Major ethnic groups in Cameroon and their peculiarities

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.

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  • @ulimmaorto8187
    @ulimmaorto81873 жыл бұрын

    My baby daddy is Sawa... I know nothing about Cameroon but glad to be part of Cameroonian community. Much love from northern Kenya 💖💖

  • @Drkphyre224SAHS_CAMEROON
    @Drkphyre224SAHS_CAMEROON2 жыл бұрын

    I just found out through DNA testing that my Ancestors are from Cameroon, the Ewondo people.

  • @shicobizous6154
    @shicobizous61543 жыл бұрын

    You didn't mention the Tikar ethnic group. What you mentioned here was ethnic clans

  • @dee_tracy5863
    @dee_tracy5863 Жыл бұрын

    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.

  • @louisnforna8101
    @louisnforna81013 жыл бұрын

    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.

  • @ngang1957

    @ngang1957

    3 жыл бұрын

    exactly

  • @rogeravini5604

    @rogeravini5604

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@ngang1957 Pygmies ( baka) are indigenous. They are not the same stock of bêti fang

  • @ngang1957

    @ngang1957

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@rogeravini5604 you're correct, good catch! i misread the original comment

  • @moimoimoi2585

    @moimoimoi2585

    2 жыл бұрын

    Gbaya are not semi bantu

  • @moimoimoi2585

    @moimoimoi2585

    2 жыл бұрын

    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

  • @marvinj9079
    @marvinj90793 жыл бұрын

    I wanted to hear about the tikar ppl

  • @barkindo97
    @barkindo974 жыл бұрын

    Lol actually the Fulani language Is the most spoken in Cameroon and they’re not mentioned here

  • @alexb5812

    @alexb5812

    2 жыл бұрын

    Fulanis are a small minority in Cameroon. Fulani language is definitely not the most spoken, in front Cameroon

  • @lavoykikry5018

    @lavoykikry5018

    2 жыл бұрын

    The most spoken: Far North, North, East and North-west regions, ...

  • @stanwilliams7871
    @stanwilliams78712 жыл бұрын

    The Ewondo tribe is the original tribe of Judah they just don't know it yet they are God's chosen people the Israelites!

  • @Me-mv9bz

    @Me-mv9bz

    2 жыл бұрын

    Circumcision is devil worship.

  • @mimiamedia2477

    @mimiamedia2477

    2 жыл бұрын

    Lol

  • @stanwilliams7871

    @stanwilliams7871

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@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!

  • @labellerose7640

    @labellerose7640

    2 жыл бұрын

    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.

  • @stanwilliams7871

    @stanwilliams7871

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@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.

  • @tiakojunior7895
    @tiakojunior78952 жыл бұрын

    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

  • @didisobe990
    @didisobe990Ай бұрын

    So you didn't mentioned the Hausas and the Fula who are largely in the three Northern regions and the NorthWest region of Cameroon, because they are not in power now or what ?

  • @berndhofmann752
    @berndhofmann7525 ай бұрын

    My wife is bamileke. I'm German. It fits very good!❤❤❤❤❤

  • @eternallifegodson6282
    @eternallifegodson62823 жыл бұрын

    Many thanks, I've learned You've taught me so much! Great! God bless You in Jesus Christ! #

  • @Keys-gj1yi
    @Keys-gj1yi Жыл бұрын

    Mafa tribe of Cameroon!

  • @madamoiselle03
    @madamoiselle032 жыл бұрын

    Proud Tikar

  • @clovisclakson3643

    @clovisclakson3643

    2 жыл бұрын

    I'm a tikar too from the northwest region

  • @eseyinouTv
    @eseyinouTv9 күн бұрын

    How much is bamileke pride price

  • @lavoykikry5018
    @lavoykikry50182 жыл бұрын

    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

  • @lawaldanladi9129
    @lawaldanladi91292 жыл бұрын

    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?

  • @ProfesionalVideoWatcher
    @ProfesionalVideoWatcher3 жыл бұрын

    Hahahaha. So this guys just didn't do enough research on the. Tikar group of northwest high and low lands

  • @diboakale3461

    @diboakale3461

    3 жыл бұрын

    Proud Tikari on mom's side

  • @reroutedsoul1753
    @reroutedsoul17532 жыл бұрын

    Long Live King Hapi IV(Bana)

  • @serieanmasango2784
    @serieanmasango27843 жыл бұрын

    Bekasi

  • @madeofafrica
    @madeofafrica3 жыл бұрын

    Tikar, Hausa and Fulani

  • @six6thdisciple
    @six6thdisciple2 жыл бұрын

    WHAT WAS CAMEROON CALLED BEFORE THE WHITE PEOPLE NAMEDS IT CAMEROON???

  • @ibnuabbas6649
    @ibnuabbas66493 жыл бұрын

    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.

  • @moimoimoi2585

    @moimoimoi2585

    2 жыл бұрын

    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

  • @alexb5812

    @alexb5812

    2 жыл бұрын

    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

  • @ibnuabbas6649

    @ibnuabbas6649

    2 жыл бұрын

    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.

  • @ibnuabbas6649

    @ibnuabbas6649

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@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.

  • @labellerose7640

    @labellerose7640

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@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.

  • @sponsponm1
    @sponsponm13 жыл бұрын

    Bali nyonga

  • @RamKrishna-hf6dd
    @RamKrishna-hf6dd2 жыл бұрын

    Love to you all from India. What I feel sad about is that there's no tribal conflicts but Anglophone - Francophone conflicts in Cameroon.

  • @lavoykikry5018

    @lavoykikry5018

    2 жыл бұрын

    Very sad, cousins divided on the base of colonial languages

  • @diboakale3461

    @diboakale3461

    Жыл бұрын

    There is no Anglo franco conflict. People don't understand why the conflict.

  • @RamKrishna-hf6dd

    @RamKrishna-hf6dd

    Жыл бұрын

    @@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

  • @danielgaskins
    @danielgaskins2 жыл бұрын

    Tikar

  • @njualandry9281
    @njualandry92813 жыл бұрын

    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

  • @shicobizous6154

    @shicobizous6154

    3 жыл бұрын

    Bamileke people are Tikari

  • @ngang1957

    @ngang1957

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@shicobizous6154 only their dynastic lineages are, not the base/bulk populations

  • @shicobizous6154

    @shicobizous6154

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@ngang1957 could you please elaborate?

  • @ngang1957

    @ngang1957

    3 жыл бұрын

    ​@@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.

  • @shicobizous6154

    @shicobizous6154

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@ngang1957 could you please let me read it when you are done

  • @reroutedsoul1753
    @reroutedsoul17532 жыл бұрын

    Bana

  • @andyayukettanchu7614
    @andyayukettanchu7614 Жыл бұрын

    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

  • @Elwrt455
    @Elwrt4552 жыл бұрын

    I'm looking for my Cameroon Tribe

  • @marquescameron2459
    @marquescameron24593 жыл бұрын

    Bamoun

  • @illegalimmigrantintheus854
    @illegalimmigrantintheus8543 жыл бұрын

    I wish I could dislike twice

  • @christiandiaz8388
    @christiandiaz83883 жыл бұрын

    Baka

  • @donaldwanyi6385
    @donaldwanyi63853 жыл бұрын

    Lies

  • @deezonyxde77
    @deezonyxde772 жыл бұрын

    Tikar