{"id":2621,"date":"2021-06-02T11:22:31","date_gmt":"2021-06-02T11:22:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fastwpdemo.com\/newwp\/whitehall\/?p=991"},"modified":"2021-06-02T11:22:31","modified_gmt":"2021-06-02T11:22:31","slug":"the-people-of-the-municipality-of-mundemba","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mundemba.cm\/index.php\/2021\/06\/02\/the-people-of-the-municipality-of-mundemba\/","title":{"rendered":"The people of the Municipality of Mundemba"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>In 1900, Georg Spellenberg, of the\u00a0Basel Mission, moved to Dikome to study the possibility of developing missionary action in the Korup National Park. <sup id=\"cite_ref-2\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup>The inhabitants of Mundemba are mainly Christians, of various denominations, though mostly Presbyterians.<\/p>\n<p>Michael Elangwe Namaya, a former minister, was born in Mundemba in 1940.<\/p>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2338,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[27,28],"class_list":["post-2621","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-our-blog","tag-transport","tag-utilities"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mundemba.cm\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2621","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mundemba.cm\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mundemba.cm\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mundemba.cm\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mundemba.cm\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2621"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mundemba.cm\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2621\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mundemba.cm\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mundemba.cm\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mundemba.cm\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mundemba.cm\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}