Babungo (people)
| Babungo | ||
|---|---|---|
| Population: |
14,000 |
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| Significant population in: |
Cameroon |
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| Language: |
Babungo (Vengo) , Cameroonian Pidgin-English , English , French |
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| Religion: | Traditional African religions , Christianity | |
| Related ethnic groups: | Bamessing, Bambalang | |
The Babungos are a tribe or ethnic group of around 14,000 people who are native to the English-speaking north-western province of Cameroon. They live there mainly in the region of a village that bears the same name Babungo . This village is located in the Cameroon grassland about 50 km west of the provincial capital Bamenda on the so-called "Ringroad". The native language of the tribe is also called Babungo . The spelling Bamungo can often be found for ethnicity, village and language .
In their own language, the Babungos call their village vengo [vəŋóo] and their language ghang vengo [gháŋ vəŋóo]; For this reason, ethnicity, village and language are also officially listed under the terms Vengo or Vengoo . Alternative names are: Vengi, Pengo, Ngo, Nguu, Ngwa, Nge.
literature
- Willi Schaub: Babungo . Croom Helm Descriptive Grammars. Croom Helm Ltd., Beckenham, Kent, UK 1985, ISBN 0-7099-3352-5 .
- Jean-Paul Notue: Treasures of the Kings Sculptor: Babungo: Memory, Arts and Techniques . 5 Continents Edition, 2005, ISBN 88-7439-203-6 .
- Johannes Ittmann: Folklore and religious terms in the northern woodlands of Cameroon . Afrika und Übersee: Sequence of the supplements to the journal of the native languages: Supplement 26. Verlag von Dietrich Reimer, Berlin, Germany 1953 (no ISBN).
- Brigitte Staub: drums, palm wine, witches. Experiences in the grasslands of Cameroon . Sternberg Verlag, Metzingen / Württemberg, Germany 2000, ISBN 3-7722-0351-5 .
- Philippe Laburthe-Tolra: Initiations et sociétés secrètes au Cameroun. Essai sur la religion beti . Karthala, Paris, France 1985, ISBN 2-86537-142-5 .
- Miriam Goheen: Men Own the Fields, Women own the Crops. Gender and Power in the Cameroon Grassfields . The University of Wisconsin Press, Madison, Wisconsin, USA 1996, ISBN 0-299-14670-7 .
- Hans-Georg Wolf: English in Cameroon . Contributions to the Sociology of Language, Volume 85. Walter de Gruyter, Berlin, Germany 2001, ISBN 3-11-017053-1 .
- Carole de Féral: Pidgin-English du Cameroun. Description linguistique et sociolinguistique . Peeters / Selaf, Paris, France 1989, ISBN 2-87723-023-6 .
- Hans-Joachim Koloss: Cameroon: Kings - Masks - Festivals. Ethnological research in the grasslands of the northwest province of Cameroon . Institute for Foreign Relations Stuttgart, Linden Museum Stuttgart, Germany 1977 (no ISBN).
- Angeline Nguedjeu Nkwenkam: Non-formal education and vocational training to empower women for the informal sector: A study from the Cameroon grasslands . Inaugural dissertation to obtain the degree of Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D. Thesis). University of Heidelberg, Germany, 2003 (no ISBN).