Ebolowa

Province

Ebolowa is a city in southwestern Cameroon, with 60,360 inhabitants, according to an estimate from 2005. It is the capital of the province of Sud.

History

Ebolowa is located in the settlement area of ​​the Bulu, a relative of the Ewondo, the Beti- group corresponding ethnicity. The Boulou area was brought late 19th century successively under German sovereignty and after the so-called Bulu Uprising ( 1899/1900 ) finally pacified. In Ebolowa In 1899, a German military station. After completion of the riots, it was the seat of the independent military district Ebolowa, the 1908 expanded by parts of the dissolved district Lolodorf. 1913, the crew was removed and transformed the district into a civilian district office. As the seat of local government to Ebolowa developed into the main stack space for the rubber trade in Southwest Cameroon.

Personalities

• Ferdinand Oyono (1929-2010), writer and politician