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Nyongo working dead

E boetse e bitswa: nyongo, ekongi, kupe, Mount Kupe zombies
Ditshomo le dinonwaneBafu ba tsohilengBoloi1900 ho isa 1967

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

Di lwantshe
E ngotswe ka lekgetlo la pele
1950
Legends current from around the Second World War; first described by the anthropologist Edwin Ardener in the 1950s
Tshimoloho
Cameroonian (Bakweri, Bakossi and neighbouring peoples)
Cameroon
Se e bakang
Boloi
Members of a secret witch society are believed to 'sell' relatives, who seem to die but are taken from the grave to work.
Kamoo o fetohang e nngwe ya tsona kateng
A nyongo member makes a relative appear to die, then removes the person from the grave.
Bohlale
Ha e na kelello
Dintlha tse fokolang
  • 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

E hlahile neng ka lekgetlo la pele?

Lefatshe la boholoholoMehla e Bohareng1500 ho isa 18991900 ho isa 19671968 ho isa 19992000 ho isa 20092010 ho fihlela kajeno1950

Legends current from around the Second World War; first described by the anthropologist Edwin Ardener in the 1950s

dinoutu tsa patlisiso

Seo mehlodi e se buang

1

The victims' labour is said to make their owner rich123

2

Dead rats were said to be laid under the 'corpse' to hasten the burial123

3

Tin roofs were taken as a sign of membership, which for a time discouraged people from building modern houses123

4

Children were warned not to pick up coins from the ground, which might be bait123

5

Accusations rose sharply after the economic crisis of the late 1980s123

6

A 1992 road accident that killed schoolchildren was blamed on a headmaster 'giving' them to the society123

Mehlodi

  1. Nyongo society - Wikipedia
  2. Vivian Besem Ojong, 'The Working-Dead in Nyongo Occult Economy in Cameroonian Society', Journal of Dharma 37 (2012)
  3. Zombies - Encyclopedia.com

Ntlha e nngwe le e nngwe leqepheng lena e tswa mehloding ena, e ngotswe ka mantswe a rona. O bone phoso? Re bolelle ho [email protected].

Fepa letshwele. Ha ho dipapatso, ha ho disebedisi tsa ho latela, e lefellwa ke motho a le mong. Tjhelete ya teboho e e boloka inthaneteng.Fana ka tjhelete ya teboho

Mehla e tshwanang: 1900 ho isa 1967

AmalanhigVisayan (Philippines), 1967Felicia Felix-MentorHaitian, 1937
Fepa letshweleFana ka tjhelete ya teboho