Reply to comment by Ngako and Njonfang on 'The Adamawa-Yade domain, a piece of Archaean crust in the Neoproterozoic Central African Orogenic belt (Bafia area, Cameroon)', by Jacqueline Tchakounté et al., Precambrian Research 299 (2017) 210–229

V. Ngako and E. Njonfang addressed in their comment an interesting and debated issue about the collision geodynamics of the Pan-African Central African Orogenic Belt (CAOB) in Cameroon. However, the reason for this comment is still not clear to us since it mainly deals with issues far away from the scope of our study, namely, the pre-collisional set up of the belt. The comment raises two main points – the reworking process during plate collision and the Pan-African strain pattern – not discussed in our paper for the simple reason that it was not our goal and because our data set does not even allow such discussion. Having said that, the comment gives us the opportunity to clarify our view on the nature of the Adamawa-Yade domain (Central Cameroon) and the early evolution of the CAOB. We will successively discuss two other points raised in the comment: (1) our Fig. 12 depicting a possible pre-collisional configuration at the northern and southern margin of the Congo craton in the Early Neoproterozoic, and (2) the nature and extent of the Adamawa-Yade domain.