page_title: Bafoussam
section_title: Name
hierarchical_section_title: Bafoussam / History / Name
caption_attribution_description: Français&#160;: Case sacrée de la chefferie bafoussam
context_page_description: Bafoussam is the capital and largest city of the West Region of Cameroon, in the Bamboutos Mountains. It is the 3rd most important city in Cameroon, after Yaounde and Douala. The communauté urbaine of Bafoussam, is a decentralized territorial collectivity. Originally called Urban Commune of Bafoussam, the communauté urbaine of Bafoussam, was born after the Presidential Decree N ° 2008/022 of January 17, 2008 and composed of three communes, namely: the Commune of Bafoussam I, the Commune of Bafoussam II and the Commune of Bafoussam III.
  The city had an urban population of 347,517 inhabitants. Bafoussam is the West Region centre of trade, and people are farming coffee, Potatoes, maize and beans. The city has also a coffee processing facility and brewery. It is the main city of the Bamiléké people and is home to the Bafoussam chief's palace. Bafoussam is a group composed of 07 villages with 46 districts or sub-villages. The main neighborhoods of the city are Banengo, Djeleng, Famla, Kamkop, Quartier Eveché, Quartier Haussa and Tamdja.
  Bafoussam has two main markets, several internet cafés, restaurants and supermarkets, and a movie theater.
context_section_description: Originally, Bafoussam is written in Bafoussam dialect "Pe Foussan" or "Pe Fussep" which literally means "people of ......". Over time, "Pe" has become "Ba" while retaining the same meaning.
  When Westerners arrived, they united the two sound elements "Pe" and "Foussan" to make Bafoussam.
  Another source, however, argues that Bafoussam is Fuh Sep's "bad western translation", meaning "we earn more by selling in detail than wholesale". According to this version, the Bafoussam would be a people who bought wholesale to resell in detail or who sold in detail by measuring in small baskets. Fuh here means to measure and Sap or Sep which means profit or treasure, to symbolize by the small basket in which one sold in detail. Pefuhssap or Pefuhssep means "those who have discovered that profit (treasure) is in retail".
  It is nevertheless noted that the two sources of information on the origin of the name Bafoussam are not contradictory and it is safe to say that the Bafoussam left their place of residence from the Tikar plain with their name since they already practiced retail trade with small baskets.
caption: Sacred chieftaincy bafoussam
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