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This website is for all ethnographers who are interested in the study of the northern Mandara mountains of N. Cameroon and N.E. Nigeria. We want to get to know each other so, let’s keep in touch and work together to create a community site of academic interest. |
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I call the northern Mandara mountains the Northern Mandaras and I refer to its inhabitants generally as montagnards. Terrace farming is the most prominent socio-economic feature, but many men work in towns on the plains or cultivate beans at Lake Chad. |
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The Mafa are, with about 150,000 people, the largest ethnic community of the Northern Mandaras. Situated in the centre of the mountains, they are embraced by about 50 ethnic groups of often very small size and various histories of local and regional unity. |
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