BAMENDANKWE: DISCOVER HER PALACE GUARDS

The Palace guard around the Fon.

Bamendankwe Palace is located about 1 kilometers from the Governor's Junction in Bamenda North West Region of Cameroon.

For over one week now Sons and Daughters alongside friends joined the Fon, HRN Fonchesirri III in the celebrations of the Neukwe Cultural Festival. Inline with the activities at the Palace, the Palace guards of the Bamendankwe Fondom, traditionally called “Gueh”, could be seen actively serving  the Fon and the population. 


Atanga Kingsly 

Atanga Kingsly Musonge is one of the palace guards  he starts by telling us how he used to see his Father and other men setting around fire at the palace discussing, then he later understood why they used stay in palace for long even late at night. "When my father passed away, I was made the <chopchair> so I had to inherit the job of being a palace guard because my late father use to be one. The black feathered cap on my head was my late father’s own".

Their functions as Palace guards are to mount and provide adequate security, and maintain peace around the palace and during traditional ceremonies and burials especially when the Fon is to be there present in such ceremonies in and out of the palace 

A crossection of the Guards

During the Neukwe cultural festival which has just ended, you could easily identify the guards from other civilians and traditionalist, their spotless blue pair of trouser over blue longhand sleeves and black feathered traditional caps could esaily identify them.


Images from the Neukwe cultural festival 

These guards were sported in some strategic positions around the palace as the cultural festival unfolded. They could be seen at the main entrace to the palace, shorts cuts entering the palace while some were sported around the place boundaries.

By Samuel Atigi


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