Type evenement: Festival

is a week-long cultural and artistic festival celebrated every leap year. It symbolizes a holy year of recollection and prayer, during which all Bamendjo sons and daughters return to the source of their tradition to cleanse themselves of their defilement and sin.

The GAH’CHOU cultural festival, abbreviated FECUGA, is a cultural event following the festivities marking the “return to culture”.

Baleveng village purification ceremony, a time for recollection, blessing the harvests and protecting the population and the village from evil spirits.

It is the promotion of Baham culture in its essential aspects, the specific objectives being: -the highlighting of Baham cultural wealth; the gathering of Baham people around what they have in common; the contribution by the specificities of Baham culture to the enrichment and influence of national culture.

In the Nguemba language, this word means “power” and “magic”. It also designates the care produced by healers of authentic power. Its rite, instituted by forefathers, applies exclusively to boys (although it is their mothers and grandmothers who prepare the ingredients), in ceremonies that are not public. Initiation into NEKANG shows that a boy has… Continue reading Festival NEKANG PE MUNGOUM

The aim of this event is to train young people in the customs and traditions of the region, and to ensure that these traditions are passed on to future generations.

It’s an opportunity for all Bansoa communities to get together and mobilize around the organization (forum, discussion, fair, exhibition, traditional dance parade) to make the event memorable.

This annual event features a banana dance, usually performed by village women.

The city of Bangangté, capital of the department of Ndé, and the surrounding area, vibrate harmoniously to the rhythm of the Medumba Arts and Culture Festival.