Buea

Concise Dictionary of World Place-Names | 2005 | 270 words | Copyright

Buea, Cameroon Derived from Gbea, meaning the children of Eya and Bokwango, who were the founders of the settlement from which the town developed. It was the capital of German Kamerun in 1884–1919 and of the Southern Cameroons until 1961 when it joined Cameroon.

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