%0 Book Section
%9 OS CH : Chapitres d'ouvrages scientifiques
%A MacEachern, S.
%T Les gens de Ngolele : an examination of prehistoric ethnic relations in the Northern Mandara mountains
%B Actes du quatrième colloque Méga-Tchad : 3. Du politique à l'économique : études historiques dans le bassin du lac Tchad
%C Paris
%D 1991
%E Boutrais, Jean
%L fdi:34263
%G ENG
%I ORSTOM
%@ 2-7099-1020-9
%K ANTHROPOLOGIE ; HISTOIRE DU PEUPLEMENT ; LIGNAGE ; PREHISTOIRE ; TRADITION ORALE ; ISLAMISATION ; LINGUISTIQUE ; ARCHEOLOGIE
%K RELATIONS INTERETHNIQUES
%K CAMEROUN EXTREME NORD
%K MANDARA MONTS ; MIGERIA NORD EST ; NGOLELE ; KEROUA
%P 165-192
%U https://www.documentation.ird.fr/hor/fdi:34263
%> https://horizon.documentation.ird.fr/exl-doc/pleins_textes/pleins_textes_6/colloques2/34263.pdf
%W Horizon (IRD)
%X 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)
%S Colloques et Séminaires
%B Colloque Méga-Tchad
%8 1988/09/14-16
%$ 106ANTHRO1 ; 112ARCHEO02