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« Anyouk’teh » Starts In Riveting Tempo

Lewoh people launched their new cultural outfit on Saturday in the presence of Ama Tutu Muna, Minister of Culture.
For a first edition, organizers of Anyoukteh-a-Lewoh - a new outfit within which the people of Lewoh in Alou Sub Division of Lebialem Division want to express themselves and the better known - have every reason to be proud. Thousands of people from all over the national territory turned out in Lewoh between Thursday February 25 and Saturday February 27 for the 25th anniversary activities of the Lewoh Cultural and Development Meeting, LECUDEM. The anniversary events were crowned last Saturday with a grand cultural festival chaired by Culture Minister Ama Tutu Muna who made the trip from Yaounde to Lewoh.

Lewoh people had prepared a rich cultural menu for the Minister going across a spectrum of dance, masquerades, paintings, carvings and, even, food – all realized or prepared by resident Lewoh people. For example, the Minister looked visibly fascinated by the works of a few resident artists who paint as well as carve out jewellery from local materials such as coconut and kernel shells. She also visited the Fondom library with some 60,000 volumes most of which are donated by Canadian benefactors, many of whom were present at the anniversary celebrations. The library has become a very useful resource for students of the two government secondary institutions in Lewoh. Some researchers from the University of Dschang, just 30 kilometres out of Lewoh, have also found a treasure in the Lewoh library.

Lewoh people also exhibited their best traditional dances such as the “Aluachaba”, reserved for princes, princesses and people of royal descent, “lenya”, “akoh’anjang”, “kwang’begwifua” etc. The Minister of Culture, accompanied by the Senior Divisional Officer for Lebialem François Amougou, was also able to have an idea of the rich agricultural potential of Lewoh as many of the cash and food crops and animals that were exhibited during a mini-agricultural and cattle show organized earlier on Friday, were still on display.

The day’s cultural activities ended with a ceremony at the Fondom’s sacred shrine during which Ms Ama Tutu Muna was conferred the title of “Mafua Lebialem”. Two other paramount Chiefs of Lebialem (the Fons of Ndungatet and Essoh-Attah) joined Fon Fotabong Lekelefec I of Lewoh in performing the conferment rites on behalf of other Lebialem Fons. By the conferment, she may now sit next to Fons and visit the secret and sacred shrines and partake of numerous traditional rites.

The Minister left Lewoh, after having tasted some characteristic Nweh meals at a reception offered for her by LECUDEM at the residence of Chief Fuafe’eh (Professor Leke Tambo) a native of Lewoh and secretary general of the Ministry of Secondary Education in Yaounde.

Apart from conventional items at the convivial meal, guests also ate traditional meals such as abeh with fresh nchih, abeh-bekang, akendong a’bekwo etc.

It is the wish of Lewoh people that Anyoukteh (or come together in the Nweh language) will become a biennial event to which all the other brotherly Nweh Fondoms of Lebialem will come together to showcase the cultural riches of Nweh people, erroneously referred to as Bangwa people.

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