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Nyongo working dead
Akpọkwa ya: nyongo, ekongi, kupe, Mount Kupe zombies
Nyongo is a Cameroonian witchcraft belief in which the newly rich are suspected of killing their kin by occult means and putting them to work as the living dead. The victims toil unseen on Mount Kupe, in Bakossi country, to build their owner's fortune. Anthropologists link the belief to colonial plantation agriculture and, later, to economic crisis. It is one of the best-studied African parallels to the Haitian zombi, and like it turns on the theft of a dead person's labour.123
Mgbe e dere ya nke mbụ
1950
Legends current from around the Second World War; first described by the anthropologist Edwin Ardener in the 1950sMmalite
Cameroonian (Bakweri, Bakossi and neighbouring peoples)
CameroonIhe na-akpata ya
Amoosu
Members of a secret witch society are believed to 'sell' relatives, who seem to die but are taken from the grave to work.Otu i si abụrụ otu
A nyongo member makes a relative appear to die, then removes the person from the grave.
Ọgụgụ isi
Enweghị uche
Ebe adịghị ike
- witch-finding: villages paid the witch-hunter Obasi Njom to cleanse them
- suspected members were beheaded or buried face down so they would not rise as ekongi
Kedu mgbe ọ pụtara nke mbụ?
Ụwa oge ochie
Oge etiti
1500 ruo 1899
1900 ruo 1967
1968 ruo 1999
2000 ruo 2009
2010 ruo taa
1950Legends current from around the Second World War; first described by the anthropologist Edwin Ardener in the 1950s
ndetu ubi
Ihe isi mmalite na-ekwu
Isi mmalite
- Nyongo society - Wikipedia
- Vivian Besem Ojong, 'The Working-Dead in Nyongo Occult Economy in Cameroonian Society', Journal of Dharma 37 (2012)
- Zombies - Encyclopedia.com
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Felicia Felix-Mentor