Misaje is a town and

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department in the Northwest Region of

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. The town lies at the top of the Ring Road, about 15 kilometers west of

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, where the Ring Road meets the road north to Dumbu and the border with

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.Map of Cameroon - Nkambe. The name ''Misaje'' comes from a

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nickname for a bearded man who sold food and rented rooms to

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traders on their way to and from

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. The village containing his stop came to be called Misaje and the name was later applied to the whole commune. Different local dialects predominate in different parts of the subdivision. Ncane is spoken from Misaje south. Nsari is spoken around Kamine and Akweto.

Kemezung Kemezung (''Dumbo, Dumbu, Dzumbo, Kumaju'') is a Southern Bantoid ( Eastern Beboid) language of Cameroon. According to ''Ethnologue'', it's 85% lexically similar to Bebe Bebe, Bèbè, Bebé, Bébé or BeBe may refer to: People and fictional cha ...

is spoken in Dumbu and Kwei.

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is spoken around Bebe-Jama and Bebe-Jatto. Mungong is spoken at Mungong. All mentioned so far are similar, grouped by linguists as

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. More distantly related, Jukun is spoken to the north around Gidan-Jikum. Misaje commune was created in 1992, with headquarters at the town of Misaje, and including the villages Nkanchi, Dumbu, Kamine, Akweto, Bebe-Kete, Mayo-Kila, Bebe-Jato, Sabon-gida, Bem, Chunghe, Kibbo, Kwe, Mbissa, Mfume and Chako.Misaje. Terrain varies from rugged in the east around Mount Kinka to a flat plain around the Dumbo Ranch in the west. The Dumbo Ranch is a

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project aimed at improving beef production using modern techniques.Ngalim, p. 186. The total population of Misaje commune is about 40,000. Many people live by farming

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, groundnuts,

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s, yams,

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and

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. Some raise cattle. Some trade, hunt and fish.

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References

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Contrôle de gestion et performance des services publics communaux des villes camerounaises
Thèse de Donation Avele, Université Montesquieu Bordeaux IV * * * 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. * * {{coord, 6, 35, N, 10, 33, E, region:CM-NW_type:city_source:kolossus-dewiki, display=title Communes of Northwest Region (Cameroon)