Daniel Ekonde

The NBA MVP is a hero in Cameroon, and the coun­try’s tal­ent­ed but strug­gling game could use some of his star­dust.

The Cameroon star’s roots are in the im­pov­er­ished com­mu­ni­ty of New Bell, where they re­mem­ber a prodi­gious child play­ing.

Ngan­do Pick­ett hopes to cheer his In­domitable Li­ons on in Qatar – and do a bit of danc­ing too.

The hosts were knocked out of AF­CON by Egypt on Thurs­day but lo­cals are look­ing for­ward to the fi­nal on Sun­day.

Cameroo­ni­ans grieve af­ter eight were killed and dozens in­jured in a stam­pede be­fore an African Cup of Na­tions match.

On Mon­day, eight peo­ple died while 38 suf­fered in­juries at stam­pede ahead of hosts Cameroon’s match against Co­moros.

Al Jazeera looks at the in­ter­est lev­els in Cameroon which is host­ing foot­ball’s Africa Cup of Na­tions.

Days be­fore the tour­na­ment kick­off, ex­cite­ment reach­es fever pitch de­spite coro­n­avirus and se­cu­ri­ty con­cerns.

More pub­lish­ing op­tions at home and abroad are cat­a­pult­ing the coun­try’s young writ­ers to fame.

Num­ber of Cameroon­ian films avail­able on glob­al stream­ing plat­form set to rise to four in com­ing days.