I INVITE YOU TO COME AND WITNESS A BRIEF HISTORY Of MY TRIBE [KOM]

Hello there, Steemians. Have you ever thought of where I, Chia Bertrand Fuchi with the steemit username @chiabertrand comes from? If you don't know then I will happily tell you where I come from and a little history of where I come from. I hope you will enjoy reading 🤗

As I earlier said, I'm called Chia Bertrand Fuchi and I'm a native of KOM. KOM is a village found in the Northwest region of Cameroon and it is one of the most respected and well known village here in the northwest because of its culture and amazing tradition. Do not worry, I will give a brief history of KOM in my next paragraph.

As I earlier said, KOM is one of the biggest ethnic groups in the northwest region of Cameroon because of its culture and tradition. It is located in the Northwest region of Cameroon, BOYO is it's Division. It is divided into subdivision and my specific area where I come from is FUNDONG which is a subdivision in BOYO because BOYO division has four subdivisions which are Fundong, Belo, Njinikom and Mbingo.

It's quit easy to go to this areas because of the ring-road that was constructed by the Germans after when they failed to defeat KOM warriors during an encounter back then when Foin Yuh the 2nd was still Fun of KOM. The natives of KOM are welcoming, sociable and very loving because we treat everyone equal regardless of where they come from.

In our tribe, all male genders possesses a wide majority of powers over the female genders and are responsible for any decision making. The female genders are mostly involved in farm labour and domestic chores. Then the male genders are mostly involved In hunting, Fishing, digging of graves and all activities that involves extra power and intelligence.

Our native language (mother language) is called ITANGIKOM which is well vocalize, articulated and known across the entire Northwest Region and Cameroon out-large. I think there is no one in Northwest Bamenda and most part of Cameroon that doesn't understand good morning in our native language. Better still, "good morning" is translated in ITANGIKOM as "Wä Nchïï Ma Jùn". We call a "Man" who has gotten married to many wife's as "Bobeh" and we call his wife's as "Nawain". If you guys want I can continue teaching you guys in the comment section below

In Kom, our matrilineal succesion comes from the mother side instead of the father's side(quite a surprise). So when ever an adult male gender dies, all ownership of his properties including his childrens, wives, compounds and inheritance will be inherited by his nephew which is his sister's son(to be honest, this is the only part of Kom tradition that still baffles me till today because I'm not in support of it and probably, most of us) but it's our ancient tradition . It should rather be a man's child that inherits his properties not his sisters child.

As I earlier said, Kom natives are welcoming, loving and caring and our tradition emphasize on the respect of elders especially the ones with a red feathers who are called "nchi-dohs". They are the one's that usually seats with the fun and together make decisions. They also posseses great and special powers.

We have a very nice traditional dance which everyone loves even including strangers, foreigners and people from different villages. We also have a lot of MASQUERADES (known as Juju's). Some of the well known ones are Nkoh, ma-buh, Quih-Foin, Na-ntang, Njong, Ma-Bu, Natang, Atingieh and so many others. I will be telling you guys more about this with videos of how they are dancing and displaying in my subsequent edition.

The most powerful MASQUERADES which is also a status is known as Afo-Akum and it posseses a lot of spiritual powers. It is said that, this status usually communicate with the fun. I hope to discuss more about it in my next edition.

during occasions such as marriages, birth celebration known as "Born-house"(the welcoming of a new born baby), cultural days, funerals and other community celebration, we usually performed two main types of dances Known as *CHONG and NJANG. NJANG is usually performed by elderly women while CHONG is usually performed by elderly men.

We also have a well known and recognize traditional meal which is fufu corn and Karti-Karti. Fufu is made of grind maize which have been well prepared and arrange into loafs. The Karti-Karti is made up of chopped fowl which is mixed with red oil. We inherited this traditional meal from our four-fathers because our main cash crops we cultivate is maize and the main domestic animals we Carta for is fowls and goats.

We, natives of KOM always try as much as possible to preserve our tradition by always representing it everywhere we go to. That is, we always try to establish our cultural organisation so that we could gather and bring out ideas by encouraging our culture development. For instance, we always dress in our traditional wears and organized traditional meetings anywhere we discover that we are many of us no matter the country, town or region and hold what we call contri-meetings. We are also fun of speaking our traditional language anywhere we fine our selfs because we are proud of our native language. This is why the language has gone viral and people enjoy us speaking it. In general, we have a very good legacy and heritage and this is the reason why I'm a proud Bikom-man

I hope you guys have had a glimpse and a clue about my tribe. In my next edition, I will tell you guys about Afo-Akum which is an ancient status that possesses a lot of powers and the history behind it. I will also tell you guys about some of our MASQUERADES and how they usually entertain and display during occasions and cultural events

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