Victor Mukete

Nfon Victor Esemingsongo Mukete was born on November 15, 1918, in Kumba. He married Hannah Ntoh Makia Mukete in 1953. Nfon Mukete had seven sons: Abel Mukete, Ekale Mukete,Colin Ebako Mukete, Mbe Mukete, Diko Mukete, Akwo Mukete and Ekoko Mukete.^[4]

He was the father of businessman Colin Ebarko Mukete.^[5]

Mukete died on 10 April 2021 at the age of 102, at the Yaounde Central Hospital after a prolonged illness.^[6]

Nfon Mukete was educated at Government School Kumba, 1926–32 and then proceeded to the prestigious Government College Umuahia, on a government scholarship for his secondary school studies from 1933 to 1938. In 1939, after Government College Umuahia, he proceeded to Higher College Yaba. Most of the students that went to Government College Umuahia went on to Yaba College which was the only science-based institution of higher learning at the time.^[7] He also attended University of Manchester, England, 1948–51 and Christ's College, Cambridge University from 1951 to 1952.^[8]

He was an agriculturist and botanist by training.

Nfon VE Mukete was the supreme leader^[9] of the Bafaw. He sat at the Nfon palace in Kumba.

He was the author of a book, My Odyssey: History of the reunification of Cameroon.^[10]