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Bafut Development Manjong

The Fondom, the Palace, and the Manjong at home and abroad.

A photograph is only published once someone has confirmed who owns it and what it shows — and it carries no caption unless the owner wrote one. These are real people at real events, and a caption that merely reads plausibly is worse than none, because nobody checks it.

Rows of tile-roofed houses in the palace compound seen from a stone terrace, with palms and forested hills behind.
A tall thatched building standing on close-set carved wooden pillars, against an open sky.
An older photograph of a long shingled roof with a lantern tower, people climbing the front staircase.
A man seated in patterned robes and a beaded cap, beneath a tree.
A large crowd filling an open courtyard in low evening light, tiled roofs on every side.
A dense crowd in patterned cloth and caps gathered close against the wall of a thatched building.
A stone archway with square towers opening onto a paved path, two people walking through it.
A wide courtyard seen from a balustrade above, a flowering tree at its centre and people crossing the open ground.
A group in Bafut dress and in suits standing together in a gallery hung with artwork.