What ethnicity is Cameroon?

Cameroon has more than 240 tribes which are found in three main ethnic groups; Bantus, Semi-Bantus and Sudanese. The number of national languages spoken in the country is more than 240. The most notable tribes are: BANTUS: Beti, Bassa, Bakundu, Maka, Douala, Pygmies……

What is the most populated tribe in Cameroon?

Cameroon Highlanders constitute the plurality at 38 percent of the total population. They include the Bamileke, Tikar and the Bamoun.

What is Cameroon best known for?

Cameroon is well known for its native music styles, particularly Makossa and Bikutsi, and for its successful national football team. It is a member state of the African Union, the United Nations, the Commonwealth of Nations, Non-Aligned Movement and the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation.

What is the ngondo festival?

The festival’s focus is the traditional ritual performed in the river: men wearing traditional garments carry sacred pots and dive into the waters. Around this ritual there is plenty of entertainment going on: music performances, folk dances, wrestling matches, beauty pageants and big canoe races on the river.

Who is the most beautiful girl in Cameroon?

Nora Ndemazia Crowned Miss Cameroon USA. It started like a dream but quickly became a reality. New York based Nora Ndemazia, 23, from the South West region has been crowned Miss Cameroon USA 2014, thus becoming the most beautiful Cameroon woman in the United States.

What is the main religion in Cameroon?

Christianity is the predominant religion in Cameroon with significant minorities of the adherents of Islam and traditional faiths.

What is a person from Cameroon called?

Cameroonian may refer to: Something of, from, or related to the country of Cameroon. A person from Cameroon, or of Cameroonian descent.

Is Cameroon a safe country?

Generally speaking, Cameroon isn’t a safe country. It has its fair share of street crime, terrorism, diseases and natural hazards. If you do travel there, apply maximum measures of precaution in order to lessen the chances of something going wrong.

Are Jamaicans from Nigeria?

Many Jamaicans are actually of Nigerian origin themselves (via the Trans-Atlantic slave trade), and this may also further explain the clash of personalities.

Where does the Sawa festival take place in Cameroon?

This traditional and mystical feast is a yearly ritual around water which is held by and brings together the Sawa ethnic groups who are defined, by name and relation, as the people from the coastal regions, in this instance, of Cameroon.

Who are the people of the Sawa tribe?

The twenty Sawa ethnic groups represented are, in alphabetical order, the Banen people, the Bankon people, the Bakoko group, the Bakole, the Bakossi, the Bakweri, the Bassa, the Batanga, the Bonkeng, the Douala, the Ewodi, the Subu, the Limba, the Mbo, the Mboko, the Mungo, the Nyamtan, the Pongo, the Wovea and the Yabassi.

Where are the Duala people located in Cameroon?

The Duala are primarily concentrated in Cameroon’s Littoral Province in the Moungo, Nkam, and Wouri divisions. Their settlements lie largely along the coast or just inland. The Wouri estuary, where the Wouri, Mungo, and Dibamba Rivers empty, forms the centre of Duala country.