GEOPOLITICS AMONG THE PRECOLONIAL OMVANG: A HISTORICAL ASPECT OF THE PEOPLES OF EASTERN CAMEROON
GEOPOLITICS AMONG THE PRECOLONIAL OMVANG: A HISTORICAL ASPECT OF THE PEOPLES OF EASTERN CAMEROON

Summary/Abstract: The history of the Omvang people today in the district of Nguelemendouka in the department of Haut-Nyong in Eastern Cameroon is that of a society that was once poorly known and little known, sociopolitically and culturally, yet research sufficiently demonstrate that they have put in place solid traditional instruments which have nothing to envy to the other peoples of Cameroon; It raises the issue of knowing how the Omvang of yesterday and today succeed in the solid hierarchical society set up by Chief Nkal Mentsouga where each family member had a considerable place and a well-defined role promoting the peaceful management of disputes and inheritance crises for the benefit of social harmony, peace and harmony. Omvang society before Nkal Mentsouga is lineage or segmental. Their institutions are identical to those of the peoples of the Beti-Bulu-Fang forest in particular. These peoples have imagined and applied mechanisms and stratagems of power to ensure the most harmonious management possible of populations and property. We then witness around 1850 the transformation of the lineage structure into a large chieftaincy as a result of military conquests, hence a warlike geopolitics. This research aims to be a demonstrative approach to the anteriority of structures in traditional African societies in general and East Cameroon in particular. He rebels against the Eurocentric conception which has made its strength disappear following the arrival of colonization. This study aims to present a traditional aspect of the history of the peoples of Eastern Cameroon. . Our study also makes it possible to present the interactions between the lineage populations in order to respond to the questioning of Cheikh Anta Diop who already invited Africans to look into the history of their society, their civilization and to study them to better know themselves and to make known in our own way a traditional aspect of the history of the peoples of Eastern Cameroon all this through a reading that is both descriptive and analytical constituting the epistemological approach of this article.

• Details
• Contents