MacEachern S. (1991). Les gens de Ngolele : an examination of prehistoric ethnic relations in the Northern Mandara mountains. In :
Boutrais Jean (ed.). Actes du quatrième colloque Méga-Tchad : 3. Du politique à l'économique : études historiques dans le bassin du lac Tchad. Paris : ORSTOM, p. 165-192. (Colloques et Séminaires). Colloque Méga-Tchad, 4., Paris (FRA), 1988/09/14-16. ISBN 2-7099-1020-9. ISSN 0767-2896.
Titre du document
Les gens de Ngolele : an examination of prehistoric ethnic relations in the Northern Mandara mountains
Année de publication
1991
Type de document
Partie d'ouvrage
Auteurs
MacEachern S.
In
Boutrais Jean (ed.), Actes du quatrième colloque Méga-Tchad : 3. Du politique à l'économique : études historiques dans le bassin du lac Tchad
Source
Paris : ORSTOM, 1991,
p. 165-192 (Colloques et Séminaires). ISBN 2-7099-1020-9 ISSN 0767-2896
Colloque
Colloque Méga-Tchad, 4., Paris (FRA), 1988/09/14-16
People of a number of montagnard lineages in the Northern Mandara mountains of Cameroon say that their ancestors came from a mountain called Ngolélé, which can be identified as part of the Zalideva hills in Northeastern Nigeria. This has long been recognized for lineages of the Plata, Urza and Dumwa groups, but there is evidence that certain Uldeme, Mora and Podokwo lineages also participated. A widespread tradition also exists among these groups that, at Ngolélé, they were part of a community which included the ancestors of the Wandala, who are Muslim plains-dwellers. It is argued that these traditions refer to a period of reduced ethnic tensions, before conversion of part of the population to islam and before intensive occupation of the Mandara mountains by refugees. The significance of these traditions to linguistic and archaeological reconstructions will be discussed. (Résumé d'auteur)
