Mubi

Mubi is a major town in northeastern Nigeria, situated on the west bank of the Yedseram River at the foot of the Mandara Mountains. It was founded by the Fulani people in the late 18th century and originally lay within the Sultanate of Mandara. During the jihad proclaimed by Sheikh Usman dan Fodio of Sokoto, the military leader Modibbo Adama incorporated these lands into his kingdom of Fumbina, later the Adamawa Emirate. By the 1820s the peoples of Mubi and its surroundings were already under Adama's rule, and in the 1890s Emir Zubairu conducted slave raids in the area.

In 1903 German forces captured the town and made it a frontier post and administrative centre of German Kamerun. Yet in 1914, with the outbreak of the First World War, British troops drove the Germans out of Mubi. Under a League of Nations mandate in 1922, the town and its environs were placed within British Cameroons, and in 1961, following a plebiscite, they officially became part of independent Nigeria.

Today Mubi is an important agricultural and educational hub of the region. A federal polytechnic college operates here, while the surrounding countryside is renowned for peanut, cotton and millet cultivation. The town preserves the rich cultural heritage of the Fulani, Hausa and indigenous Mandara peoples, remaining a key stop on trade routes leading toward Lake Chad and the Cameroon border.