Glagwa, the Glossary
A Glagwa is a bell-shaped shield of the Wandala peoples of northern Cameroon.[1]
Table of Contents
6 relations: Barbier-Mueller Museum, Cameroon, Guduf-Gava language, Lamang language, Mandara Kingdom, Zulgo-Gemzek language.
- African weapons
- Armour stubs
- Cameroonian traditional rulers
- Shields
Barbier-Mueller Museum
The Barbier-Mueller Museum, founded in 1977, is located at 10 rue Jean-Calvin, in Geneva, Switzerland.
See Glagwa and Barbier-Mueller Museum
Cameroon
Cameroon, officially the Republic of Cameroon, is a country in Central Africa.
Guduf-Gava language
Guduf-Gava (also known as Gudupe, Afkabiye) is an Afro-Asiatic language spoken in Borno State, Nigeria.
See Glagwa and Guduf-Gava language
Lamang language
Lamang (Laamang) is an Afro-Asiatic language cluster of Nigeria.
See Glagwa and Lamang language
Mandara Kingdom
The Mandara Kingdom (sometimes called Wandala or the Kingdom of Medra) was an African kingdom in the Mandara Mountains of what is today Cameroon. Glagwa and Mandara Kingdom are Cameroonian traditional rulers.
See Glagwa and Mandara Kingdom
Zulgo-Gemzek language
Zulgo-Gemzek is an Afro-Asiatic language spoken in northern Cameroon.
See Glagwa and Zulgo-Gemzek language
See also
African weapons
- African swords
- Assegai
- Dane gun
- Glagwa
- Ikul
- Knobkerrie
- Mambele
- Moukahla
- Nguba
- Ngulu (weapon)
- Nguni shield
- Nzappa zap
- Onzil
- Rungu (weapon)
- Seme (dagger)
- Sengese
- Sjambok
- Trumbash
Armour stubs
- 61 pattern webbing
- BK-3 helmet
- Ballistic face mask
- Baluse
- Bumerang-BM
- CABAL II
- Clipeus
- Coolus helmet
- Corslet
- Falling buffe
- Frag Kit 6
- Glagwa
- Gun mantlet
- Hielaman
- Hungarian shield
- Iraqi M90 helmet
- Kawaca
- Kurabit
- M61 gas mask
- M76 paratrooper helmet
- MPC-1
- Mk IV helmet
- Nguba
- Panoply
- Pavise
- Peurise Awe
- Peurise Teumaga
- Polizzello helmet
- Qauata
- RAC helmet
- Roromaraugi
- Trojan Ballistics Suit of Armor
- Yanghai leather scale armor
Cameroonian traditional rulers
- Achirimbi II
- Alexandre Douala Manga Bell
- Charles Atangana
- Elame a Doo
- Epuli Aloh Mathias
- Ewale a Mbedi
- Ewonde a Kwane
- Fon Angwafo III of Mankon
- Fon of Bafut
- Fongum Gorji Dinka
- George (Duala king)
- Glagwa
- Henri Lobe Bell
- Ibrahim Mbombo Njoya
- Ibrahim Njoya
- Joseph Atemengue
- Kwane a Ngie
- List of rulers of the Bamum
- List of rulers of the Duala
- Mandara Kingdom
- Manga Ndumbe Bell
- Marie-Thérèse Assiga Ahanda
- Martin-Paul Samba
- Mbedi a Mbongo
- Mbongo
- Monneba
- Nchare Yen
- Ndumbe Lobe Bell
- Omgba Bissogo
- Priso a Doo
- R.A.M Tebo II of Batibo
- Rudolf Duala Manga Bell
- Seidou Njimoluh Njoya
- William I of Bimbia
- William II of Bimbia
- Zubeiru bi Adama
Shields
- Adarga
- Ballistic shield
- Baluse
- Chīmalli
- Dhal (shield)
- Escutcheon (heraldry)
- Force field (technology)
- Glagwa
- Gun shield
- Hielaman
- Hungarian shield
- Inescutcheon
- Kalasag
- Kanta (shield)
- Kettling
- Klebit Bok
- Kliau
- Kurabit
- Lantern shield
- Mobile personnel shield
- Nguba
- Nguni shield
- Peurise Awe
- Peurise Teumaga
- Qauata
- Rattan shield
- Riot shield
- Roromaraugi
- Round shield
- SWAT-Bot
- Salawaku
- Shield
- Shield wall
- Taming (shield)
- Whipple shield
- Yetholm-type shield