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Douala (d  -ä`lə), city (1991 est. pop. 1,604,500), Cameroon, on the Wuori River estuary. Cameroon's largest city and major port, it is a commercial and transportation center handling most of the country's exports (chiefly cocoa and coffee) as well as transit trade from Chad. Douala developed as a center of the slave trade after the Portuguese arrived in 1472. It later became part of a German protectorate (1884) and of the French Cameroons British Cameroons consisted of two noncontiguous sections lying on the eastern border of Nigeria; the more southerly extended to the coast.French Cameroons was administered as a separate territory with the capital at Yaoundé. ..... Click the link for more information. (1919). DoualaCity (pop., 1992 est.: 1,200,000), chief port of Cameroon, on the Bight of Biafra. It was the capital of German Kamerun and later of French Cameroun and was taken from the Germans in 1914. Cameroon's largest city, it is one of Central Africa's major industrial centres, and its deepwater port handles most of the country's overseas trade. It is home to a variety of commercial, agricultural, and industrial schools; a museum and handicraft centre encourage the production and preservation of Cameroonian art. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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Antiretroviral therapy in public and private routine health care clinics in Cameroon: lessons from the Douala anti-retroviral (DARVIR) initiative. THEY CALL DOUALA the "armpit of Africa" Lodged beneath the bulging shoulder of West Africa, this malaria-infested city in southwestern Cameroon is humid, unattractive, and smelly. Rectangular stools carved in Douala (Cameroon) in the nineteenth century bear the names of their owners carved in openwork designs, marking them as objects of personal possession (Fig. |
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