L'Expression de Mamy-Wata

L'Expression de Mamy-Wata, often referred to as simply Mamy-Wata, is a weekly satirical newspaper published in Cameroon by the media company La Nouvelle Expression.[1] The paper is written in French peppered with loan words from Cameroonian Pidgin English.[2] In 1999, it had a weekly circulation of 4,000 copies.[1]

On 4 January 1999, Cameroonian police confiscated from 2,000 to 2,500 copies of Mamy-Wata in Douala.[3] La Nouvelle Expression reported that the papers were taken in response to a cartoon in the 29 December issue that depicted Cameroon's president, Paul Biya, in a spat with his wife.[1] Reports differ on whether the police ever provided an official justification for the seizure; the Committee to Protect Journalists reported that none was provided, but the International Press Institute reported that authorities claimed the newspapers were a "breach of public order". Scholar George Echu has claimed that the incident added Mamy-Wata to "the pantheon of Africa's satirical heavyweights."[4]

Notes
  1. CPJ.
  2. Echu 5.
  3. IPI says 2,000, but CPJ says 2,500.
  4. Eko 135.
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gollark: It could be done partly manually for now anyway.
gollark: It would be pretty good, though. You could actually replace dying parts (curse nonreplaceable phone batteries!), get upgrades as technology improves, and with eventual infrastructure support swap batteries at stations on roads or something.
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References
  • "Africa 1999: Cameroon". Committee to Protect Journalists. Accessed 13 December 2007.
  • ""World Press Freedom Review: 1999". Cameroon: International Press Institute. Archived from the original on 24 October 2007. Retrieved 13 December 2007.
  • Echu, George (2003). "Influence of Cameroon Pidgin English on the Linguistic and Cultural Development of the French Language" (PDF). Indiana University Linguistics Club Working Papers. Archived from the original (PDF) on 18 August 2011.
  • Eko, Lyombe (2003). "Hear All Evil, See All Evil, Rail against All Evil: Le Messager and the Journalism of Resistance in Cameroon", The Leadership Challenge in Africa: Cameroon under Paul Biya. Trenton, New Jersey: Africa World Press, Inc. ISBN 1-59221-179-8.


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