It was founded by taxi operators who lost their livelihood due to the Anglophone Crisis.
Its name has two meanings; "seven" refers to seven legendary men who fought against the German Empire in the Bafut Wars, while "karta" is a cloth worn by the locals.
[3] In an overnight mission on March 22, 2019, the group set up concrete walls on the Bafut-Bamenda road, in an attempt to prevent Cameroonian soldiers from moving into Bafut in vehicles.
[4] In April 2020, the Cameroonian military launched Operation Free Bafut against Seven Karta.
[1] In December 2022, Cameroonian forces killed a Seven Karta commander known as "One Blood" in Bafut, and displayed his corpse in public.