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The majority of people in Cameroon speak French, although mostly all of these people speak English also.

French is part of the Indo-European language family, which then divides into the Italic, or Latin branch, then to the Romance group of languages and finally to French. Dialects of French include Metropolitan French, the French spoken in Paris and surrounding regions of France, Louisiana French, the French spoken by the people of Louisiana, Quebec French, the French spoken by the Canadians of Quebec and Cameroonian French, the French spoken by the people of Cameroon. Haitian Creole is a form of creolized French.

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The main religion of Cameroon is Christianity. This religion is a diffused religion, brought from France to Cameroon by French colonizers. Christianity is a universalizing religion as it seeks converts and applies to people from all over the world.

Christianity is a monotheistic religion that started at about 30 A.D. in the area that is now Palestine today. The religion is based upon the teachings of Jesus Christ, the Messiah, or Savior, of the Old Testament. The holy book of Christianity is the Bible, from which all of the teachings of Christianity come. Christians believe that the Bible was written by people who were influenced by God, who told them what to write. Christianity diffused slowly throughout the Roman Empire until the emperor Constantinople converted to the religion, making Christianity very popular. The three main branches of Christianity are Catholicism, Protestantism and the Eastern Orthodox Church. Worship is conducted in a church and has a specific pattern to how it is conducted. Catholic churches are typically very ornate and have arches and tall spires, peaks, etc. to show God's grandeur. Protestant churches are much simpler and smaller than Catholic churches with the idea that ornate churches take away the focus on God. Eastern Orthodox churches are characterized by large domes and little decoration on the outside. There are no icons on the inside of these churches.

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The top two ethnicities of Cameroon are the Cameroon Highlanders (31%) and Equatorial Bantu (19%).

The Cameroon Highlanders are located in the West and Northwest regions of Cameroon. They were once one large group, but the group split the Bamileke tribe and the Bamun tribe when a leader decided to leave with his own group of people. Both groups practice essentially the same traditions and mainly speak Kwa; most of them are either Christian or Muslim.

The Equatorial Bantu are an ethnic group in the southern part of Cameroon, near the Congo Basin rainforest. They comprise the majority if the people that live in the city of Douala as this is the area where the Equatorial Bantu have lived for many hundreds of years. The Equatorial Bantu speak Bawaa and are predominantly Christian.

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Women in Cameroon are traditionally viewed as simply for bearing and raising children, as in most old-fashioned cultures.  However, during the past 20 years there has been a considerable increase in the amount of women that get jobs in cities that men would typically have, such as doctors or lawyers. For the majority of the population though, women are still viewed predominantly as simply for giving birth to children to have an extra working force on the farm, as most of the population of Cameroon lives in rural areas.

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Examples of folk culture in Cameroon are the traditional dances and music of the country, which typically consist of a dance choreographed by generations of  the past and a choir of people echoing a solo singer. Men and women are separated and the dances and songs are parts of large festivals.

Cameroonian cuisine is also a good example of folk culture in the country. The evening meal is a large and has one course, which typically consists of mashed vegetables with sauces and the occasional fish and meat mixed in with the dinner.

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A great example of pop culture in Cameroon is the Cameroonian National Soccer Team. Soccer was brought to Cameroon by the French during the mid 1900s, while Cameroon was still a French colony.

Another example of pop culture in Cameroon is filmmaking. After seeing films from Europe and the United States, several Cameroonians such as Jean-Paul Ngassa and Claude Chevalier have become filmmakers themselves and have filmed movies such as Bonjour Monsieur and Adventure en France.

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Cameroon's only real ethnic/racial tensions are between Nigerian Muslims and Christian Cameroonians in north Cameroon. Even so, these conflicts are limited to the occasional kidnapping or robbery, as can be seen in the current event below.  Although there is occasional conflict between tribes close the Cameroon-Gabon border, these conflicts only last about a day and do not happen for a while afterwards.

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http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/15/world/africa/cameroon-french-priest-kidnapped.html?_r=0

Acquired November 18th, 2013.

A French priest was abducted on November 13th, 2013 by the Boko Haram group, a Nigerian Islamist militant group that operates near the northern Cameroon-Nigeria border. Georges Vandenbeush, the victim, was in his monastery when the Boko Haram attempted to loot the safe box of the monastery and then left taking him instead. This current event ties to our unit of study because it talks about ethnic tension between Cameroonian Christians and Nigerian Muslims, as each group sees itself as superior to the other, creating tension. It also mentions the two largest religions in the world, Christianity and Islam, two universalizing religions that have spread across the world from their hearth in the Middle East to countries all around the world, including African countries such as Cameroon and Nigeria.

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https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/cm.html

Acquired November 17th, 2013.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cameroon

Acquired November 17th, 2013.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/15/world/africa/cameroon-french-priest-kidnapped.html?_r=0

Acquired November 18th, 2013.

http://www.infoplease.com/country/cameroon.html

Acquired November 18th, 2013.