Sacred Forests, Modes of Transmission of Cultural Knowledge and Security Geopolitics of Monarchs and Dignitaries Among the Bamiléké of West Cameroon

Many authors have written on problematic of natural environment in Bantu's lands in general and in Bamiléké people in particular. In fact, those “sacred” environments represent for the population in this area, a base of spiritual and cultural life because of a relation existing between natural milieu and divine. Place of highest spiritual connotation, sacred forests are presented in this paper in various forms in accordance with attributes its takes. However, this paper present in a socio historical point of view, the conditions in which natural milieu favoring transmission of knowledge and power to monarchs of Bamilékés kingdoms in western Cameroun.