In 1983, he composed his first romantic song: Mbodji (a flower in Duala).
Douala, the largest city in Cameroon, founded by the Duala people
The Bimbia mission station and school, the first in mainland Cameroons, was founded in 1844/5 by the Fuller and Merrick families, and was quickly followed by a second at Duala founded by Alfred Saker and his family with the Sierra Leonian Thomas Horton Johnson.
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He headed mission stations, teaching, preaching, brick-making, and translating books such as John Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress into Duala.
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In the 1850s Joseph Fuller led the Bethel congregation in Duala.
Kengne Ludovick Takam (born June 21, 1983 in Duala) is a Cameroonian football player who currently plays for INSEE Police in Thai Premier League.
The settlement grew as a market town for Duala (or Douala) fishermen, Bakweri (Kpwe people) farmers and hunters from Molyko, Bwenga, Bulu and Bokova.
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The song "Soul Makossa", as well as pop songs that repeated its lyrics, internationally popularized the Duala word for "(I) dance", "makossa".
In was one of the four languages selected for option at the Collège Libermann at Douala (along with Duala, Basaa, and Banjun).
Makossa, a popular musical style in West and Central Africa, originated with the Duala around this same time.
Manga Ndumbe Bell (1851–1908), a leader of the Duala people of southern Cameroon
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Ndumbe Lobe Bell (1839–1897) a leader of the Duala people in Southern Cameroon