Guneku is a village of the Meta clan, made up of twenty-seven quarters and led by HRH Fon Fomuki Walters Ticha IX. This is the community’s record of its history, its institutions, its development work and its people — at home and across the world.
HRH Fon Fomuki Walters Ticha IX · Fon of Guneku since 2015
Planning under wayMɨchi ƏbeŋThe Meta festival of return
Michi Ebeng 2027
Dates
19–20 March 2027
Venue
Mile 4, Limbe Handicraft Centre
Cultural heritage. Tradition. Community.
Two days of Meta heritage in Limbe — the Kem dance competition, traditional dances, food and community. This edition is held in Limbe while the Guneku Palace is renovated.
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No opening hour has been announced. The countdown runs to the start of 19 March 2027, Cameroon time.
Photographs from the maiden edition at the Guneku Palace, April 2023.
The competition
The Kem dance
The 2027 festival is built around a competition between Kem dance groups. Kem was the competition at the festival's second edition too, and Guneku has its own Kem group.
Community-owned agricultural enterprise at Ngong Quarter. Registered 12 March 2026. In October 2026 the CIG advertised chickens, young chicks, ducks, pigs and manure, with layers expected around December. For the current share price, contact the CIG Delegate.
Guneku Agro Common Initiative Group · 16 October 2026
Solar-powered library with computers, photocopier, printer and projector. Runs long and short computer training and holiday classes for pupils and students, and serves as the registration point for the scholarship programme. Sango Della was in charge of the Palace library in 2021.
Guneku sons and daughters, largely in the diaspora · Established 2021
The work recorded on this site — a road, a library, a health centre, a scholarship — was built by people from Guneku at home and abroad. Tell the Palace which project interests you and how you would like to help.
Funds, materials, professional expertise, volunteering or partnership. No payment is taken on this site; your offer is sent to the Palace for review.
Gunekuans in business
Discover. Support. Connect.
From the village itself to the towns and countries its people have settled in, sons and daughters of Guneku are running businesses, practices and ventures. The directory records the ones the Fondom has confirmed — owned, led or operated by Gunekuans — so that you can find them and put work their way, wherever in the world you are.
A Fondom is not one man. His Royal Highness is the king of Guneku, and these are the people through whom the village is governed — a chairman, a secretary, a treasurer, quarter heads, and the commission that ran the elections that put them there.
8 office holders are listed, as they were installed in 2021. Each one can claim their own entry and complete their profile — the office stays as the Palace recorded it; everything else is theirs to write.
A village of the Meta clan, in the hills of Momo Division
Guneku lies in the MEDIG zone — Central Meta — of Mbengwi Subdivision, and is the largest village of the Meta clan by area. It is made up of twenty-seven quarters. The eighth day of the week, Ngon, is the market day held in Guneku. The people speak the MENEMO dialect, and Musongong is the dance of Guneku.
Its sons and daughters are organised on three continents through GUDECA, the Guneku Development and Cultural Association.
Community-owned cooperative credit union giving Guneku indigenes at home and abroad access to savings, loans and solidarity fund shares, under the patronage of the Fon.
Patron and Founder-sponsor: HRH Fon Fomuki Walters Ticha IX
Our village in brief, from the history kept by the Fondom.
Ngon, the market day
Guneku keeps an eight-day market cycle. The eighth day, Ngon, is the market day held in Guneku. The other days fall in the surrounding quarters — Tan in Ngamunghe, Mbon in Mbengeghang, Eje'e in Ngamunam, and Kwe in Fringyeng. Ngong, one of the twenty-seven quarters, has a market of its own: a 2016 GUDECA proposal suggested using the existing Ngong market as a daily market to ease the sale of farm produce.
The River Batmuki runs through the village from upper Guneku and joins the Mezam. Young people from Guneku and neighbouring villages take sand from it. Separately, the stream at Ngong quarter overflowed in June 2026 and a village rescue team saved a child — an incident that raised a harder question about the village water supply.
The cash crops include oil palm, raffia palm, coffee, maize and groundnuts, with plantains and cocoyam coming mainly from upper Guneku. Guneku has the highest grazing surface area in Meta; cattle are reared by the Mbororo, and by many natives too.
The Bantu and the Mbororo live together in Guneku. The people speak MENEMO — a Meta dialect that some call “Meta”, which is not correct. Musongong is the dance of the Guneku people.
The Presbyterian church stands right in the Palace, and the Palace of Guneku is surrounded by churches. It is often said there are as many churches as there are quarters; one survey counted nineteen houses of worship: twelve Presbyterian, two Catholic, and one each of Full Gospel, Good Shepherd, Apostolic, Mount Zion and Kingship Ministry.
The Palace, caves, mountains and waterfalls are among Guneku's touristic sites, alongside hills and valleys, rivers and springs. Because of the undulating landscape there are many caves, which in years past served as hiding places during the colonial wars.
Two festivals
Mɨchi ƌbeŋ is the Guneku festival of return, revived in 2023 after a six-year break. Ifuh Itah, the yam harvest festival of Fringyeng, was abandoned for years and revived in the same year. Both are held annually.
Getting to Guneku
Guneku lies in Mbengwi Subdivision, Momo Division, in the North West Region of Cameroon, and is reachable by road from Mbengwi and from Bamenda. It shares boundaries with Mbemi, Nyen, Tugi, Zang-Tembeng, Oshie, Mundum and Bafut.
Two seasons
The climate is tropical with two main seasons, the rainy and the dry.
Individual sites, routes and visitor arrangements are still to be written up. If you know Guneku and can help, the Palace would be glad to hear from you.
Guneku is in Mbengwi Subdivision, Momo Division, in the North West Region of Cameroon. It is reachable by road from Mbengwi and from Bamenda, and shares boundaries with Mbemi, Nyen, Tugi, Zang-Tembeng, Oshie, Mundum and Bafut.
HRH Fon Fomuki Walters Ticha IX. He succeeded HRH Fon Fomuki Patrick Nji, who reigned from 1965 until his passing on 28 January 2015, and was anointed in public at the Transfiguration Ceremony on 27 February 2015.
The Guneku Development and Cultural Association — the village's development and cultural body, with eight constituted chapters across five countries and three continents, and an executive elected every four years.
The Guneku Cooperative Credit Union Limited: a community-owned credit union offering savings accounts, loans and solidarity fund shares to Guneku indigenes at home and abroad, with HRH Fon Fomuki Walters Ticha IX as patron and founder-sponsor.
Our development page lists every project and where it stands. Tell the Palace which project interests you and how you would like to help — with funds, materials, professional expertise, volunteering or partnership. Your offer is sent to the Guneku Palace for review.
Through the message form on this site, by email at info@guneku.org, or by telephone on +237 681 19 46 64. The Fondom publishes a notice on how official announcements are made and how to check a request before sending anyone money.
Sons and daughters of Guneku can enter the indigenes directory, which is searchable by name and by quarter of origin. The diaspora page shows where Guneku people live and which GUDECA chapters are constituted.
Mɨchi ƌbeŋ, the festival of return, revived in 2023 at the Palace; and Ifuh Itah, the yam harvest festival of Fringyeng, revived in the same year and held each December.
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Guneku Education & Scholarship Day 2026 targets 50 scholarships, full and partial. The Information Day was held on 29 August 2026 at the Guneku Fon's Palace, and the Selection Examination was scheduled there for 19 September 2026. No result has yet been published.
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The Fondom publishes how official announcements are made — please check any request for money against that notice before acting on it.
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