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Bakossi
Bakossi house in 1920
Total population
200,000[1]
Regions with significant populations
Bakossi Mountains (Cameroon)
Languages
Akoose
Religion
Christianity
Related ethnic groups
Mbo and other Bantu peoples

The Bakossi people are a Bantu ethnic group that live on the western and eastern slopes of Mount Mwanenguba and Mount Kupe in the Bakossi Mountains of Cameroon. They number about 200,000, mostly engaged in subsistence farming but also producing some coffee and cocoa.[1]

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Bakossi people

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The Bakossi people are a Bantu ethnic group that live on the western and eastern slopes of Mount Mwanenguba and Mount Kupe in the Bakossi Mountains of...

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Bakossi

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Bakossi may refer to: Bakossi Forest Reserve, a protected area in Cameroon Bakossi language, one of the languages of Cameroon Bakossi Mountains, a mountain...

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Bakossi Mountains

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The Bakossi Mountains are a mountain range that forms part of the Cameroon line of active and extinct volcanoes in western Cameroon, covering about 230...

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Hairy frog

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eaten in Cameroon. They are hunted with long spears or machetes. The Bakossi people traditionally believed that the frogs fall from the sky and, when eaten...

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Bakossi Forest Reserve

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The Bakossi Forest Reserve is a 5,517 square kilometres (2,130 sq mi) reserve within the Bakossi Mountains in Cameroon, home to many rare species of plants...

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Ngab

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the north of Tombel in the Southwest Region, in the country of the Bakossi people. In 1998 the Ngab-Tombel community received some assistance from Helvetas...

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Veneration of the dead

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(as in Nigeria among the Igbo people), and Islam (among the different Mandé peoples and the Bamum and the Bakossi people) in much of the continent. In...

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Mount Kupe

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is the highest of the Bakossi mountains, rising to 2,064 metres (6,772 ft). The mountain is revered by the local Bakossi people as the home of their ancestral...

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Tombel

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the north of the Mungo Valley. The town is traditionally part of the Bakossi people's country, but now has a significant population of other tribes from...

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Manenguba languages

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Cameroon. The people speaking the various Manenguba languages belong to the following tribes or nations: Mienge, Mbo, Basossi, Bakossi, Elung, Nninong...

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Duala people

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Balong, Bakossi and so on – who are culturally and historically more or less related to the Duala – are under Duala influence, and most of these people speak...

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Kumba

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sizeable amount of indigenous languages, most presently the Bafaw, Bakundu, Bakossi and Mbonge. The ethnic groups of Kumba are the Bafaw and the Bakundus....

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Bakossi National Park

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The Bakossi National Park (BNP) is a protected area within the Bakossi Forest Reserve, created by a decree in early 2008. The park covers 29,320 hectares...

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Oroko people

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mangrove plains as well as the most part of the Rumpi Hills towards the Bakossi Mountains to the northeast and the Ejagham forest to the northwest. The...

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Bafaw people

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language are related linguistically, culturally and historically to the Mbo, Bakossi, Belongs, Bassossi, Bakundu and Douala tribes.However the Bafo speak the...

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Bight of Biafra

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markets on the Bight of Biafra included Bamileke, Efik/Ibibio, Igbo, Tikar, Bakossi, Fang, Massa, Bubi and many more. These captured Africans arrived in what...

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Nyongo society

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in this society can be found from the coast of Cameroon to the Bakossi and Beti peoples in the interior of the country. It is even found amongst the northern...

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List of contemporary ethnic groups

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G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z by status: List of Indigenous peoples List of diasporas List of stateless nations regional lists: Ethnic groups...

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Cameroonian Americans

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Bassa, and Bulu peoples. So, most of the slaves carried from Bimbia in those years, were from Tikari, Douala-Bimbia, Banyangi and Bakossi. Most of them...

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Bakos

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Slovak footballer Martin Bakoš (born 1990), Slovak ice hockey player Bakossi (disambiguation) This disambiguation page lists articles associated with...

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Bangem

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Tombel and Nguti subdivisions) and also considered as the heart-land of the Bakossi tribe. Nestled halfway up Mount Muanenguba and it famous twin lakes, Bangem...

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Volcanic crater lake

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also be deadly. Gas discharges from Lake Nyos in Cameroon suffocated 1,800 people in 1986, and crater lakes such as Mount Ruapehu's (New Zealand) often contribute...

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Elvis Ngolle Ngolle

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Ngolle Ngolle was born in kack, located in South West region. He is of Bakossi origin. He taught political science at the University of Denver in the...

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List of religions and spiritual traditions

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ethnic religion Mursi animism Nso religion Nuer religion Nyongo Society Bakossi beliefs Odinala / Odinani Oropom religion Safwa religion Samburu religion...

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Cameroonian Highlands forests

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southwest–northeast. In the southwest the ecoregion includes the Rumpi Hills, Bakossi Mountains, Mount Nlonako, Mount Kupe, and Mount Manengouba. It extends...

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Epuli Aloh Mathias

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Chief Epuli Aloh Mathias is Paramount Chief of the Bakossis in the south-west region of Cameroon. His jurisdiction covers all the thirteen Bassossi villages...

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Olusegun Obasanjo

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force. In January 2002, Obasanjo ordered the mobile police to break-up the Bakossi Boys, a vigilante group active primarily in Abia and Anambra states which...

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