Fada (also Fata) is a village in the commune of

Meiganga Meiganga (Fula: Meiganga 𞤥𞤫𞤭𞤺𞤢𞤲𞤺𞤢) is a town in the Adamawa Province of Cameroon Cameroon, officially the Republic of Cameroon, is a country in Central Africa. It shares boundaries with Nigeria to the west and nort ...

in the

Adamawa Region The Adamawa Region () is a constituent region of the Cameroon, Republic of Cameroon. It borders the Centre Region (Cameroon), Centre and East Region (Cameroon), East regions to the south, the Northwest Region (Cameroon), Northwest and West Re ...

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, near the border with the

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Population

In 1967, Fada contained 1267 inhabitants, mostly

Wodaabe The Wodaabe (, , ''𞤏𞤮𞤯𞤢𞥄𞤩𞤫'') is a name that is used to designate a subgroup of the Fula ethnic group who are traditionally nomadic and found primarily in Niger and Chad. All Wodaabe people should not be mistaken as Mbororo ...

and

Fula people The Fula, Fulani, or Fulɓe people are an ethnic group in Sahara, Sahel and West Africa, widely dispersed across the region. Inhabiting many countries, they live mainly in West Africa and northern parts of Central Africa, South Sudan, Darfur, ...

''Dictionnaire des villages de l'Adamaoua''
ONAREST, Yaoundé, October 1974, p. 24 At the time of the 2005 census, there were 1048} people in the village.

References

Bibliography

* Jean Boutrais,
Peuples et cultures de l'Adamaoua (Cameroun) : actes du colloque de Ngaoundéré du 14 au 16 janvier 1992
', Éd. de l'ORSTOM, Paris, 1993
''Dictionnaire des villages de l'Adamaoua''
ONAREST, Yaoundé, October 1974, 133 p.

External links

Meiganga
on the website ''Communes et villes unies du Cameroun'' (CVUC) {{Portal, Cameroon Populated places in Adamawa Region