Bafoussam

Bafoussam is a Bamileke chiefdom of the western highlands. Its traditions remember ancestors who left the Tikar plain and journeyed west under a leader known as Ta’a Teh-Ngouong, or the Hunter. The chief, called the Fo, stood at the centre of a political and religious community bound together by shared allegiance. Other Bamileke chiefdoms later traced their origins to Bafoussam as people moved and established new settlements.