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Bamileke

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Bamileke

A Bantu-speaking group of agriculturalists living in Cameroon. The largest ethnic group in the country, the Bamileke originally formed small independent chiefdoms. Their traditional religion was based on ancestor worship, although most have now adopted Christianity.



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The centerpiece of the case is a massive wooden Bamileke mask that celebrated royal authority and chiefly power--one of the Fowler's most famous objects (Fig.
Intersections: World Arts Local Lives by Roberts, Polly Nooter / African Arts
But for me, Ewondo, Tikar, Bamileke of Cameroon, Mende, Kru and Temne of Sierra Leone and Liberia, Ga of Ghana, Yoruba of Nigeria, Berber of Morocco and Pakistani, are a select sampling of my ancestral ethnicities that have influenced the heritage I own.
Written in the blood: my genealogical quest to untangle ancestry and ... by Rabb, Chris / Colorlines Magazine
``No, it's from the Bamileke tribe in the Cameroon,'' he explained.
TINSELTOWN SPYWITNESS by Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
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