Photographs from Fumban, the Bamum capital in modern-day Cameroon, by Anna Wuhrmann, a Swiss missionary worker at the Basel Mission who worked at the Fumban Mission Girls' School in the 1910’s, documenting her stay.
King Ibrahim Mbouombouo Njoya of Bamum, or simply King Njoya (c. 1860 - 1933), had up to 600 wives and up to 177 children. Njoya flirted heavily with both Christianity and Islam, while never truly giving up his traditional religion either. He built traditional schools to teach the Bamum script, Quranic schools to teach Arabic and allowed mission schools to teach German. Njoya’s daughters attended these mission schools where they were educated by Anna Wuhrmann, among others.
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