Major ethnic groups in Cameroon and their peculiarities
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- čas přidán 12. 05. 2024
- The Central African country of Cameroon is a perfect example of a multi-ethnic country. It boasts of over two hundred ethnic groups with several dialects.
Some of the groups are inter-related while others have been assimilated into others after years of interaction.
My baby daddy is Sawa... I know nothing about Cameroon but glad to be part of Cameroonian community. Much love from northern Kenya 💖💖
I just found out through DNA testing that my Ancestors are from Cameroon, the Ewondo people.
You didn't mention the Tikar ethnic group. What you mentioned here was ethnic clans
My wife is bamileke. I'm German.
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I wanted to hear about the tikar ppl
Thank u for this video!!! I took the African Ancestry test and found out, on my mothers side I am Bamileke!! I was so touch my your clear, complete info on my people. Good information. Thank you so much! I wish my mom was still living to get all these gems about her mothers ancestors.
I am about 90 per cent okay with you except there is any omission.
According to my research, we have the following.
1) The Soudanic
Fulani, Hausa, Kirdi, Bororo
2) Semi-Bantu/Grassfield
Tikar, Bamoun, Bamileke, Bafia, Bamenda Tikars, Gbaya, Bangwa, Bamenda Bamileke, Chamba and Widikum.
3) Sawa
Douala/Duala, Bassa, Mbo, Bakweri, Bakosi, Bafou, Bakundu, Bayangi
4) Beti-Pahuin
Pygmy, Baka, Ewondo, Bulu, Fang and Eton
However, issues of ethnicity in Africa are strongly contested because of the following reasons:
1) oral history and its distortions.
2) Misrepresentation to colonial masters and by colonial masters
3) Inculturation and acculturation
4) Lack of scientific research: archealogical, linguistics and DNA testing.
The way forward:
-Governments, NGOs, university societies and traditional councils should come together and work on ethnicity.
-African culture and ethnicity should be taught in school as a subject.
exactly
@@ngang1957
Pygmies ( baka) are indigenous. They are not the same stock of bêti fang
@@rogeravini5604 you're correct, good catch! i misread the original comment
Gbaya are not semi bantu
Bamiléké are the majority
Folowed by the Ekang/Beti-Bulu
Followed by Fulbe
Followed by Sawas
The fulani and Sudanese are not even the same people
In term of etnicity Bamiléké are 38%
Fulani and the others are majority if you put them together, and they ain't even the same people
You forgot the Fulani people also called fulbe which make up the second largest ethnic group in Cameroon and has the most used language of the country
Lol actually the Fulani language Is the most spoken in Cameroon and they’re not mentioned here
Fulanis are a small minority in Cameroon. Fulani language is definitely not the most spoken, in front Cameroon
The most spoken: Far North, North, East and North-west regions, ...
Proud Tikar
I'm a tikar too from the northwest region
Many thanks, I've learned You've taught me so much! Great! God bless You in Jesus Christ!
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Long Live King Hapi IV(Bana)
You deliberately set out to misinform
Fulani people are the largest ethnic group and their language more widely spoken. In Nigeria fulanis are considered as migrants by the local forest tribes of yoruba and lgbo do you in Cameroon?
The Ewondo tribe is the original tribe of Judah they just don't know it yet they are God's chosen people the Israelites!
Circumcision is devil worship.
Lol
@@Me-mv9bz the devil has never been righteous on any given day and never will be clearly you and common sense has never been friends ever clearly you play for the devils team!
ECCLESIASTICUS 21:12 He that is not wise will not be taught but there is a wisdom which multipleth bitterness.
Meaning which is the devils wisdom the team you play for!
Thank you Cameroon is the Israelites you hear in the bible that why the Land is bless with all Things you find in africa it where everything begin and Benjamin the lost son of Jacob is the Bamileke tribe and the beti tribe are Judas.
@@labellerose7640 I have traced my Paternal line to the Ewondo tribe in Cameroon 100%DNA match and my Maternal line to the Masa Mafa and Kotoko tribe in Cameroon 100% DNA match.
Tikar, Hausa and Fulani
Ethnicity in Africa is based on the languages spoken by different communities. The language more spoken is Foulbe (Fulani) in the majority of regions i.e. Far North, North, Adamaoua, East, Northwest, ... As lingua franca
Suprise to hear the Bamileke's as the largest tribe in Cameroon. The Fulanis occupy the three northern regions which also happens to be quite dense in pop.
Bamiléké are more than 10 millions
Fulani are 3rd largest if you only count them but you add the sudanese who aint even fulani they are After the bamiléké.
But at the end The bantu tribe still the largest
Fulanis are a small ethnic group in Cameroon. The only reason you people think they’re a big group in Cameroon is because you add the Hausa numbers into their numbers and other Muslim groups that are not Fulani
The Hausa's Are quite a minority. U only fine Hausa quarters in different cities and towns of Cameroon( even in the northern regions they only have a quarter. But the Fulani language(Fulfulde) is spoken in the three northern regions. Infact just like pidgin English in anglophone Cameroon or french in the French zone. It's the lingua Franca over there. This can't be the case if the fulani's were a minority as u claim. In the bambilike land I don't think there's any town where both indigents and outsiders speak the local langauge daily. So the fulani's are culturally more influential than most of the southern tribes. They have been able to overshadow all the other northern ethnic groups(baya, massa, etc) and this is clear for anyone who has ever visited any of the 3 northern regions of Cameroon.
@@moimoimoi2585 I beg to disagree with you. There's no where the bambilike could number up to 10 million. They live only in the west in significant numbers the whole of the West region of Cameroon is not up to 4 million people.
@@ibnuabbas6649 you most not know them Bamileke are the largest Group ethnic in cameroon thats why their invest everywhere and their everywhere my aunti has like 3 pharmaci in the 3 City in the north i can tell you my family have investisement everywhere if not for the bamenda crise my uncle has many Jobs over there he Almost got kill even..I have Familie member married with anglophone and living in buea dont even speak french same in Ebolowa..me myself i was Born in Douala so yes Bamileke international is know to be the most populär ethnic and we like giving birth alot half of the Bamileke are not even as populated in there village as their are in other Region bcs our Region is the smallest Region in Cameroon..to conclute yes we are the majority my dear! Just so we are clear have travel the whole of Cameroon.
Bekasi
Hahahaha. So this guys just didn't do enough research on the. Tikar group of northwest high and low lands
Proud Tikari on mom's side
Mafa tribe of Cameroon!
Love to you all from India. What I feel sad about is that there's no tribal conflicts but Anglophone - Francophone conflicts in Cameroon.
Very sad, cousins divided on the base of colonial languages
There is no Anglo franco conflict. People don't understand why the conflict.
@@diboakale3461 hi Bro. Apologies then for that assumption. If that's the case why is there conflict between Cameroonians? Because I've never heard of tribal conflicts in Cameroon but only conflict between Anglophones and Francophones
Tikar
WHAT WAS CAMEROON CALLED BEFORE THE WHITE PEOPLE NAMEDS IT CAMEROON???
Bali nyonga
Sir,stop giving inaccurate information,greater population of the north West hails from the tikari ethnic group from the Adamawa of great Sudan,NOT from bamileke
Bamileke people are Tikari
@@shicobizous6154 only their dynastic lineages are, not the base/bulk populations
@@ngang1957 could you please elaborate?
@@shicobizous6154 During the last century, the "Tikar origin" migration stories that were recorded by colonial administrators were told by and applied to the chiefs and dynastic members of our respective grassfields cheifdoms. new oral accounts and archeological and linguistic research have proven that the Mbam-Nkam and Western Grassfield speakers (the base populations of the grassfields) have inhabited the region for upwards of 4,000 years. The Mbum-Tikar nobility settled the Tikar plain & the grassfields in consecutive waves during the 13th & 18th centuries, long after the mbam-nkam and western grassfields speakers settled. i am working on a few lessons that will cover this topic in depth.
@@ngang1957 could you please let me read it when you are done
I'm looking for my Cameroon Tribe
The Bayangui is the most popular tribe in cameroon I don't know n don't care about ur opinion go an argue with ur ancestors
Bana
Bamoun
Baka
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