Bakoko people
Ethnic group in Cameroon
The Bakoko, also known as the Basoo, are a Bantu ethnic group in Cameroon. According to 2010 figures there are around 111,000 of them, mostly concentrated in the Littoral Region in the southwest of the country.[1] They speak the Bakoko language and are related to the Bassa people.[2][3] These people put up a resistance to the Germans when they invaded in 1889.[4]
References
- ^ "Bakoko people". Joshua Project. Retrieved 28 August 2012.
- ^ Appiah, Anthony; Gates, Henry Louis (17 February 2010). Encyclopedia of Africa. Oxford University Press. p. 148. ISBN 978-0-19-533770-9. Retrieved 28 August 2012.
- ^ Fanso, Verkijika G. (31 July 1989). Cameroon History for Secondary Schools and Colleges: Prehistoric times to the nineteenth century. Macmillan. p. 49. ISBN 978-0-333-47121-0. Retrieved 28 August 2012.
- ^ Jonassohn, Kurt; Björnson, Karin Solveig (1998). Genocide and Gross Human Rights Violations in Comparative Perspective. Transaction Publishers. p. 250. ISBN 978-0-7658-0417-4. Retrieved 28 August 2012.
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Ethnic groups in Cameroon
- Akunakuna
- Ana
- Anglo-Cameroonian
- Aro
- Bafia
- Baka
- Bakoko
- Bakossi
- Baligham
- Bamileke
- Bamum
- Banda
- Bassa
- Beti-Pahuin
- Beti
- Fang
- Bubi
- Buduma
- Chamba
- Duala
- Dwe'e
- Ekoi
- Fula
- Gbaya
- Hausa
- Kanuri
- Kirdi
- Kole
- Kom
- Kombe
- Kotoko
- Kuteb
- Kwe
- Kwele
- Limba
- Makaa
- Mambila
- Mandara
- Mankon
- Mbo
- Mboko
- Mofu
- Mungo
- Njem
- Nso
- Nzime
- Pori
- Shuwa
- Subu
- Tikar
- Tiv
- Vengo
- Widikum
- Wodaabe
- Wovea
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