District of Douala

Douala account approximately 120 districts divided into 6 districts. Each district is in oneself a city in the city.

Akwa

The district of Akwa is the historical quarters of Douala. Indeed, it is here that the colonists founded the city which was to be next to the port.
This district now popular grouille of world as well the day as the night. Here and there cohabit the supermarkets day, street hawkers, luxury hotels, restaurants and stores various and varied. The night, the district yields the place to the discotheques, bars, casinos, saleswomen of food on the inch and everywhere resounds of the musique.
This district is truly the heart of the city of Douala, even if it offers a mine penaude to the visitors. The roads are battered and the majority are not suitable for motor vehicles. Certain places are even not easily passable with foot. The pavements are also in sorry state and the pedestrian will not fail to be inconvenienced by the dirtiness of the district. This irrefutable fact is with the authorities which refuse to maintain the roadway system Akwa, the district being shown to be one of the hearts of the opposition to the régime.
Nevertheless, it is here that the youth of the city gathers to benefit from the cultural infrastructures (cinema, French and German arts centres, british council) and to have fun the festival. Akwa is delimited by the boulevard of the Leclerc General, the roundabout “4th”, the boulevard of the Republic and the zone “Regifercam direction”. The name of the district is resulting from the Akwa clan of the Douala ethnos group.

Bali

the sector of Bali is located close to Bonanjo and Bonapriso, it is near the college Joss and of the technical school of Koumassi.Bali is the place where the Bell clan to reconstitute his cheffery after their expropriation of the plate Joss (Bonanjo) by the Germans with the Parc locality of the princes.

Bonaberi

Bonaberi is the district located on Right Bank of the Wouri. It is connected to the remainder of the city by only and single bridge of the city (currently (2005) in restoration on funds AFD).

It is in this district that settled many industries of the city, benefitting from good grounds gone as of the middle of the years 1980. This activity attracted populations on this bank and thus created for themselves the legendary stoppers of the bridge of the Wouri. It takes certain mornings two hours to cross it.

Bonaberi is also the door on the west of the country and it is thus by here that the goods with destination forward or coming from the west and of anglophone area.

Bonapriso

Bonapriso is the European district of Douala. Many expatriates elected residence in this easy district where the streets cross with angle droit.

One generally presents it like more the beautiful quarters of Douala.

This district was rested by the family Priso Doo Makongo, grandson of Ewalè (the ancestor of Dualas), whose Paul Soppo Priso is downward. It built villas there among the old fields. The zone being then marshy, it was impossible to build in height and thus only villas.
were high

The succession of Paul Soppo Priso still not being regulated (in 2005), of many land litigations always oppose the family members of this one and it is quite difficult to know which piece belongs to which in this quartier.

Bonapriso is delimited by the Charles de Gaulle avenue, the street Koloko, the boulevard of independence and the factory of the Breweries of Cameroun.

There is an artisanal market with the place known as " market with the fleurs".

Bonanjo

Bonanjo is the administrative district of Douala. Here the buildings of the presidency are concentrated, of the governor, the great administrations and the seats of the large banks and the large privately held companies of the country. The district dissociates others above all by its constructions in height, rather rare in Douala and the state of its roads, which are almost the only ones with being maintained. It is also in this zone that the Consulate-general of France is.

Bonanjo is delimited by the heavy axis, the port area and the zone “Regifercam direction”.

Bonamoussadi

Bonamoussadi is a relatively excentré residential district heart of the town of Douala. It is primarily composed of allotments under control of the MAETUR (Mission of Installation and Equipment of Urban and Rural Territories) and SIC (see low the district kotto). One can thus divide Bonamoussadi into 2 great zones: The zone has and the Zone B. the zone has includes/understands the Buildings and Blocks of dwellings going from has to F and the continuation being in the Zone B.

The remarkable places of Bonamoussadi are:

the college of Bonamoussadi
the market of Bonamoussadi
the course Vita (Place of regrouping of the sportsmen of the district)
the Mosque located at 250m of the crossroads Jewel
the cathedral near the market and back with back at the hospital of district

Denver, Santa Barbara

Denver, and the terminus, Santa Barbara is districts named in reference to the televised series… They are recognized with their constructions perpetually in work. There, the families concentrate which are connected with the middle-class.

Kotto

Kotto is a city built SIC during the Eighties and sheltering today more than 20.000 inhabitants. This district is made prefabricated houses and setting in hiring/purchase by the Real estate company of Cameroun (SIC). It is limited to the south by Bonamoussadi, in north by Banguè, the east by Logpom and the west by the river Wouri.

Beautiful New

The District of New Bell is another historical quarters of Douala. It is mainly populated population resulting from the internal shifts in population in Cameroun: Bamiléké ethnos groups, Based, inhabitants of North, english-speaking mixed in the district.

The name of the district is connected to the Bell clan of the ethnos group Douala.Ce surface was intended for this clan after their expropriation of the Plate Joss (Bonanjo) by Allemands.L' tenant abandonment action undertaken by German into 1913 towards the district New Bell knew a violent opposition and resulted in death by hanging of Rudolf Duala Manga Bell and its right-hand man Ngosso DIN on August 8th, 1914. The Beautiful one will never occupy this district since German left Cameroun two years later and following the negotiations with French, it is rather in Bali that they will settle.

The central market is there, food center of Douala, as well as the central prison which dyes the name even district of a sad connotation.

It is about a vast zone located at the exit of the town of Douala on axis-heavy Douala-Yaounde gathering several districts such as New Town, Bonaloka, Entrée of Balls, Bobongo, Boko, Ndogpassi, Ndokossi, Nyassa…

New Bell is famous being a dangerous district. In this vast wide, it reigns an insecurity remarkable to know a great juvenile delinquency and an important network of criminality. That is explained by the problem of nonthe employment of the young people and by the ambient misery which rises with the one of the daily newspaper of the majority of the Cameronians.

The visitors should for that show vigilance when they are at this place.

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