Specialty Museum Attractions In Kumbo

Mount Oku

Kumbo, also known as Kimbo, is the second-largest city in the North West Province of Cameroon and the capital of Bui Division. It lies about 2000m above sea level and is situated approximately 110 km away from Bamenda , on the Bamenda Highlands Ring Road. Kumbo has a population of 80,212 and is split into three distinctive hilly settlements of Tobin, Mbveh, and Squares. The town is known for horse racing and traditional medicine, and also for its palace , a market and two hospitals . Kumbo is the capital city of the Nso Kingdom of the Nso people. The lingua franca is Lamnso but Pidgin, English, French, Oku, Djottin, Fulfulde, and Hausa are spoken. The ...
Continue reading...
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

Specialty Museum Attractions In Kumbo

1. Mankon Museum Bamenda
Mankon is a geo-historic community constituting a large part of Bamenda in Cameroon, formed as an amalgamation of about five different ethnic groups. The Mankon fondom represents one of the oldest monarchies of the grassfield people of the Northwest Province. The fondom is ruled by a 'fon' with rights to kinghood acquired by birth. The crowned fon is usually a designated son of the deceased king, a child who was born only during his reign.
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

Kumbo Videos

Nkambe Town, Cameroon

Drone footage from Nkambe, Cameroon. May of 2017.

Typical Safe Travel in Cameroon

Gives a whole new meaning to the expression to hitch a lift. The strange thing is I think he might not have been wearing his seatbelt. :P Before I started recording our driver nearly took the poor guy's legs off. Must have been about 8 already riding inside the taxi...

Ndu Town - Cameroon

Drone footage of Ndu Town in the North West region of Cameroon. May 2017

Enter Bamenda, Cameroon in Rain 22 Aug 2011

The rain was just pouring down as I drove down the mountain into Bamenda, Cameroon. This would be the kick-off for the difficult part onto muddy forest roads and this amount of rain didn't promise to make it any easier.

Specialty Museum Attractions In Kumbo