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Menang
Menang is a traditional dance of the Tikar or the Semi-Bantu Semi-Bantu or Semibantu is an outdated term used for specific inhabitants of the Western High Plateau, Western grassfields of Cameroon (portions of the Adamawa Region, Adamawa, West Region (Cameroon), West, Northwest Region (Cameroon), Northwest, an ... group of people from the Adamawa mountains of Cameroon. References {{dance-stub Cameroonian culture ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adamawa Region
The Adamawa Region (french: Région de l'Adamaoua) is a constituent region of the Republic of Cameroon. It borders the Centre and East regions to the south, the Northwest and West regions to the southwest, Nigeria to the west, the Central African Republic (CAR) to the east, and the North Region to the north. This mountainous area forms the barrier between Cameroon's forested south and savanna north. At almost 64,000 km2 in land area, the Adamawa is the third largest of Cameroon's ten regions. The land is rugged and sparsely populated, however, as most is devoted to the rearing of cattle. The Muslim Fulbe (Fulani) form the major ethnic group, though Tikar, Gbaya, and other peoples are present in lesser numbers. History Early population movements The Adamawa's oldest populations were various Paleo-Sudanese peoples. These were mostly displaced or absorbed by invading Sudanese groups in the 8th or 9th century. These included the Mbum (Mboum), Ndoro (Dourou), Kutin, ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tikar People
The Tikar (also Tikari, Tige, Tigar, Tigre, Tikali) are a central African people who inhabit the Western High Plateau in Cameroon. They are known as great 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. Such ethnic groups were referred to in the 1969 official statistics as "Semi-Bantus" and "Sudanese Negroes." They speak a Northern Bantoid language called Tikar. One of the few African people who practiced 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 Tikar in Cameroon is approximately 168,000-173,000. This is a great difference from other enslaved and trafficked ethnic groups like the Kirdi, who still number around 15 million people. This could be due to the high number of Tikar people who were kidnapped and sold into slavery in th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Semi-Bantu
Semi-Bantu or Semibantu is an outdated term used for specific inhabitants of the Western High Plateau, Western grassfields of Cameroon (portions of the Adamawa Region, Adamawa, West Region (Cameroon), West, Northwest Region (Cameroon), Northwest, and Southwest Region (Cameroon), Southwest regions), who speak languages that have certain characteristics to the Bantu language family, but they're excluded from them. The people themselves are considered ethnically divergent from other Bantu peoples, Bantu peoples of Central Africa, central and Southern Africa, southern Africa.Blench, Roger (2011). "'The membership and internal structure of Bantoid and the border with Bantu" (PDF). Berlin: Humboldt University. p. 16. When these ethnic groups migrated into northern Cameroon, their languages were influenced by the languages of both Bantu languages, Bantu-speaking ethnic groups in the forests to the south and of the Benue–Congo languages, Benue-Congo-speaking peoples of the savannas to the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
