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Tikar
Total population
170,000
Regions with significant populations
The Adamawa Region of Cameroon
Languages
Tikar
French
English
Religion
65% Christianity
25% Traditional central African religions
10% Islam
Related ethnic groups
Bafut • Bamum • Kom • Nso
The Tikar (also Tikari, Tika, Tikali,Tige,Tigare,andTigre)[1][2] are a Central African people who inhabit the Adamawa Region and Northwest Region of Cameroon. They are known as great artists, artisans and storytellers. Once a nomadic people, some oral traditions trace the origin of the Tikar people to the Nile River Valley in present-day Sudan.[3] Such ethnic groups were referred to in the 1969 official statistics as "Semi-Bantus" and "Sudanese Negroes."[4] They speak a Northern Bantoid language called Tikar. One of the few African ethnic groups to practice a monotheistic traditional religion, the Tikar refer to God the Creator by the name Nyuy. They also have an extensive spiritual system of ancestral reverence.
The current population of the Tikar in Cameroon is approximately 170,000.[2] This is a vast difference from other enslaved and trafficked ethnic groups, such as the Kirdi, who still number around 15 million people.[5] This could be due to the high number of Tikar people who were kidnapped and sold into slavery in the Americas.[6] The Bamum people and other ethnic groups have also asserted their link to the Tikar people through Tikar rulers in the Kingdom of Bamum. However, the Kom, Nso, Bamum, Ndop-Bamunka, and Bafut peoples are the only ethnic groups that anthropologists and historians believe have a legitimate claim to Tikar lineage.[7][6]
There are currently six adjoining Tikar kingdoms: Bankim (Kimi), Ngambé-Tikar, Kong (Nkong/Boikouong), Nditam (Bandam), Ngoumé, and Gâ (Ntchi). The boundaries of these kingdoms have remained since German colonizers arrived in Cameroon.[6]
^Zeitlyn, David (1995). "Eldridge Mohammadou on Tikar Origins". Journal of the Anthropological Society of Oxford. 26 (1): 100–102.
^ abMcCulloch, Merran; Littlewood, Margaret (2017). Peoples of the Central Cameroons (Tikar. Bamum and Bamileke. Banen, Bafia and Balom): Western Africa Part IX (Ethnographic Survey of Africa) (1st ed.). Routledge. pp. 11–13, 36–40, 53. ISBN 978-1138239524.
^Delneuf, Michèle; Essom, Joseph-Marie; Froment, Alain (1998). Paléo-anthropologie en Afrique centrale: un bilan de l'archéologie au Cameroun (in French). Paris, France: L'Harmattan. pp. 214–215. ISBN 978-2-7384-7405-6.
^Fonlon, Bernard (1969). "The Language Problem in Cameroon (An Historical Perspective)". Abbia: Cameroon Cultural Review. 22 (1): 25–49. JSTOR 3098088.
^Refugees, United Nations High Commissioner for. "Refworld | Assessment for Kirdi in Cameroon". Refworld. Retrieved 2022-05-15.
^ abcPrice, David (1979). "Who Are the Tikar Now?". Paideuma. 25: 89–98. ISSN 0078-7809. JSTOR 23076439.
^DeLancey, Mark Dike; Neh Mbuh, Rebecca; DeLancey, Mark W. (2010). Historical Dictionary of the Republic of Cameroon. Lanham, Maryland • Toronto • Plymouth, UK: The Scarecrow Press, Inc. p. 402. ISBN 978-0810837751.
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