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Fon (other)
Fon or FON may refer to: Terms * Fon (title), a traditional title for a ruler in Cameroon * Fiber-optic network * Freedom of navigation * The chemistry mnemonic "List of chemistry mnemonics #Hydrogen bonds, FON", used for determining which elements hydrogen forms hydrogen bonds with. * Fon language, spoken by the Fon people * Funding Opportunity Number, assigned by United States federal agencies to available grants Organizations * Fon (company), a Wi-Fi provider * Federation of Ontario Naturalists, now Ontario Nature, a Canadian environmental organization * FON University, university in Macedonia * University of Belgrade Faculty of Organizational Sciences, faculty in Serbia * Fundusz Obrony Narodowej, or Fund for National Defense, a collection attempt in Poland prior to World War II * Sprint Corporation People * Fon people, a major West African ethnic and linguistic group * Bryn Fôn (born 1954), Welsh actor and musician Places *Fonfjord, a fjord in eastern Greenland *Fon, Norwa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fon (title)
A Fon is a chieftain or king of a region of Cameroon, especially among the Widikum, Tikar, and Bamiléké peoples of the Bamenda grass fields (the Northwest, West Region) and the Lebialem of the South West Region. They were a creation of German colonial rule to facilitate their governance. Many legitimate traditional rulers were replaced those who collaborated imposed and made Fons, while the British and French consolidated them as administrative traditional Chiefs an still considered as auxiliaries of the administration. They were only once independent family heads because the ethnic groups had cultural traditional leaders who weren't called Fons. For instance, the Tikars had Belaku for their original female traditional leaders of their kingdoms called Ngoung (Belaka) for the male leaders. Germans created and brought most Fons under German rule or military subjugation during the colonial period and it has remained so till date. Following the defeat of Germany in World War I, th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
