Bangando

The Bangando are a small people in Cameroon who speak the Bangandu language .

About 3,800 Bangando live in south-east Cameroon and live in ten villages along the road from Moloundou to Salapoumbé. They are organized in patrilineal , totemic clans . Her residence is virilocal (Rupp 1997: 19ff). The men run cocoa and (partly) coffee plantations, trap and rifle hunting, fishing and sometimes wage labor. The women collect some non-wood forest products, fish with sieve nets ( wet ), distill schnapps and cultivate the fields.

The relationship between the Baka and Bangando, who live in the neighborhood, plays a role in all areas of society. Traditionally, Baka and Bangando lived in an exchange relationship that tied a Baka to a Bangando through a friendship bond ( lothi ). Nowadays this relationship is no longer as valued as it used to be, but is still maintained by many Baka and Bangando.

literature

• Rupp, S .; 1997: Identity, Power and Natural Resources: Mapping the Lobéké Forest of Southeastern Cameroon, Graduate Student Colloquium. Yale.