the death of two students caused by police bullets during the recent strike at the University of Buea, and a sombre atmosphere looming over the campus and the neighbourhoods, Higher Education Minister Jacques Fame Ndongo says all is well at the University.
In recent weeks, the University of Buea experienced an explosion of tempers, intrigues, egocentrism, a protracted power struggle and a bloody coup in which the venerated Vice Chancellor of the University was ousted.
The University of Buea crisis was used as an occasion to ridicule the Anglo-Saxon University system through its Vice Chancellor, Professor Cornelius Lambi.
www.postnewsline.com   (2749 words)

  
 Council signs BUEA resolution: HeraldTimesOnline.com
The Bedford City Council passed a resolution authorizing the BUEA to submit its renewal application to the State Enterprise Zone Board and the Indiana Department of Commerce.
The BUEA was established for 10 years in 1993.
A second resolution was passed approving the BUEA’s plans to repair a city sidewalk.
www.heraldtimesonline.com /stories/2002/08/14/TM.new.35601.sto   (723 words)

  
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The seeming dormancy of the SDF in Buea does not portend well for a party that is preparing for the Municipal and Parliamentary elections.
Against a backdrop of speculations and activities by "a supposed SDF leader," Ben Muna, the Buea SDF Electoral District Chairman, Barrister Eta Bessong Junior contends that they are still vibrant and will take over Buea in the upcoming elections in 2007.
Eta Bessong argues that the people of Buea have had to compare the council under the SDF and the CPDM.
www.icicemac.com /nouvelle/index.php3?nid=7390   (847 words)

  
 Luxury Cameroon Apartments Bargain Buea Mountain Hotels Vacation Holiday Accommodation
From here Buea Mountain is a stones throw away.
The lovely beaches and botanical gardens in Limbe are only 25 km away, and Douala, the economic capital of Cameroon is 45 km from Buea.
We offer accommodation from a choice of two one bedroom apartments and two three bedroom apartments on the first and second floor of the building.
www.fotabehouse.com   (158 words)

  
 BUEA Team
JJ Harris accepted the position of Executive Director of the Bedford Urban Enterprise Association (BUEA) in February of 1995.
Prior to Jamie's tenure with BUEA, he held the position of Bailiff with the Lawrence Circuit Court in Bedford, Indiana, for 4 years.
Penny is utilizing her creativity to expand the Mums the Word project.
www.bedfordenterprise.com /team.html   (343 words)

  
 Continued growth for Church in Cameroon
Buea is the capital city of Cameroon’s southwest province.
Harrington also pointed to the signs of life in the Buea Diocese, including the ordination of parishioner Felix Nkafu as a deacon and the recent appointment of a Buea priest, Fr.
Furthermore, he said, two other Buea priests were ordained bishops, including Archbishop Cornelius Fontem Esua of the Archdiocese of Bamenda and Bishop Peter Teke Lysinge of the Diocese of Mamfe.
www.catholicnewsagency.com /new.php?n=7187   (372 words)

  
 CAMEROON-INFO.NET :: Minlo Medjo Seals Buea Identification Centre
Speaking to The Post in his office in Buea, Wednesday, July 28,the Commissioner of Police of Buea, Boubakary Tahirou, admitted that the computerised identification card centre was actually sealed by the Delegate General for National Security, but would not disclose the reasons.
According to Charles Luma, a trader in Buea market, the decision to suspend activities at the identification centre is welcomed, “...
A source within the Fako Administration revealed that Minlo’s visit was connected to the shooting of a Buea based taximan, Felix Nyong Nkwelle, a week ago in Mile For, Limbe, by a Police Inspector, Joseph Beinim, of the Limbe Public Security.
www.cameroon-info.net /cmi_show_news.php?id=14950   (943 words)

  
 FYI Online - Mannheim Campus Library Lives on in Cameroon’s University of Buea - April 2005 - UMUC
Books in the Mannheim Campus’s Poland Memorial Library are readied for shipment to the University of Buea in Cameroon, more than 3,000 miles away.
In Mannheim this year, the library only serves 59 residential students, but it will face a significant increase in demand in Cameroon, where the University of Buea, founded in 1977, serves more than 7,000 undergraduate and graduate students.
“We selected the University of Buea because it is a newer school with fewer resources and is located in one of the English-speaking provinces,” Price said.
www.umuc.edu /fyionline/april_05/fyionline1.html   (558 words)

  
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First, the curricula in mathematics and physics at the University of Buea are quite good by American standards.
When I arrived at the University of Buea I quickly realied how lucky I was to be teaching mathematics rather than computer science.
Based primarily on the initiative of students from the University of Buea and secondarily on my ability to facilitate the process, we now have a substantial chapter of the University of Buea Alumni Association here at Lehigh.
www.cse.lehigh.edu /~edk/cam2003/prolog   (973 words)

  
 The Post Online (Cameroon): Journalists Get Dose Of Police Brutality In Buea
The reporters, who were detained by 1pm, were only freed by 5pm, after the Mayor of the Buea Municipality, Charles Mbella Moki, intervened and pleaded for their release.
To him, the problem at the University of Buea was never caused by journalists, yet these journalists had a bounden duty to record the events for posterity and should in no way be prevented from doing so by lawless men in uniform.
He said he has since been expecting police hierarchy in Buea to unconditionally apologise for the brutalisation by cops of a journalist to near death, as well as arresting and humiliating others.
www.postnewsline.com /2006/12/journalists_get.html   (1490 words)

  
 Mount Cameroon
Although it is so close to the sea it can rarely be seen from the coast as clouds gather round its lower slopes and Debuncha at its southwest corner is reputed to be the second wettest place in the world.
The climb is usually started from Buea at around 1000m where the compulsory guide and the very necessary porters can be obtained from the Mount Cameroon Ecotourism Organisation Office.
There is only a wooden bench to sleep on but our noble porters had carried up air beds and warm sleeping bags so we had a comfortable night but we didn't sleep much, as is usual after such an abrupt change of altitude.
web.ukonline.co.uk /mountains/cam.htm   (1538 words)

  
 Cameroon spor au Cameroun - sportaucameroun.info - Actualite sportive camerounaise. Handball Season launched in the ...
The Handball season in the South West Province has been launched in Buea, the provincial head quarters.This occasion assembled teams from the South West and Littoral Provinces in the male and female categories and even saw the participation of secondary school teams from the host province.
At least 9 Handball clubs in both categories took part in this launch of the season.These teams include the University of Buea Handball club and the Survey school Handball club from Buea.
From out of Buea, the clubs that participated include,the Kumba Handball club, Lower Makombe Handball club,the Sahel Handball club from Douala and the Limbe veteran Handball club.
www.sportaucameroun.info /hand_sw0406.html   (340 words)

  
 Bloomington Tech Park, Incubator Attract Businesses And Funding - Newsroom - Inside INdiana Business with Gerry Dick
Support from the City and the BUEA will provide new operating support and will result in the addition of 3,500 square feet of usable space for the incubator.
The BUEA is a not-for-profit corporation governed by an 11-member board comprised of enterprise residents and business owners, as well as state and local officials.
Businesses that receive enterprise zone tax incentives must remit part of the savings from the incentives to the BUEA so that the association may invest the funds to improve the economic, physical and social environment for zone residents.
www.insideindianabusiness.com /newsitem.asp?ID=19961   (1048 words)

  
 Church News & Events   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
This took place on Sunday November 14, 2004 in Bonduma, Buea.
The consecration was done by Apostle Takwan, Apostle Alex, and Dr. Dieudonne.
The Church plant (Buea community Church) took place on Sunday November 14, 2004 following the over two weeks of evangelistic outreach in the area.
www.cameroonchurches.org /bcc/newsevents.htm   (425 words)

  
 Bate Besong
The literary critic, poet and playwright, Dr Bate Besong, BB, praised the author for “constructing an intellectual arsenal for the liberation of the country and the decolonization of the mind”.
The sort of politicized tribalism that you practised during your long and ruinous stay on the Buea Campus (1988 – 2005) remains the greatest threat to national peace and stability.
I was a member of a group of senior academic staff of the University of Buea, designated, by the four-man delegation led by former Minister of Higher Education, H.E David Abouem a Tchoyi, to inspect and evaluate the situation in the University of Buea students’ uprising.
www.batebesong.com   (4145 words)

  
 What future for the Youth at the dawn of the 21st century?
The milleniun conference that shall hold in the town of Buea south west Province Cameroon organised sby Cameroon youth Confederation shall embark on the crucial problems plaguing the youths especially in the career development.
The speakers draawn from all works of life shall drill participants on how to activate the creative spirit as the only asset to alleviate poverty in their environment.
All youths of any works of life are invited to attend the conference.
www.allconferences.com /conferences/20020925070455   (135 words)

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