May 21 – Looking at Cameroon

May 21, 2021

Posted on May 21, 2021

This is an update of my post published on May 21, 2010:

The African nation of Cameroon celebrated its National Day yesterday. (Independence came slowly, in pieces—French Cameroon in 1960, then Southern Cameroon in 1961—and several governments were formed before the current one was established on May 20, 1972.)

Play Some Games!

Cameroon is located in the “nook” of Africa. Do you know where other countries of Africa are located?

This Geography website has quite a few things to do, but not all the games and quizzes have been converted for our most recent devices – not yet, at least! There is a video near the top right corner to show and pronounce the name of the various African nations, and there is info on each African nation down the left side. I want to keep checking the website, because the games that haven’t yet been converted were pretty fun!

This African geography game is challenging.

Enjoy Some Art!

Check out this beaded statue from Cameroon:

What about this large-scale treelike sculpture?

Make Some Art

Batik is a method of putting designs onto fabric using wax-resist dyeing.

Here are some wonderful batik pieces from Cameroon.

And here are instructions for an easy batik-T-shirt craft.

These instructions are less authentic (we are urged to use glue rather than wax crayons), but they may well be easier, even, than the basic batik technique explained above.