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[[File:COLLECTIE TROPENMUSEUM Het haar van een van de senior vrouwen van de Fon van Bafut wordt gekapt TMnr 20012967.jpg|alt=Bafut women (1960)|thumb|Bafut women (1960)]]
'''Bafut''' '''people''', also known as '''Fut''' or '''Bufu people''', is a [[Bantu peoples of South Africa|Bantu]] group located in the Tuba Subdivision of the [[Northwest Region (Cameroon)|North West Province]], [[Cameroon]].
== Language and Literacy ==
Aroun 134 000 Bafut people speak the [[Fut language|Bafut language]], an [[Grassfields languages|Eastern Grassfields]] language of the [[Niger–Congo languages|Niger-Congo languages]].<ref name=":1"></ref> Thirty percent of the Fut people read and write the language. Expanding Literacy in Fut language is supported by ten schools and thirty churches.<ref name=":0"></ref>
Bafut people use to be multilingual. Most of the upper Bafut can speak the Bafut language and Cameroon Pidgin English. Also, in a minor degree, they can speak local languages such as Mankon, Meta', or Mungaka.<ref name=":2" />
== Religion ==
Christianity is the predominant religion between Bafut people, accounting for between 74%<ref name=":1" /> to 95% of the population. A minor group still follows their ancestral religion. Bafut Christians divide between Roman Catholic, protestants, and other independent churches.<ref name=":0" />
New Testament has been translated to the Bafut language and Gospel recordings can be also heard.<ref name=":0" />
== History ==
[[File:Cam4327a Bafut.jpg|thumb|330x330px|[[Fon (title)|Fondom]] of Bafut, north of [[Bamenda]]. The main courtyard with the women's houses on the right, covered with tiles, the sacred forest in the background.]]
According to local etnohistories collected by [[British Empire|British colonial administrators]], Bafut people arrived around 300 years ago from the area to the east-northeast of their present site. However, some researchers consider that the Bafut people area a composite community of several groups of different places.<ref name=":2"></ref>
At the end of the nineteenth century, Bafut fought against [[Germans]] and their allies in the Bafut wars.<ref name=":2" />
== Social Organization ==
The [[Fon of Bafut]] is appointed directly by the [[Prime Minister of Cameroon|prime minister of the Republic of Cameroon]], and it's considered a civil servant. Bafut people divide traditionally between the court and the commoners. The fon, their wives, the princes, and the princesses made up the court and they concentrated in the fon quarter. Main families of commoners participate in the management of polity to counterbalance fon's potentially absolute power.<ref name=":2" />
== References ==
[[Category:Cameroonian people]]
'''Bafut''' '''people''', also known as '''Fut''' or '''Bufu people''', is a [[Bantu peoples of South Africa|Bantu]] group located in the Tuba Subdivision of the [[Northwest Region (Cameroon)|North West Province]], [[Cameroon]].
== Language and Literacy ==
Aroun 134 000 Bafut people speak the [[Fut language|Bafut language]], an [[Grassfields languages|Eastern Grassfields]] language of the [[Niger–Congo languages|Niger-Congo languages]].<ref name=":1"></ref> Thirty percent of the Fut people read and write the language. Expanding Literacy in Fut language is supported by ten schools and thirty churches.<ref name=":0"></ref>
Bafut people use to be multilingual. Most of the upper Bafut can speak the Bafut language and Cameroon Pidgin English. Also, in a minor degree, they can speak local languages such as Mankon, Meta', or Mungaka.<ref name=":2" />
== Religion ==
Christianity is the predominant religion between Bafut people, accounting for between 74%<ref name=":1" /> to 95% of the population. A minor group still follows their ancestral religion. Bafut Christians divide between Roman Catholic, protestants, and other independent churches.<ref name=":0" />
New Testament has been translated to the Bafut language and Gospel recordings can be also heard.<ref name=":0" />
== History ==
[[File:Cam4327a Bafut.jpg|thumb|330x330px|[[Fon (title)|Fondom]] of Bafut, north of [[Bamenda]]. The main courtyard with the women's houses on the right, covered with tiles, the sacred forest in the background.]]
According to local etnohistories collected by [[British Empire|British colonial administrators]], Bafut people arrived around 300 years ago from the area to the east-northeast of their present site. However, some researchers consider that the Bafut people area a composite community of several groups of different places.<ref name=":2"></ref>
At the end of the nineteenth century, Bafut fought against [[Germans]] and their allies in the Bafut wars.<ref name=":2" />
== Social Organization ==
The [[Fon of Bafut]] is appointed directly by the [[Prime Minister of Cameroon|prime minister of the Republic of Cameroon]], and it's considered a civil servant. Bafut people divide traditionally between the court and the commoners. The fon, their wives, the princes, and the princesses made up the court and they concentrated in the fon quarter. Main families of commoners participate in the management of polity to counterbalance fon's potentially absolute power.<ref name=":2" />
== References ==
[[Category:Cameroonian people]]
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