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Seidou Njimoluh Njoya
Seidou Njimoluh Njoya (Bamum: ''Sɛt-tu Nʒemɔleʔ Nʒeɔya'' , 1902 – 28 July 1992)DeLancey and DeLancey 206. ruled the Bamum people of Cameroon from 1933 to 1992 as the Sultan of Foumban and Mfon of the Bamun. Njimoluh was the son of Ibrahim Njoya, and he was educated in French, English, and the bamum script developed by his father. In 1931, in order to break the power of the Bamun, French administrators had exiled Ibrahim Njoya to Yaoundé. The Bamum nobles had been scattered due to the French occupation, but they eventually chose Njimoluh from among Ibrahim Njoya's 177 children and reached an agreement with the French authorities. Seidou Njimoluh Njoya became the 18th mfon of the Bamum in June 1933 after the death of his father. Njoya later served on the legislative and national assemblies of Cameroon during both colonial and post-colonial periods. Njimoluh was a patron of the arts and worked to preserve Bamun culture. After the French left in 1960, he restored the sac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ibrahim Mbombo Njoya
Ibrahim Mbombo Njoya (27 October 1937 – 27 September 2021) was a Cameroonian politician and traditional King. Biography He was trained as a civil administrator at the Institute for Administrative Studies in Dakar, after which he entered politics as a member of Cameroon's ruling party, the Cameroon People's Democratic Movement. He was a Senator and held several important government positions including Vice Minister of National Education and Culture, Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs, Minister of Youth and Sports, Minister of Information, and ambassador to Equatorial Guinea and Egypt. He was the king of the Bamum people from 1992 until his disappearance in 2021. Mbombo Njoya died due to complications of COVID-19, for which he was being treated in intensive care at the American Hospital of Paris The American Hospital of Paris (''Hôpital américain de Paris''), founded in 1906, is a private, not-for-profit hospital that is certified under the French healthcare system. Loca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bamum
Bamum, also spelled Bamoum, Bamun, or Bamoun, may refer to: *The Bamum people *The Bamum kingdom *The Bamum language *The Bamum script ** Bamum (Unicode block) * Bamum Scripts and Archives Project {{Disambig Language and nationality disambiguation pages ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yaoundé
Yaoundé (; , ) is the capital of Cameroon and, with a population of more than 2.8 million, the second-largest city in the country after the port city Douala. It lies in the Centre Region of the nation at an elevation of about 750 metres (2,500 ft) above sea level. The outpost of Epsumb or Jeundo was founded between the Nyong and Sanaga rivers at the northern edge of the area's forests in 1887 by German explorers as a trading base for rubber and ivory. A military garrison was built in 1895 which enabled further colonization. After Imperial Germany's defeat in World War I, France held eastern Cameroon as a mandate, and Yaoundé was chosen to become the capital of the colony in 1922. Douala remained the more important settlement, but Yaoundé saw rapid growth and continued as the seat of government for the Republic of Cameroon upon its independence in 1960. Most of Yaoundé's economy is still centred on the administrative structure but major industries in Yaoundé inclu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Members Of The National Assembly (Cameroon)
Member may refer to: * Military jury, referred to as "Members" in military jargon * Element (mathematics), an object that belongs to a mathematical set * In object-oriented programming, a member of a class ** Field (computer science), entries in a database ** Member variable, a variable that is associated with a specific object * Limb (anatomy), an appendage of the human or animal body ** Euphemism for penis * Structural component of a truss, connected by nodes * User (computing), a person making use of a computing service, especially on the Internet * Member (geology), a component of a geological formation * Member of parliament * The Members, a British punk rock band * Meronymy, a semantic relationship in linguistics * Church membership, belonging to a local Christian congregation, a Christian denomination and the universal Church * Member, a participant in a club or learned society A learned society (; also learned academy, scholarly society, or academic association) is a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cameroonian Traditional Rulers
Cameroonian may refer to: * Something of, from, or related to the country of Cameroon ** Culture of Cameroon ** Demographics of Cameroon ** Lists of Cameroonians * Cameroonian Pidgin English ** Languages of Cameroon * Cameroonian cuisine See also * * Cameroons or British Cameroon, a former British Mandate territory in British West Africa * Cameronian, a radical faction of Scottish Covenanters in the 17th and 18th centuries * Cameronians (other) Cameronians may refer to: * Cameronian group, a seventeenth-century religious group in Scotland named for its leader, Richard Cameron * 26th (Cameronian) Regiment of Foot, a regiment of the British Army raised from among the Cameronians, in exist ... {{disambiguation Language and nationality disambiguation pages ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cameroonian Muslims
Cameroonian may refer to: * Something of, from, or related to the country of Cameroon ** Culture of Cameroon ** Demographics of Cameroon ** Lists of Cameroonians * Cameroonian Pidgin English ** Languages of Cameroon * Cameroonian cuisine See also * * Cameroons or British Cameroon, a former British Mandate territory in British West Africa * Cameronian, a radical faction of Scottish Covenanters in the 17th and 18th centuries * Cameronians (other) Cameronians may refer to: * Cameronian group, a seventeenth-century religious group in Scotland named for its leader, Richard Cameron * 26th (Cameronian) Regiment of Foot, a regiment of the British Army raised from among the Cameronians, in exist ... {{disambiguation Language and nationality disambiguation pages ... [...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] |
List Of Rulers Of The Bamum
List of the rulers of the Bamum people, an ethnic group located in Cameroon. Their capital Fumban is also spelled Foumban in some sources. (Dates in ''italics'' indicate ''de facto ''continuation of office.) Fon (title), Mfon = ''Ruler'' See also *Cameroon **Politics of Cameroon **Heads of state of Cameroon **Colonial heads of British Cameroon, Colonial heads of Cameroon British Cameroon (Cameroons) **Heads of government of British Cameroon, Heads of government of Cameroon (Cameroons) **Colonial heads of French Cameroon, Colonial heads of French Cameroon (Cameroun) **Heads of government of French Cameroon, Heads of government of French Cameroon (Cameroun) **Colonial heads of German Cameroon, Colonial heads of German Cameroon (Kamerun) **Rulers of Mandara *Lists of office-holders References DeLancey, Mark W., and Mokeba, H. Mbella (1990) ''Historical Dictionary of the Republic of Cameroon'' (2nd ed.) Scarecrow Press, Metuchen, N.J., ; Neba, Aaron (1999) ''Modern Geogra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
National Assembly Of Cameroon
The National Assembly (french: Assemblée Nationale) is the lower house of the Parliament of Cameroon. It has 180 members, elected for five-year terms in 49 single and multi-seat constituencies. Together with the senate, it constitutes the legislative arm of government. Although multiparty elections have been held since 1992, the Cameroon People's Democratic Movement (RDPC), the ruling party since independence, has always retained control of the National Assembly. The Cameroonian political system invests overwhelming power in the hands of the President of the Republic, Paul Biya, and the RDPC exists essentially to support Biya and his policies. As a result, for most of Cameroon's history since independence, the National Assembly has done little more than approve the President's policies. From 1992 to 1997, the RDPC relied on alliances with two smaller parties to secure a parliamentary majority. This has been the only period since independence that saw any meaningful oppositio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Legislative Assembly Of Cameroon
A legislature is an assembly with the authority to make laws for a political entity such as a country or city. They are often contrasted with the executive and judicial powers of government. Laws enacted by legislatures are usually known as primary legislation. In addition, legislatures may observe and steer governing actions, with authority to amend the budget involved. The members of a legislature are called legislators. In a democracy, legislators are most commonly popularly elected, although indirect election and appointment by the executive are also used, particularly for bicameral legislatures featuring an upper chamber. Terminology The name used to refer to a legislative body varies by country. Common names include: * Assembly (from ''to assemble'') * Congress (from ''to congregate'') * Council (from Latin 'meeting') * Diet (from old German 'people') * Estates or States (from old French 'condition' or 'status') * Parliament (from French ''parler'' 'to speak') By ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
English Language
English is a West Germanic language of the Indo-European language family, with its earliest forms spoken by the inhabitants of early medieval England. It is named after the Angles, one of the ancient Germanic peoples that migrated to the island of Great Britain. Existing on a dialect continuum with Scots, and then closest related to the Low Saxon and Frisian languages, English is genealogically West Germanic. However, its vocabulary is also distinctively influenced by dialects of France (about 29% of Modern English words) and Latin (also about 29%), plus some grammar and a small amount of core vocabulary influenced by Old Norse (a North Germanic language). Speakers of English are called Anglophones. The earliest forms of English, collectively known as Old English, evolved from a group of West Germanic (Ingvaeonic) dialects brought to Great Britain by Anglo-Saxon settlers in the 5th century and further mutated by Norse-speaking Viking settlers starting in the 8th and 9th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ibrahim Njoya
King Ibrahim Mbouombouo Njoya ( Bamum: , ''Iparəim Nʃuɔiya'', formerly spelled in Bamum as , and Germanicized as ''Njoja'') in Yaoundé, was seventeenth in a long dynasty of kings that ruled over Bamum and its people in western Cameroon dating back to the fourteenth century. He succeeded his father Nsangu, and ruled from 1886 or 1887 until his death in 1933, when he was succeeded by his son, Seidou Njimoluh Njoya. He ruled from the ancient walled city of Fumban. Person and life Njoya was born circa 1876. His father passed away when he was just three years old, and his mother ruled the kingdom until he could ascend to the throne at the age of 11. Colonel Gorges of the British Army, who met Njoya in 1914, described him thus as "a fine upstanding man."Gorges (1930) He practised polygamy — Gorges reported that he had 600 wives and 149 children by 1915; it is thought that he had 177 children in all. Under the influence of a German missionary, Njoya converted to Christianity ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
