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The Fang people speak the Fang language, also known as Pahouin or Pamue or Pangwe. The language is a Northwest Bantu language belonging to the Niger-Congo family of languages. [5] The Fang language is similar and intelligible with languages spoken by Beti-Pahuin peoples, namely the Beti people to their north and the Bulu people in central.
This category is for individual people from the Fang ethnic group. Pages in category "Fang people" The following 16 pages are in this category, out of 16 total.
Fang people (16 P) Pages in category "Fang (ethnic group)" The following 3 pages are in this category, out of 3 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...
The Ngil were a secret male society within the Fang people tasked with protecting and administering justice, as well as keeping peace between clans and villages. [3] The Ngil society took part in rituals and ceremonies that were intended to discourage people of the community that might have evil intentions and fight off witchcraft. [4]
Fang (/ ˈ f ɒ ŋ /) is a Central African language spoken by around one million people, most of them in Equatorial Guinea, and northern Gabon, where it is the dominant Bantu language; Fang is also spoken in southern Cameroon, the Republic of the Congo, and small fractions of the islands of São Tomé and Príncipe.
Mebege (also called Nzeme and Mbere) is the Supreme God of the Fang people of the Central African Republic. [1] [2] Cosmology. First oral tradition.
Nzame is the supreme creator god featured in the mythologies of the Fang people of Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, and Cameroon. The name is used to refer to a trinity of deities, which included Nzame, Mebere and Nkwa and is also used in reference to Nzame, one of the members of this trinity. [1] [2] [3] [4]
He travelled to Cameroon to work in a cocoa plantation in 1902. The Lübeck museum supported him to study the local people from 1907 to 1909. He also collected specimens and artefacts for the museum in Lübeck. In 1913 he published a two volume monograph Die Pangwe that described the Fang people. [1] In 1914 Tessmann spent over a month on Don i ...