Kirdi

A number of small Sudan-speaking ethnic groups in northern Cameroon are known as Kirdi . These include Kapsiki, Tupuri, Fali, Daba, Mofu, Mafa , Mandara, Guiziga, Musgum , Mundang and Massa .

In contrast to the neighboring Islamic societies, they are shaped by traditional African religions . Kirdi is a term for unbelievers ( Kāfir ) that originated in Fulfulde .

With more than 1.9 million people, they make up about eleven percent of the Cameroonian population. Most of them are cattle breeders or arable farmers . In pre-colonial times they were assimilated by the expanding Fulbe societies or pushed into the protective layers of the mountains and into the Tuburi swamps .

literature

• James Stuart Olson : The Peoples of Africa: An Ethnohistorical Dictionary , Greenwood Publishing Group, 1996, ISBN 0313279187 , page 289 [1]