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Limbe city council

The limbe city council is located in the south west region , Cameroon.The existence of this council is due to the place by president Paul Biya to facilitate poverty alleviation, combat corruption, effectuate better management of available resources and bring government closer to the people.The limbe city council is headed by Mr Andrew Motanga who is the pioneer government delegate.

History

The limbe city council was first known as the limbe urban council. The creation of a city and subdivisional councils is provided by the 1996 cameroon constitution as amended by law no.2008/001 of 14 april 2008. The name was changed from urban council to city council in barking by this degree.

Administration

Article(55) of the cameroon constitution stipulates that "Regional and local authorities of the rupublic shall comprise Regions and councils".This same constitution defines the duty of the councils, regional and local authorities.The limbe municipality is divided into three(3) sub councils namely:

• The limbe (1) council headed by Mayor Matute Daniel
• The limbe (2) council by Mayor Molindo Duncan
• The limbe (3)council by Mayor Mokate Samuel

All supervised by the senior devisional officer. ᾶᾙὰᾲ==Budget== From april 2009, the sum of 3.5billion FCFA was adopted as budget for the limbe city council. In the subsequent years ,it has been adjusted to fit the development projects of the city. This is to enhance limbe to an emerging city and Cameroon as a whole by 2035. Recently ,the sum of 5.5billion was adopted.

achievements

Despite all the difficulties and challenges faced by the limbe city council, its outstanding development origntation always dominates.

• The construction work to rehabilitate the cassava farms-lumpsum road.construction lasted for nine and half months,supervised by BATOMI enterprises cost the limbe city council a colossal sum of FCFA 1.1 billion.The rehabilitation of the taxation/police street road.
• The rehabilitation of the city sport complex.
• Extension of street lights to various areas of the city.
• The improvement of the markets and construction of warehouses.
• The renewal of HYSACAM contract for gabage collection.
• The effective celebration of sesquicentennary anniversary in december 2009.
• The promotion of tourism.( special powers devolved on local councils by the state in the area of developing local tourist sites as well as subsequent regulations taken by the ministry of tourism( arrete of march 2011).
• The creation of a tourism board and a tourism bureau in down beach.The left bank maritime project ( development of mondoli island). Effective preparation by the limbe city council for the celebration of the 50th anniniversary in the south west region in consideration that limbe will be a co host.There is the focuse on sanitation, worthy of note is the fact that limbe is the cleaness city in cameroon.

sports

Since the 4 of january 2011, there was the rehabilitation of the sports complex found in the city council building for the usage by the community. it is controlled by a sport instructor known as Mr Bobiongono Antoine who holds the idea that " sports is equivilent to good healty".

Map showing the location of the various ethnic groups of coastal Cameroon. Bimbia was the kingdom of the Isubu people

Bimbia was an independent state of Isubu people of Cameroon, in 1884 annexed by the Germans and incorporated in the colony of Kamerun. It lies in Southwest Region, to the south of Mount Cameroon and to the west of the Wouri estuary.It is 10.5km from the down-beach area in limbe.It is made up of Bonabile,Bona-ngombe.It is governed by a council ,known as the limbe111 council headed by a Mayor called Mr. Samuel Mokate.

Origins

The predominant Isubu oral history holds that the ethnic group hails from Mboko, the area southwest of Mount Cameroon. Tradition makes them the descendants of Isuwu na Monanga, who led their migration to the west bank of the Wouri estuary. When a descendant of Isuwu named Mbimbi became king, the people began to refer to their territories as Bimbia.It was latter ruled by king william of Bimbia.

Early European contacts

Joseph Merrick at an Isubu funeral in Cameroon, 1845.

Portuguese traders reached the Wouri estuary in 1472. Over the next few decades, more Europeans came to explore the estuary and the rivers that feed it, and to establish trading posts. The Isubu carved out a role for themselves as middlemen, trading ivory, kola nuts, and peppers from the interior. However, a major commodity was slaves for slave trade, most bound for plantations on nearby islands such as Annobon, Fernando Po, Príncipe, and São Tomé. By the 16th century, the Isubu were second only to the Duala in trade. The earliest Isubu merchants were likely chiefs or headmen. Bimbia, the primary Isubu settlement, grew quickly.

Europeans traders did their best to support friendly chiefs against their rivals, adulating them with titles such as King, Prince, or Chief. In exchange, these indigenes offered trade monopolies to their patrons and sometimes ceded land. An Isubu chief named Bile became leader of the Isubu as King William, although Dick Merchant of Dikolo village and other chiefs eventually opposed his dominance.

British influence

British traders became the dominant European presence in the region by the mid-19th century, and the Crown used them to enforce abolition of the slave trade in the Gulf of Guinea. In 1844 and 1848, King William signed anti-slavery treaties. In exchange, the traders provided him with annual gifts of alcohol, guns, textiles, and other goods. William was also asked to forbid practices the British viewed as barbaric, such as sacrificing a chief's wife upon his death. With William's blessing, Bimbia became a haven for repatriated slaves and escapees from the illicit trade, which continued for many more years.

The British also endeavored to educate and Christianise the Bimbians. King William rebuffed the earliest missionaries because he did not agree with their insistence on prayer and opposition to polygamy. In 1844, however, Joseph Merrick convinced William to let him open a church and school in Bimbia. In 1858, the Spanish ousted Protestant missionaries from their base at Fernando Po. King William sold a portion of his domains to the missionary Alfred Saker, who then founded Victoria (today known as Limbe). By 1875, numerous missions and schools sprung up in Victoria and other settlements. Victoria came to be a mixture of freed slaves, working Cameroonians, and Christianised Cameroonians from the various coastal groups. Cameroonian Pidgin English began to develop at this time.

Isubu society was changed fundamentally by the European trade. European goods became status symbols, and some rulers appointed Western traders and missionaries as advisors. Large numbers of Isubu grew wealthy, leading to rising class tensions. Competition escalated between coastal groups and even between related settlements. Between 1855 and 1879, the Isubu alone engaged in at least four conflicts, both internal and with rival ethnic groups. Traders exploited this atmosphere, and beginning in 1860, German, French, and Spanish merchants had established contacts and weakened the British monopoly. The Duala had gained a virtual hegemony over trade through the Wouri estuary, and the Isubu had little power left. Young King William was virtually powerless when he succeeded his father in 1878.

Treaties

On 17 February 1844, King William I of Bimbia and the chiefs of Bimbia concluded a treaty with Lieutenant Edward Charles Earl, commander of the English brig Rapid in which the slave trade was prohibited in exchange for goods worth $1,200, and free trade was guaranteed. On 19 December 1850, a further treaty with Thomas Rodney Eden, captain of the Amphitrite, regulated trade terms, covering subjects such as payment of "comey", a customary fee paid by trading vessels to chiefs in exchange for permission to trade. On 7 February 1855, the British Acting Consul, J.W.B. Lynslager, witnessed an engagement in which the chiefs of the Boobee (Bubi) Islands, adjacent to the Amboise (Ambas) Islands, settled the recent dispute and acknowledged King William of Bimbia's authority.

German protectorate

A German protectorate over the Cameroons was declared on 12 July 1884. In a communication of 15 October 1884 the German Government described the territories included in the protectorate, which included Bimbia.

slave history

"Slavery has been practised in many forms and in many civilizations since antiquity.The slave trade is one of these forms , but in view of its duration,extensiveness and its consequences, it constitutes the biggest tradegy in the history of humanity. slave trade and slavery is crime against humanity. The Transatlantic trade is thought to have deported 15 to 18 million captives. The Bimbia community was part of the Transatlantic slave trade.During the early years 15th century,America was discovered. The operations of large plantations such as sugar,coffee ginger, tobacco caused the need for slave trade.The trade took place between Europe, America ,Africa.Slave dealers left abroad with manufactured goods(cloth,metalware, firearms)in exchange for slaves in West Africa.In the process of this trade trading post were set up such as Bimbia,Rio del rey, Big Batanga and Campo. These slaves were put in chains, dragged to the coast, beaten and wounded to be exchanged for goods.They were packed in ship with a space of only 30cm by 1.8m between them.In the process of transit many died. on arrival the slaves took up new jobs in the plantation with no hopes for their lives. Globally,The United Nations Economic Social and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) celeberated the year2004 as "The International Year to Commemorate the Struggle against Slavery and its Abolition".one of its main objective; was to restorebroken links and broaden solidarity between the african continent and its diaspora, in particular through the networking of its intellectual community.This goal was realised during the visit of the African Americans to Cameroon 2010 associating their DNA match to Cameroon. The SlavePort in Bimbia is an embellishment of the past an struggles of the black race. The reconstruction of the history of the african people has highlighted the crimes against humanity such as racial segegation,xenophobia and other related intolerances.The works of oustanding fighters against slavery and slave trade such as Toussaint Louverture, F. Douglass, W.E Du Bios,R.Robeson, Schoelcher, St.Benedict and A.S Pushkin needs to be congratulated.

references

Cited books

• Anyangwe, Carlson (2010). "British Treaties with the Chiefs of Bimbia and Victoria". The Secrets of an Aborted Decolonisation. African Books Collective. ISBN 978-9956-578-50-4.
• Austen, Ralph A.; Derrick, Jonathan (1999). Middlemen of the Cameroons Rivers: the Duala and their hinterland, c.1600-c.1960. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-56664-9.
• Elango, Lovett Z. (1989). "Trade and diplomacy on the Cameroon coast in the nineteenth century, 1833–1879: the case of Bimbia". Introduction to the History of Cameroon in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Century, Part 2. Palgrave MacMillan. ISBN 0-333-47526-7.
• Fanso, Verkijika G. (1989). Cameroon History for Secondary Schools and Colleges: Prehistoric times to the nineteenth century. Hong Kong: Macmillan Education Ltd. ISBN 0-333-47121-0.
• Tajoche, Tazifor. Cameroon history in the 19th and 20th centuries. Cameroon: Press print ltd.

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