Bimbia
Bimbia | |
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Coordinates: 4°01′N 9°13′E / 4.017°N 9.217°E | |
Country | Cameroon |
region | South-West |
Divisions | Fako |
Climate | Am |
Bimbia was an independent state of the Isubu people of Cameroon. In 1884, it was annexed by the Germans and incorporated in the colony of Kamerun. It lies in Southwest Region, to the south of Mount Cameroon and to the west of the Wouri estuary. Is situated at the East coast of the Limbé sub-division.
Bimbia consists of three villages:
In 1932, the population of Bimbia was about 2500 people.
Bimbia was the first-place white men, the Jamaican and English Baptist missionaries led by Rev. Alfred Saker set foot on the Cameroon shores in 1858, from Fernando Po. There, he built the first school and first Church. Later, he went to Victoria where he built the Ebenezer Baptist Church. The Bimbia man was the first person to go to Saker's school and the first to become Christian.