Don i tison (from

Bafia Bafia is a Cameroonian town and commune in the Centre Province region. It is the capital of the Mbam-et-Inoubou department. It lies north of the country's capital Yaoundé. Bafia has approximately 55,700 inhabitants, making it the third-largest ...

: Town-hill) is the southernmost peak of a mountainous ridge west of the

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 ...

ian city of

. The nearest populated place is Gouife. In the figurative sense ''Don i Tison'' means ''populated peak''. This comes probably from the fact that a German military base was located here from March 1911 to September 1912 during the Bafia campaign against surrounded populations. Some ruins from this period still remain. Most spectacular is a surrounding wall made from roughly-cut stone. From November 6, 1914, to December 15, 1914, German ethnologist Günther Tessmann used the place as a base camp during his expedition to the Bafia people. The ascent of the mountain is a part of the biannual Mbam'Art festival.

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{{Reflist Mountains of Cameroon