Tibati
| Tibati | |||
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| Coordinates | 6 ° 29 ′ N , 12 ° 36 ′ E | ||
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| Country | Cameroon | ||
| Adamaoua | |||
| district | Djérem | ||
| ISO 3166-2 | CM-AD | ||
| height | 870 m | ||
| Residents | 22,900 (2001) | ||
Tibati is a mostly Fulbe and Haussa inhabited city in Cameroon in the province of Adamaoua ; it is the capital of the Djérem department . The population was estimated at 22,900 in 2001.
geography
Tibati lies on the Adamaua highlands at an altitude of 870 meters. In the west, the city is bounded by Lake Mbakaou , a 348 km² damming of the Djérem . Originally the place was founded on the Meng , which now flows there.
economy
The economically most important product of the region is the high-quality fish (especially perch , tilapia species and catfish , more rarely Nile pike ) from the large Mbakaou Lake , which is sold throughout Cameroon. The majority of people, however, live in subsistence farming .
ethnicities
The population groups in the region are extremely heterogeneous, the Haussa and Fulbe (Peul) peoples dominate, but there are also significant proportions from the M'Boum , Gbaya , Baboutés , Tikar , M'Bororos (actually a subspecies of the Fulbe) ), and some other allochthonous groups (e.g. refugees from past civil wars in surrounding states such as the Central African Republic or Chad ).
history
Tibati was a traditional center of the Vute , which came under the rule of the Fulbe in the second half of the 19th century. The Fulbe established a Subamirate of the Amirate Fombina there , which developed into an important political and military center. At the end of the 19th century, the city complex was surrounded by a 6.75-kilometer-long ring system of ramparts and moats, which was interrupted by four grass-covered, five-meter-high city gates. The four-court palace of "Ardo Tibaati" formed a fortress in itself.
In the Wute Adamaua campaign , which the German protection force carried out in 1898/99 under the leadership of Commander Oltwig von Kamptz , the city was occupied and integrated into the area of German colonial administration. The previous Ardo Haman Laamu, who had long opposed the German occupation with military resistance, was deposed and replaced by a willing follower of the colonial administration. In the following years, the city lost its exposed position completely due to the weakening of its rulers and the shift in influence in favor of the new German administrative centers in Banyo and Yoko .
After the First World War, Tibati came under French mandate rule.
traffic
Tibati is connected to Banyo, Ngaoundéré , Doualayel (Galim / Tignère) and Yoko via slopes . The asphalt road to Ngaoundal has since crumbled, so that one can also speak of a slope. Tibati is on the shortest route between the capital Yaoundé in the south of Cameroon and the "extreme north" of the country from Ngaoundéré . There is a lot of through traffic, although the longer stretch in the east of the country is much easier and faster to drive, especially during the rainy season.
religion
The majority of the Fulani -Bevölkerung is Islamic. The city is also the seat of a Catholic mission station. The Protestant Church (EELC) is also 15 kilometers away with a large mission hospital in Ngaoubela and a Bible school in Meng. Overall, the ratio between Christian and Islamic believers is estimated by locals to be 1: 1. It is noticeable that there is no fundamentalism, very many families are even mixed-religious and at some point siblings decide independently of one another for one of the parent religions.
Medical supplies
Apart from the relatively poorly equipped public hospital in Tibati itself (on the left when entering Malarbar, almost on the shore of Lake Mbakaou), there is the above-mentioned mission hospital in Ngaoubela approx. 15 km to the north (N15 / N6 in the direction of Ngaoundal). This hospital with 150 beds has the official status of "Hôpital de district", is managed by an Austrian doctor and supported by various donation organizations in Vorarlberg and the USA. An exchange of volunteers from these and other countries is carried out through these organizations and partly supported.
literature
- Eldridge Mohammadou: L´Histoire de Tibati, chefferie Foulbe du Cameroun , Yaoundé 1965
- Eldridge Mohammadou: Fulbe Hooseere. Les royaumes foulbé du plateau de l´Adamaoua au XIXème siècle: Tibati, Tignère, Banyo, Ngaoundéré , Tokyo 1978