bakwerirama: Music & Dance

INTRODUCING BAKWERIRAMA

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AFRICAphonie
AFRICAphonie is a Pan African Association which operates on the premise that AFRICA can only be what AFRICANS and their friends want AFRICA to be.
bakwerirama
Spotlight on the Bakweri Society and Culture. The Bakweri are an indigenous African nation.
Bate Besong
Bate Besong, award-winning firebrand poet and playwright.
Bernard Fonlon
Dr Bernard Fonlon was an extraordinary figure who left a large footprint in Cameroonian intellectual, social and political life.
Dibussi Tande
Citizen Journalist
Dr Godfrey Tangwa (Rotcod Gobata)
Renaissance man, philosophy professor, actor and newspaper columnist, Godfrey Tangwa aka Rotcod Gobata touches a wide array of subjects. Always entertaining and eminently readable. Visit for frequent updates.
Fonlon-Nichols Award
Website of the Literary Award established to honor the memory of BERNARD FONLON, the great Cameroonian teacher, writer, poet, and philosopher, who passionately defended human rights in an often oppressive political atmosphere.
Francis Nyamnjoh
George Ngwane
George Ngwane is a prominent author, activist and intellectual.
Jacob Nguni
irtuoso guitarist, writer and humorist. Former lead guitarist of Rocafil, led by Prince Nico Mbarga.
Martin Jumbam
The refreshingly, unique, incisive and generally hilarous writings about the foibles of African society and politics by former Cameroon Life Magazine columnist Martin Jumbam.
Nowa Omoigui
Professor of Medicine and interventional cardiologist, Nowa Omoigui is also one of the foremost experts and scholars on the history of the Nigerian Military and the Nigerian Civil War. This site contains many of his writings and comments on military subjects and history.
Postwatch (Cameroon)
A UMI (United Media Incorporated) publication. Specializing in well researched investigative reports, it focuses on the Cameroonian scene, particular issues of interest to the former British Southern Cameroons.
R. E. Ekosso
Rosemary Ekosso, a Cameroonian novelist and blogger who lives and works in Cambodia.
The Ilongo Sphere
Novelist and poet Ilongo Fritz Ngalle, long concealed his artist's wings behind the firm exterior of a University administrator and guidance counsellor. No longer. Enjoy his unique poems and glimpses of upcoming novels and short stories.
The Post Online (Cameroon)
PostNewsLine is an interactive feature of 'The Post', an important newspaper published out of Buea, Cameroons.
Up Station Mountain Club
A no holds barred group blog for all things Cameroonian. "Man no run!"
Victor Mbarika ICT Weblog
Victor Wacham Agwe Mbarika is one of Africa's foremost experts on Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs). Dr. Mbarika's research interests are in the areas of information infrastructure diffusion in developing countries and multimedia learning.
Watch France
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Music & Dance

The Bakweri Elephant Dance

By Edwin Ardener (in Nigeria No. 60, pp. 31-8, 1959)

The Bakweri are a small tribe of some 16,000 people who live on the slopes of the Cameroon Mountain. They are quiet and reserved and are not widely known outside the Southern Cameroons despite the fact that both the Premier of the Southern Cameroons, Dr. E. M. L. Endeley, and the capital, Buea, are Bakweri.

Not many non Bakweri have the opportunity of witnessing their ceremonies, and it is rarely indeed that the participants will allow photographs to be taken. As members of the Elephant Society Mr. Mbwaye and I were in a privileged position.

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Posted on Sunday, January 09, 2011 at 12:56 AM in Music & Dance | Permalink | Comments (2) | TrackBack (0)

No-Lingana (I Shall Love You) - A Song by Miss Lee

The story of Etekele and Princess Mboti or the struggle between true African love and loyalty to tradition. By Miss Lee

No-Lingana - Miss Lee

Posted on Saturday, February 14, 2009 at 01:05 AM in Folk Tales, Music & Dance | Permalink | Comments (2)

University of Buea Choir - Bakweri Medley (Video)

Posted on Friday, July 04, 2008 at 01:30 AM in Music & Dance, Videos | Permalink | Comments (7)

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Children's Games (Maloko ma wana): Kweti

By Eposi Tokeson

Kweti is a game that is played during the rainy season by the fireside. This game emphasizes the importance of naming one's relatives and it emphasizes the importance of memory and quick thinking; The winner has to be very smart in verbal expression, physical dexterity and also to have a sharp memory.

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Posted on Saturday, July 17, 2004 at 09:55 AM in Music & Dance, Sports, Traditional Songs | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBack (0)