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unusual facts about Rai, Cameroon



Aar Maanta

Maanta has since worked with various other artists including Algerian Raï singer Abdelkader Saadoun, UK hip hop group the Choong Family, and Somali musicians Maryam Mursal and Ahmed 'Hudeydi' Ismail Hussein.

Adam El-Abd

On 15 May 2012, and for the first time, Egypt national team coach Bob Bradley included El-Abd in the squad for friendly games against Cameroon, Togo, and Senegal, and also against Mozambique in a FIFA World Cup Qualifier.

Age fraud in association football

One of the best known examples of a player falsifying documentations is Cameroon's international football defender Tobie Mimboe who held several documents during the course of his career that indicated he became younger as time went by.

Ajume Wingo

Hailing from Nso, a kingdom located in the North West Province of Cameroon, Ajume Wingo received much of his early education from Christian and Muslim missionaries, and from a Bedouin teacher (whose title of Mallam Gargari translates to "invincible teacher") known for his toughness and draconian style of discipline.

Anand Krishna

He grew up with the distinguished art collection of Bharat Kala Bhavan the renowned Indian Art Museum in Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, which was founded by Rai Krishnadasa ji and under the shadow of top Hindi littérateurs, painters, musicians et al., a solid base which he later enriched with his own experience.

Andy Allo

Born in Bamenda, Northwest Region, Cameroon, Allo developed an interest in music at an early age; her mother taught her to play the piano at age seven.

Bafut, Cameroon

Bafut is one of the two regions in Cameroon (the other being Bali, Cameroon), where traditional power structures are still in place.

Bamum script

The Bamum scripts are an evolutionary series of six scripts created for the Bamum language by King Njoya of Cameroon at the turn of the 20th century.

Bertrand Teyou

Bertrand Zepherin Teyou (born 1969) is a Cameroonian author who was imprisoned from November 2010 to May 2011 on charges of insulting Chantal Biya, the wife of President Paul Biya in a recent book and for trying to hold a public reading of this book.

Bruno Vespa

During the 1970s and 1980s, he undertook several controversial and ground-breaking projects, mainly as a foreign correspondent for RAI, interviewing many soon-to-be-influential personalities of the decades (for example, Vespa interviewed then-Cardinal Karol Wojtyła in 1977, a full year before his election to the pontificate).

Bulbophyllum porphyrostachys

Although the distribution of B. porphyrostachys is widespread; from Southern Nigeria (in Okuma, Sapoba and Usonigbe Forest Reserves, and in Calabar) to Cameroon (specifically on Mount Cameroon) and Congo-Brazzaville; it is found only sporadically, as either an epiphyte, or a lithophyte (on lava rock).

Centre for Human Rights

The programme is a joint project of the Centre with Makerere University (Uganda), the University of Ghana, the Catholic University of Central Africa (Cameroon), the University of the Western Cape (South Africa), the American University in Cairo (Egypt), Eduardo Mondlane University (Mozambique) and Addis Ababa University (Ethiopia).

Chamba people

The Chamba in Cameroon are divided into several subsets: Bali Nyonga, Bali Kumbat, Bali-Gham, Bali-Gangsin, and Bali-Gasho.

Communication aesthetics

At the occasion of Artmedia, a colloquium on Video Art organized by Mario Costa, Professor of Aesthetics at the University of Salerno, Fred Forest had been invited to enact a performance and installation involving the Italian National Television Broadcaster (RAI).

Cyrille Makanaky

Cyrille Thomas Makanaky (born 28 June 1965 in Douala) is a Cameroonian retired footballer who played as an attacking midfielder.

Dhandwar

Many singers come every year such as Harbajan Mann, Manmohan Varis, K. S. Makhan, Kuldeep Manak, Yudvir Manak,mohumad sadik,Gippy Grewal ,Rai jujar, Kuldeep Rasila, Geeta Zaildar,Shera jasbir,botu shah and kaka shah, Sabar Koti, Satwinder Bitti, Satwinder Buga, Jelly Manjitpuri,ranvir dusanj,preet brar and many more and in 2004 the Chief Minister of PunjabParkash Singh Badal came to this village.

Edouard Oum Ndeki

Joseph Edouard Oum Ndeki (8 May 1976 – 7 March 2009 in Rhodes) was a Cameroonian footballer who last played for Rodos.

Gift Leremi

On 3 September 2007, Leremi was returning home after a CAF Confederation Cup game in Cameroon against Astres FC when he was involved in a traffic collision in Alberton outside Johannesburg.

Hervé Ndjana Onana

Hervé Anselme Ndjana Onana (born on 1 June 1986 in Yaoundé) is a football player from Cameroon.

Il Popolo del Blues

Il Popolo del Blues is an Italian radio program founded in 1995, created and led by the Italian journalist Ernesto De Pascale (RAI, Jam, La Nazione, Rolling Stone Italia, Record Collector, Popolare Network), named by the BBC “the Italian John Peel”.

Image Entertainment Corporation

Team Galaxy (co-produced with Marathon Media, YTV, VRAK TV, Jetix Europe, France 3, and RAI Fiction)

Jean-Pierre Tokoto

Jean-Pierre Tokoto (born 26 January 1948 in Douala) is a retired Cameroonian professional footballer.

Kalpnath Rai

Shri Kalpnath Rai was a Rajya Sabha member from 1974–80, 1980–86, 1986–92 and represented Ghosi four times to the Lok Sabha.

Kimitoshi Nōgawa

On April 12, 2005 it was reported that Nougawa had apparently signed with Canon Yaoundé in Cameroon on a one-year contract and that he would be the first Japanese player to play in Africa.

Landry N'Guémo

N'Guémo is a native of Dschang, a small town in western Cameroon, he played for various local teams in Dschang before moving to Yaounde aged 13.

Mahidol Wittayanusorn School

Initially, classes were temporarily held at Wat Rai Khing in Sam Phran District until the school finally settled at its current location on the Salaya Campus of Mahidol University in 1995.

Marco Tezza

Besides, he won the first prize in several international piano competitions: Città di Treviso, La Spezia, RAI, and received awards in other prizes: Moncalieri (European Prize for Chamber Music), Busoni, Pretoria and Viotti.

Maria Vitale

In 1951, the year of Verdi's 50th death anniversary, she sang major parts in lesser known Verdi operas for RAI, notably; Leonora in Oberto, Giselda in I Lombardi, Lucrezia in I due Foscari, and Mina in Aroldo.

Marilyn Douala Bell

Marilyn Douala-Bell was born in Cameroon in 1957 to Rudolf Duala Manga Bell, a Dualan king.

Mechi Zone

The majority of the population in Mechi are Kirantis (Lumbu and Rai) and other ethnic groups like Koche and Meche, and hill castes like Bahun and Chhetris.

Mittelafrika

German strategic thinking was that if the region between the colonies of German East Africa (Rwanda, Burundi, and Tanzania minus the island of Zanzibar), German South-West Africa (Namibia minus Walvis Bay), and Cameroon could be annexed, a contiguous entity could be created covering the breadth of the African continent from the Atlantic to the Indian Ocean.

Mulji Jagmal Sawaria

In 1935, Rai Sahib Moolji Jagmal laid a private 8 miles long narrow gauge rail line and bridge connecting their Bilaspur railway site with their brick-kiln across Arpa River at Lingiyadih.

In 1935, Rai Sahib Moolji Jagmal Savaria and Ranchhod Jagmal laid a private 1.9 miles long narrow gauge rail line connecting their Bilaspur railway site with their brick-kiln across Arpa River to Lingiyadih.

Ndumbe

Manga Ndumbe Bell (1851–1908), a leader of the Duala people of southern Cameroon

Nery Pumpido

At the 1990 World Cup, Pumpido was at fault for Cameroon's winning goal, fumbling François Omam-Biyik's header into the net as the African nation shocked the defending champions at the tournament's opening game in Milan, winning by a goal to nil.

Ngaoundéré

In cooperation with the local Evangelical Lutheran Church of Cameroon EELC and the American ELCA the NMS has built the Protestant Hospital of Ngaoundéré, a high school and several other institutions.

Old German government headquarters in Douala

The headquarters were then transferred to Buea, and then back to Douala in 1908 following the eruption of Mount Cameroon.

Pa Daet

Pa Daet, Mae Suai a subdistrict of Mae Suai district, Chiang Rai province

Panyarring

In 1788, a British trader bought 30 persons held in pawnship in Bimbia, in present-day Cameroon, for transport to the Americas.

Patrice Abanda

Patrice Abanda Etong (born 3 August 1978, in Yaoundé) is a Cameroonian former football player.

Paul Bahoken

Paul Bahoken (7 July 1955 in Douala) is a retired Cameroonian professional footballer.

Raffaele Andreassi

After Flashback Andreassi collaborated with the most important sections of the RAI.

Rai Radio 2

Rai Radio 2 is among the highest-rated Italian radio stations in terms of audience share; its most popular show, Viva Radio2, is hosted by the popular comedian and TV/radio personality Fiorello, together with Marco Baldini.

Robert Briskman

Briskman was responsible for Indonesia’s domestic satellite system Palapa, Mexico’s Morelos, Arabsat, and Italsat programs, as well as for providing support to the Inmarsat, Intelsat, STC (Direct broadcast), Telstar-3, Alascom, Satcol, Unisat, Intelmet, Nordsat, Chinasat, and Cameroon programs.

Rolando Panerai

He sang in many rarely performed Verdi operas on radio broadcast for RAI in 1951 (to commemorate the 50th anniversary of Verdi's death), such as Giovanna d'Arco, La battaglia di Legnano, and Aroldo.

Rosanna Carteri

She participated in several television productions for RAI such as Le nozze di Figaro, La Traviata, Otello, and Falstaff.

S. typica

Similipepsis typica, a moth species known from Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea, Sierra Leone and Zimbabwe

Saxa Rubra

Situated on the modern Via Flaminia it is also the site of a major RAI public service broadcaster center.

Vasant Rai

Vasant Rai taught many Western musicians such as George Harrison, John Coltrane, Collin Walcott and other rock and jazz personalities of that time.

Viva Zapatero!

Viva Zapatero! is a 2005 documentary by Sabina Guzzanti telling her side of the story regarding the conflict with Silvio Berlusconi over a late-night TV political satire show broadcast on RAI-3.


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