Duala

Its “Mama-say, mama-sa, ma-ma-ko-ssa” hook — which means “I dance” in the Duala language — was sampled by pop stars including Michael Jackson and Rihanna.

Rudolf Douala Manga Bell was a Duala king in Cameroon who, alongside his wife Emily, resisted land grabs by white colonisers.

At the crowded Duala market in the city center, food seller Mary Kolubah says business has slowed.

In Duala, a market area in Liberia, an exorcism was performed on an Ebola patient.

Duala, the capital, was occupied on 27th Sept., but it was only after desultory fighting for a year and a half that the Germans, realizing the hopelessness of further resistance, left the colony to its fate by retreating into the neighbouring Spanish territory of Rio Muni.