Tikar people

Ethnic group in Cameroon

The Tikar is an umbrella term for a group of closely related peoples who mostly inhabit the Northwest Region of Cameroon with a very small minority in the Adamawa Region. Some of these groups include but are not limited to Bafut, Nso, Kom, Nkwen, and the smaller Tikar people found in the Adamawa Region. They are known to be great artists, artisans and storytellers. Once a nomadic people, some oral traditions trace the origin of the Tikar people to the Nile River Valley in present-day Sudan. According to the Bamenda City Council the Tikari groups migrated from Northern Nigeria to settle in the highlands of western Cameroon. Such ethnic groups were referred to in the 1969 official statistics as "Semi-Bantus" and "Sudanese Negroes." They speak a Northern Bantoid language called Tikar. One of the few African ethnic groups to practice a monotheistic traditional religion, the Tikar refer to God the Creator by the name Nyuy. They also have an extensive spiritual system of ancestral reverence.

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