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Mundang People
The Mundang people are an ethnic group in West Africa who live in parts of Cameroon, Chad, and Nigeria. They speak the Mundang language, a subset of Mbum languages. Historically, the Mundang were an agricultural people; in the beginning of the 20th century they grew and harvested peas, beans, potatoes, nuts and durra. They also branched out into cotton production and raised cattle and goats. They brewed beer as well, from millet. Mundang people in Léré, Chad, Léré built mud houses with straight roofs and polished interior walls. They also constructed circular corn silos or granaries, accessed through the roof. File:Lamido Ganthiome and two of his wives.jpg, Sultan Lamido Ganthiome and his two wives in Léré, Chad in 1913. File:From the Congo to the Niger and the Nile - an account of The German Central African expedition of 1910-1911 (1913) (14782681492).jpg, Corn towers of the Sultan Lamido Ganthiome in Léré, Chad. File:Mundang village, 1911.jpg, Mundang village of Léré, C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mundang Language
Mundang is an Mbum languages, Mbum language of southern Chad and northern Cameroon, spoken by the Mundang people. The Gelama dialect of Cameroon may be a separate language. Distribution Mundang, spoken in Cameroon by 44,700 speakers (SIL 1982), is mainly spoken in Mayo-Kani department, Far North Region, in the communes of Mindif, Moulvouday, and Kaélé. It is also spoken to a lesser extent in the south of Mayo-Kebi, in the east of Bibemi commune (Bénoué department, Northern Region), towards the Chadian border. Mundang of Lere (in Chad) and Mundang of Cameroon (centered in Lara and Kaélé) are highly similar. Phonology Consonants * may also be heard as laryngealized among speakers. * can also be heard as two laryngealized allophones . * Sounds may be heard as fricatives in intervocalic positions. * may be heard as palatal when preceding . * can also range to a retroflex among dialects or a trill when geminated. Vowels * may also range to a close . Wri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mbum Languages
The Mbum or Kebi-Benue languages (also known as Lakka in narrower scope) are a group of the Mbum–Day languages, Mbum–Day branch of the Adamawa languages, spoken in southern Chad, northwestern Central African Republic, northern Cameroon and eastern Nigeria. Their best-known member is Mbum language, Mbum; other languages in the group include Tupuri language, Tupuri and Kare language (Adamawa), Kare. They were labeled "G6" in Joseph Greenberg's Adamawa languages, Adamawa language-family proposal. Languages *Southern Mbum: Mbum language, Mbum proper, Mbere language (Adamawa), Mbere, Gbete language, Gbete * South West Mbum : [Limbum of the Wimbum] *Central Mbum **Karang: Karang language, Karang (Mbum, Laka), Nzakambay language, Nzakambay (Njak Mbai), Pana language, Pana, Ngumi language, Ngumi, Kare language (Adamawa), Kare (Kãrɛ̃) **Koh: Kuo language, Kuo (Koh), Sakpu language, Sakpu *Northern Mbum **Dama–Galke: Dama language (Cameroon), Dama, Ndai language, Ndai (Galke, Porm ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Durra
''Sorghum bicolor'', commonly called sorghum () and also known as great millet, broomcorn, guinea corn, durra, imphee, jowar, or milo, is a species in the grass genus ''Sorghum'' cultivated for its grain. The grain is used as food by humans, while the plant is used for animal feed and ethanol production. Sorghum originated in Africa, and is widely cultivated in tropical and subtropical regions. Sorghum is the world's fifth-most important cereal crop after rice, wheat, maize, and barley. Sorghum is typically an annual, but some cultivars are perennial. It grows in clumps that may reach over high. The grain is small, in diameter. Sweet sorghums are cultivars grown for forage, syrup production, and ethanol. They are taller than those grown for grain. Description Sorghum is a large stout grass that grows up to tall. It has large bushy flowerheads or panicles that provide an edible starchy grain with up to 3,000 seeds in each flowerhead. It grows in warm climates worldwide ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Léré, Chad
Léré () is a town in Chad and the capital of the Lac Léré department of the Mayo-Kebbi Ouest region In geography, regions, otherwise referred to as areas, zones, lands or territories, are portions of the Earth's surface that are broadly divided by physical characteristics (physical geography), human impact characteristics (human geography), and .... In 2009, the population of Léré was 89,237, 42,987 of which were male and 46,250 were female. The town is served by Léré Airport. References Mayo-Kebbi Ouest Region Populated places in Chad {{Chad-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Griot
A griot (; ; Manding languages, Manding: or (in N'Ko script, N'Ko: , or in French spelling); also spelt Djali; or / ; ) is a West African historian, storyteller, praise singer, poet, and/or musician. Griots are masters of communicating stories and history orally, which is an African tradition. Instead of writing history books, List of oral repositories, oral historians tell stories of the past that they have memorized. Sometimes there are families of historians, and the oral histories are passed down from one generation to the next. Telling a story out loud allows the speaker to use poetic and musical conventions that entertain an audience. This has contributed to many oral histories surviving for hundreds of years without being written down. Through their storytelling, griots preserve and pass on the values of a tribe or people, such as the Senegalese, who are Muslims. The Wolof people in Senegal, many of whom cannot read or write, depend on griots to learn abou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sona Jobarteh
Sona Jobarteh (born 1983) is a Gambian multi-instrumentalist, singer, and composer. She is from one of the five principal kora-playing griot families of West Africa, and is the first female professional kora player to come from a griot family. She is the cousin of the celebrated kora player Toumani Diabaté, and is the sister of the diaspora kora player Tunde Jegede. Early life and education Born in London, England, Maya Sona Jobarteh is a member of one of the five principal kora-playing (griot) families from West Africa, and the first female member of such a family to rise to prominence on this instrument. The playing of this 21-stringed harp-like instrument was exclusively passed down from father to son. The instrument is an important element of the Mandingo peoples in West Africa and their playing is reserved only to certain families called griot. She is the granddaughter of the griot of her line, Amadu Bansang Jobarteh, whose father migrated from Mali to Gambia. Her cou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ethnic Groups In Cameroon
The demographic profile of Cameroon is complex for a country of its population. Cameroon comprises an estimated 250 distinct ethnic groups, which may be formed into five large regional-cultural divisions: * western highlanders ( Semi-Bantu or grassfielders), including the Bamileke, Bamum (or ''Bamoun''), and many smaller Tikar groups in the Northwest (est. 38% of total population); * coastal tropical forest peoples, including the Bassa, Duala (or ''Douala''), and many smaller groups in the Southwest (12%); * southern tropical forest peoples, including the Beti-Pahuin, Bulu (a subgroup of Beti-Pahuin), Fang (subgroup of Beti-Pahuin), Maka, Njem, and Baka pygmies (18%); * predominantly Islamic peoples of the northern semi-arid regions (the Sahel) and central highlands, including the Fulani ( or ''Peuhl''; ) (14%); ''and'' * the " Kirdi", non-Islamic or recently Islamic peoples of the northern desert and central highlands (18%). The Cameroon government held two national censu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ethnic Groups In Chad
__NOTOC__ The population of Chad has numerous ethnic groups. SIL Ethnologue reports more than 130 distinct languages spoken in Chad. History and demographics The 14 million inhabitants of Chad belong to some 200 ethnicities, who speak numerous languages. The peoples of Chad carry significant ancestry from Eastern, Central, Western, and Northern Africa. The population can be broadly divided between those in the east, north and west who follow Islam, and the peoples of the south, the five southernmost prefectures, who are mostly Christian or animist. The southern part of the country was historically the cross roads of the caravan routes below the Sahara, forming a link between West Africa and the Arabic region, as well as one between North Africa and sub-Saharan Africa. The slave trade between sub-Saharan Africa and the Middle East passed through the slave markets of Chad and Western Sudan, slave-trading was a key component of Chad's historic economy, and this brought people of vari ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
