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Countries and Their Cultures: Bamileke

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Bamileke is a collective term referring to a loose agglomeration of some 100 kingdoms or chiefdoms of the eastern Grassfields in the Western Province of Cameroon. These kingdoms have similar cosmology and social and political structures; they speak distinct, although related, languages. Rural Bamileke are primarily farmers; they also keep pygmy goats. The major cash crop is coffee.

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