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Bushfaller denies paying bill

It’s 9pm this 24th December 2010 at Mega plaza Tombel. Bushfaller are around and their presence is synonymous to beer drinking. In this little town, people are fond of beer and those coming from the Diaspora have understood it better. As usual, the bushfallers do not walk alone. One of them, Ndoumbe, gathered with friends and started drinking. At the end of their show, his bill was ...

04/01/2011 à 19:31Lire la suite »

Njola at Mega plazza

Sunday 26th December was a wonderful night at Maga plazza bar in Tombel. Merry making and friendship sharing were the order of the day.Let the images speak for themselves.

03/01/2011 à 19:40Lire la suite »

The festive houses

The kids of Tombel have a particular way of partaking into the end of year festivals by building little houses made of palm fronts. In little groups, they use some sticks as pillars and neat the palm fronts around. The end result is a beautiful small room where they will sit in to eat, drink and play inside. Some even go further by decorating their Christmas houses with small gadgets. This ...

02/01/2010 à 16:41Lire la suite »

The slaughtering ground

The Tombel market which functions on saturdays exceptionally opened this 24th december 2009 as early as 6am because of the christmas festivities. The focal point of attraction in the market was the meat shelves. Cows and pigs went down through the sharp knives and daggers of professional butchers. The pigs passed through the alter one after the other. With their legs tied up and head held ...

31/12/2009 à 22:11Lire la suite »

Christmas ashwabi

The Christmas and New Year periods are tough around tailors and seamstresses of Tombel who have to stay up days and nights over, in order to terminate the robes of customers who all wait the last days to these feasts in order to pass in their commands. This time around, it's the "satin" cloth which is in vogue. With its sparkling nature, easy to cut and adapt to any design, the "satin" is ...

31/12/2009 à 21:57Lire la suite »

S.O.S Tombel

The hands of time are being wind backwards in the town of Tombel, bringing this “big village » backwards as far as in the 1980s. This is because, for four days now, there has been no electricity in this town of the South West region. At 7km away from Loum in the Littoral region, Tombel stands as a dark town. All frozen fishes are rotten, No cold beer, No television, No radio, No ...

21/09/2009 à 07:25Lire la suite »

A light in the wilderness

The Tombel-Bangem Bee farmers Association – TOBA is a citizen’s initiative to reckon with. With the fluctuating prices in cocoa and coffee, some farmers have “partially” turned their backs to these products and entered into bee hiving and honey production. Based in Tombel, this association is headed by retired civil servants in the names of Pa Nkome and Pa Atabe. The local farmers are ...

24/02/2009 à 23:00Lire la suite »

Female discrimination

Women’s day is by the corner! The women should also think of some discrimination levied upon men! In Tombel, the Bakossi man is forbidden by tradition to carry the traditional basket reserved “exclusively” to women and girls. Hey! It’s tedious to always carry items on the head while the women enjoy carrying their baskets on the back! Vividly, the government should also think for a ...

18/02/2009 à 14:13Lire la suite »

Tombel Planti market

Tombel market don start dear. Even the planti wey man be di buy am cheap don change “colour”. Today, some woman them di stand for farm roads, from Wednesday to Saturday chap morning. Weiti them di do for they? Them di buy all planti and banana wey e comot for farm them! Reach market day, them di resell am for market at a higher price. All this, to the detriment of the people buying. ...

18/02/2009 à 13:23Lire la suite »

Tombel wood plight

Wood has always been the main source of energy for most inhabitants of Tombel. The introduction of stoves, electric and gas cookers hasn’t conquered the local women who have an utmost preference for firewood as source of energy for cooking. To this, all pots steam to the tune of wood energy gotten freely from the farms and forest or even from the CDC rubber plantations at 6000frs a truck ...

13/02/2009 à 23:00Lire la suite »

Words of wisdom on the door

Just as the biblical finger writing on the wall, many houses in Tombel have a Christian saying on their front doors. IS it to drive away demons or to show our Christian value? Only those who write or paste such writings know the significance of their act. Some of these writings are: “God’s time is the best” “Let my enemies live long to see what I will be in future” “No condition ...

07/02/2009 à 23:00Lire la suite »

Cocoa heart beats

Cocoa and coffee are the main sources of finance in Tombel. It is difficult to introduce another agricultural product in this locality for people are attached to the cocoa plantations. The rhythm of life in Tombel is determined from London; at the London stock exchange where the prices of cocoa are determined. London decides on the joy or sadness of Tombel peasants. At high market prices, ...

07/02/2009 à 23:00Lire la suite »

Guet apen in Tombel farms

It’s not easy to cultivate all year round and when the fruits of our labour are out, some mischievous men or thieves to be précised spring from no where to collect the harvest! From fruits through food and cash crops, the people of Tombel are fed up with thieves and they have resumed employing “Great measures” to curb this ill. This is where witchcraft enters into play and the thieves ...

06/02/2009 à 23:00Lire la suite »

Hollywood action in Tombel

With a TV set and DVD player, our local movie halls are still in activity and don’t have the intention to kick the bucket as the Abbia and Wouri movie halls. Here, at just 50FCFA, you can watch a movie, in the small movie hall. From Hollywood, through Nollywood to Bollywood, we find a wide variety of movies projected with the nostalgia for Chinese action movies. Some even say that “A ...

05/02/2009 à 23:00Lire la suite »

A town by decree.

Tombel town is the headquarters of the Tombel sub division. What makes this place a town? Surely the administrative buildings. Nevertheless, Tombel remains a large village. It is not by a decree that you turn a village to Town. The activities of the people are for most activities of villagers. Going to farm, cultivation, hunting, commercialization of local wines and many other village actions....

05/02/2009 à 23:00Lire la suite »

Pepper soup clearance

Nobody doubts the capacity of Cameroonians to drink tens of bottles of beer. But after all the “sharking” and merry making of the weekend, how do you attack the next week? Nothing more than a hot pepper soup with plantains can bring you back to life. A mixture of njangsang, onion, a lot of pepper and other spices is boiled with oil. Added to this is either pork meat or cow meat and ...

02/02/2009 à 23:00Lire la suite »

The ancestral Land tenure system.

Before colonization, land didn’t have much value in Tombel because all around was made of forest land which provided above the basic needs of the Bakossians. It’s then interesting to know how land was delimited when cash crop farming was introduced. To delimit land, the Bakossi people choosed a particular plant which produced leaves which are purple in color. This plant will mark a great ...

02/02/2009 à 23:00Lire la suite »

The fufu journey in Tombel

It’s rightly said that our environment is determinant of our culture. This is true for the Bakossi people who are the landlords of Tombel; A region with rich volcanic soil and a suitable environment for the cultivation of colcasia (Cocoyams). To make out the traditional meal called /Esubag and nzab nguèn/ meaning “fufu and empty soup”, you only need the cocoyam plant. Its tubers (roots)...

01/02/2009 à 23:00Lire la suite »

Horse eaters

Over centuries, societies have used the same tools differently according to circumstances. Horses are reared in some areas for horse riding, in others for public racing but in Tombel, horses have a single function: to serve as meat for consumption. Sold a kg for 1400frs, it’s quite accessible for the average Bakossian who love to accompany his meals with a piece of horse meat. During ...

01/02/2009 à 23:00Lire la suite »

Power failures in Tombel!

The development of “T” in terms of social amenities is just like the Bafia dance, with one step ahead, two steps behind. This is all because of redundant power failures which can last for over two days. One had believed that the coming of electricity will foster development forcing out the witches to run into the enclave villages. Nada! The electricity is going on and off. People have ...

31/01/2009 à 23:00Lire la suite »

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