Ewondo (people)

The Ewondos (also Yaounde ) are one of the Bantu- speaking Beti peoples. The Cameroon capital Yaoundé is named after them.

They speak Ewondo as their mother tongue and live comparatively traditionally. However, more and more Ewondos speak the Cameroonian official language French and are increasingly forgetting - since the language of instruction is exclusively French - from generation to generation their own mother tongue.

The traditional settlement area is in South Cameroon on the edge of a plateau between the rivers Sanaga and Lokundje . A well-known representative of the people was Karl Friedrich Otto Atangana Ntchama , who wrote the Yaoundé texts by Karl Atangana and Paul Messi .

The peoples related to the Ewondos are the Beti - Etons and Manguissas - and the Pahuins .

literature

• Passarge-Rathjens: Jaunde , in: Heinrich Schnee (Ed.): Deutsches Kolonial-Lexikon , Vol. II, Leipzig 1920, p. 128.