PRIMARY PUPILS TOUCH BAFUT CULTURE

PRIMARY CHILDREN SEE BAFUT CULTURE

Some 40 children on a tour of touristic sites organized by the North West Regional Delegation of Leisure Activities and Tourism came face to face with Bafut culture recently.

When the children who came from 14 schools arrived at the Bafut Fon`s palace, they were shown round by the Queen Mother, Ma Constance Azombi. They were shown tombs of criminals who were deliberately buried alive in those years when burial alive was punishment for people caught committing adultery. However, the Queen Mother explained that such practice had long been abandoned because of respect for human rights and the im[act of Christianity. Instead, animals such as sheep and goats are used to appease the gods nowadays.

The pupils also visited the Royal Museum which has been classified as a UNESCO site. There, they saw artefacts and relicts that included leopard`s skin, weapons and skulls of German whom the Bafut captured in the days of the colonial struggle.

The Post newspaper has quoted the North West Regional Delegate for Leisure Activities, Philip Pezumbia, who initiated the visit as saying it fell squarely in line with the chosen theme of the excursion which is "learning while playing."