Indigenous Peoples’ Rights in Cameroon : Challenges and issues
This article is the first of two pieces about indigenous peoples in Cameroon, written by a staff member of Okani, one of our client organisations. In Cameroon, when speaking about forest indigenous peoples, we refer to four different groups: Baka people live mostly in the Eastern and Southern regions of Cameroon. Bakola and Bagyeli people live in an area of about 12 000 square km in the South of the country, including the districts of Akom II, Bipindi, Kribi and Lolodorf. Lastly, the Bedzang people live in the Central regions, in the North-West of Mbam in the area of Ngambè Tikar. [...]