bakwerirama: February 2007

INTRODUCING BAKWERIRAMA

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Chieftaincy among the Kpe (Bakweri)

Culled from Edwin Ardener. Coastal Bantu of the Cameroons (The Kpe-Mboko, Duala-Limba and Tanga-Yasa Groups of the British and French Trusteeship Territories of the Cameroons). London: International African Institute, 1956.

The political unit among the Kpe is the village, which has a chief (sang'a mboa, " father of the village ") descended from the founder of the village by the most senior branch in the patrilineal line, as far as the exigencies of the succession (q.v.) permit. Other patrilineages may also be descended from the founder in junior lines, or from those who accompanied the founder (even the descendants of the latter, however, often claiming descent from the founder).

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A Bird's Eyeview of Buea in 1970

Courade Georges, Magouët T.P. "The Urban development of Buea : An essay in social geography". In La croissance urbaine en Afrique Noire et à Madagascar. Yaoundé : ORSTOM, 1972, 27 p.

I. NATURE, HISTORY AND PEOPLE IN THE FORMATION OF THE TOWN

BUEA is a small town of 11,000 inhabitants situated at 55 kms (35mls) from DOUALA, 2Okms (12 mls) from VICTORIA as the crow flies, spreading at an altitude of between 800 ms (2,600 ft) and 1,100 ms (3,600 ft) on the slopes of the Cameroon Mountain.

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(c) Isaac Menyoli

At present the capital of the Federated State of WEST CAMEROON, it attracted the Europeans very early owing to its temperate climate and the absence of malaria, this town being at a latitude of 4'09' North.