The origin of Bamiléké

It is difficult to go back in the time beyond the Tikars from which the Bamilékés descended. Some historians draw the history of the Bamilékés from the moment of the decline of the Nubies when Arabian invaders attacked Nubie and brought some people as slaves in the north between 1171 and 1250. .
Lubos Kropacek notes that during this period, the Nubies knew the permanent threat of the pillagers groups of the desert, how they burned villages, destroyed the Norias, and brought their victims as slaves in the North. Others think that the Bamilékés could have fled Egypt or Upper Egypt because of hostilities they had in this region, and then headed toward Central Africa. Other less convincing sources (The Abbé Thomas Keutchoua re-written by Paul Siankam in his work on- The Onomastics of the Peoples of Cameroon) imagine that they must be a people who came out of Israel, from the tribe of Juda and would have entered Egypt, where through a by-road, arrived Ethiopia. This thesis is based on Jeremiah 44 :8 and 14 :13. Finally, another even more mythical thesis by Rundé, says that when Mohamed appeared to preach Islam, the Mboums (forefathers of the Bamilékés) opposed this new religion. War broke out between the two communities. The three Mboum fetishes that were in the Kaaba are thought to have flown off toward a destination that the Mboums followed. It is this movement that brought the Mboums right to the adamaoua plateau. According to a recent discovery of Justin Mouafo, the word Bamiléké is a derivative of "Pue melekeu" that is : the inhabitants of the mountains and gullies or rocks.

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