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La case centrale abrite les fonctions spirituelles et pratiques du pouvoir royal. C'est dans cette endroit que les initiés se réunissent pour délibérer, prendre les grandes décisions nécessaires à la communauté. Seuls les initiés peuvent y pénétrer et en fonction de leur grade, ils ont accès seulement à certaines parties. Les femmes n'y sont pas admises.
C'est aussi cet endroit qui sert de cour de justice. La justice est rendue par le chef, dans la petite guérite, à l'extèrieur du batiment.

It's in the central hut that the traditionnal power is located. It's the place where initiates gathered to hold there meetings and take decision for the whole community. Only initiates can get inside, and according to their rank, they can go deeper in the house. Usually, women are not allowed in those places.
That place is also the justice court. The chief offices there, outside the hut, in the little cabin on the right of the entrance.

Bamendjou est situé dans la province de l'Ouest du Cameroun. Les toits de chaumes sont caractéristiques de cette région. Les règles de fonctionnement des chefferies sont sensiblement les mêmes d'une région à une autre.

Bamendjou is located in the Western province of Cameroon. Thatched roofs are distinctive of the region. Rules are basically identical in each chieffery.

Mission de mon grand-oncle, le pasteur-missionnaire Charles Maître

After spending two days at our post, we travelled Friday morning to
Bamenda, the capital of the Northwest Province. Since our post wasn't
far from the training village and we still had 3 days left of site
visit, we took the opportunity to visit other volunteers in the area.
Bamenda is a great city, with a large market and even a supermarket
that has things like corn flakes! Since the Northwest is one of the
two Anglophone provinces, we had to shift gears and go from speaking
nothing but French in the West to speaking English and even a few
words of Pidgin (which I'm learning) in Bamenda and the surrounding
villages we visited. We stayed with a volunteer who is posted near
Bamenda, and his friend took us and two other trainees to ride horses
on Saturday morning. The view from the summit of a hill we climbed on
horseback was so beautiful, it was almost worth the five full days of
beaucoup de pain all of us had as a result of the three hour ride. We
made some great friends, both Cameroonian and American during our trip
that we're looking forward to seeing again when training is complete.

On Sunday, the five of us who met up in Bamenda headed back to
training on a bus that was surprisingly uncrowded for the first few
hours of the trip. Then we changed buses. The last hour on the bus was
cramped, bumpy, and polluted as a Cameroonian bus ride should be.

In Cameroon, the chiefferies are the places were sits the traditional power. They came through the colonies period with little changes.The chief is the guide of his community. Elected by the initiates of the community, he is the most important of all. So, he inherites this function, as well as the wifes of the deceased chief. They come as an addition to his own. Every wife has got a house of her own, where she lives. The chief has to protectthem, feed them, give them accomodation and healthcare. And the wives have to be wives...

Au Cameroun, les chefferies sont les palais du pouvoir traditionnel. Elles ont traversé la période de la colonisation, avec le minimum d'adaptation nécessaire à leur survie. Le chef traditionnel conduit et guide la vie de la communauté. Reconnu par ses pairs, il obtient le plus haut grade dans les processus d'initiation et hérite de la fonction. Il hérite également des femmes du chef décédé, auxquelles se rajoutent les siennes. Chaque femme a une maison, dans laquelle elle vit. Bien évidemment, le chef leur doit protection et soins, nourriture et gite. En échange, les épouses remplissent leur fonction...

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Prés de Bafoussam, province de l'Ouest du Cameroun. Cette photo a été prise à l'occasion de la visite de l'école, et pour honorer notre visite, les élèves ont chanté dans la cour.

Near Bafoussam, West province of Cameroon. This photo has been shot while visiting this school, children have been gathered in the school yard, to sing some welcoming song.

After eating a quick breakfast of bananas, fried dough, beans and
rice, we left early Wednesday morning and boarded a packed bus with
the censeur (vice principal) of our school to visit our future post.
We traveled with another trainee, Jim, and his counterpart because our
towns are very close to each other. We arrived a few hours later and
were met by the proviseur (principal). They took Gabe and I around the
town to meet the Mayor, the Sousprefect, the traditional chief, and a
few school officials at the Lycee where we will be teaching. He showed
us the school's multimedia center, which has 23 computers. It's a
great lab, and Gabe and I hope to help them improve it by helping them
add internet, and if possible, acquire more computers (since there are
usually about 100 students per class).

Our principal was very busy, so after we toured the school, he took us
to our hotel. The hotel wasn't the nicest, but it did have a water-
heater that sort-of worked, so I enjoyed my first lukewarm shower
since leaving Yaounde a month ago. However the following night we
changed hotels and gave up the semi-working water-heater in favor of a
room with less mold on the walls.

We spent two days walking around town, talking with the censeur,
meeting people, explaining to the PTA president that many Americans do
indeed have big families and greet each other on the street (at least
in the south) and eating a lot of french fries. We couldn't be happier
with where we will be posted for the next two years. The West Province
is abundant with all types of fruits and vegetables, and our town is
great, with a big market where I can buy mangoes and avocados to eat
every day if I want. The surrounding countryside is beautiful, and we
are within a few hours of several other volunteers, including a few
around Bamenda which is only about an hour bus-ride away. Gabe and I
are really excited to move there in just over a month!

Bought in Berlin. To be stomping around London in. I usually play it safe and wear brown trainers, but I'm been feeling pretty adventurous of late and decided to break away from the hold brown footwear has had on me.

These are funky and I love 'em!

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Thryn with our mom, her friend, and her friend's daughter.

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