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The former German protectorate was mandated to British control after Germany’s defeat in World War I. In 1918, at the request of the Holy See, Bishop Shanahan visited Mamfe in Cameroon. He found the mission that the German Sacred Heart Fathers opened in 1913, nearly destroyed. The people were overjoyed at his coming; a catechist later remembered that as the bishop left, someone cried "When will you bring God back to us again?" In 1956, two Holy Rosary Sisters, invited by the Mill Hill Fathers to open a secondary school for girls in Cameroon, passed through Mamfe on their way to Okoyong. A Mamfe woman who had trained in Holy Rosary College in Nigeria assisted them and was proud to be chosen to pioneer the first secondary school for her people. By 1988, when the school was transferred to an African community, more than 1,000 students had passed through it — to become doctors, pharmacists, lawyers, teachers, business people and, more importantly, good Christian women. In 1963, the Holy Rosary Sisters opened another school, and soon after, a maternity home and child welfare center; catechetical training was continuous; and medical work began and continues at several centers. The Holy Rosary Sisters trained the Sisters of St. Therese, a new Cameroonian Congregation. The Holy Rosary Sisters also provided technical and commercial training through rural development centers. They began a communication apostolate. In 1991, their full-time pastoral work led to the opening of a parish.
Today… The missionary pattern of starting, developing, consolidating, and moving on to other apostolates has characterized the mission in Cameroon for nearly 50 years.
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