as much as possible.To learn more in Cameroon, attend as many concerts, soccer games, local bars and traditional ceremonies as possible. Drainage. The country is 70% Christians, 20.9% Muslim, 5.6% animist and 3.2% freethinkers.This Website uses cookies to improve the user experience when visiting the site.
)Your colleagues and friends, or Canadians who already live locally may be excellent resource people who can guide you through the challenge of understanding the Cameroonian culture. With a population of just under 20 million people living on 50% of Cameroon land size (475, 442 sq. Remember, however, that they are still very playful and may tease you about your status as a foreigner, providing you with an initiation to local humour. It is best to observe things and go about things gradually, especially if you do not yet fit in.Other than showing someone your extended middle finger (a gesture that would provoke anyone in the world), Cameroonians simply play around a lot with gestures and use them more to communicate or get the attention of the people they are speaking with. That being said, Cameroonians gladly avoid gesticulating with foreigners if they know that they are different from them.Between friends and in informal situations (but less so at work) touching can be an important part of communication. It is also important to note that Cameroonians have the reputation of being skilful and cunning negotiators in all fields.
This could have a negative effect on your reputation.Expectations and requests for preferential treatment, pay increases, and hiring of friends and family can be frequent and come from unlikely sources (e.g., someone you share a cab with). Artistic expression is manifested by several festivals are held annually in the major cities of the region especially during the tourist season from November to May. Each religion tries its best to convert and maintain its followers and people seem to be used to the incessant confusion.Social classes do exist in Cameroon, but the same apply to the weakest and the most powerful each fights for its own self-interests. These cookies do not store any personal information.Any cookies that may not be particularly necessary for the website to function and is used specifically to collect user personal data via analytics, ads, other embedded contents are termed as non-necessary cookies. Also contact the Department of Tourism as well as taking your own initiative to discover that which you would especially like to know. This depends on the region that the recruiter or boss is from, which can create conflicts that may spoil the workplace environment. Social Conventions in Cameroon. The sizeable remainder are followers of Islam. A unique social life experience. Often lower level employees will view their employer as a protective father (e.g., someone who provides and disciplines) rather than as a colleague or friend. However, men in managerial positions are likely be respected more then women.It is always very useful to try and build solid and productive relations with a colleague with whom you often work on a team, just as it is beneficial to develop courteous relations with a client who may represent potential business advantages. The discussion of problems and solutions should be prefaced with general discussion (perhaps on job satisfaction, elaboration of the problem, discussion of causes, etc) and should allow for more time than in a Western context.Colleagues may approach you, but will not speak directly.
As you walk through the markets, you will, you can smell the hospitality.Necessary cookies are absolutely essential for the website to function properly. Roger Milla and Thomas Nkono are living legends due to their exceptional talent on our national "football" team (that North Americans call "soccer"). It is held in the first week of December near the Wouri River.
Oral literature is a huge tradition, not only in Cameroon, but throughout the African continent. Do not expect to regularly receive free favours.Contacts are important in Cameroon, especially given the lack of written rules and information, and good personal relationships can facilitate business. As an expatriate, you are in a power position and making fun of yourself can help break the ice. She now lives in Ottawa and is married to a Cameroonian.Country Insights - Intercultural Issues are intended to provide snapshots of the overall social and cultural norms as well as the workplace environment that a Canadian might face working in a specific country. Thus, the desired rewards will soon follow.Cameroonians are sensitive to image and therefore status, good working conditions, possibility of advancement and money are strong motivators of good performance. For English books on or by Cameroonians are only available in the English provinces. Even if you do not do exactly what he asks. For each country, two perspectives are provided: one by a Canadian and the other by a person born in the selected country. Those who are born into misery struggle to attain what they believe to be happiness. By continuing to browse our site, we assume that you are happy with it. During conversations regular hand shaking and backslapping can take place.Cameroonians are very expressive in speaking and discussions can easily get heated and seem aggressive. Pidgin is a mix of Creole and English, which is very often used in markets.Cameroon is a secular state with a diversity of religions, whose followers live peacefully together. Hong Kong: Macmillan Education Ltd. Fabian Nji Lang, Camerun, Storia Economia e Risorse Società e Tradizioni Arte e Cultura Religione, Bologna, Pendragon Edizioni, 1998. In the public sector, the majority of the decisions are made by those in the upper ranks of the hierarchy; this is not necessarily the case in the private sector.
In general, people have the impression that you are judging them by their beliefs; or that you want to trap them in their political beliefs. Don’t let it irritate you!Good discussion topics include basic personal questions (on family, what village/region they are from and languages spoken) and subjects of national pride (Cameroonian soccer, food, music and natural resources).
Both men and women rest their hands on each other’s knees/legs when sitting and sometimes hold hands when walking.
The Ngouon festival in Foumban is one of the best.The Sawa (the people of the water) belong to Bantou people and are on the Atlantic coast and in several other African countries.