ABSTRACT
Adamawa can hold her own with any Province of Northern Nigeria for the variety and splendour of her scenery. The rolling grasslands or steep-sided canyons of the Mambila plateau and the fertile plains of the Gongola and Yedseram valleys; the remarkable indigenous stone architecture of the Cubunawa hill villages and the unique paved causeway from Sukur’s summit; the broad sweep of her many rivers; the grotesque monoliths along the frontier escarpment of the Northern Cameroons, ‘natural towers and battlements giving individuality to each one’, and the granite crags and pinnacles of the Mumuye massif… indeed, in the strange beauty of her highlands and the breath-taking abruptness of her rugged peaks, Adamawa may justly claim to be second to none in Nigeria and to share that imaginative and evocative description of the Jos plateau, where ‘groups of hills rise in majestic masses, which when seen from a distance deserve the name of mountains’.
