In the PBS television program Finding Your Roots, African American former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice learned she shared maternal heritage with the Tikar.Rice became the 66th U.S. Secretary of State on January 26, 2005. She served in that role until January 20, 2009.The Tikar is a blanket term used for several ethnic groups in Cameroon. It has been used very widely of people so that it has become profoundly ambiguous.There is a single ethnic group called the Tikar who live in on the Tikar Plain Adamaoua Region (Province).
