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	Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew: Science and Horticulture: Wet Tropics Africa: Cameroon Projects
		Mount Oku lies in the Bamenda Highlands, North West Province and at 3011m is the second highest mountain in west central Africa, after Mt Cameroon (4095m).
		The Kilum-Ijim Forest Project, a collaborative effort of BirdLife International and the Cameroon Ministry of the Environment and Forestry (MINEF) was established in 1987, to work with communities surrounding the forest to conserve the forest, both for its biodiversity value and for its sustainable use by the local population.
		Lake Oku was proposed as a Plant Life Sanctuary by the Government of Cameroon in 2002, supported by data from our surveys in the area.
	www.kew.org /scihort/wta/oku.html (511 words)

	Oku - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Oku is a region in the Northwest Cameroon.
		The term Oku also refers to the people who live in this region and the primary language that they speak (although English is also widely spoken).
		Oku is also relatively near to the Nigerian border, and travel across the border is common, as many people in the region have relatives in Nigeria.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Oku (416 words)

	Oku - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		Oku is a rural area containing about thirty-five villages.
		Oku is a very mountainous region, around four thousand feet above sea level, and thus rather cool considering its latitude.
		Oku has few good roads, and none that would be called good by most Westerners.
	www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/Oku (432 words)

	African Bird Club \| main
		The forests and grasslands of the Cameroon Mountains Endemic Bird Area (EBA), which extend marginally beyond the borders of Cameroon to Equatorial Guinea (the island of Bioko) and Nigeria (Obudu Plateau), is the most significant of these.
		Forest Swallow, a Cameroon and Gabon Lowlands endemic, is common on the lower slopes of the mountain, particularly along the Nature Trail.
		Chubb's Cisticola, of which the Cameroon population is sometimes treated as a separate species, Brown-backed Cisticola, occurs in the rank vegetation on the edge of the village.
	www.africanbirdclub.org /feature/cameroon2.html (2757 words)

	Cameroon birding tripreport February - March 2000
		Cameroon is home to 8 of the 10 African bird families and has at least 874 species but probably quite a lot more as there are areas in Cameroon where just a handful of ornithologists have ever been.
		Cameroon is not a country that anyone would just go to, which makes it even more appealing.
		Oku is situated in the Bamenda Highlands and reached via Kumbo to Elak-Oku.
	home.zonnet.nl /michiel.1/cameroon/cameroon.htm (2684 words)

	WFC
		Cameroon has set itself the goal of defining and demarcating 30 percent of the country’s total land area as permanent forest estate.
		The Government of Cameroon has recently revised its environmental and forest management policies with Law 94/01 of 20 January 1994, one of the objectives of which is that of increasing the participation of local inhabitants in forest resource management.
		Cameroon’s new forest law has revolutionized attitudes to the management of forest areas by encouraging the participation of vulnerable communities in the harvesting and conservation of the natural resources alongside which they live and for which they are responsible.
	www.fao.org /DOCREP/006/Y4853E/y4853e09.htm (10140 words)

	IIE \| Kelly
		I was welcomed back to Oku, Cameroon after a five-year absence by the heavy October rains and the familiar faces of friends and acquaintances.
		My intention is to present Oku medicine with focus and clarity on its botanical and ritualistic elements.
		Oku is a beautiful place with an incredible preservation of both nature and tradition.
	www.iie.org /Content/NavigationMenu/Fulbright_Demo_Site/U_S__Student_Program/Fulbright_News_and_Publicity/Kelly.htm (541 words)

	Cameroon Radio - Ebolowa , Cameroon
		The government adopted legislation in 1990 to authorize the formation of multiple political parties and ease restrictions on forming civil associations and private newspapers.
		Cameroon' s first multiparty legislative and presidential elections were held in 1992 followed by municipal elections in 1996 and another round of legislative and presidential elections in 1997.
		Radio Oku, which was closed in December 2003 by a Divisional Officer (local government official), resumed broadcasting in February.
	creekin.net /k7840-c2392-n32-cameroon-radio-ebolowa-cameroon.html (802 words)

	PEOPLink: Nchinda Wanjel Frances: Traditional Oku Carver: Cameroon
		Nchinda Wanjel Frances is a traditional carver from the village of Oku in Cameroon.
		A distinct feature of Oku masks is that they are worn on top of the head like a helmet rather than over the face.
		However "representation" is hardly the word: The people of Oku do not regard a juju as one of their neighbors dressed in a costume; they revere the juju as the spirit itself.
	www.tedjohnson.us /resume/peoplink/carvers_wanjel.php (822 words)

	Postwatch (Cameroon): SAVAGE INTIMIDATION, ARRESTS, TORTURE, ASSASSINATIONS AND GENOCIDE VISITED ON SOUTHERN ...
		On November 11, 2005 several officials of the Southern Cameroons National Council, SCNC, one of the legitimate organisations involved in the struggle to free Southern Cameroons from its current rampant occupation by La Republique du Cameroun, were arrested and are in custody even as we write.
		The FIDH Mission to the Cameroons was led by Mr Jean-Bernard Padaré, Vice President of the Chadian League of Human Rights and Mr Benoît Van der Meerschen, Coordinator of the Belgian Section for the Defence of Children Internationally.
		That vote granting independence to the former British Southern Cameroons is on the record of the 1152nd meeting of Wednesday, 19th April, 1961 at 9 pm New York, page 381 paragraph 110 in the official records of the United Nations General Assembly-Fifteenth session-Fourth Committee.
	www.postwatchmagazine.com /2005/11/savage_intimida.html (3762 words)

	SVE - artilce 1
		With an elliptic shape (35x40 km), Mt. Cameroon culminates at the Fako summit of altitude 4095 m Mt. Cameroon is the only volcano no outside the Mediterranean sea to have a documented eruption before the time of Christ (e.g.
		During the days preceeding directly the eruption, seisms were recorded by the geophysical station of the geological survey of Cameroon, located in the town of Ekona at the north eastern side of the mount.
		A better education of local people in their attitude in front of forthcoming volcanic manifestations is also a great challenge to geoscientists, and seems to us as important as putting in place heavy investments for an efficient early warning system.
	www.sveurop.org /gb/articles/articles/article1.htm (1736 words)

	Era Project Bibliography
		Cozens, A.B. "A Village Smithy in the Cameroons".
		Cameroon National Archives, Buea E.P. Emonts, J. Ins steppen-und Bergland Innerkameruns; aus dem Leben und Wirken deutscher Afrikamissionare.
		Ein medizinritual zum Segen der Kinder in Oku.
	www.era.anthropology.ac.uk /Era_Resources/Era/Kingdom_Bum/bib.html (3846 words)

	Era Project Bibliography
		Cozens, A.B. "A Village Smithy in the Cameroons".
		Cameroon National Archives, Buea E.P. Emonts, J. Ins steppen-und Bergland Innerkameruns; aus dem Leben und Wirken deutscher Afrikamissionare.
		Ein medizinritual zum Segen der Kinder in Oku.
	era.anthropology.ac.uk /Era_Resources/Era/Kingdom_Bum/bib.html (3846 words)

	Global Volcanism Program \| Oku Volcanic Field \| Summary (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The Mount Oku stratovolcano is cut by a large caldera.
		The Oku volcanic field is note for two crater lakes, Lake Nyos to the north and Lake Monoun to the south, that recently produced catastrophic carbon-dioxide gas release events.
		The August 15, 1984, gas release at Lake Monoun was attributed to overturn of stratified lake water, triggered by an earthquake and landslide.
	www.volcano.si.edu /world/volcano.cfm?vnum=0204-03- (182 words)

	Mama for story
		Certainly, many associated with E.M. Chilver have given thought to ways in which her very significant contributions to Cameroon studies might be satisfactorily acknowledged.
		Cameroon comeback West Africa 16-22 September 1996 - with the kind permission of the publishers.
		This bibliography includes Sally Chilver's mature work on Cameroon as well as some of the early work published under her maiden name, Sally Graves.
	lucy.ukc.ac.uk /Chilver/index.html (878 words)

	Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew: GIS Unit: Projects: Mount Oku
		Monitoring vegetation cover changes in Mount Oku and the Ijim Ridge (Cameroon) using satellite and aerial sensor detection.
		Mount Oku and the Ijim Ridge is the largest remaining patch of montane forest in West Africa.
		This region includes the mountains and highland areas of the border region between Nigeria and Cameroon; Mount Oku is the highest point within this region at 3,011m above the sea level.
	www.kew.org /gis/projects/oku_cameroon (766 words)

	World History Connected \| Vol. 2 No. 1 \| 'The World in Miniature': Cameroon in World History as seen through Documents, ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Since the British Mandate in western Cameroon was, against that mandate's provisions, managed from Muslim-majority Nigeria, while the rest of the country was administered by France, the struggle for independence and of shaping post-colonial Cameroon's boundaries was very difficult.
		There are two separate searchable databases for the study of the women of the Cameroon: the over 30,000 citations of the African Women's Bibliographic Database (http://www.africabib.org/women.html), and the Africana Periodical Literature Bibliographic Database, with citations to journal articles from the mid-19th century to date (which includes e-journals) at http://WWW.AfricaBib.Org.
		Cameroon is also a major battleground of environmental resistance against rainforest loss, with much of its pristine rainforest having been sold off to French industry.
	worldhistoryconnected.press.uiuc.edu /2.1/mgilbert.html (3368 words)

	allAfrica.com: Cameroon
		Cameroon's filed sailed through the Board of Directors of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) without any hitches last Monday in Washington, following the positive appreciation of the country's successful economic and budgetary review performance by the end of December, 2006, the Minister of the Economy and Finance, Polycarpe Abah Abah said in Yaounde yesterday.
		News of the sudden collapse of the Mungo bridge on July 1, 2004, was received throughout Cameroon with shock and consternation.
		Four members of government were at the National Assembly on Friday, 15 June to answer questions from Members of Parliament on the occasion of the second question time plenary sitting for the June 2007 ordinary session of Parliament.
	allafrica.com /cameroon/bydate/?n=9 (993 words)

	Combating Desertification in Sub-saharan African: Who to Contact / Voices Newsletter / Developing Countries Farm Radio ...
		Cameroon, with 21 partners, holds the record for the Central African country with the most Network partners and the longest standing partnership.
		He has worked as a radio broadcaster and producer with the Voice of Oku for six years and is keenly interested in improving the health of his community.
		The Oku Rural Radio Station 95.2 FM, located in the North West Province of Cameroon, is a community station that has been a DCFRN partner since 1999.
	www.farmradio.org /english/publications/voices/v2006mar.asp (2289 words)

	MASA 2003, the 6th edition of MASA
		This fabulous ballet is from the Oku region, a very fertile cultural melting pot area which is part of a province in the north western part of Cameroon.
		The ballet is very famous for the extraordinary choreography of the masks, inspired by the forest, the fauna (juju) and its mysteries.
		These masks represent various wild animals (lions, leopards, elephants, buffaloes, etc.), as well as extraterrestrial beings (dracula,ghosts, dragons) which are part of the mysteries of the fauna of the Oku mountain.
	masa.francophonie.org /masa2003/e_artistes/danse/okujuju.htm (154 words)

	Vic Camp - the eruption at Lake Nyos, Cameroon
		Scientists, on the other hand, were initially puzzled by the root cause, and by the abrupt onset, of this mysterious and tragic event.
		Lake Nyos is located in western Cameroon, adjacent to Nigeria, in the elbow region of west Africa.
		It lies within the Oku Volcanic Field, at the northern boundary of the Cameroon Volcanic Line, a zone of crustal weakness and volcanism that extends to the southwest through the Mt.
	www.geology.sdsu.edu /how_volcanoes_work/Nyos.html (1071 words)

	FDR SOUTHERN CAMEROONS - BAMENDA AND OTHER TOURISTIC SITES (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Along this road is Mount Oku (3,000 m/9,800 ft), the Kimbi River Game Reserve, the Menchum River waterfalls, a huge chief's palace at Bafut, and a pyramidal thatched shrine at Akum.
		The Oku volcanic field is made of maars.
		It integrates forest conservation with rural development as a means of protecting a major remnant of Afromontane forest around Mount Oku, or Kilum, which is the second highest peak in West Africa.
	www.fdrsoutherncameroons.info /bamenda.htm (1875 words)

	The commercial bark harvest of the African cherry (Prunus africana) on Mount Oku, Cameroon: Effects on traditional uses ...
		The commercial bark harvest of the African cherry (Prunus africana) on Mount Oku, Cameroon: Effects on traditional uses and population dynamics
		This study examined the effects of commercial bark harvest on population dynamics in the Kilum-Ijim Forest Preserve on Mount Oku, Cameroon and on traditional uses.
		P. africana is valued for its timber and as fuel although its greatest value is as a traditional medicine for human and animal ailments.
	digitalcommons.fiu.edu /dissertations/AAI3006865 (409 words)

	Internet Access Oku International Global Roaming provider ISP with Dialup, TollFree, WiFi, Broadband Access for Mac, ...
		Oku is a populated place located in China...
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		Oku is a populated place located in Nigeria...
	international.dialer.net /search.html?srh=Oku (397 words)

	Linkages The Resilience of African Art Cameroon and Haiti
		To say the least, African culture has been subject to many strains and foreign influences: the slave trade, colonialism, missionaries, the onslaught of American and European media, and now the Internet.
		I this issue of Linkages, we feature artists from Cameroon and Haiti who demonstrate that the traditions are alive, well and evolving.
		Among the many misperceptions about African art is the thought that the traditions of African art survive only in antiquities.
	www.catgen.com /peoplink2/EN/100848.html (341 words)

	allAfrica.com: Cameroon: Oku / Mbessa Clashes - 80 Houses Burnt (Page 1 of 1) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The Oku/ Mbessa confrontations, the second in three months have been deadly with a lot to count and regret in casualties between both communities willed by God to be neighbours.
		Lientwotue Patrick confirmed that a women died in Mbessa but her death was unrelated to the confrontations because she had been sick.
		He also said students of Mbessa origin studying in GHS Elak, Oku had been ferried out of Oku to Kumbo as a preventive measure to avoid any attempt at retaliation while the wife of the Mayor of Elak was molesed with her Mbessa relationship to blame.
	allafrica.com /stories/200705110442.html (358 words)

	Project Frog :: Expedition to Cameroon
		Successful fieldwork in Cameroon requires an appreciation of the role of nature in the lives of the vast majority of Cameroonians.
		Things are very different in Cameroon because Cameroonians are in much better touch with their wilderness on a daily basis.
		As Western scientists with specific (and unusual) interests in Cameroon’s forests, we take special care to explain our intentions and secure the blessing of the village we are working in.
	www.projectexploration.org /projectfrog/fu-082106.htm (1266 words)

	Cameroon
		Tape troubles in Cameroon: Trials of recording in the MBANVELLE language.
		In the Bush in Cameroon: After speaking of Jesus and His grace which save us from judgment, Jean put a cassette in a hand-powered player and played Messages recorded in Bavek, the tribe's own language they all could understand.
		Cameroon Tailender Project: Over the last few years, Godswill has been a faithful and diligent recordist, often working alone in Cameroon, tracking minority languages and making recordings of the Gospel for many people groups.
	globalrecordings.net /country/CM (262 words)

	peopleandplanet.net > biodiversity > features > 3. birds
		The Cameroon Mountains EBA is one good example of BirdLife's approach to saving species and habitat.
		This area comprises the chain of mountains that runs through western Cameroon and adjacent south-eastern Nigeria, and the mountains on the island of Bioko.
		The main threat in the Cameroon Mountains is forest loss, caused by unsustainable exploitation for timber and firewood, overgrazing, fire damage and agricultural encroachment.
	www.peopleandplanet.net /doc.php?id=824 (871 words)

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