Gembu is a town on the Mambilla Plateau in Taraba State of Nigeria.
It is the headquarters of Sardauna Local Government Area (formerly "Mambilla" LGA) in Taraba State.
Sitting
at an average elevation of about 1,348 meters (4,423 ft) above sea level, it
is among the highest elevated towns in Nigeria.
It is believed that the first inhabitants of the entire
Mambilla Region were the descendants of the Bantu ancestors, who are known to
have inhabited the region by 5000 BC (Zeitlyn & Connell, 2003). They
constitute the Bantu people who stayed home in the Mambilla region after the Bantu
expansion across Africa between 3000 BC and
1500 AD. These are represented in this town by the Mambilla people who founded
it.
The Mambila people
make up the largest single ethnic group in the town, followed by the
Kaka, and then the Hausa-Fulanis,
the main cattle rearers of
the plateau. The Mambilla people, the denizens of this Plateau,
were the only inhabitants of the town until colonial rule set in. They are
thought to have been in this region for the past five millennia.
Although in the
past, roads leading to Bommi Town (Gembu) on the Mambilla Plateau were poorly
maintained and travelling to the town from other parts of Nigeria was difficult,
the transport problems improved radically with the construction of the Mambilla
Highway linking the plateau to the lowlands west and north of it. The road
works begun by the Taraba State Government in 2012 have added a greater
prospect of ease of communication with the rest of Nigeria.
It is believed to be the coldest place in Nigeria.
Visit Gembu today and get an experience of a life-time feeling like you have traveled out of Nigeria probably to Russia, Canada or any other cooler regions of the world.
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