Guineo Camerunian
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| Similar Types | Casamance, Sudano Guinesid, Guinesid, West Congolesid, West Bambutid, Congolesid |
| Group | Congolid |
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Description
West African type, the shorter-skulled counterpart of Guinesids. May constitute the transition to Congolesids. Common in forest regions of C�te d'Ivoire, Benin, Liberia, Ghana, Togo, Nigeria, and Western Cameroon. Sporadically in Senegal, the Upper Volta region, and Congo Basin. Frequent in Gagu, Anyi, Ashanti, Southern Igbo, Cameroonians (e.g. Bakaka, Nen), and many related people.[1]
Physical Traits
Usually dark, sometimes medium brown skin. Kinky hair. Medium height to rather tall, mesoskelic, endomorph to mesomorph. Mesocephalic, orthocranic, round-headed. Nose (hyper-)platyrrhine, depressed and short. Lips are thick. Wide face, round in females, round-angular in men, individuals sometimes appear "baby faced". Prognathous with a weak chin.