Beti-Pahuin

The Beti-Pahuin are made up of over 20 individual ethnic groups.

Meanwhile, the Beti-Pahuin continued to supply a significant source of free labour.

The Beti-Pahuin may have practiced cannibalism at this time, as well.

The Beti-Pahuin and other ethnic groups in the South have little traditional political organisational structure.

As these people moved south, the Beti-Pahuin were forced to move further south, as well.

The Beti-Pahuin peoples organise themselves according to a series of patrilineal kinships.

The Bulu form the third group with about a third of the total Beti-Pahuin population.

The large number of Beti-Pahuin involved in lucrative enterprises such as cocoa and coffee farming also lends them a strong economic influence.

The majority of the Beti-Pahuin ethnic groups live in small, roadside villages of no more than a few hundred inhabitants.

As late as the colonial period, many Beti-Pahuin were highly skilled workers in wood, ivory, and soapstone.

The population is of the Bulu clan, part of the Beti-Pahuin tribe.

Bantu migrations between the 17th and 19th centuries brought the coastal tribes and later the Beti-Pahuin.

In fact, the Beti-Pahuin migration was still taking place during this time, allowing the Bulu to set themselves in such a position.

The Beti-Pahuin's exact origins are unclear.

Over the next two decades, peoples such as the Beti-Pahuin and Bamileke came to rival the Duala's position.

The Beti-Pahuin moved into the region at this time as well, travelling through in three separate waves from northeast, south of the Sanaga River.

The third grouping is called the Bulu and makes up about a third of all Beti-Pahuin in Cameroon.

However, as France granted increasing levels of self-rule to its African holdings, the Beti-Pahuin were quick to seize upon it.

The Beti-Pahuin Bantu groups entered the area in the 19th century from the northeast, south of the Sanaga River.

Beginning in 1887, German colonisers penetrated Beti-Pahuin territory to search for individuals to enslave on their coastal plantations.

A later wave of immigration came in the 19th century when the Beti-Pahuin pushed in from the west to escape pressures from the Babouti.

The major ethnic groups are the various Beti-Pahuin peoples, such as the Ewondo, Fang, and Bulu.

The Bantu came as well, examples being the Beti-Pahuin and Maka and Njem.

The movement of the Beti-Pahuin through the region coincided with the height of the European slave trade on Cameroon's coast.

The Beti-Pahuin conquered the peoples they encountered on this southward march, "Pahuinising" them in the process or pushing them away in their turn.