Abong-Mbang

Abong-Mbang is a city of the Cameroun located in the Province of the East. In 2004, the population is estimated at 19.000 inhabitants. Abong-Mbang is along the trunk road 10, route principal going to Yaounde with Bertoua, chief town of the province of the East. It is necessary to count from 4 to 6 hours of way starting from Yaounde and approximately 2 hours starting from Bertoua. Abong-Mbang is also the chief town of the department of the Haut-Nyong.

Population

The Maka, an ethnos group Bantou, are the ethnic independent group of Abong-Mbang. They speak the language Maka. Because of position of the city on a main road, important communities Fulani, Fang and Bamileke also settled there. The city is also the crossing point of a small number of missionaries, ONG and co-operators.

The majority of the inhabitants are Christian, catholic or Protestant. There are also some Moslems.

Geography

Abong-Mbang is located on an about flat ground at the foot of small hills. The city is on the rière Nyong, and of many rus the neighborhoods cross. The dominant vegetation of the neighborhoods of Abong-Mbang is the Equatorial forest.

History

According to the Maka and the Pygmies Baka, this area of Abong-Mbang was populated by Maka-Njem come from the North-West along the fleuge Congo. They met Baka (people of hunters-gatherers) and requested their assistance to settle. They called the " place; Bung-Ngwang" that is to say " place of bathe in Nyong". When Europeans arrived at the XIXe century, this name was retranscribed " Abong-Mbang" , current orthography.

The German were the prrmière colonial power to occupy the area (colony of Kamerun: 1884). The majority of the infrastructures of the city go back to this time. The French took the relai in 1919, and began the culture of the Café with the assistance of the local populations. After the independence of French Cameroun, Abong-Mbang became an important center of trade of Provence of the East. Thanks to its situation with the crossing of two roads major (RN10 Yaounde-Bertoua and P6 Abong-Mbang-Lomié), Abong-Mbang is a crossing point for the barks and the meat of bush.

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