Oroko (ethnicity)

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The Oroko are a West African people within the Bantu peoples of Cameroon . With around 168,000 members (as of 2000) the Oroko make up around 2/3 of the population in the districts of Meme and Ndian in the province of Sud-Ouest .

The settlement area of Oroko includes Bafaka Balue Highlands, the Rumpi Hills , the plains between the Bakossi Mountains and the Mount Cameroon west of the Mungo River and north to their settlement area stretches across the Korup National Park to the Nigerian border and the Bamenda Highlands from . The Bakossi settle east of the Oroko and the Duala to the southwest .

The Oroko people are made up of 10 clans who all speak their own dialect of the language, also called Oroko . These are the clans of (the spoken dialect in brackets):

  • Bakoko (Lokoko)
  • Bakundu (Lokundu)
  • Balondo ba Diko
  • Balondo ba Nanga (Londo)
  • Balue (lolue)
  • Batanga (Lotanga)
  • Bima (bima)
  • Ekombe (Ekombe)
  • Mbonge (Mbonge)
  • Ngolo (Longolo)

literature

  • Malcolm Guthrie : The Bantu languages ​​of Western Equatorial Africa (Handbook of African language series) International African Institute Oxford University Press, 1953 (English)

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