Seidou Njimoluh Njoya Explained

Seidou Njimoluh Njoya
Office:Mfon of the Bamun
Order:18th
Native Name Lang:Bamum
Predecessor:Ibrahim Njoya
Successor:Ibrahim Mbombo Njoya
Death Date:28 July, 1992
Honorific-Prefix:King
Term Start:1933
Term End:1992

Seidou Njimoluh Njoya (Bamum: Sɛt-tu Nʒemɔleʔ Nʒeɔya, 1902 – 28 July 1992)[1] ruled the Bamum people of Cameroon from 1933 to 1992 as the Sultan of Foumban and Mfon of the Bamun. Njimoluh was the son of Ibrahim Njoya, and he was educated in French, English, and the bamum script developed by his father. In 1931, in order to break the power of the Bamun, French administrators had exiled Ibrahim Njoya to Yaoundé. The Bamum nobles had been scattered due to the French occupation, but they eventually chose Njimoluh from among Ibrahim Njoya's 177 children and reached an agreement with the French authorities.[2] Seidou Njimoluh Njoya became the 18th mfon of the Bamum in June 1933 after the death of his father.

Njoya later served on the legislative and national assemblies of Cameroon during both colonial and post-colonial periods. Njimoluh was a patron of the arts and worked to preserve Bamun culture. After the French left in 1960, he restored the sacred Bamun idols to the Royal Palace, establishing a museum. He was a devout Muslim and was married to Noh Lantana. Njimoluh was succeeded by his son Ibrahim Mbombo Njoya.

Notes

  1. DeLancey and DeLancey 206.
  2. Web site: Cameroon - Who are the Bamum?. 2013-02-02. 2017-10-29. bot: unknown. https://web.archive.org/web/20130202014706/https://www.calacademy.org/exhibits/africa/exhibit/cameroon/index.html. 2013-02-02.

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