Wum

Wum
Commune and town
Wum Location in Cameroon
Coordinates: 6°23′N 10°04′E
Country	Cameroon Claimed by Ambazonia
Province	Northwest Province
Elevation	1,109 m (3,638 ft)
Population  (2012)
• Total	26,123
Time zone	UTC+1 (WAT)

Wum is a town and commune in Cameroon. It is the capital of Menchum division in the Northwest Province.

Masque de danse Wum-Musée du quai Branly

Fufu Corn

Geography

Wum is the third biggest town in the north west region of Cameroon. It lies on a plateau at an elevation of about 1100 m near the edge of the western highlands of Cameroon. It is 80 kilometres (50 mi) north of the regional capital Bamenda (by dirt road). It lies near Lake Wum, one of five small crater lakes within 15 km of the town in the hilly, volcanic landscape. Lake Nyos, a crater lake from which a limnic eruption killed nearly 2,000 people in 1986, is 25 km to the east.

Population and language

In 2012 Wum's estimated population was 80,123 inhabitants.

The Aghem language, spoken in Wum, is also called Wum.

Domestic Science Centre at Wum (old photograph)

Culture

Lago "Nyos" - panoramio

• Traditional clothing
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Notable people

• AkuBai (Ningamai Akubai Nnam), singer and entrepreneur

External links

• Charles Nanga, La réforme de l’administration territoriale au Cameroun à la lumière de la loi constitutionnelle n° 96/06 du 18 janvier 1996, Mémoire ENA. (in French)
• Contrôle de gestion et performance des services publics communaux des villes camerounaises Archived 2011-06-01 at the Wayback Machine- Thèse de Donation Avele, Université Montesquieu Bordeaux IV (in French)
• Site de la primature - Élections municipales 2002 (in French)