Somié
Somié is a village in Bankim, Mayo-Banyo in the Adamawa Region of Cameroon. It is located near the Nigeria – Cameroon 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 ==
* 1) Tulum
* 2) Ndinyura
* 3) Chomo/Chókmo
* 4) Nyura: first contact with the Germans (Hurault)
* 5) Menandi: 8 wives; 10 as chief
* 6) Konaka (Kolaka in official documents): chief from 1923? to 1949 died in Nov. 49
* 7) Ndi Etienne: chief from 1950 to end June 1953
* 8) Mɔgɔ Michel: 6 wives; chief from 1954 to December 1976
== List of the chiefs of Somié ==
* 1) Tulum
* 2) Ndinyura
* 3) Chomo/Chókmo
* 4) Nyura: first contact with the Germans (Hurault)
* 5) Menandi: 8 wives; 10 as chief
* 6) Konaka (Kolaka in official documents): chief from 1923? to 1949 died in Nov. 49
* 7) Ndi Etienne: chief from 1950 to end June 1953
* 8) Mɔgɔ Michel: 6 wives; chief from 1954 to December 1976
Map - Somié
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Early inhabitants of the territory included the Sao civilisation around Lake Chad, and the Baka hunter-gatherers in the southeastern rainforest. Portuguese explorers reached the coast in the 15th century and named the area Rio dos Camarões (Shrimp River), which became Cameroon in English. Fulani soldiers founded the Adamawa Emirate in the north in the 19th century, and various ethnic groups of the west and northwest established powerful chiefdoms and fondoms. Cameroon became a German colony in 1884 known as Kamerun. After World War I, it was divided between France and the United Kingdom as League of Nations mandates. The Union des Populations du Cameroun (UPC) political party advocated independence, but was outlawed by France in the 1950s, leading to the national liberation insurgency fought between French and UPC militant forces until early 1971. In 1960, the French-administered part of Cameroon became independent, as the Republic of Cameroun, under President Ahmadou Ahidjo. The southern part of British Cameroons federated with it in 1961 to form the Federal Republic of Cameroon. The federation was abandoned in 1972. The country was renamed the United Republic of Cameroon in 1972 and back to the Republic of Cameroon in 1984 by a presidential decree by president Paul Biya. Paul Biya, the incumbent president, has led the country since 1982 following Ahidjo's resignation; he previously held office as prime minister from 1975 on. Cameroon is governed as a Unitary Presidential Republic.
Currency / Language
ISO | Currency | Symbol | Significant figures |
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XAF | Central African CFA franc | Fr | 0 |
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EN | English language |
FR | French language |