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Memory Lane is the Best blog i ever saw. i sure wish more people would come over here and learn about all the people you have presented here. I came back today to read more about the Koma who i love for knowing who they are and never listening to all those “civilized” people around them who have been trying for so long, and with no success, to get them to be somebody else- to stop being Koma
The Koma people became recognized as Nigerians in 1961, a year after independence, along with the old provinces of northern Cameroun. Today Koma is part of the seven districts of Ganye local Government in Adamawa State.
The Koma people in Nigeria are divided into three main sub-ethnic groups – The Beiya and Damti, the majority of whom dwell in the hills, and the Vomni who live in the adjoining lowlands. In the plains and lowlands are also other ethnic groups who over the years have displaced the hill dwellers – the Verre, the Bata, the Fulani, the Hausa and Chamba.
The history of the Koma people appears to have begun towards the end of the 16th Century during the successive waves of migrations of the Bata, Chamba, Marghi and Higi from the North and East of Africa towards the Upper Benue Valley’.
For nearly two centuries, these waves of migrations seemed to have involved a grim struggle of these invaders for dominance and control over this fertile region. The Koma, who were then a relatively small and unorganised group living around the Faro valley, were pushed up into the hills by the Bata people.
