Nigeria as a giant of Africa has different tribe
with various ways of living from the south to
west and north to east,but the most popular
tribes in Nigeria are the Hausa,Yoruba,Igbo and
fulani
The hausa/fulani are found in the northern
Nigeria while yoruba in the west and igbo in the
southern Nigeria.
In the Northern Nigeria there are lot of tribes
which many people dont know of their existence
in Nigeria.
Koma tribe is among these tribes this
triarefound between Nigeria and
cameroun,After
independence in the 1960 koma a then count
among Nigerian tribe.
The Koma tribe of Cameroon and Nigeria that
buried twins and their mothers alive as custom.
When the Koma people were recognised as
Nigerians in 1961, along with the old provinces
of northern Cameroon, many were said to have
been hiding in their mountainous habitat for a
very long period of time.
koma is a relatively primitive hill-dwelling ethnic
group in northern Adamawa, in the Atlantika
Mountains, which shares a border with
southern Cameroun. Hill-dwellers are spread
through the south and southwest of these
mountains, including many on the Cameroun
side. There are 21 Koma villages in the
Cameroonian side of the Alantika Mountains
and 17 villages on the Nigeriam side.
Ã’The largest towns in the Koma area are:
Tantille, Chonha, Mani, Nassaraw Koma and Ba-
The Koma people became recognized
as Nigerians in 1961, a year after independence,
along with the old provinces of Cameroun.
Today Koma is part of the seven districts of jada
local government in Adamawa State.
The hill was discovered in 1986 by a corps
member.
The Koma have their own language, known as
koma, with an estimated 61,000 speakers. It is a
member of the Niger-congo family.
The Koma people are divided into three main
groups: the hill-dwelling Beya and Ndamti, and
the Vomni and Verre lowlanders.
They are committed to their traditional culture.
The men wear loincloths and women wear fres
leaves. Koma men are much more receptive to
wearing of contemporary clothes than the
women. Customarily inheritance in Koma is in
the maternal lineage. As a mark of acceptance
and friendship, a Koma man may share his wife
with friends, especially visitors. They have an
average population of about 400 people per
village, and many engage in rearing of animals.
The late Colonel yohanna madaki visited the
mountains in 1989, at the insistence of the first
set of corps members posted to the lowlands.
Among the Komas, a twin birth is regarded as
evil, and twins are considered abominable so
much so that until recently babies of multiple
births used to be buried alive with the women
who had the 'misfortune' of being their mothers.
This obnoxious practice of twins killing is out of
vogue among Komas who dwell on the plains,
but in the out-of-the-way settlements on the
hills, the ancient practice still thrives untainted.
Koma medicine men engage in extended farting
sessions on the occasion of public dancing
ceremonies. They train with a master and are
capable of farting for hours on end. When the
anus area becomes irritated from prolonged
flatulence, it is soothed with a healing powder.
The tradition is thought to originate in mockery
of puritanical Muslims, who used to enslave
Komas and drove them to move their habitat
into the hilly areas they now occupy. The
tradition was famously documented in a
documentary by Alain Baptizet.
Koma people practice the three major religions
in Nigeria; 60% of them are christians, 30%
traditionalists and 20% muslims.
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