Bamkin

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subdivision_type = Province
subdivision_name = Adamawa
subdivision_type1 = Division
subdivision_name1 = Mayo-Banyo [ [http://www.spm.gov.cm/detail_art.php?iddocument=18&id_art=69&type=doc&lang=en Cameroon Prime Minister's office] accessed 2 January 2007]
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subdivision_name2 = Bamkin
leader_title = Mayor
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population_as_of = 2001
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Bankim or Bamkin is a town and sub-division of the division Mayo-Banyo in Adamaoua in Cameroon. It is about 9 km from Bandam and 13 km from the Hoséré Glon mountain.Fact|date=July 2008 It is one of the traditional Tikar states. [ [http://www.worldstatesmen.org/Cameroon_native.html Cameroon at WorldStatesman.org] accessed 1 January 2008] The area's vegetation is of shrub savanna type.

History

Bankim is said to have been founded in 1395 by the local chief Kimi who founded the Tikar state. [ [http://www.almanach.be/search/c/index.htm Almanach.be] accessed 1 January 2007]

Hazards

Loaiasis is hyperendemic in this area, but is regarded as a generally mild and painless disease.. [ [http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?db=pubmed&uid=11845532&cmd=showdetailview&indexed=google Kamgno J, Boussinesq M, Hyperendemic loaiasis in the Tikar plain, shrub savanna region of Cameroon, 2001] accessed 1 January 2007. Abstract in English] . 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

The provincial road (P26) goes to Kakar via Atta, Sabongari and Ndop. [ [http://books.google.co.uk/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 0754633462]

Notable residents

Samuel Finlak, a local photographer who has exhibited in the National Portrait Gallery in London has retired here. [ [http://www.npg.org.uk/live/wocameroon.asp Cameroon exhibition in 2005] ]

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