ORAL TRADITION AND THE HISTORY OF PRE- COLONIAL CAMEROON JENKINS DIOMO BETOMBO jenkinsdiomo@gmail.com +237671466329 ABSTRACT The research drains the utilization of oral tradition to brandish the historical content and context of Pre-colonial Cameroonian societies. The digestion of relevance aspect such as the rationales and characteristic of the source was diagnosed. This went along the emulation of the different types, strength and lapses of oral tradition in the accounting of ancient societies in Cameroon. The research sampled primary and secondary sources in interviews and published documents to provide an in- depth justification of facts and evidence of the painted picture. The sources argued that oral tradition was and is the store of historical contents in all issue of human relation to the environment. INTRODUCTION Jan Vansina defines ''oral Tradition as verbal messages, which are statements from the past beyond the present generations and emphasized that the messages must be oral statement spoken of sun. These collections from the past should be commonly known