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Title:Ancestral life - part three - Kelleng village
Kell_Historical-Life_03
A Documentation of Bati Language and Oral Traditions
Contributor (consultant):MBOCK-M
BONG
MBESSI MAKONDO
Contributor (researcher):NGUE UM
Coverage:Cameroon
Date:2017-06-14
Description:Even though the main topic of this session is related to aspects of the historical life of Kelleng village in particular and of the named Bati community in general, the introductory part of the interaction deals with community life among Bati community. The session is introduced by Emmanuel Ngué Um the Principal investigator. He asks the main consultant to comment on the prevailing conflict over Mbombole (Ngog Lituba) between the catholic churc and some Mbombog (the custodians of traditional power in the Bati-Mpoo-Basaa cultural group). The interview carries on further with Mbessi Makondo a native of Kelleng taking the lead as monitor. He interviews Bong Bong, one of the elderly of Mbog Bikom in Kelleng village about ancestral life habits of the Bati people. Towards the end of the recording, participants interact about miscellaneous topics.
The project to Document aspects of Bati language and oral traditions is an original idea of Dr Emmanuel-Moselly Makasso, who had initially surveyed the Bati speech area as part of a pilot research project granted by the Ministry of Scientific Research and Technological Innovation of the Republic of Cameroon. Based on the results of this pilot research which have revealed a situation of critical endangerment of Bati language and ancestral practices, the idea to submit a major documentation project to ELDP has matured. The project has eventually been submitted during the 2015 funding round with Dr Emmanuel Ngué Um as Principal Investigator, and Dr Emmanuel-Moselly Makasso as co-applicant. The project started in October 1st, 2015, and will run till the 30th of September in 2018.
The first part of the interaction (up to 13 minutes) is carried out in Basaa. The remainder of the session is carried out in Kelleng. All four participants including the main researcher are fluent in Basaa. The other three participants except main researcher ar multilingual in at least five neigbouring speech varieties, namely: Bisoo, Bongo (nubaca), Eton, Mbougue, Nyambat, etc.
Mbok's residence is host to the recording session. He is not the main consultant, but he sometimes contributes to the interaction. He is a nephew to the main consultant for this session, who is Bong. Mbock Michel is a traditional custodian, and is recognized the title of 'Mbambaga'. Mbambaga is a priest in the Bati-Mpoo-Basaa shared religion, who is charged with performing purification rituals, in case of death resulting from blood pouring.
Bong Bong is one of the village elders who is credited with sound knowledge of the historical, cultural, social and religious life of Bati as a community. He is a widow, and suffers from blindness. He was born in Kelleng, but later on moved to Yaoundé, where he had lived for many years before coming back to his native village.
Mbessi Makondo Gilbert as acted as one of the key informants for the research team during the first year of the project. Due to his extensive multilingualism coupled with a high sense of public network and relations, he has assisted the research team in most of their whereabouts throughout the various consultants who have agreed to lend themselves to research exercises. In some cases, Mbessi Gilbert has acted as the interviewer. This approach has been privileged in surveys dealing with anthropological, cultural and religous aspects. He had been trained by the research team in the monitoring of interviews, and in questionnaire administration, and has proven to be a talented and committed research assistant.
Emmanuel Ngué Um is the Principal Investigator for the Bati project. He is mainly employed at the University of Yaoundé one where he holds the position of Senior Lectuer of Linguistics, in the Departement of Cameroonian Languages and Cultures at the Higher Teacher Training School. Ngué Um is also Associate Researcher at CERDOTOLA, where he is charged with the responsibility of Archive Manager for ALORA (Archive of Languages and Oral Resources of Africa).
Format:video/mp4
image/jpeg
audio/x-wav
Identifier:oai:soas.ac.uk:MPI1101734
MDP0332
Identifier (URI):https://lat1.lis.soas.ac.uk/ds/asv?openpath=MPI1101734%23
Publisher:Ngué Um Emmanuel
International Center for Research and Documentation on African Traditions and Languages (CERDOTOLA)
Subject:Discourse
Interview
Ancestral life
Type:Video
Image
Audio

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Citation: MBOCK-M (consultant); BONG (consultant); MBESSI MAKONDO (consultant); NGUE UM (researcher). 2017-06-14. Ngué Um Emmanuel.


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