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Mundame or Moundamé is a community in
In the early colonial era, Mundame was seen as having potential as a station for collecting trade goods such as rubber, palm oil and ivory for transport by river to the coast. The area was well-populated with people including Bakundu, Bafo and possibly Bebum.[2] Dr. Schwartz's expedition of 1885 passed through Mundame, then went overland to Mambanda and Kumba before turning back at Ikiliwindi.[3]
The
In 1900 the Gesellschaft Nord-West Kamerun (GNK) sent an expedition led by Hptm von Ramsay from Douala via Mundame to the Cross River.[5] Mundame become a military base from which the German forces retaliated against villagers who were up in arms due to the brutal conditions of the plantations. The town was revived as a trading post, and became a center for supplying posts further into the Cross River area using laborers to carry the goods.[6]
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Germany military station at Mundame, 1904
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House of a German civilian administrator, 1904
By 1970, the community was described as a "forest village", with a relatively high level of infection by the parasitic worm Onchocerca volvulus, the causative agent of river blindness.[7]
References
- ISBN 1-4120-5789-2.
- ^ ISBN 1-57181-310-1.
- ISBN 1-57181-044-7.
- ^ ISBN 0-521-56664-9.
- ISBN 1-57181-725-5.
- ISBN 3-8258-6824-9.)
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