Timeline of Yaoundé
The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Yaoundé, Cameroon.
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- 1888 - "Jaunde" settlement founded by German Georg August Zenker in colonial Kamerun.[1]
- 1895 - Trading post in business.[1]
20th century
[edit]- 1909 - Town designated capital of German colonial Kamerun.[2]
- 1911
- Charles Atangana appointed mayor.
- Palais de Charles Atangana built.
- 1916 - Town occupied by British and French forces.[3]
- 1921 - Yaounde designated administrative seat of colonial French Cameroon.[1]
- 1927 - Transcamerounais railway begins operating.[1]
- 1930 - Canon Yaoundé football club formed.
- 1933 - Central Hospital of Yaoundé founded.
- 1936 - Bastos (cigarette) manufactory begins operating.[4]
- 1939
- 1951 - Mvog-Betsi Zoo founded.
- 1952 - École professionnelle Charles-Atangana (school) built.[5]
- 1953 - Population: 36,786.[1]
- 1955
- 1956 - André Fouda elected mayor.
- 1959 - École nationale d'administration et de magistrature (college) founded.
- 1961
- City becomes capital of independent Republic of Cameroon.[1]
- École normale supérieure de Yaoundé (college) founded.
- Supreme Court of Cameroon headquartered in Yaoundé.
- 1962
- University of Yaoundé opens.
- Population: 93,269.[7]
- 1964 - American School of Yaounde founded.
- 1965 - University Teaching Hospital of Yaounde founded.[citation needed]
- 1966 - National Library of Cameroon headquartered in city.
- 1967 - Kondengui Central Prison built.
- 1971 - École nationale supérieure polytechnique de Yaoundé (college) founded.
- 1972
- Bank of Central African States headquartered in Yaoundé.
- Ahmadou Ahidjo Stadium opens.
- National "centralization of government functions" leads to population increase Yaounde.[2]
- 1973 - Monument de la réunification erected.[citation needed]
- 1974
- Cameroon Tribune newspaper begins publication.[8]
- Tonnerre Yaoundé football club formed.
- 1976 - Population: 291,071.[9]
- 1985 - Yaoundé General Hospital built.
- 1987
- Cameroon Radio Television headquartered in Yaounde.[8]
- Population: 649,000.[10]
- 1988 - Musée national du Cameroun (museum) active.
- 1991 - Catholic University of Central Africa opens.[11]
- 1992 - International airport begins operating.[1]
- 1993 - University of Yaoundé I and University of Yaoundé II established.
- 1998
- 14 February: Yaoundé train explosion occurs.
- Blackitude Museum founded.
- 1,293,000 (estimate).[12]
- 1999 - Afhemi Museum opens.[13]
21st century
[edit]- 2002 - Yaoundé Gynaecology, Obstetrics and Pediatrics Hospital opens.
- 2004 - United Nations Development Fund for Women regional office headquartered in Yaounde.[11]
- 2005 - Population: 1,817,524.[14]
- 2006 - Basilique Marie-Reine-des-Apôtres (church) dedicated.
- 2008 - February: 2008 Cameroonian anti-government protests; crackdown.[15]
- 2009
- March: Catholic pope visits city.
- Yaoundé Multipurpose Sports Complex opens.
- 2016
- Paul Biya Stadium construction begins.
- Population: 2,873,567 (estimate).[16]
- 2019 - Part of 2019 Africa Cup of Nations football contest to be held in city.
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ a b c d e f g h Eckert 2005.
- ^ a b Gates 2005.
- ^ "Le Cameroun: Histoire". Portail du Gouvernement du Cameroun: Services du Premier Ministre (in French). Retrieved 31 July 2017.
- ^ "Cameroun: l'origine des noms de 20 quartiers de Yaoundé". Camer.be (in French). Brussels. 2 February 2016.
- ^ a b c "Si Yaoundé, vous était contée…", Cameroon Tribune (in French), 8 March 2017
- ^ "Chronology of Catholic Dioceses: Cameroon". Norway: Roman Catholic Diocese of Oslo. Retrieved 31 July 2017.
- ^ "Population of capital cities and cities of 100,000 and more inhabitants". Demographic Yearbook 1965. New York: Statistical Office of the United Nations. 1966. pp. 140–161.
- ^ a b "Cameroon: Directory". Africa South of the Sahara 2004. Regional Surveys of the World. Europa Publications. 2004. ISBN 1857431839.
- ^ United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Statistical Office (1987). "Population of capital cities and cities of 100,000 and more inhabitants". 1985 Demographic Yearbook. New York. pp. 247–289.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - ^ "Population of capital cities and cities of 100,000 or more inhabitants". Demographic Yearbook 2000. United Nations Statistics Division.
- ^ a b Mark Dike DeLancey; et al. (2010). Historical Dictionary of the Republic of Cameroon (4th ed.). Scarecrow Press. ISBN 978-0-8108-7399-5.
- ^ "Population of capital cities and cities of 100,000 or more inhabitants". Demographic Yearbook 2005. United Nations Statistics Division.
- ^ Cybriwsky 2013.
- ^ "Population of capital cities and cities of 100,000 or more inhabitants". Demographic Yearbook 2015. United Nations Statistics Division. 2016.
- ^ "Cameroon Profile: Timeline". BBC News. 20 April 2011. Retrieved 31 July 2017.
- ^ "Table 8 - Population of capital cities and cities of 100,000 or more inhabitants", Demographic Yearbook – 2018, United Nations
This article incorporates information from the French Wikipedia and the German Wikipedia.
Bibliography
[edit]- in English
- Remi Clignet; Frank Jordan (1971). "Urbanization and Social Differentiation in Africa: A Comparative Analysis of the Ecological Structures of Douala and Yaoundé". Cahiers d'Études africaines. 11 (42): 261–297. doi:10.3406/cea.1971.2803 – via Persee.fr.
- Jane I. Guyer, ed. (1987). "Feeding Yaoundé, capital of Cameroon". In Feeding African Cities: Studies in Regional Social History. Indiana University Press. ISBN 0253321026.
- Paul Tiyambe Zeleza; Dickson Eyoh, eds. (2003). "Yaoundé, Cameroon". Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century African History. Routledge. ISBN 0415234794.
- Andreas Eckert [in German] (2005). "Yaoundé". In Kevin Shillington (ed.). Encyclopedia of African History. Fitzroy Dearborn. ISBN 978-1-57958-245-6.
- Kwame Anthony Appiah; Henry Louis Gates, eds. (2005). "Yaoundé, Cameroon". Africana: The Encyclopedia of the African and African American Experience (2nd ed.). Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-517055-9.
- Gordon Prain; et al., eds. (2010). African Urban Harvest: Agriculture in the Cities of Cameroon, Kenya and Uganda. Springer. ISBN 978-1-4419-6249-2. (Includes articles about Yaoundé)
- Roman A. Cybriwsky (2013). "Yaoundé". Capital Cities around the World: An Encyclopedia of Geography, History, and Culture. ABC-CLIO. p. 342+. ISBN 978-1-61069-248-9.
- in French
- André Franqueville (1968). "Le paysage urbain de Yaounde". Cahiers d'Outre-Mer (in French). 21 – via Persee.fr.
- Louis Roussel; et al. (1968). "La mobilité de la population urbaine en Afrique Noire: Deux essais de mesure, Abidjan et Yaoundé". Population (in French). 23 (2): 333–352. doi:10.2307/1527492. ISSN 1957-7966. JSTOR 1527492 – via Persee.fr.
- André Franqueville (1984). Yaoundé: construire une capitale (in French). IRD Editions. ISBN 9782709907248. (Includes bibliography)
- Anne Sidonie Zoa (1995), Les ordures à Yaoundé. Urbanisation, environnement et politique au Cameroun (in French), L'Harmattan
- Marie Morelle (2006). "'La rue' dans la ville africaine (Yaoundé, Cameroun et Antananarivo, Madagascar" [City streets in Africa]. Annales de géographie (in French). 115. doi:10.3406/geo.2006.21445 – via Persee.fr.
- J.R. Ngambi et al., 2011, "La prolifération des décharges sauvages et leurs impacts socio-environnementaux dans la ville de Yaoundé", International Journal Advanced Studies and Research in Africa, 2011 Vol.2, N°1, 52-58.
- René Joly Assako Assako (2012). "À propos de l'opération d'embellissement de Yaoundé, capitale d'Afrique centrale" [Politics of embellishment of the Cameroon capital, Yaoundé]. Cahiers d'Outre-Mer (in French). 65 (259): 371–393. doi:10.4000/com.6652 – via Revues.org.
- Jules Raymond Ngambi (2016). "Les pratiques populaires à la rescousse de la salubrité urbaine: la précollecte, un service alternatif aux insuffisances du système formel de gestion des déchets à Yaoundé". Cybergeo (in French) (789). doi:10.4000/cybergeo.27782 – via Revues.org.
- in German
- "Jaunde". Deutsches Kolonial-Lexikon (in German). 1920 – via Universitätsbibliothek Frankfurt.[permanent dead link]
External links
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- "(Yaounde)". Internet Library Sub-Saharan Africa. Germany: Frankfurt University Library. (Bibliography)
- "(Yaounde)". Connecting-Africa. Leiden, Netherlands: African Studies Centre. (Bibliography)
- "(Yaounde)". AfricaBib.org. (Bibliography)
- "(Yaoundé)". Directory of Open Access Journals. UK. (Bibliography of open access
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- "Yaoundé, Cameroon". BlackPast.org. US. October 2014.
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