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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.
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.
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
The Bamum, sometimes called Bamoum, Bamun, Bamoun, or Mum, are a Grassfields ethnic group located in now Cameroon.In 2018, the Bamum and Bamileke peoples accounted for about 24% of the country's population. [1]
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 ...
The Tikar people predominantly practice Christianity today. However, there are a small number who practice traditional religions and Islam. [38] Despite the differences between the spiritual practices, the Tikar are known to refer to God the Creator as Nyuy, and the Bamileke people refer to Nyuy as Si. Both groups, along with the other peoples ...
The Bafoussam people originate from the Bamileke ethnic group, which are the natives of the same region. Claims are made that the Bamileke were descendants of the Baladis who left Egypt in the ninth century of our era. They arrived in the Tikar region around the middle of the twelfth century before dividing around 1360 when their last king ...