Bankim

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Bankim, M'Bankim, Bamkin or Kimi is a town and commune of the division Mayo-Banyo in Adamaoua in Cameroon.{{cite book |last=Mah |first=E.P. |title=La profession d'huissier de justice au Cameroun francophone |publisher=Editions L'Harmattan |series=Harmattan Cameroun |year=2014 |isbn=978-2-336-33787-6 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=d1H2AgAAQBAJ&pg=PA38 |language=fr |access-date=26 July 2018 |page=38}} It is about 95 km from Foumban and 125 km from Banyo The area's vegetation is of shrub savanna type.

History

Bankim is said{{by who|date=August 2021}} to have been founded in 1395 by the local chief Kimi who founded the Tikar kingdom.{{cn|date=August 2021}} Eldridge Mohammadou has given a date of 1760 to 1780 as the foundation date for the chiefdom.Zeitlyn, David. (1996). "[http://www.isca.ox.ac.uk/fileadmin/ISCA/JASO/1995-26-1.pdf#page=100 Eldridge Mohammadou on Tikar Origins] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140812183808/http://www.isca.ox.ac.uk/fileadmin/ISCA/JASO/1995-26-1.pdf#page=100#page=100 |date=12 August 2014 }}", Journal of the Anthropological Society of Oxford (JASO) 26 no. 1: pp. 99–104.

Hazards

Loaiasis is hyperendemic in this area, but is regarded as a generally mild and painless disease.{{Cite journal|pmid=11845532|year=2001|last1=Kamgno|first1=J|title=Hyperendemic loaiasis in the Tikar plain, shrub savanna region of Cameroon|journal=Bulletin de la Société de Pathologie Exotique|volume=94|issue=4|pages=342–6|last2=Boussinesq|first2=M}} It is reported that about 17% of the population in this area carry HIV/Aids, however the survey is based on urban surveys in the capital.

Communications

Bankim is on the main road from Foumban to Banyo. The provincial road (P26) goes from nearby Nyamboya to Ndu via Sonkolong, Atta, and Sabongari.[https://books.google.com/books?id=wrWtrTdBo5MC&pg=PA211&dq=bankim+cameroon&ei=GMZ7R_r1Gp-OtgPsr_n0Cg&sig=Y1H4rIjALOaRbxh8JHy-GehN9vE Planning in Contemporary Africa, Ambe J. Njoh, 2003, Ashgate Publishing] {{ISBN|0-7546-3346-2}}

There is a post office, a hotel, some medical facilities and branches of Union Express and Exchange Express. Mobile phone coverage is good.

Notable residents

Joseph Chila, a local photographer who has exhibited in the National Portrait Gallery in London[http://www.npg.org.uk/whatson/display/2005/cameroon-london.php Cameroon exhibition in 2005]

References

Category:Communes of Cameroon

Category:Populated places in Adamawa Region