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Here is a list of notable Bamileke or people of Bamileke descent: Julius Akosah, Cameroonian soccer player; Benoît Angbwa; Adrian Awasom, American football player; Erykah Badu, American singer-songwriter, record producer and actress; Kadji Defosso, industrialist; Mathias Djoumessi, president of the UPC political party; Victor Fotso, industrialist
An oral tradition exists claiming that the Bassa people are descended from Egyptian Jews who immigrated to Cameroon two thousand years ago. The Bamileke claim to be one of the Lost Tribes of Israel. [2] During the 1990s, some members of the Beth Yeshourun Pentecostal community decided to leave Christianity and become Jewish.
In these pages, Njoya detailed the history and customs of the Bamum people. [3]: 38 This is not to be confused with another of Njoya's inventions, an artificial spoken language known as Shümom, which was devised after the script. Outsider observers in recent years have tended to confuse the script with the invented language.
Bamileke dancers perform in Batié, West Province.. Dance in Cameroon is an integral part of the tradition, religion, and socialising of the country's people.Cameroon has more than 200 traditional dances, each associated with a different event or situation.
As home to the enterprising Bamum and Bamileke kingdoms, the West is an economic bright spot and one of Cameroon's more developed regions. This progressive development is tempered by the strong traditional culture that persists among the Bamileke and the province's other major ethnic group, the Bamum (sometimes Bamoum, Bamun, Bamoun).
Bafia people; Baka people (Cameroon and Gabon) Bakoko people; Bakossi people; Baligham; Balondo Civilization; Bambenga; Bamileke people; Bamum people; Banda people; Bassa people (Cameroon) Beti people; Bikélé people; Buduma people
Most of them were Bamileke (who accounted for 62 percent of the people). Douala was the main location of the trade in slaves, but most of the slaves of modern Cameroon who were delivered to Europeans, regardless of their specific origin, were sold to the Fernando Po slave trade center, and from there the European merchants took them to the ...
Cameroon has a rich and diverse culture made up of a mix of about 250 indigenous populations and just as many languages and customs. The country is nicknamed "Little Africa" as geographically, Cameroon consists of coastline, mountains, grass plains, forest, rainforest and desert, all of the geographical regions in Africa in one country.