Word: cameroons
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Nicole Sheldon-Desjardins first conceived of a Women’s Day film festival during her time in Cameroon with the Peace Corps. There, she said, International Women’s Day is one of just three holidays—along with Independence Day and Youth Day—celebrated by parades and a complete suspension of school and work. “It was shocking to me that in Cameroon, where there is such inequality,” Sheldon-Desjardins says, “women celebrate in this way.”When she returned to the States...
...last year, to a level roughly in line with those of France, according to data supplied by Markit. Those swaps are gambles that America will renege on its financial obligations. Being on par with France is even more humiliating than if we were compared to Cameroon which had a GDP of only $44 billion last year, less than Bernie Madoff took from his clients. (See pictures of the Demise of Bernard Madoff...
It’s true that the XOs are not survival essentials. At the unveiling of the laptops at the World Economic Forum in 2006, Marthe Dansokho of Cameroon declared that African women who work in the countryside don’t have time to sit with their children and research crops, assuming they’re even literate. But the XO is not a gimmick cure-all. OLPC is not even a laptop program. It’s an education and communication program: the key to smashing cycles of strife. In the long run, this is the right...
...focused much of his attention on efforts to reinvigorate traditional Catholicism in Europe, the historical headquarters of the Church. After trips to Germany, Spain and France, as well as the United States and Brazil, Benedict is slated to make his first visit to Africa in March, with stops in Cameroon and Angola...
...brought together in light, image, and sound, seems to express everything you feel but never could articulate. Denis did not grow up wanting to be a filmmaker. As the daughter of colonial officials, she spent the majority of her childhood moving through various outposts in French colonial Africa, including Cameroon and Djibouti. Her first encounter with cinema came when she was a college student in Paris, where Denis immediately fell in love with the medium. She did not start making films until years later when she realized she could do nothing else. Denis began working as an assistant director...