Tatah Mbuy

Fr Tatah Humphrey MBUY is a Catholic Priest, ordained for, and incardinated into the Archdiocese of Bamenda, Cameroon. He was born and bred in Taa Mbii, Nkar Parish, in the Jakiri Subdivision of Bui. Fr Tatah is of the Mbuy Family, an extract of the Nso’ Ntar lineage – essential and core to the Paramount Fondom of Nso’. Tatah Mbuy (as he is more popularly known in the literary world) attended primary school in St Peter’s and St Mary’s Catholic Schools – Kinsenjam and Nkar, respectively, went for a year to the Agric School in St Augustine’s College, Mbo’mbiim and proceeded for seven years studies in the Minor Seminary, Bishop Rogan College, Small Soppo Buea. He then studied philosophy (B.Phil. Hons) and theology (B.D). He has also studied African Literature (B. A), Translations (Dip) before settling on Bioethics (M.Sc.), Sciences of Communications (M.Sc.) and Cultural Anthropology (PhD). He is currently researching to upgrade in Communication. Fr Tatah Mbuy was ordained priest by His Holiness Pope St John Paul II, and has served almost all the dioceses of the Bamenda Ecclesiastical Province, mainly in education. He has a deep interest in pastoral work and has been Parish Priest for six years in Christ the King Parish, Fuli-Kom, which then was the only parish in the present Belo Subdivision. For over two years, he trekked for days in Wum to research witchcraft and the occult at Weh, Esu, Bafmeng, and Furu Awa. Tatah Mbuy has published many books and articles. His 25th book is entitled: Studying the Faith of Our Ancestors. New Perspectives to African Traditional Religion (Yaoundé 2023). Other provoking publications include Understanding Witchcraft in the Life of an African (Owerri 1996); Poems of Black Africa: A Critique (1990); The Defeat of the Sons of Baal (1980 National 1st Prize winner in Drama); Sects, Cults and New Religious Movements in Cameroon (Bamenda, 2006); Fons of Traditional Bamenda and Partisan Politics in Cameroon (2022). He is currently writing The Myth and Reality of Witchcraft Among the Tikar.