Bamileke people
The Bamiléké are a group of 90 closely related peoples who inhabit the Western High Plateau of Cameroon. According to Dr John Feyou de Hapy, Bamiléké means people of faith.
bˈɑː mˈiː lˈe͡ɪ kˈe͡ɪ | |
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King of Bandjoun, one of the numerous Bamileke Kingdoms in Cameroon | |
| Regions with significant populations | |
| Cameroon | 8,000,000 est. |
| Languages | |
| Bamileke Languages, French, Pidgin | |
| Religion | |
| Grassfields beliefs and ancestral worship (dual system: Divinities-based, and Ancestors-based), Christianity, Islam | |
| Related ethnic groups | |
| Bafia, Bamum, Tikar, other Grassfields peoples, Igbo | |
The Grassfields people do not refer to themselves as Bamileke but instead use the names of the individual kingdoms to which they belong or else refer to themselves as "Ngrafi" for “grassfields people".
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