'This image is the will of hard work and wish to fulfil one's dreams and make tomorrow brighter' – Felix Fokoua

The Golden Nation

Cameroon can identify with a million colours. When I began the hunt for a single colour, it occurred to me that gold is the colour that symbolises life. The Golden Star on the Cameroonian flag symbolises unity; it is a human, ethnic and cultural celebration in all its majesty.

The 'Golden Nation' project, which I have curated and presented for Cameroon’s Colours of Africa, is as close as possible to the Cameroonian reality in terms of its history, its glory, its failures. Cameroon has a controversial, special and unique history. The country has many successful stories of people that came from nothing; Manu Dibango, the emblematic artist; Ernest Simo, the revolutionary scientist; and Kadji Defosso, the implacable industrialist. Beyond all our natural and cultural assets we surely have a brilliant, golden destiny.

The Sky Is Not The Limit

Colour appeals to emotions. Choosing gold is part of telling a story. In reality, it is about revealing the daily magic of Cameroon through a colour. Cameroon is a story. It is my story.
This is the story of a land of gold and honey that reveals itself every day beneath a bright, scorching sun that ripens our gourds. Though it is a quiet one, there is a Cameroonian dream. One of the child who wants to serve the nation, the banana seller who will become an industrialist, or the boy who will become an architect. The iconic figures of this nation have allowed us to believe that the sky is not the limit.

Many Voices

In Cameroon we know how to shine like gold.I look at my country through an optimistic lens. I believe in the capacity of men to positively transform their environment into something