OLAC Record: A Documentation of Bati Language and Oral Traditions

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Title: Ancestral life - part 2 - Kelleng village

Kell_Historical-Life_02

A Documentation of Bati Language and Oral Traditions

Contributor: MAKON

ASSOMO

SOMAN MAKONDO

Contributor (consultant): MBESSI MAKONDO

NGO MATITIGI

Contributor (researcher): NGUE UM

Coverage: Cameroon

Date: 2017-06-13

Description: This session involves an elderly women, probably the eldest among women in Kelleng. She has accepted to interact with the research team about aspects of the ancestral life to which she has been exposed during her young age. The elderly woman acknowledges significant changes in life style which have occurred since the colonial time till the present time. While she expresses nostalgia about some of the life habits which have now been abandonned, she also acknowledges that not everything was desirable in the old days. One Of the challenges which the Bati community used to be faced with in the old days is war.

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.

This session involves an elderly women, probably the eldest among women in Kelleng. She has accepted to interact with the research team about aspects of the ancestral life to which she has been exposed during her young age. The elderly woman acknowledges significant changes in life style which have occurred since the colonial time till the present time. While she expresses nostalgia about some of the life habits which have now been abandonned, she also acknowledges that not everything was desirable in the old days. One Of the challenges which the Bati community used to be faced with in the old days is war. Apart from the narrative about historical and ancestral life in Kelleng village the consultant also delivers oral texts in the form of songs. She also tells the research team about some traditional rites and tabous.

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).

Gwladys Makon is a team research member for the Bati projet. She is enrolled in the PHD programme at the Department of African Languages and Linguistics. Makon is a PHD fellow for the Bati projet, and she is mainly concerned with providing a comprehensive grammatical description of Bati language, all three dialects inclusive. During her undergraduate study at the Department of African Languages and Linguistics at the University of Yaoundé I, Gwladys Makon has red, among others, the followingn subjets: Introduction to general linguistics, phonetics, phonology (with special emphasis on Bantu languages), introduction to sociolinguistics, language teaching, language planning, etc.

Assomo Celestine Ghislaine is a PhD student who is enroled in the Linguistic program at the University of Yaoundé I, Department of African Languages and Linguistics. She has completed her gratuade program in the same Department, and later on graduated with a Master's Degree in descriptive Linguistics in 2015. Ghislaine Assomo is part of the research team working on the documentation of Bati language and Oral traditions. She works on the project on a part-time basis; the remaining part of her schedule being devoted to her PhD research, which deals with aspects of Multilingualism within the broader area covered by the overall Bati Canton.

'Mama' NGO MATITIGI, is probably the eldest woman in Kelleng at the date of recording of the present session. The elderly woman acknowledges significant changes in life style which have occurred since the colonial time till the present time. While she expresses nostalgia about some of the life habits which have now been abandonned, she also acknowledges that not everything was desirable in the old days. One Of the challenges which the Bati community used to be faced with in the old days is war.

SOMAN MAKONDO Thimothée is a close relative to MBESSI MAKONDO Gilbert our main informant. He has taken part in the recording mainly to look after his mother who was the principal consultant for the current session and whose physical state is declining. Not only he did take active part in the interaction, but he has expressed some reluctancy about his mother being video recorded. His main concern was to know what benefit the recording and the overall documentation project would benefit him and his mother. In order to reassure him, the Principal investigator has explained the goal of the documentation work, and promise to hand him down copies of the entire recording when the team come back to Kelleng next year.

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Title:		Ancestral life - part 2 - Kelleng village
		Kell_Historical-Life_02
		A Documentation of Bati Language and Oral Traditions
Contributor:		MAKON
		ASSOMO
		SOMAN MAKONDO
Contributor (consultant):		MBESSI MAKONDO
Contributor (consultant):		NGO MATITIGI
Contributor (researcher):		NGUE UM
Coverage:		Cameroon
Date:		2017-06-13
Description:		This session involves an elderly women, probably the eldest among women in Kelleng. She has accepted to interact with the research team about aspects of the ancestral life to which she has been exposed during her young age. The elderly woman acknowledges significant changes in life style which have occurred since the colonial time till the present time. While she expresses nostalgia about some of the life habits which have now been abandonned, she also acknowledges that not everything was desirable in the old days. One Of the challenges which the Bati community used to be faced with in the old days is war.
		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.
		This session involves an elderly women, probably the eldest among women in Kelleng. She has accepted to interact with the research team about aspects of the ancestral life to which she has been exposed during her young age. The elderly woman acknowledges significant changes in life style which have occurred since the colonial time till the present time. While she expresses nostalgia about some of the life habits which have now been abandonned, she also acknowledges that not everything was desirable in the old days. One Of the challenges which the Bati community used to be faced with in the old days is war. Apart from the narrative about historical and ancestral life in Kelleng village the consultant also delivers oral texts in the form of songs. She also tells the research team about some traditional rites and tabous.
		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).
		Gwladys Makon is a team research member for the Bati projet. She is enrolled in the PHD programme at the Department of African Languages and Linguistics. Makon is a PHD fellow for the Bati projet, and she is mainly concerned with providing a comprehensive grammatical description of Bati language, all three dialects inclusive. During her undergraduate study at the Department of African Languages and Linguistics at the University of Yaoundé I, Gwladys Makon has red, among others, the followingn subjets: Introduction to general linguistics, phonetics, phonology (with special emphasis on Bantu languages), introduction to sociolinguistics, language teaching, language planning, etc.
		Assomo Celestine Ghislaine is a PhD student who is enroled in the Linguistic program at the University of Yaoundé I, Department of African Languages and Linguistics. She has completed her gratuade program in the same Department, and later on graduated with a Master's Degree in descriptive Linguistics in 2015. Ghislaine Assomo is part of the research team working on the documentation of Bati language and Oral traditions. She works on the project on a part-time basis; the remaining part of her schedule being devoted to her PhD research, which deals with aspects of Multilingualism within the broader area covered by the overall Bati Canton.
		'Mama' NGO MATITIGI, is probably the eldest woman in Kelleng at the date of recording of the present session. The elderly woman acknowledges significant changes in life style which have occurred since the colonial time till the present time. While she expresses nostalgia about some of the life habits which have now been abandonned, she also acknowledges that not everything was desirable in the old days. One Of the challenges which the Bati community used to be faced with in the old days is war.
		SOMAN MAKONDO Thimothée is a close relative to MBESSI MAKONDO Gilbert our main informant. He has taken part in the recording mainly to look after his mother who was the principal consultant for the current session and whose physical state is declining. Not only he did take active part in the interaction, but he has expressed some reluctancy about his mother being video recorded. His main concern was to know what benefit the recording and the overall documentation project would benefit him and his mother. In order to reassure him, the Principal investigator has explained the goal of the documentation work, and promise to hand him down copies of the entire recording when the team come back to Kelleng next year.
Format:		video/mp4
		image/jpeg
		audio/x-wav
Identifier:		oai:soas.ac.uk:MPI1101750
Identifier:		MDP0332
Identifier (URI):		https://lat1.lis.soas.ac.uk/ds/asv?openpath=MPI1101750%23
Publisher:		Ngué Um Emmanuel
Publisher:		International Center for Research and Documentation on African Traditions and Languages (CERDOTOLA)
Type:		Video
		Image
		Audio
OLAC Info
Archive:		Endangered Languages Archive
Description:		http://www.language-archives.org/archive/soas.ac.uk
GetRecord:		OAI-PMH request for OLAC format
GetRecord:		Pre-generated XML file
OAI Info
OaiIdentifier:		oai:soas.ac.uk:MPI1101750
DateStamp:		2019-03-31
GetRecord:		OAI-PMH request for simple DC format
Search Info
Citation:		MBESSI MAKONDO (consultant); NGUE UM (researcher); MAKON; ASSOMO; NGO MATITIGI (consultant); SOMAN MAKONDO. 2017-06-13. Ngué Um Emmanuel.