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In Cameroon, artists are using spoken-word poetry. They are protesting the ongoing violence in English-speaking areas. Separatists are fighting government forces. The civil war has caused many ...
“The day you die, people will cry,” the 24-year-old told hundreds of audience members in an embattled part of southwest Cameroon. “But this will not stop the clock from ticking or the ...
BUEA, Cameroon — A woman cried out upon seeing what looked like a corpse, a sheet-covered form lying on a stretcher. As volunteers wheeled it onto the stage, Boris Taleabong Alemnge recited a ...
Spoken-word poets in Cameroon are using their art form to help communities cope with traumas left by the ongoing civil war BUEA, Cameroon -- A woman cried out upon seeing what looked like a corpse ...
Surprising recovery seen in these East Antarctic glaciers after years of melting (Unsplash - representational image) The data, which have been significant in tracking the Antarctic Ice Sheet’s ...
BUEA, Cameroon — A woman cried out upon seeing a sheet-covered form on a stretcher. As volunteers wheeled it onto the stage, Boris Taleabong Alemnge recited a poem whose title spoke the unspoken ...
“The day you die, people will cry,” the 24-year-old told hundreds of audience members in an embattled part of southwest Cameroon. “But this won’t stop the clock from ticking or the flowers ...
Despite the flurry of activity and development proposals in the 1960s, the first road to the glacier was not constructed for scenic access. It was for mining by Benjamin Bullard who staked placer ...
When the Forest Service’s Fireside Lectures began in 1962 at Mendenhall Glacier Visitor Center attendees gathered around a roaring log fire in the observatory’s natural stone fireplace.
Spoken word has gained new prominence in Cameroon as poets like Alemnge, who performs under the stage name “Penboy,” believe their art form taps into the everyday dangers of war zones that ...
Once a German colony, Cameroon was divided between Britain and France after World War I. They ruled it as two separate entities until the early 1960s, when Cameroon became independent and united ...