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Somié
Somié is a village in Bankim, Mayo-Banyo in the Adamawa Region of Cameroon. It is located near the Nigeria – Cameroon Cameroon, officially the Republic of Cameroon, is a country in Central Africa. It shares boundaries with Nigeria to the west and north, Chad to the northeast, the Central African Republic to the east, and Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, and the R ... border at 6°28' N, 11° 27' E. It has an officially designated "second degree" chief, several schools, churches and mosques as well as a government health centre. There is a small solar power installation that has been providing electricity to the village since 2018. The Mambila people who live there are predominantly farmers. List of the chiefs of Somié # Tulum # Ndinyura # Chomo/Chókmo # Nyura: first contact with the Germans (Hurault) # Menandi: 8 wives; 10 as chief # Konaka (Kolaka in official documents): chief from 1923? to 1949 died in Nov. 49 # Ndi Etienne: chief from 1950 to end June 1953 # M� ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mambila
The Mambilla or Mambila people of Nigeria live on the Mambilla Plateau (in Sardauna, Nigeria, 'Sardauna' local government area (formerly, Mambilla LGA) of Taraba State in Nigeria). A small fraction of Mambilla migrants left the Mambilla Plateau for the Ndòm Plain (also known as northern Tikar Plain) on the Cameroon side of the international border as well as in a couple of small villages, such as New Nàmba, on the Gashaka Plain in the north, and Jiini-Nyalang-Langa area close to the Kwanja. The Mambilla also occupy the Nyorrong-Lii-Ngùum area of Cameroon and are traceable in history to the Bang District of Mambilla Plateau. Today, the preferred ethnonym is spelt Mambila in Cameroon and Mambilla in Nigeria. "Norr" is also used (the word for person in Nigerian dialects of Mambilla) (Bami-Yuno, 2013 ms). Identification The Mambilla people of Nigeria (with a small fraction in Cameroon) regard themselves as a group with a common identity. They are the denizens of the Mambilla Regi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
