Bakas

Bakas lies in the wooded hill country of Yaoundé, between the Sanaga and Nyong rivers. The Ewondo are among the Beti peoples of this region, where streams such as the Mfoundi run between ridges. Traditions of Beti migrations describe the crossing of the Sanaga and the movement of lineages southward. The ancestors of the Mvog Belinga, one such lineage, spent time in the Mbam country towards the end of the eighteenth century before moving towards the Sanaga and the Mfoundi area.