The Nfuh
The warrior society whose drums open and close every major gathering, and whose discipline is the model held up to our young people.
Our Culture
The language, the Mayaas, the Nfuh, the dances and the protocol that make Wimbum identity.
Our Culture
Preserve, Promote, and Pass On
Our vision is to preserve and promote Wimbum culture, and to cultivate discipline and respect for its members. These are the strands of that work.
The Mayaas
Female traditional leaders — advisers to the Fon, judges in family matters, and the voice of the women of their villages.
Dance & regalia
Each dance carries a story and each cloth a rank. Convention is where the diaspora rehearses and passes them on.
Language
Limbum is taught at chapter level so that children born in America can greet, pray and bargain in the tongue of their grandparents.
Protocol
How a Fon is greeted, how a palace is entered, how an elder is addressed — protocol is the grammar of Wimbum public life.
Njangi & welfare
Rotating savings and mutual aid: the oldest Wimbum financial institution, still carried on in every chapter.
Why It Matters
A Child Born in America Is Still a Child of Mbumland
Culture does not survive by being remembered; it survives by being practised. That is why every convention makes room for the dances, the language and the protocol, and why the youth programme is never the first thing cut when the schedule runs long.