King of Bandjoun, one of the numerous Bamileke Kingdoms in Cameroon
Regions with significant populations
Cameroon
8,000,000 est. [1][1]
Languages
Bamileke Languages, French,
English,
Pidgin
Religion
Grassfields beliefs and ancestral worship (dual system: Divinities-based, and Ancestors-based), Christianity, Islam
Related ethnic groups
Bafia, Bamum, Tikar, other Grassfields peoples, Igbo
Lac Baleng, tourist area located in the western region where one little beyond the water which marries the face of the surrounding nature.Woman "Mafo" at the funeral of a Bamileke chief - West Cameroon
The Bamiléké are a group of 90 closely related peoples who inhabit the Western High Plateau of Cameroon. According to Dr John Feyou de Hapy, Bamiléké means people of faith.[2]
The Grassfields people do not refer to themselves as Bamileke but instead use the names of the individual kingdoms to which they belong or else refer to themselves as "Ngrafi" for “grassfields people".[3]
^"Bantu, Cameroon-Bamileke". Joshua Project. Retrieved 7 February 2019. Includes other non-Bamileke Semi-Bantu people.
^de Hapy, John Feyou & Alexis (5 March 2015). People from the Land of Ka. ASIN B00UCFYM4S.
^Blench, Roger (2011). "'The membership and internal structure of Bantoid and the border with Bantu" (PDF). Berlin: Humboldt University. pp. 28, 30.
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the Bamilekepeople, who were becoming increasingly successful as farmers. The UPC rebellion broke out in the French territory in 1955, with Bamilekes prominent...
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...
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the Tikar and Bamilekepeoples. Their oral tradition cites that they left Sudan and arrived in northern Cameroon before the Tikar people. When Muslims...
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messages usually get relayed on by the next village. Drums used by the Bulu people of Cameroon might be heard as far away as 10 to 15 miles at night, compared...
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Bororo (graziers) and sedentary farmers such as the Jukun, Tiv, Chamba, Bamileke, Wurkum, Bachama, Jenjo, Mbula, Berom, Mumuye, Kare Kare, and sometimes...
The Igbo people (English: /ˈiːboʊ/ EE-boh, US also /ˈɪɡboʊ/ IG-boh; also spelled Ibo and historically also Iboe, Ebo, Eboe, Eboans, Heebo; natively Ṇ́dị́...
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