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	Duala - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		the Duala language family, part of the Bantu languages;
		the Duala language, a specific language in that family;
		This is a disambiguation page, a list of pages that otherwise might share the same title.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Duala (112 words)

	(HIS,P) Atlas German Colonies, with Yearbook, edited by the German Colonial Society, 1918, The War in Kamerun
		Duala was protected against the seaside by blocking the Kamerun River, which was achieved by sinking several steamers there.
		Duala was blocked by enemy warships since the first days of September, but except minor attempts nothing was undertaken to force passage.
		On September 27th the undefended Duala surrendered, and an Anglo-French troop contingent was landed.
	www.zum.de /psm/imperialismus/kolonialatlas18/atlas7e.php (800 words)

	M/S Duala - Norwegian Merchant Fleet 1939-1945
		Duala was one of 26 Norwegian ships interned in West and North Africa - See this page for a list of all 26.
		She was a fruit carrier, but like so many of the other fruit carriers she transported meat during the war, as well as fish.
		The men on Duala were in the lucky position to have the company of several women working on board as messgirls (American).
	www.warsailors.com /singleships/duala.html (514 words)

	Journal of Third World Studies: Middlemen of the Cameroons Rivers: The Duala and Their Hinterland c. 1600 - c. 1960
		Early on, the Duala were determined to be middlemen between Europeans and the interior.
		The Duala faced British, French and German encroachments on their territory and economy, and until German colonial rule was firmly established, they handled Europeans quite successfully.
		The Duala prided their role as middlemen, but once the colonial state existed, they discovered the Germans increasingly bypassed them for the opportunities and peoples of the interior.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qa3821/is_200204/ai_n9022427 (640 words)

	African Arts: Commercial transactions and cultural interactions from the Delta to Douala and beyond
		For the Duala, the paddle historically served a socioeconomic purpose.
		In the Duala headdresses, the animal is an antelope, perhaps the African water chevrotain that was once common in the Delta and the Wouri estuary (Drewal 1986:39).
		The facial features of the Duala sculptures differ from those in the Ibibio and Ijo works, but the similarities in their articulation, gesture, and form, such as the stylized egg-shaped head, remain striking.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0438/is_1_35/ai_90331353/pg_2 (1376 words)

	Duala (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Douala or Duala is the largest city in Cameroon, and capital of the Littoral Province.
		It is the commercial capital of the country and home to its largest port.
		Duala (from Douala) is the language spoken around the city.
	www.worldhistory.com /wiki/D/Duala.htm (244 words)

	(HIS,P) Atlas German Colonies, with Yearbook, edited by the German Colonial Society, 1918, Kamerun
		Closer to the coast in the northwest and west down to the southern border the Bafut and Bali, Bamum, Bamilleke, Banjang, Bakundu, Ngolo, Bamboko, Bakwiri, Duala, Bassa, Bakoko and Mabea, further to the east the Mfang tribes of the Bule, Ntum, Mwei, Jaunde, Bane, Mwele.
		Approved and since 1908 under construction the Line Duala-Edea-Mvalmajo, on the Njong river (293 km); the construction has to deal with difficult terrain, and which, in 1914, was completed until Bidjoka, 153 km.
		The protectorate is divided in 28 districts : Duala, Victoria, Rio-del-Rey, Johann-Albrechtshöhe, Ossidinge, Dschang, Bare, Jabassi, Edea, Kribi, Muni, Ebolowa, Jaunde, Banjo, Dume, Lomie, Jukaduma, Unter-Ssanga, Bamenda, Wolo-Ntem, Jwindo, Mittel, Ssanga-Lobaje, Ober-Ssanga-Uham, Ober-Logone, Bamum, Ngaundere, Garua, Deutsche Tschadseelander (German Lake Chad areas, seat Mora).
	www.zum.de /psm/imperialismus/kolonialatlas18/atlas6e.php (1226 words)

	Sports News of Thursday, 8 July 1999
		It was late 1979, and all was set for the premier club in the country to be rewarded for braving all odds in their journey to that year's finale.
		It was the first of the '79 Championship between union Duala and Hearts of Oak.
		The setting was in Duala and the occaison was the second leg match of the finals.
	www.ghanaweb.com /GhanaHomePage/soccer/artikel.php?ID=7573 (1406 words)

	Duala -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Douala or Duala is the largest city in (A republic on the western coast of central Africa; was under French and British control until 1960) Cameroon, and capital of the Littoral Province.
		It is the commercial capital of the country and home to its largest (A place (seaport or airport) where people and merchandise can enter or leave a country) port.
		Douala Airport is the busiest in Cameroon, while (The road consisting of railroad track and roadbed) railway lines run to (The capital of Cameroon) Yaoundé, (Click link for more info and facts about Kumba) Kumba and Nkongsamba.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/D/Du/Duala.htm (214 words)

	Published by Liberia Analyst Corporation (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Duala Branch of the National Driver Union has pledged its support to the candidacy of Cllr.
		Speaking on behalf of the group, the Chairman, Joe S. Willie said the Duala Branch of the union would not stop demonstrating continuous support to Cllr.
		The Duala Branch of the Union also said that the former UN Diplomat could be the best man to help reconstruct the damaged roads in the country.
	www.analystnewspaper.com /driver_union_supports_cllr_tubman.htm (496 words)

	Duala language - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Duala (also known by the French spelling Douala) is the language spoken by the Duala.
		Johannes Ittmann, edited by E. Kähler-Meyer, Wörterbuch der Duala-Sprache, Dictionnaire de la langue duala, Dictionary of the Duala Language, Dietrich Reimer, Berlin, 1976.
		The preface evaluates 1 as terse, but good, while 2 has missing and erroneous tone marks.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Duala_language (96 words)

	African crossroads - review
		O’Niel describes how, by means of this new partnership, the latter kingdom gained the weapons, the training and the permission to raid the Moghamo at will for slaves and ‘labour recruits’ for the German plantations on the coast.
		Again, as with the Duala, the deep ad lasting impact which the Germans were to have on the area was represented and negotiated in terms of local political models of royal might, animality and the foreign-a model shared by the Bali-Nyonga and the Moghamo alike.
		It was this very model of power and hierarchy which-thanks to the arrival of the Germans-was called into question by the rebellions of the male cadets described by Warnier.
	lucy.ukc.ac.uk /dz/xroads/argenti.html (901 words)

	African Arts: Commercial transactions and cultural interactions from the Delta to Douala and beyond
		Losango reflected the nineteenth-century Duala social system, which was organized according to a person's status as freeborn, half-free, or slave.
		In 1884, Max Buchner, the curator of the Staatliches Museum fur Volkerkunde, Munich, witnessed a Duala Ekongolo society funeral and noted a masquerader wearing a carved wooden antelope mask with horns.
		Among the Duala today, however, Jengu is predominantly a male organization, and mixed-gender membership may be a relatively recent phenomenon.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0438/is_1_35/ai_90331353/pg_3 (1345 words)

	Glossary: Duala (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Duala acted as middlemen between Europeans and inland groups from the 17th century.
		They were expert canoeists, using their boats not only to fish but also to transport ivory, slaves and palm oil down river to European ships anchored off the coast.
		Their families were raised to positions of influence and helped change Duala society.
	www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk /nof/world/access/gl_duala.asp?anc=top (83 words)

	Duala - TheBestLinks.com - Douala, Atlantic Ocean, Bantu languages, Cameroon, ...
		Duala - TheBestLinks.com - Douala, Atlantic Ocean, Bantu languages, Cameroon,...
		Douala, Duala, Atlantic Ocean, Bantu languages, Cameroon, Duala language
		Douala is a city near the Atlantic coast in Cameroon.
	www.thebestlinks.com /Douala.html (108 words)

	Übersicht über die weltweite reformierte Kirche
		In 1472 the mouth of the river Wouri (Duala) was discovered by Portuguese navigators.
		Saker’s New Testament was published in Duala in 1862, and the Old Testament in 1872.
		In 1877 leading Duala chiefs wrote to Queen Victoria offering their territory to be protected by the British government.
	www.reformiert-online.net /weltweit/22_de.php (359 words)

	ReliefWeb » Document Preview » Liberian ex-rebel eyes presidency
		Duala was a stronghold for the rebels during their 2003 siege of the capital that eventually helped drive President Charles Taylor into exile.
		As on most days, their conversation turns to the money they say they are owed for handing in their weapons.
		And even in the LURD stronghold of Duala there are doubters.
	www.reliefweb.int /rw/RWB.NSF/db900SID/VBOL-6CWHC9?OpenDocument (664 words)

	Antelope or buffalo mask (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Duala people of Cameroon made the mask, sometime before 1908.
		It is quite typical of Duala masks, which are often colourful animal heads with horns.
		For centuries the Duala have lived in close cultural and economic contact with the ocean, estuaries and rivers of northern Cameroon.
	www.diduknow.info /world/africa_antelopemask.html (128 words)

	Duala language -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Duala (also known by the (The Romance language spoken in France and in countries colonized by France) French spelling Douala) is the (A systematic means of communicating by the use of sounds or conventional symbols) language spoken around the (Click link for more info and facts about Duala) Duala.
		The language belonges to the (Click link for more info and facts about Bantu language family) Bantu language family.
		Editions Klincksieck, (The capital and largest city of France; and international center of culture and commerce) Paris, 1972.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/d/du/duala_language.htm (174 words)

	Table of contents for Library of Congress control number 99206496 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		From fishermen to middlemen: the Duala inland and on the coast in the formative period, c.
		Hegemony without control: the Duala, Europeans and the littoral hinterland in the era of legitimate/free trade c.
		Middlemen as ethnic elite: the Duala under Grench mandate rule, 1914-1941 6.
	www.loc.gov /catdir/toc/cam022/99206496.html (144 words)

	CD Coco Mbassi - Sepia
		The words to the songs of her mother tongue, Duala, are often found combined with jazzy, minimalist and classical arrangements, where vocal polyphony and African rhythm continue to play an important role.
		Mundene was a narrator and he was very appreciated in the Duala society because through the stories he told, he told the people the truth about their behaviour (especially the bad behaviour) in their presence.
		The Duala people thought that it was always necessary to have a " truth teller " in a family or a tribe in order to keep heads clear.
	www.tropical-music.com /medium_detail/68819_e_cd.html (3218 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Kamerun (Cameroon)
		From the beginning the missionaries suffered much from malaria; in 1894, therefore, they opened the station of Engelberg in the Kamerun Mountains, at an altitude of nearly 1400 feet, both as a sanatorium and a missionary centre.
		In 1898 was opened the station of Duala (22,000), the capital of Kamerun, where, however, Protestant missionaries had preceded the Catholics (there are between seven and eight thousand native Protestants).
		The prefecture was raised to the rank of a vicariate Apostolic (21 Dec., 1904), and the first prefect Apostolic made first vicar Apostolic; he was consecrated titular Bishop of Parætonium on 22 January, 1905.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/08596a.htm (580 words)

	BBC Education - Languages
		Kevin Duala is a television reporter and presenter of the BBC's online course Spanish Steps.
		Kevin Duala: It is widely spoken, but if you speak more Spanish in Spain, you can find out where the better restaurants are, find out where the locals go, and you can get a more in-depth look at the culture of the place that you're visiting.
		Kevin Duala: Just practise all the time and don't be scared that you're gonna get it wrong.
	www.bbc.co.uk /education/languages/spanish/livechat1.shtml (1762 words)

	Rebels Poised to Capture Central Monrovia, Heavy Bombardments in Monrovia
		During the signing of the ceasefire, we were at Duala and we want to maintain that position and we will make sure to get back to Ganta because we were there and we have to be there...
		We will just maintain our position - where we were before the signing of the ceasefire, we will make sure to reach there and stop there and observe the ceasefire from there...
		Sources clarified that LURD was in Tubmanburg, and not Duala, during the signing of the ceasefire agreement.
	www.theperspective.org /centralmonrovia.html (574 words)

	Rebels tell civilians to leave western Monrovia suburbs (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Residents in Monrovia told IRIN in Abidjan by telephone that the Liberians United for Reconciliation and Democracy (LURD) rebel movement still controlled several western suburbs of Monrovia, including Duala and Virginia, and the strategic Saint Paul's bridge, about 12 km from the city centre.
		Taylor's forces brought in heavy artillery on Monday to try to dislodge the LURD fighters from Duala, but residents said the assault failed.
		LURD forces had meanwhile moved through swamps to the north of Monrovia to open a new front on the eastern side of the city, they added.
	www.irinnews.org /print.asp?ReportID=34651 (896 words)

	TRANS Nr. 13: George Echu (Yaounde): Multilingualism as a Resource: the Lexical Appropriation of Cameroon Indigenous ...
		In the same vein, Sultan Njoya encouraged the use of Bamun in the Bamun sultanate, while in the Northern provinces the use of Fulfulde in Islam for evangelisation dates as far back as the 17th century.
		In the territory under British mandate, some indigenous languages like Bafut, Duala, Kenyang and Mungaka remained in use alongside English in schools (Bitja'a Kody, 1999: 82).
		When Cameroon finally became independent, French was adopted as the official language in French-speaking Cameroon, while English assumed the same status in the English-speaking sector.
	www.inst.at /trans/13Nr/echu13.htm (4935 words)

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		Since June, some 100,000 were displaced for the third time from Duala, Caldwell, Logan Town and Gardenersville suburbs to Monrovia centre
		Both times, the rebels said they withdrew to avoid a humanitarian disaster, but government said they were pushed back.
		Duala, Caldwell, Logan Town and Gardenersville suburbs were the scene of chaos early on Saturday as the civilians, who have been displaced for the third time within a month and carried mattresses and other meagre properties on their heads, walked in long lines to the city centre.
	www.idpproject.org /Sites/idpSurvey.nsf/wViewCountries/E929156BA371F279C1256D9E004037BB?OpenDocument (387 words)

	Africa: Middlemen of the Cameroons Rivers: the Duala and their hinterland, c. 1600-c. (Reviews Of Books). (book ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Africa: Middlemen of the Cameroons Rivers: the Duala and their hinterland, c.
		RALPH A. AUSTEN and JONATHAN DERRICK, Middlemen of the Cameroons Rivers: the Duala and their hinterland, c.
		Although the Duala of the Cameroon littoral are a rather small community, never numbering more than twenty to thirty thousand, they have achieved a certain renown in African history.
	highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?docid=1G1:80852683&refid=ink_tptd_mag (183 words)

	World Sex Guide Escort Reviews: Africa/Cameroon
		If you like to have 24 hours sex, if you are a butt man, then Duala is your destination, all African big butts are in Cameroon.
		I have never ever experienced such a kind of easy hunting of chicks like in Duala.
		Normally all the taxi drivers will ask you if you want any girl, if they don't then you may ask them whether they can arrange a girl for you, they will 100% say "sure why not?".
	www.worldsexguide.com /guide/Africa/Cameroon (1194 words)

	Cameroon, colony of the German Empire
		British; he signs a treaty with pro-German King Bell and has the German flag hoisted in Duala on July 14.
		Lt.Col. Zimmermann, in command of a small Schutztruppe consisting of Germans and indigenous, takes charge of the defense, facing overwhelming forces of 60,000 British, French and Belgian troops.
		Formerly French Cameroun and the southern part of British Cameroons form the Federated Republic of Cameroon.
	www.deutsche-schutzgebiete.de /kamerun-english.htm (666 words)

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