Bikélé people
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The Bikélé are an ethnic group living mainly in the south-west of Cameroon, in the department of Haut-Nyong, sub-division of Messamena. They are closely related to the Badjoué.
Language
[edit]The Bikélé speak the kol language (also known as Bikélé), a southern Bantoid language.[1]
References
[edit]- ^ Kol at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022)
Bibliography
[edit]- Dictionnaire des villages du Haut-Nyong, Centre ORSTOM de Yaoundé, June 1968, 84 p. (identification of Bikélé villages)
- H. Koch, "Le petit bétail chez les Badjoué et Bikélé de Messamena", in Bulletin de la Société d'études camerounaises, 1946, 276, Numbers: 13-14, p. 27-108
- Henri Koch, Magie et chasse au Cameroun (Paris: Berger-Levrault, 1968) [a study of the culture of Badjoué and Bikélé peoples].