Cameroonian-American
Cameroonian American () are an ethnic group of Americans of Demographics of Cameroon, Cameroonian descent. According to the 2010 census, in the United States there were 16,894 Americans of Cameroonian origin. According to the 2023 American Community Survey there are 90,749 Cameroonian-born people living in the United States. History The first peoples from the modern Cameroon area to arrive in the United States were enslaved by the British and sold into the Thirteen Colonies, British colonies, during the colonial period, as DNA testing suggests.African Americans Reclaim Their Ancestral Heritage in Cameroon
. Wrote by Robert Morrissey. The first documented "enslaved" African, in what was to become the US, probably originate ...
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Tikar People
The Tikar (formally known as Tikari, Tigar, Tigari, and Tigre throughout their history) are a Central African ethnic group in Cameroon. They are known to be great artists, artisans and Oral tradition, storytellers. Once a nomadic people, some oral traditions trace the origin of the Tikar people to the Nile#In Sudan, Nile River Valley in present-day Sudan. Such ethnic groups were referred to in the 1969 official statistics as "Semi-Bantus" and "Sudanese Negroes." They speak a Northern Bantoid languages, Northern Bantoid language called Tikar language, Tikar. One of the few African ethnic groups to practice a monotheistic traditional religion, the Tikar refer to God, God the Creator by the name Nyuy. They also have an extensive spiritual system of Veneration of the dead, ancestral reverence. Grassfields languages, Grassfields ethnic groups make up approximately 9.9% of Cameroon's population. This could be due to the high number of Tikar people who were kidnapped and sold into slav ...
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