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Ngoa-Ekélé
Ngoa-Ekélé is located in Cameroon
Ngoa-Ekélé
Ngoa-Ekélé
Location in Cameroon
Coordinates: 3°59′10″N 11°49′59″E / 3.98611°N 11.83306°E / 3.98611; 11.83306
Country Cameroon
ProvinceCentre Province
DivisionMfoundi Division
Elevation
710 m (2,329 ft)
Population
 (2005)
 • Total
27,714


Ngoa Ekélé is a neighborhood in the Yaoundé III district of Yaoundé, Cameroon[1]. It borders the neighborhoods of Olezoa to the south, Mvolyé to the west and Melen to the north. It is separated from the administrative center to the east by the Valley of Death or Nkol Nguet. The district is built on a ridge that culminates at 793 meters, it is the Plateau Atemengue[2].

Etymology

"Ngoa Ekélé" is an Ewondo expression composed of "Ngoag", the stone, the rock, the pebble, and "Ekélé" meaning "is hung". Literally "Ngoa Ekele" could mean "(The) Stone (is) perched", "(The) Stone (is) suspended", "(The) Stone (is) hung"[2].

History

In 1911, during the German colonial period, a so-called indigenous customary court or "Tribunal de races" sat in this place and was presided over alternately by Joseph Atemengue (en) and Onambele Mbazoa. The decisions of this court were severe. Hanging over the heads of the defendants, they fell cleanly like a cleaver. "Ngoa Ekélé" would therefore refer to these court decisions as "stones perched" above the head of each defendant and ready to fall on it[3].

Population

The population of Ngoa Ekele is mostly students. The students come from the ten regions of Cameroon, the population of the district is cosmopolitan.

Institutions

Ngoa Ekélé is a student, political and military district.

Education

  • Panoramic view of some of the institutions in Ngoa Ekelle
  • Ngoa Ekelle Castle
  • Ngoa Ekélé has many schools and universities

Basic education

  • Departmental elementary school
  • Mobile Gendarmerie Primary School
  • Public nursery and elementary school of Plateau Atemengue

Secondary education

  • Government High School Ngoa Ekélé, former CES
  • Government tecnical college Ngoa Ekélé
  • General Leclerc High School

Higher education

  • National Institute of Youth and Sports (INJS)
  • University of Yaoundé I[4]
  • National Post and Telecommunication and ICT College (SUP'PTIC)
  • Yaounde College of Science and Technology of Information and Communication (ESSTIC)

Politics

  • Monument of the reunification.jpg
  • The headquarters of the National Assembly of Cameroon is located in Ngoa Ekélé. There is also the Monument of the reunification of Cameroon.

Military

  • The military stadium of Yaoundé (2500 seats)
  • The headquarters

Health

  • Yaounde University Hospital
  • Chantal Biya International Reference Center

Bibliography

References

  1. ^ Lebeuf, Jean-Paul (1941). "Vocabulaires comparés des parlers des l6 villages Fali du Cameroun-septentrional". Journal de la Société des Africanistes. 11 (1): 33–60. doi:10.3406/jafr.1941.2501. ISSN 0037-9166.
  2. ^ a b Jean-Marie, Essono (2016). Yaoundé Une ville, une histoire (in French). Yaounde: Editions Asuzoa. p. 521. ISBN 978-9956-687-02-2.
  3. ^ J M, Essono (2016). Une ville, une histoire. Yaounde: Editions Asuzoa. p. 522.
  4. ^ Yaoundé Rubrique Enseignement

Also see

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