Cameroun

At the age of 20 years, Samuel Esson Jonah could not imagine the impressive career path for which he was intended. Laborer in a gold mine in Ghana, he won a scholarship to continue his studies in England. Samuel E. Jonas is one of the most influential businessmen of Africa …

In Cameroon, Françoise Foning’s success-story (born in 1949) is known of all. From nothing, this former employee of a municipality of Douala (Cameroon) decided to take her fate in hand in creating in 1967 the restaurant « New style », her very first company. She afterward created a transport company with two …

27 African countries were in reflection from 31st March to 1st April in Abidjan to find sustainable solutions to employment problem of young people. Introduced by inter-country quality pole in the domain of technical and professional skills development in association with the Association for Education Development in Africa (ADEA), this …

« No one is allowed to destroy a page of the history of people because people without history, it is a world without soul », said Alain Foka. The majority of colonized African countries inherited their histories drafted by colonists. Senegal wants to distance itself by launching the ambitious project of rewriting …

The death of the Congolese artist King Kester Emeneya (of his real name Jean-Baptiste Emeneya Mubiala) on February, 13th 2014 in Paris, is still arousing reactions in African musical universe. Papa Wemba, one of mentors of the dead artist brought out a few days ago, « Blessure » (wound) a song to …

The first edition of Intercities games shot in Africa (Ivory Coast) in live conditions came to an end on Saturday March, 29th with the victory of the city of Séguéla, situated at 592 km far in the Northwest of Abidjan. A total of 16 cities participated in this audiovisual program …

Africa Top Success wishes you good week start with the mixing of the title « Happy » of the American Pharell William by Dj100proof. The voice mixing of the artist in an instrumental Happy of Nigerian musician Fela Kuti (died in 1997), gave an Afro sound so interesting as the original. Entitled …

At the age of 25, Arthur Zang is a young prodigy who is going to help save thousands of lives in African suffering from cardiac pathology. This young Cameroonian engineer created Cardiopad, the first medical touchpad made in Africa. The famous Forbes magazine underlined: « in innovation, he represents what Africa …

Kindly keep well in mind this brand, please: «Anofel Wear». It was created in Cameroon and it was Yves Hervé Olo who launched this Cameroonian brand of streetwear specialized in of T-shirts design. This small company consists at present of a team of six people. It was set up in …

Samuel Eto’o, the Cameroonian star of Chelsea made his show on the pitch by humiliating Arsenal; but also by using very aggressive words. It is not unusual, the older he is, the more free he feels to express what he thinks … As a result, this weekend, having settled his …

Forbes magazine adores rankings! And having revealed a few days ago, the biggest African fortunes , Forbes is interested in the ranking of « 20 young builders of Africa of tomorrow ». At the top of the list is the Senegalese Magatte Wade , business woman of 38 years and the founder …

African, he was trained in the United States. But he came back onto his native continent to train the future generations. Acha Leke was appointed as Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum in 2008. Today, he is consultant within the American McKinsey cabinet, a company of experts-councils, and …

Jessica Colaço is partnerships guiding at iHub in Kenya. She attended at Austin in Texas to South by South West (SxSW) world-famous festival dedicated to digital innovation. She is convinced that mobile is going to change everything in Africa. She said it to «Jeune Afrique magazine»: « Our main asset is …

Her fame is beyond Cameroon. Julienne Dafonseca is enjoying a new great success with her Owl collection. « OWL is the name of a bird and O.W.L is Original Women’s Life « . The choice of the logo is very simple. I am a fan of owls. My choice of this logo …

Facebook, that just celebrated its 10 years anniversary as Africa Top Success reported, well took roots on the continent. Twitter is facing difficulties but the famous social network which allows 140 digits maxi to communicate becomes more and more successful in its turn. A recent investigation revealed that South Africa …

This event is always highly awaited and followed: Edition 2014 of AfricTalents forum will take place in Dakar on March, 21st and 22nd. The platform mobilizes the large companies which operate on the continent and the young graduates. AfricaTalents has for objective to help candidates all origins taken together, to …

They are 20 and they are less than 40 years old. They are already successful and a bright future still awaits them! The world economic forum has just revealed the list of the « young world leaders ». They were at first 214 to have aspired to this classification. 19 came from …

The first edition in 2011 was a great success. Organizers wanted again to do better for the second edition of this big mass of fashion which was held in Yaoundé on November, 1st 2013. This rendez-vous aimed to be as that of the major fashion – week of Cameroon; smart …

Anna Ngann Yonn is the happy creator of Kreyann brand. She lives in Douala with her husband and her three children. Native of the big family Ndog Bianga of Ngonga village in Sanaga Maritime and NdogTindi of Lika village, she always says to have had the passion of fashion from …

How much can an African Head of state can then well earn? “Jeune Afrique” magazine has just realized a very great instructive investigation: who is the best paid? The most favored? The better accomodated? Answers with our interactive map. Here is the comment of the site: « Attacking salaries and official …

At the age of 21 years old, he became the director prodigy of Cameroon. Having studied in the USC (University of Southern California), he signed his first movie, « Sexe, champagne & chocolat », a movie fully shot in Cameroon with great success. Henri Melingui was born in France in 1989, but …

Thomas Ngijol is making the buzz with his new movie that has Africa for theme, “Le Crocodile de Botswanga” (The Crocodile of Botswanga), a caustic comedy on African autocrats and the “Françafrique”, produced by his friend, Fabrice Eboué. Thomas Ngijol was known by the general public with Jamel Comedy Club. …

Fabrice Éboué is making buzz with his new movie that has for theme Africa. With “Le Crocodile du Botswanga”, he signed a caustic comedy on African autocrats and Françafrique. He rold « Jeune Afrique” magazine the genesis of this movie: « We fell « under the spell » of famous videos of Moussa Dadis …

Manu Dibango: 80 years old with almost no wrinkle… A legend! On last December 12th, Emmanuel N’ Djoké Dibango, under the name of Manu Dibango, the famous saxophonist and Cameroonian singer celebrated his 80 years! And as he has a large shape, he planned to mark well the occasion! Two …

Her dream became reality! Léonora Miano, a Cameroonian writer won the Fémina Prize on Wednesday, November 6th, 2013. A very nice consecration! This prize was awarded to her for her book « La Saison de l’ombre » (Grasset). The selection also included “Au revoir là-haut” of Pierre Lemaitre (Albin Michel), distinguished on …

Here is the sports program that was missing, Africa Buzz Sports! It was launched on Friday, November 8th, 2013 by Africa Top Sports.com The program is entitled Africa buzz Sports. It is coproduced with “Les Dépêches de Brazzaville” broadcast on “Télé Sud « . It is repeated on “Télé Sud” on Sunday …

Samuel Fosso was born in Kumba in 1962 near the Nigerian border. This Cameroonian photographer was known in Africa and all over the world through his self-portraits. He made a name of himself during the first African Meetings of photography of Bamako in 1994. The exhibition of contemporary art Africa …

They are three buddies who are a hit with their group X-Maleya. Roger and Auguste are Cameroonian. Haïssama is a half-blood from an American father and a French-Cameroonian mother. They sing in bassa, in French and in English! They met in a high school and dreamed about a fate of …

10 years already! Facebook saw the light of day on February 4th, 2004. The success of this social network is purely amazing: we count today more than 1, 12 billion users in the world. The group has just published an annual net profit of 1, 5 billion dollars (1, 1 …

« I am fighting to make a heritage known that I find fragile, so much it has undergone number of mixing, mixtures and sometimes compromises! «  Erik Aliana has just brought out his new album, “Just My Land”, a hymn to his native country, Cameroon. Eleven songs to which we listen …