Happy Christmas from Bamenda, Cameroon.
From my neighbourhood’s kids.
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You can comment below, or link to this permanent URL from your own site.From my neighbourhood’s kids.
Tags: cameroon, christmas, happy christmas, singing, we wish you a merry christmas
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December 18, 2008 at 11:06 am
I have no sound (why? no idea) but I can tell they’re being cute!
Happy Christmas to you too.
December 18, 2008 at 11:26 am
Too adorable! A great way to put a smile on anyone’s face – thanks for sharing!
December 18, 2008 at 12:05 pm
Awesome. Simply, beautifully, tear-jerkingly, grinning-stupidly awesome.
December 18, 2008 at 12:55 pm
[...] with working link) – some Christmas cheer from Bamenda, Cameroon – I think you’ll like this alot: http://ourmanincameroon.com/2008/12/18/christmas-bamenda « előző | következő » sylwiapresley — 2008. 12. 18. [...]
December 18, 2008 at 1:37 pm
[...] @PatrickSearle: Best Christmas message of the year by far
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December 18, 2008 at 2:15 pm
Now I’m grinning like an idiot at my desk and feel ready for Christmas! A Merry Christmas to you too, and your neighbours, especially the poor girl on the right who looks mortified at being roped in!
December 18, 2008 at 4:03 pm
Wonderful kids! Wonderful message. Thank you.
December 18, 2008 at 7:13 pm
Steve, thank you so much for this…it’s aces!!! how lovely. a merry Xmas to you and to each one of these beautiful kids. xx
December 18, 2008 at 7:13 pm
Good work fellah!
December 18, 2008 at 7:28 pm
Thanks it cheered up Flo who feels a bit poorly.
December 19, 2008 at 6:50 am
This is divine. This is just too much! I like the shy kid on the edge of the group (there are two actually, who put hands to their faces, shy and perhaps wondering if they really want to be video taped), and I like the little girl, too, in the middle, who taps her little foot and chimes in boldly. Oh, I like all of them. Very beautiful.
I am jealous of you. You now have your very own Christmas choir with angelic voices. How does all this happen? How do you do it? Have you cast a spell on your young neighbours?
I am worried you might start teaching them songs from Newcastle. Don’t you dare! Now, in order to be fair, I think it is time for you to hand the camera over to one of your young singers and have him/her record a video of you!
December 19, 2008 at 7:29 am
I thought you might like that one – to clue you in the 2 kids on the right just turned up on that day, and the kid on the left isn’t around much – the rest of them are regulars at my door – where they knock and holler till the whiteman comes to play.
It’s beats a Christmas card anyway.
BB – the kid in the middle is Mimi – quite a little local superstar – despite having just turned 3 on the day I filmed this, she seems to be one of those kids that everyone loves.
I bumped into here, as I normally do, on my way to work this morning and she hugged me around the knees. She then waits till I walk 10 yards away and says bye, then another bye after another 10 yards – until she is hollering it into the distance.
I bought a load of tinsel for the VSO Xmas party so they’ve all had bits of it – that particular piece in the film was the last – they couldn’t decide which of them should keep it – so it was cut into 6 tiny pieces.
Have a good xmas everyone. There might be one last post before I head off on my holidays.
December 24, 2008 at 7:02 pm
[...] in the town of Bamenda in her native Cameroon who blogs at Our Man in Cameroon. Below you can see the video that he posted on his [...]
January 9, 2009 at 5:27 pm
I have just tripped over your blog through Twitter. This is delightful, but it tugged at my heart as I received a phone call from my orphanage in Kenya on Christmas Day (I am presently in the UK) and the kids sang to me.
A real tear-jerker.
Thanks for sharing it with everyone
May see you in Cameroon some time in 2009, if my malaria control project gets off the ground.