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.
Type evenement: Festival
GAH’CHOU Festival
The GAH’CHOU cultural festival, abbreviated FECUGA, is a cultural event following the festivities marking the “return to culture”.
NEKOU NEKU’U
This biennial festival is a moment of purification and exorcism to which the whole village is invited.
LEGHOUO-LAH Festival
Baleveng village purification ceremony, a time for recollection, blessing the harvests and protecting the population and the village from evil spirits.
LIE LA TATOMDJA Festival
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.
Festival NEKANG PE MUNGOUM
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
NGOU NGUONG Festival
It’s a journey of initiation designed to safeguard and reinvigorate our traditions. Through this event, we revisit our traditions, reframe our values, and present an intimate face of our people through our cultural achievements.
Ngouon Festival
A cultural and traditional festival, the Ngouon festival is a biennial ceremony not to be missed among the Bamouns. Indeed, the word Nguon means paying tribute to the owner of the land being cultivated. This famous event is a conference of the sovereign people before the KU-Mutngu (spears of justice carried by members of the… Continue reading Ngouon Festival
Taro Festival
The name “Taro” refers to the traditional dish “crushed taro”, which has become a staple of confreries and secret totemic societies. This biennial festival is also an occasion for sharing and communion with other “sister” communities.
GWOUO’O GWOUONG Festival
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.