The Mambilla Plateau is a plateau in the Taraba State of Nigeria. The plateau is Nigeria's northern continuation of the Bamenda Highlands of Cameroon. The Mambilla Plateau has an average elevation of about 1,600 metres (5,249 ft) above sea level, making it the highest plateau in Nigeria. [1] Some of its villages are situated on hills that must be at least 1,828 metres (5,997 ft) high above sea level. Some mountains on the plateau and around it are over 2,000 metres (6,562 ft) high, like the Chappal Waddi (more appropriate name: Gang) mountain which has an average height of about 2,419 metres (7,936 ft) above sea level. It is the highest mountain in Nigeria[3] and the highest mountain in West Africa if Cameroon's mountains, such as Mount Cameroon , are excluded. The Mambilla Plateau measures about 96 km (60 mi) along its curved length; it is 40 km (25 mi) wide and is bounded by an escarpment that is about 900 m (2,953 ft) high in some places. The plateau covers an area of over ...
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A tribe in Africa gets budding brides to wear large lip plates to determine how much cattle they are worth. Suri tribeswomen, native to Ethiopia, sport lip plates up to 10 inches wide. Tori Bohn, 56, from Bali, Indonesia, captured these stunning images in Kibish, in the southwest of the African country. Another of her pictures sees an elder female of the tribe wearing a headdress of corn and displayed how her oversized and stretched lip appeared with the plate removed, hanging down below her chin. Kibish is located in the Omo Valley, a region that is home to eight tribes with a total population of roughly 200,000. Tori, who spent three days with the Suri tribe learning about their decorative lip plates, said: "I couldn't take my eyes off the first woman who approached me wearing a large lip plate. "In person, it creates an even greater impression. It's a practice I wanted to learn more about. "The girls make a slice in their lower lip during puberty and remove t...
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