One of the most significant African museum openings of 2024 was the Musée des Rois Bamoun, or Museum of the Bamoun Kings, in Foumban, Cameroon. Cameroonian archaeologist and heritage scholar Rachel ...

Chatter muffled as members of a secret society, masked and garbed in honey-coloured robes, entered the court of Foumban, the historic capital of a centuries-old kingdom nestled in hilly northwestern ...

Built on 5,000 square metres (1.2 acres) in the city of Foumban (the capital of the kingdom in the Western region of Cameroon), the project is the result of an initiative launched in 2013 by the late ...

A l'arrivée de leur juge suprême, un des seuls autorisés à montrer son visage, les imposantes "lances de la justice" sont plantées dans le sol. Le sultan Mouhammad Nabil Mfourifoum Mbombo Njoya, le ...

Foumban (Cameroon) (AFP) – To enter the Museum of the Bamoun Kings in western Cameroon, you have to pass under the fangs of a gigantic two-headed snake -- the highlight of an imposing coat of arms of ...

Rim Hachana does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their ...

l'essentiel Le Sultan Mforifoum Mbombo Njoya Mouhammad-Nabil, Roi du peuple Bamoun, vivant à l’ouest du Cameroun, a été reçu en mairie d’Agen par les élus. La communauté camerounaise était là. Ils ...

Cette recherche en géographie sociale et culturelle porte sur Nguon, un grand festival et un rassemblement culturel multiséculaire des Bamoun au Cameroun. Avec des publics différenciés et dans des ...

Silence! Les membres de la société secrète Moungouo, de mystérieuses silhouettes masquées, enveloppées de la tête au pied dans une toge jaune, pénètrent dans la cour d’apparat de Foumban, la capitale ...

Rachel Mariembe does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond ...