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The Wute (also Vouté , Vute , Mbute , Bute or Mbutere ) are a people of Cameroon .
In 1996 there was a total of 35,000 Wute in Cameroon, most of whom live in their former rulership, Ndumba .
The Wute are a Semibantu people because they speak a bantoid language that is not one of the Bantu languages: Wute , a mambiloid language . Traditionally they are followers of their own West African religion, but recently they have also been increasingly equally Christian and Muslim .
The Wute's most popular traditional musical instrument is the lamellophone timbrh , which is played in an ensemble to accompany the dance. In the 1950s and 1960s, the Merengue style from the Dominican Republic in particular had an influence on the music of the Wute and other ethnic groups in central and southern Cameroon.
literature
- Christine Seige: War organization and weapons technology of the Vute (Central Cameroon) at the end of the 19th century. In: Yearbook of the Museum für Völkerkunde zu Leipzig , n ° 40, 1994, pp. 168–193, 96
- Christine Seige: The Vute in Cameroon: Changes in the society of the Vute, central Cameroon, under the influence of the Fulani rule in southern Adamaua in the second half of the 19th century. Lit, Munster; Hambourg; Berlin, 2003, p. 337 ISBN 3-8258-4815-9
- Johannes Sieber: Die Wute: Lifestyle, culture and religious worldview of an African tribe. Dietrich Reimer, Berlin, 1925, p. 114