Bamileke people

Bamileke
bˈɑː mˈiː lˈe͡ɪ kˈe͡ɪ
	King of Bandjoun, one of the numerous Bamileke Kingdoms in Cameroon
Regions with significant populations
Cameroon	8,000,000 est. [1]
Languages
	Bamileke Languages, French, English, Pidgin
Religion
	Grassfields beliefs and ancestral worship (dual system: Divinities-based, and Ancestors-based), Christianity, Islam
Related ethnic groups
	Bafia, Bamum, Tikar, other Grassfields peoples, Igbo

Lac Baleng, tourist area located in the western region where one little beyond the water which marries the face of the surrounding nature.

The Bamiléké are a group of 90 closely related peoples who inhabit the Western High Plateau of Cameroon. According to Dr John Feyou de Hapy, Bamiléké means people of faith.^[2]

The Grassfields people do not refer to themselves as Bamileke but instead use the names of the individual kingdoms to which they belong or else refer to themselves as "Ngrafi" for “grassfields people".^[3]

^ "Bantu, Cameroon-Bamileke". Joshua Project. Retrieved 7 February 2019. Includes other non-Bamileke Semi-Bantu people.
^ de Hapy, John Feyou & Alexis (5 March 2015). People from the Land of Ka. ASIN B00UCFYM4S.
^ Blench, Roger (2011). "'The membership and internal structure of Bantoid and the border with Bantu" (PDF). Berlin: Humboldt University. pp. 28, 30.

[1] "Bantu, Cameroon-Bamileke". Joshua Project. Retrieved 7 February 2019. Includes other non-Bamileke Semi-Bantu people.

[2] Hapy, John Feyou & Alexis (5 March 2015). People from the Land of Ka. ASIN B00UCFYM4S.

[3] Blench, Roger (2011). "'The membership and internal structure of Bantoid and the border with Bantu" (PDF). Berlin: Humboldt University. pp. 28, 30.

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