Author(s)

Zephania N. Fogwe¹, Emilia Ngum Asue²

¹Laboratory of Environment, Hazards and Sustainable Development, Department of Geography, Faculty of Letters and Social Sciences, University of Douala, Douala, Cameroon.
²Department of Geography, Higher Teachers Training College, The University of Bamenda, Bambili, Cameroon.

In Cameroonian cities, floods from solid pollutant barriers constitute environmental hazards of new distinct dimension, nature and characteristics. This study examines geographical settings provoking floods in cities and the way it affects the population. It suggests appropriate policy mitigation options. Primary and secondary data collected through fieldwork and documentary sources were treated. Findings show that national and local rules and legislation are weakly applied exposing urban natural floodway to varied forms of human colonisation activities. These urban stream flood ways that ought to be downstream water evacuation role players reversed into inhabited neighbourhoods of diverted water. Human activities and infrastructural urban inputs that unconsciously imposed directional dictates unto urban stream flow have become self-made victims of wicked egocentrism over urban stream channels. As nature is permanently in a state of dynamic re-equilibration the urban stream waters have in retaliation taught its trouble givers a disproportionately unequal negative response in enormous fatalities for the humans who dare to resist its floods and abandonment for those who have been repeatedly humbled by its floods. The response from this no man’s land of aborted human conquest requires comprehensive and multidimensional environmental management in stream-bordered urban built.

Garbage, Floods, Kumba, Population, Stream Channel

Fogwe, Z. and Asue, E. (2016) Cameroonian Urban Floodwater Retaliations on Human Activity and Infrastructural Developments in Channel Flood Ways of Kumba. Current Urban Studies, 4, 85-96. doi: 10.4236/cus.2016.41007.