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14-September-2008 18:38:51 - Abong-Mbang Abong-Mbang Abong-Mbang, Cameroon, looking north from Quartier Haussa toward the Nyong River Abong-Mbang, Cameroon, looking north from Quartier Haussa toward the Nyong River Abong-Mbang Kameroen Abong-Mbang Abong-Mbang Map of Cameroon showing the location of Abong-Mbang Coordinates: 3°59'N 13°10'E / 3.983, 13.167 Province East Division Haut-Nyong Sub-division Abong-Mbang Government - Mayor Gustave Mouamossé Population 2001 - Urban 18,700 estimated Time zone WAT UTC+1 Abong-Mbang is a town commune rurale in the East Province of Cameroon. Abong-Mbang is located at a crossroads of National Route 10 and the road that leads south to Lomié. Yaoundé, the capital of Cameroon, is 311 km 193 mi to the west, and Bertoua, the capital of the East Province, lies 27 km 17 mi to the east.1 From Ayos, at the border in the Centre Province 145 km 90 mi from Abong-Mbang, the tar on National Route 10 ends and a dirt road begins.2 Abong-Mbang is the seat of the Abong-Mbang sub-division and the Haut-Nyong division. The town is headed by a mayor.3 Gustave Mouamossé has held the post since August 2002.4 Abong-Mbang is site of one of the East Province's four Courts of First Instance5 and a prefectural prison.6 The population was estimated at 18,700 in 2001.7 According to oral traditions of the Kwassio and Bakola peoples, Abong-Mbang was settled when the Maka-Njem peoples moved northwest from the Great Lakes region of the Congo River. They encountered Pygmy hunter-gatherers and requested their aid as guides through the region. Some of the migrants settled in the vicinity, which they called Bung-Ngwang bathing area in the Nyong River. When Europeans arrived in the 19th century, this name was changed to Abong-Mbang. Some migrants continued westward in search of salt; they became the Kwassio and Bakola of Cameroon's coast.8 German colonisers moved into the area in the late 19th century. They used the Nyong River as a means to reach the wild rubber growing farther inland.9 The Germans built a fort and other military and administrative buildings in the town. The fort is today a prefectural prison, and the other buildings serve similar administrative functions.1011 The French took over in 1919 following Germany's defeat in World War I. Typical Maka house in Abong-Mbang Typical Maka house in Abong-Mbang Abong-Mbang is the main settlement of the Maka people, a group who speak a Bantu language of the same name.12 Much of the population farms; important crops include bananas, cocoa, corn, groundnuts, tomatoes, and tubers. Shifting cultivation with no fertiliser is the primary method of agriculture.13 Baka hunter-gatherers live in the surrounding forests. Since colonial times, the government has attempted to better integrate this group into Cameroonian society.14 Abong-Mbang is part of the Doumé-Abong-Mbang diocese of the Roman Catholic Church. The church estimates that 46.7% of the population is Roman Catholic.15 Since Francophone Cameroun's independence in 1960, Abong-Mbang has become an important centre of commerce for the East Province.16 This has led to a cosmopolitan influx of immigrants from outside the Maka area. An estimated 99% of males and 95% of females speak French.17 However, among traders, Ewondo is the lingua franca of choice: 72% use Ewondo but only 48% use French in market situations.18 By the late 1970s, the government had zoned large areas of the surrounding forest for timber exploitation.19 Most timber and bush meat traffic from the East Province passes through the town.20 Union Abong-Mbang FC is the local football soccer team.21 The town often suffers prolonged cuts to electric power, which the utility company, AES-SONEL, blames on an aging power plant. On 17 September 2007, violent protests against the cuts ended with two protesters dead and 10 others seriously injured.22 Abong-Mbang lies on the South Cameroon Plateau, approximately 700 metres above sea level.23 The soils are red.20 The Boumba, Dja, and Nyong rivers rise in the Abong-Mbang region. The Nyong forms the town's northern border and is navigable for about 160 km 100 mi to Mbalmayo in the Centre Province.9 The area along the Nyong consists of swampy forests that support populations of raffia palm, such as Raphia montbuttorum.1324 The area surrounding the town consists of secondary-growth forest of semi-deciduous trees, particularly Stertuliaceae and Ulmaceae; the primary-growth forest has been removed for logging and farming. In some areas, the forests are further degraded and home to other forms of vegetation. The Abong-Mbang Forest Reserve is north of the town. Local wildlife includes populations of Western lowland gorilla2526 and forest elephants. An estimated 100 elephants lived in the Abong-Mbang Forest Reserve in 1998.27 The Ntimbe Caves are 18 km 11 mi south of the town.11 Notes ^ Chrispin 50. ^ Hudgens and Trillo 1115. ^ Mahop. ^ Elvido. ^ Geschiere, Witchcraft, 262 note 4. ^ Chrispin 52. ^ Institut National de la Statistique 41. ^ Ngima Mawoung 213. ^ a b Quinn 15. ^ Chrispin 52-53. ^ a b West 191. ^ Fisiy and Geschiere 230. ^ a b Boeglin et al. 277. ^ Oyono 119. ^ Cheney. ^ Peterson 106. ^ Sio Bobda. ^ Wolf 167. ^ Wolfheim 688. ^ a b Rose 2. ^ Foimoukom. ^ Nsom. ^ Sigha-Nkamdjou et al. 216. ^ Stuart 58. ^ Albrecht et al. 71. ^ Redmond 305. ^ Barnes et al. 41. References Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Abong-Mbang Albrecht, Gene H., Bruce R. Gelvin, and Joseph M. A. Miller 2003. The hierarchy of intraspecific craniometric variation in gorillas: A population-thinking approach with implications for fossil species recognition studies, Gorilla Biology: A Multidisciplinary Perspective. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0521792819. Barnes, R. F. W., G. C. Craig, H. T. Dublin, G. Overton, W. Simons, and C. R. Thouless 1999. African Elephant Database 1998. Cambridge: IUCN Publications Services Unit. ISBN 2831704928. Boeglin, Jean-Loup, Jean-Luc Probst, Jules-Rémy Ndam-Ngoupayou, Brunot Nyeck, Henri Etcheber, Jefferson Mortatti, and Jean-Jacques Braun 2006. Soil Carbon Stock and River Carbon Fluxes in Humid Tropical Environments: The Nyong River Basin South Cameroon, Soil Erosion and Carbon Dynamics. Boca Raton, Florida: Taylor Francis Group. ISBN 1566706882. Chapitre 4: Caracteristiques de la Population, Deuxième Partie: Population et Affaire Sociale, Annuaire Statistique du Cameroun 2006. Cheney, David M. 7 January 2007. Diocese of Doumé-Abong' Mbang. The Hierarchy of the Catholic Church. Accessed 24 May 2007. Chrispin, Pettang, directeur, Cameroun: Guide touristique. Paris: Les Éditions Wala. Elvido, Sebastian Chi 2 August 2007. Abong-Mbang : Les élites montent les populations contre le maire. Mutations Quotidien. Accessed 4 August 2007. Fisiy, Cyprian F., and Peter Geschiere 2001. Witchcraft, development and paranoia in Cameroon: interactions between popular, academic and state discourse. Magical Interpretations: Material Realities: Modernity, Witchcraft and the Occult in Postcolonial Africa. Routledge. Foimoukom, Honoré 22 November 2005. Inter-poules 2005: la dernière ligne droite: Le calendrer complet voir encadré de la compétition est connu. Le Messager. Accessed 21 May 2007. Geschiere, Peter 1997. The Modernity of Witchcraft: Politics and the Occult in Postcolonial Africa. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia. Hudgens, Jim, and Richard Trillo 1999. West Africa: The Rough Guide. 3rd ed. London: Rough Guides Ltd. Mahop, Charles 4 October 2006. Abong-Mbang: Chasse aux vêtements provocants. Quotidien Mutations. Accessed 23 May 2007. Ngima Mawoung, Godefroy March 2001. The Relationship between the Bakola and the Bantu Peoples of the Coastal Regions of Cameroon and Their Perception of Commercial Forest Exploitation. African Study Monographs, Suppl. 26: 209--235. Oyono, Phil René 2004. From Diversity to Exclusion for Forest Minorities in Cameroon. The Equitable Forest: Diversity, Community, Resource Management. Resources for the Future. ISBN 0915707969. Nsom, Kini 20 September 2007. Sequel To AES SONEL Crisis:Gov't Says SDO Did Not Kill Students. ThePostNewsLine.com. Accessed 26 September 2007. Peterson, Dale 2003. Eating Apes. Berkeley: University of California Press. ISBN 0520230906. Quinn, Frederick 2006. In Search of Salt: Changes in Beti Cameroon Society, 1800-1960. Berghahn Books. ISBN 184545006X. Redmond, Ian 2005. Where Are the Great Apes and Whose Job Is It to Save Them? World Atlas of Great Apes and Their Conservation. Berkeley: University of California Press.ISBN 0520246330. Rose, Anthony L. 1998. On the Road with a Gorilla Hunter: Turning Poachers to Protectors. Hermosa Beach, California: Wildlife Protectors Fund/Gorilla Foundation. Sigha-Nkamdjou, Luc, Daniel Sighomnou, Gaston Lienou, Gaspard Ayissi, J. Pierre Bedimo, and Emmanuel Noah 1998. Variabilité des régimes hydrologiques des cours d'eau de la band méridionale du plateau sud-camerouais, Water Resource Variability in Africa during the XXth Century: Variabilité des Ressources en Eau en Afrique au XXème Siècle. International Association of Hydrological Sciences Press. ISBN 1901502651. Simo Bobda, Augustin 16 December 2001. Varying perception of English in Cameroon: A diachronic and synchronic analysis. TRANS. Internet-Zeitschrift für Kulturwissenschaften, No. 11. Accessed 23 May 2007. Stuart, Simon N. 1990. Biodiversity in Sub-Saharan Africa and its Islands: Conservation, Management and Sustainable Use. Occasional Papers of the IUCN Species Survival Commission, No. 6. The World Conservation Union IUCN. ISBN 2831700213. West, Ben 2004. Cameroon: The Bradt Travel Guide. Guilford, Connecticut: The Globe Pequot Press Inc. Wolf, Hans-Georg 2001. English in Cameroon. Mouton de Gruyter. ISBN 3110170531. Wolfheim, Jaclyn H. 1983. Primates of the World: Distribution, Abundance, and Conservation. Routledge. ISBN 3718601907. Coordinates: 3°59'N, 13°10'E Retrieved from http://en..org/wiki/Abong-Mbang Categories: Cities, towns and villages in Cameroon Views Article Discussion this page History Personal tools Log in / create account Navigation Main page Contents Featured content Current events Random article Search Go Search Interaction Community portal Recent changes Contact Donate to Help Toolbox What links here Related changes Upload file Special pages Printable version Permanent link Cite this page Languages Deutsch Français Polski Português Română Svenska This page was last modified on 16 March 2008, at 13:26
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