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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
The following 63 pages use this file: Aghem language; Atong language (Cameroon) Awing language; Baba language; Balo language; Bamali language; Bambalang language
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The Kouo'shi are Bamiléké people who are descended from several generations of migrants from North Cameroon ’ time. Bandrefam is located about 300 km from Douala the commercial capital of Cameroon , about 300 km of Yaounde the political capital and 25 km from Bafoussam , the regional capital.
Bangou is a village of the Bamileke people in the West Province of Cameroon with a population of around 12,000. However, most people that consider themselves "from Bangou" do not reside in Bangou, but in Yaoundé, Douala, Nkongsamba or other cities in Cameroon and the world.
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).
The French colonials destroyed Njoya's schools and forbade the teaching of the script, which fell into rapid decline and today hovers on the brink of extinction (the Bamum Scripts and Archives Project, in Foumban, is teaching the script to young people to spread literacy), but the Shümom language is spoken as a second language by many people ...