The people of the Municipality of Mundemba

The district is the seat of the Mundemba Chiefdom, a 2nd degree traditional chiefdom, home to the Balue people, and recognized by the Ministry of Territorial Administration and Decentralization.

There were 1713 inhabitants in 1953, 2,610 in 1968-1969 and 4,239 in 1972, mainly of the Balue ethnic group, hence its name. At the 2005 census, the district had a population of 13,364, of which 4,714 resided at the seat at Mundemba village-town.

In 1900, Georg Spellenberg, of the Basel Mission, moved to Dikome to study the possibility of developing missionary action in the Korup National Park. The inhabitants of Mundemba are mainly Christians, of various denominations, though mostly Presbyterians.

Michael Elangwe Namaya, a former minister, was born in Mundemba in 1940.