I have been to some African countries like: Benin (Cotonou) Togo, Ghana, Cameroon, central African, Congo Brazzaville and Congo Kinshasa. Although it was not easy but it was really educating and it was also up and down because traveling though forest of any Africa is like life and dead. It was really nice meeting difference types of people and languages is amazing. Let me tell you a bit about our (me and my friend which is my brother from a difference mother) of the adventure, Actuarially we are football players, we got a contract in Cameroun to play for 6 months than we Enberg on a trip to Cameroun. After reaching there the only alternative was to go by leg (trekking) from there to the border between Nigeria/Cameroun with our bags on our backs night and day for 3days non stop with heavy rain falling on us till we arrived one village called ESIMBI at the immigration office were they stamped us in .From that point we figured out how to get a Bedford vehicle which we board to Bamenda, North West territory of Cameroun. This journey took place in the night at 9pm. During this journey we eat all kinds of stuff and drank all kinds of water.When we got to Bamenda we lodged in a hotel that happens to be owned by a Cameroonian/Nigerian decent, a family to be much remembered because of how they impacted our lives in diverse areas of life. While in that hotel two leading clubs in Bamenda namely PWD FC and Rangers Int’l FC came dragging after us but before leaving Nigeria it was Rangers FC that we were told of, so we yielded ourselves to Rangers FC which were camping in a village I could still remember the name (BALI-KUMBAT).
OUR JOURNEY FROM CAMEROUN TO DRC.
We (Jossy, KingPhil and Francis) left Bamenda in the North West region of Cameroun to Yaoundé the capital in a night by transport. We arrived Yaoundé on Wednesday morning. The following day we promptly passed on Yaoundé to Sanglema then Djoum and to Mintum generally that very day by street (vehicle). It was the point at which we got to Mintum that we found that we can’t proceed with our excursion via vehicle rather by LEG (Traveling). So we have no option, and so we started a new experience by Trekking which started from Mintum —–Lele ==65km. Due to disturbance from the Gernderm in Mintum our money got finished such that there is just no way for us to continue the journey, so our friend and brother FRANCIS who happens to be a Cameroonian went back to Yaoundé to his family since we are still in Cameroonian territory while we stayed in that village in the house of one SYLVIAN whom we just met in that car coming to Mintum. He kept us in his house for one solid Month as well as feeding us with bush meat such as Monkey, Monkey, Antelope, etc with BOBOLO same type of food for 1 solid Month also drinking water from the river in a village of not up to 50 people, what an experience! Francis left us there for Yaoundé and after certain weeks he returned and he returned with the amount of 400,000cfa which we quickly proceed with our excursion daily after his return, but before continuing the journey an idea came that if one person holds the money it will be very risky because if anything comes up on the way that is the end of it, so we decided to share the money like this; Francis took 200,000cfa Jossy 100,000cfa and i 100,000cfa I had a big photo album that you can put picture and use the leather on top to cover the picture, so we removed some pictures and put our money under it and gum it with the leather cover. LELE —-CAREFOUR NTAM (Cameroun) ==65km on foot. Arriving here the Cameroonians soldiers at the boarder took 105,000cfa from Francis because they search us all they didn’t find any money on us but Francis, after doing that they kept us there for sometime and gave us food to eat (Monkey meat and Tuwon Masara) not forgetting that, that is the boarder between Cameroun and Congo brazzaville. So we continue from CAREFOUR NTAM (Cameroun) —–CAREFOUR NTAM (Congo brazzaville) which is 15km on foot. Now we are at the boarder and needed to register with the Immigration people. Jossy ——3000cfa i kingphil payed ——3000cfa and Francis —–2000cfa As i continue you will notice difference in money paid to the immigration people simply because we are West Africans while Francis is from Central Africa and we are in their region so it’s normal. CAREFOUR NTAM CONGO —- BELLE VUE ==37km on foot. BELLE VUE —-SOUANKE ==30km on foot. SOUANKE —–85km on foot. While on our way to SOCALIB we met with REBELS in that thick forest fully armed and they searched us but they couldn’t find anything us apart from our sports kits so the money remaining with Francis was the one they saw and they took it. REGISTRATION IN SOUANKE WITH THE IMMIGRATION. Jossy — – 15,000cfa, I kingphil — — 15,000cfa and Francis — – 7000cfa, We additionally paid for what they call Testament of Customary Section at SOUANKE as follows: Jossy — – 3000cfa, i(kingphil — – 3000cfa and Francis — – 2000cfa,, Vehicle FROM SOUANKE IN AKORI KURA (BEDFORD) — – SOCALIB . Jossy — – 10,000cfa I (kingPhil) — – 10,000cfa and Francis — – 10,000cfa Enlistment AT THE Police headquarters IN SEMBE.. Jossy —-2000cfa Philip —-2000cfa Francis —-2000cfa REGISTRATION AT IMMIGRATION IN SOCALIB. Jossy —–2000cfa I payed (kingphil) ——2000cfa, Francis —–2000cfa. REGISTRATION WITH THE GERNDERM IN SOCALIB . Jossy —–3000cfa i kingPhil —3000cfa, and Francis —-3000cfa. POLICE NATIONAL IN SOCALIB. Jossy –4000cfa, kingPhil –4000cfa and Francis —4000cfa. EXPERIENCE So many experience while on this journey that one can’t just forget In a hurry,
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1. I remembered in the forest where we met with those REBELS it was a thick forest with all kinds of animals and I could still remember a very big snake that passed through my legs (kingPhil) without harming me, (God’s protection). We left those rebels and a heavy rain started falling for more than half a day that drenched us with our bags on our backs.
2. We passed one village that i can’t remember the name now after Trekking for 150km out of ignorance and on arrival to another village only for us to discovered that our passports were supposed to have been stamped there. Now arrival in that new village the immigration people refused to stamp us in unless we return to that first village and are stamped before they here can stamp us in, so we had no choice than to go back there i.e another 150km which makes it 300km. What an experience!
3. We left SOCALIB to OUESSO by boat and arriving at Ouesso we got to the immigration office for visa to Brazzaville but we discovered that our money is finished and cannot be enough to do that, the immigration officer was about using red ink on our passports but we pleaded on him not to do that, so he later told us that the only thing he can do for us is to repatriate us to SOKAMBO a boarder between Cameroun and Congo Brazzaville from YOKADOUMA so we accepted the proposal and decided that since is a boarder we will do hard labour work to raise money to continue our journey instead of going back totally to Cameroun . So we left OUESSO for SOKAMBO and we arrived there,
4. We stayed in SOKAMBO village for a total period of 8 months where we did the below jobs for survival : * Loading/offloading of containers of ALL kind into STOREHOUSE. * Loading of trailers of all types with goods. * Loading/Offloading of crates of drinks of ALL types. * Selling of Gas that we get from trucks that come with timba from both Cameroun and Congo Brazzaville to people in Ouesso village. For the 8 months in addition to that we have been in SOKAMBO Town we have been eating one kind of food which is BEANS and Bread and tea from Niger Man that God used seriously to be feeding us with or without money. * We have been arrested for so many occasions from the security men out of JEALOUSY from the people in that village just because of how God has been blessing us but God has always been there for us. * Myself and Jossy fell sick in this same village on different occasions nearly to death in a village where there’s no neither a pharmacy or even a Dispensary, but God always show up with His healing hand. So many experience but due to time constraint i cannot share them all but always fresh in my memory.
