Patrimony : Cameroon’s Heritage Sites Assessed

The Minister Delegate to the Minister of External Relations in charge of Cooperation with the Commonwealth, Felix Mbayu granted an audience to the Executive Director of the African World Heritage Fund, Souayibou Varissou, on November 02, 2021 during which the two personalities assessed Cameroon’s heritage sites. 
Highlighting on the reason for his visit to the Ministry of External Relations, the Executive Director said he was in Cameroon on the invitation of government to discuss issues and programmes around the world heritage listing. “You may know that our continent, Africa, is under represented on the world heritage list and over represented on the world heritage danger list. And when it comes to Cameroon in particular, we have a number of projects to be added to the world heritage list such as the Bambia (slave trade site) in the South West Region, the Lobe falls in the South Region and the Lake Chad that Cameroon shares with neighbouring countries as well as other sites in other countries like Nigeria. These are places that we must protect and use to build sustainable tourism activities,” he explained. He added that besides talking Cameroon’s historic, cultural and natural legacy with Minster F...