Domestic Animals in Cameroon

Authors

  • Forka Leypey Mathew Fomine Independent Scholar Author

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.1558/ppc.30816

Keywords:

Cameroon, livestock, Pigs, food and culture, goats, chickens, cattle, intercultural ecounter

Abstract

This article looks at the use of domesticated animals as a source of food in Cameroon. The ethnic groups in this study include Bakweri, Mbo, Bamun, Wawa, Doowaayo, Guidar and Kotoko. 

Author Biography

  • Forka Leypey Mathew Fomine, Independent Scholar

    Forka Leypey Mathew Fomine is a Ph.D. candidate at the History Department, University of Yaounde 1, Cameroon. In 2002, he was awarded first prize in an anthropological essay competition launched by the Melford Charitable Trust London in collaboration with the History Department, University of Yaounde 1. His thesis is titled ‘Patterns of Food Consumption in Cameroon: Contrasting Oral History and Genetic Evidence from very early to Recent Times’, and involves the study of traditional food preparation and consumption in multiple ethnic groups in Cameroon. He has just completed a manuscript on food as a linking device among the Guidar.

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Ahmidou, Imam Nana, Islamic scholar, aged 60 years, Oumyari-Wawa. Interview, 30 January 2005.

Bidhu, Duma, retired farmer, aged 88 years, Afade. Interview, 25 October 2003.

Esegemu, Thaddeus, farmer and herbalist, aged 59 years, Mbo. Interview, 24 October 2005.

Foteck-Ngoh, Pius, sub-chief, aged 97 years, Mbo. Interview, 28 August 2005.

Gouga, Francis, builder, aged 50 years, Tako-Poli. Interview, 11 April 2005.

Lumunge, Moses, farmer, aged 70 years, Lower Bolifamba. Interview, 22 May 2004.

Mbwaye, Samuel, farmer, aged 72 years, Long Street, Buea. Interview, 10 May 2004.

Mongho, Pierre, officer with Cameroon National Association for Family Welfare, aged 30 years, Guider. Interview, 10 October 2005.

Ngaseli, Juliatou, housewife, aged 55 years, Malantouan. Interview, 3 October 2004.

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Published

2008-09-01

Issue

PPC 86 (2008)

Section

Articles

How to Cite

Fomine, Forka Leypey Mathew. 2008. “Domestic Animals in Cameroon”. Petits Propos Culinaires, September, 63-82. https://doi.org/10.1558/ppc.30816.