Culture and traditions
Diving in the mists of time and centuries-old traditions ...
Cameroon offers a summary of developments and it is easy to bump the most modern avant-garde and the survival of traditional ways of life ... With some 250 ethnic groups and many languages, cultural diversity is needed through lifestyles, folklore, crafts and a wide variety of habitats, specific to each major ethnic group.
Amazing mix of cultures, customs, traditions and folklore different from Pygmies to the Kirdi animist South of the Far North, to the great Bantu chiefs of West ...
In the North, the great annual festivals are the occasion of dramatic fantasias where horses and riders dressed in gaudy outfits vying address.
The Lamidat of Rey Bouba is one of the largest chiefdoms of Cameroon.
Behind the imposing walls of adobe palace, the Lamido (Sultan), reigns over his court in ancient folklore.
Its acknowledged authority is exercised over a large area which includes the National Park Boubandjida.
The "Fulbe" sedentary Fulani make up the bulk of the population of this predominantly Muslim region where one crosses also many nomadic Fulani herdsmen "Bororo," ethnicity particularly typical and picturesque, with brightly colored outfits, their faces scarred and tattooed, accompanied by imposing transhumant herds of zebus with the seasons.
Do not miss!
A few kilometers from the park, the paleontological site Kum Basin - Managna.
In the bed of a stream, there is more than 200 well marked traces of dinosaur tracks, some form of ten meters before disappearing under the bank.
This is Iguanodontes and Hipsilophodontes, bipedal three-toed carnivores and herbivores, the earliest evidence of vertebrates identified in this region.
(- 115 million years)
One of the largest footprints in slabs known world, and yet totally unknown ...!
A learning experience ...
The meeting with local people, a different view of Africa, a discovery of the other that lack of challenge ...
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