ABSTRACT
BAMENDA, or the “Grassfields” of the Cameroons, lies about 280 miles by motor road north of the port of Victoria. It is bounded on the east by the French Cameroons; on the north by the Adamawa Province; on the northwest by the Benue Province; and on the West by the Mamfe Division. It lies between 9°45 and 11°10’ east longitude and 5°40’ and 7° north latitude, and is some 6,932 square miles in area. Its dominant geographical feature is the high grassy plateau which sweeps from the north-east and east over the centre of the Province at an average height of 4,500 feet above sea-level. Above this again hills and ranges rise another 1,000 to 2,500 feet to culminate in Mount Oku at 7,000.
