{"id":1155647,"date":"2022-07-22T00:43:55","date_gmt":"2022-07-22T00:43:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/07\/22\/meet-an-african-kingdom-palace-built-like-a-big-snake-with-two-giant-headsphotos\/"},"modified":"2022-07-22T00:43:55","modified_gmt":"2022-07-22T00:43:55","slug":"meet-an-african-kingdom-palace-built-like-a-big-snake-with-two-giant-headsphotos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/07\/22\/meet-an-african-kingdom-palace-built-like-a-big-snake-with-two-giant-headsphotos\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet An African Kingdom Palace Built Like A Big Snake With Two Giant Heads(PHOTOS)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<article>\n<p>The Foumban Royal Palace is a historical building in the city of Foumban, capital of Noun. It is the seat of the Kingdom of Bamum, where the Chief-Superior of the peoples of the valley of the East bank of the Noun resides.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The royal palace of Foumban, where the king of the Bamum still resides today, was built in 1917. The palace has a fascinating museum providing historical insight into the region and the Bamoun dynasty.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/d1183e67d5204e7ba845fd92817b47a6\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The diversity of the objects featured in the museum is remarkable; it includes among other handmade furniture, paintings, pictures, statues, manuscripts, masks, and royal clothes. It was built to take the form of a big snake with two giant heads. The entrance is the serpents mouth with two protruding long fangs.<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/7f77e1465287402aa97ea2af86e27d11\"\/><\/p>\n<p>To me this is the best museum in Cameroon, because it is entirely dedicated to its people, the Bamun people, its history coming from the Tikar plateaux, the kingdom&#8217;s expansion, its interaction with its neighbors, islam, and then with the German and French colonizers. It goes through the different Bamun dynasties.<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/969b1e8036ad48479988a62e1f609a96\"\/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/dd4b810c96474252b80db93275e7304d\"\/><\/p>\n<p>If you come to Foumban you&#8217;re here for the palace. And you should not miss the museum. It&#8217;s quite big and the guide is really good. You are also allowed to take a look into the throne room. But unfortunately it&#8217;s fortbilden to take photos.<\/p>\n<p>Content created and supplied by: Mainooco (via  Opera<br \/>\nNews )<\/p>\n<\/article>\n<p class=\"copyright hide\">\n<span class=\"content\">    ,  .   ,     .       () , , , , , , , , .      \/ ,  and\/or  .     ,  , and\/or  ,      and\/or     <\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"see-more\"><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<section class=\"tags\">\nAfrican<br \/>\nFoumban<br \/>\nFoumban Royal Palace<br \/>\nKingdom of<br \/>\nNoun<br \/>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Foumban Royal Palace is a historical building in the city of Foumban, capital of Noun. It is the seat of the Kingdom of Bamum, where the Chief-Superior of the peoples of the valley of the East bank of the Noun resides.\u00a0 The royal palace of Foumban, where the king of the Bamum still resides [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1155648,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[461,944,1664,6331,21132,7303,1156,2763,9674],"class_list":["post-1155647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-top-stories","tag-african","tag-big","tag-built","tag-giant","tag-headsphotos","tag-kingdom","tag-meet","tag-palace","tag-snake"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1155647","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1155647"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1155647\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1155647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1155647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1155647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}