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Cameroon Peace Corps Volunteer Herb Whinna, Nguti 1983-1985 Math/Science Education
Cameroon Peace Corps Volunteer Herb Whinna, Nguti 1983-1985 Math/Science Education
Herb Whinna, Nguti 1983-1985
Math/Science Education
whinna@med.unc.edu
David Cranor, Nguti 1995-1997
Math/Science Education
cranor@hotmail.com
Getting there and away
Contacts
Lodging Options
Schools
Health
Festivals
Population
Languages
Religions
Groups
Climate
Electricity
Cuisine
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GETTING THERE AND AWAY: province: SW distance: 80 time: 3 hours cost of taxi: 1500 cfa transportation: Bush taxi How to reach the village from Yaounde: Yaounde to Douala 3000cfa Douala to Kumba 1200 cfa by car, 800cfa by train Kumba to Nguti 1500 cfa
GETTING THERE AND AWAY: Get to Kumba, go to taxi park, hope they are going to Mamfe that day (if wet season) and will let you out at Nguti for less than full price...reverse if coming from Mamfe...
CLOSE VILLAGES: Konye
CLOSE VILLAGES: Buea, Kumba, Mamfe
CONTACTS: Mr. Ojong Dr. Anthony
LODGING OPTIONS: There's a hotel by the Mission
LODGING OPTIONS: In 1985 it was my house or the British telecom guys' house...no telling now, but not too many people wanted to visit...
SCHOOLS: GHS Nguti
HEALTH FACILITIES: St. John of God's hospital. The village has running water.
HEALTH FACILITIES: Catholic Mission Hospital on the hill. There was no running water, not back then...
FESTIVALS: Youth Day(February), Labor Day (May 1)
POPULATION: 1000
POPULATION: 500-1000? (not counting the school kids).
LANGUAGES: Nguti, Ejagham
LANGUAGES: Pidgin, English, and the usual mix of country talks
RELIGIONS: Christian, Anamist
GROUPS: Nguti
CLIMATE AND LANDSCAPE: Hot and Humid, Hilly rain forest
ELECTRICITY: Only at the mission and hospital only for a few hours every evening.
ELECTRICITY: up at the mission hospital, at the DO's house, and whenever the Brits where in town...otherwise, no...
CUISINE: Bush meat, rice and beans.
CUISINE: when i got posted to Nguti the running joke was that there were four things to eat there: 1) Rice & Beans; 2) Beans & Rice; 3) Rice; & 4) Beans...this turned out not to be entirely true, but sometimes it was close...gari and okra soup was big...not much meat except the dried fish...plantains...my absolute favorite thing was to get some Koki, but they had it more in Manyemen than Nguti so you had to get somebody to bring it up...