Potent Secrets: The Movie

Potent Secrets Grande Premiere: Yaounde, Sept. 14, 2001

Yaounde-Hilton: Site of the Grande Premiere

On Friday September 14, 2001, Potent Secrets made its world debut during a lavish Grande Premiere at the Yaounde Hilton Hotel in Cameroon. Invitees included the crème de la crème of Cameroon's capital city, among them, leading political figures and top government officials; members of the diplomatic corps and international organizations; prominent artists and journalists; and the movers and shakers of Cameroon's literary scene.

Cameroon's sleepy cinema industry

The Abunaws are the best thing that ever happened to Cameroon's film industry

By the BBC's Francis Ngwa Niba in Yaounde (BBC World Service, Tuesday, 5 March, 2002, 15:40 GMT)

A husband-and-wife team of Cameroonian filmmakers is taking on the challenge of reviving the country's sleepy cinema industry. Ako and Joyce Abunaw, who are now working on their third film together, are determined to get Cameroonians watching local productions. But the problem, says Ako Abunaw, is that the home market has been flooded with Nigerian films, which are particularly popular in Cameroon 's English-speaking areas.