Logone-Birni Logone, Lagone | |
|---|---|
 Logone-Birni, 1892 | |
  Logone-Birni Location in Cameroon | |
| Coordinates:11°46′50″N15°06′15″E / 11.78056°N 15.10417°E /11.78056; 15.10417 | |
| Country |  Cameroon |
| Province | Far North Province |
| Division | Logone-et-Chari |
| Population | |
| • Ethnicities | Kotoko |
| • Religions | Islam |
Logone-Birni is a town andcommune inCameroon. The town lies on the left (west) bank of theLogone River which at this point forms the state boundary between Cameroon and Chad. It is the capital of theKotoko people, whose two other principal cities areKousséri andGoulfey.[1]
Logone-Birne means Fort Logone and was founded around 1700 by PrinceBruha.[1]Dixon Denham visited Logone on 23 January 1824. He reported:
Logone-Birni has been suggested as the birthplace ofAbram Petrovich Gannibal (1696-1781), a General in theImperial Russian Army and great-grandfather ofAlexander Pushkin.[1] This view was first aired byVladimir Nabokov in 1962, albeit in a dismissive remark.[3] Previously, the predominant view, was that Gannibal was fromEthiopia. As Hugh Barnes suggested this may have arisen from the generic use of the term "Ethiopian" to cover all of Africa.[1] However, in 1996Dieudonné Gnammankou convincingly argued that Logone-Birni was his birthplace.[4][5] This view was further elaborated by Hugh Barnes inGannibal: The Moor of Petersburg (2005).[1]
Logone-Birni has given its name to the Logone Birni Basin, which covers an area of 27,000 km2 and is part of theWest and Central African Rift System.[6]
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