Wabane was selected and named at the second conference of the Mundani Elite Development Association, MEDA holding in Banteng, Bamumbu on 13 February 1988; the foundation of the town was laid on 31 December 1988.

Wabane is situated at the heart of the Mundani landmass, precisely at the point where the Bamumbu, Bechati and Folepi clan lands meet.

The landform is undulating and characterised by elevated, prominent mountainous terrain, with altitude ranging from lowland Nkong (72 m), Bechati and Besali (570 m), through Alongkong (1470 m) to M’mouck Leteh (2200 m).

The area of Mmuock Leteh is equally undulating but with broad hilltops and gentle slopes suitable for intensive vegetable farming.

These soils serve for very high commercial market gardening crops like Irish potato, cabbage, carrots and leeks.

[1] The difference in vegetation type gives rise to a variety of wildlife species (mammals, reptiles, birds and insects).

The Environment and Rural Development Foundation has listed a number of animal species that could be found in the forest and grassland vegetation of the Wabane Council Area – some that are rare or endangered.

Amongst others are the primates (chimpanzees and western lowland mountain gorillas) to wild cats like African civets, genets, foxes, stone hayracks, antelopes, deer, caneras, grass cutters and a variety of avifauna species like the Bannerman's turaco and parrot.

For fear of extermination of the above-mentioned primates the Environment and Rural Development Foundation is working alongside the Ministry of Wildlife to create a sanctuary in the lower Mundani zone though without some resistance from a fraction of the local population.

The higher female population can be explained by the fact that more males migrate out of the municipality in search of jobs as there due to the low economic activity in the area.

The following villages have more than 2,000 inhabitants: Bangang, Cham-Gomeveh, Fonenge, Agong, Nkong, Besali, Magha, Mmuock Leteh, Dih, Folepi, Fomenji, Bahne, Banti, Banteng, Atsuala, Bechati.

In the clan, the traditional rulers are generally called fons though the fall in three different categories as structured by the ministry of territorial administration and decentralization.

In the Wabane council area, emigration is noticeable in the middle belt (urban space) as compared to the lower and the upper regions.

The prominent denominations in the area are Presbyterian, Catholic, Full gospel, Baptist, Apostolic, and others with nomadic Muslims spotted around the Western part of the upper belt.

The religious groups serve the area with moral ethics and some social welfare services like health units and schools.

Looking at the zonal spacing of Wabane council, the population of is settled on two main geographical landforms with about 40% living around the lowlands of the lower belt.

Rural urban migration is significant in the council area due to the poor economic situation and low rate of social amenities thus posing a difficult livelihood.

A variety of food crops grown in the area due to favourable climate maize, cassava, groundnut, oil palm, cocoyams, pepper, beans and okra in the lower and middle half to the Irish potato, cabbages, carrots, leeks, wheat, ginger of the upper regions of M’mouck Leteh and Magha.

Also endangered species such as chimpanzees and the western lowland gorilla, to wild cats like African civet, genets, foxes, stone hayracks and antelopes can be found.

The rivers Meyi, Bangang, Bechati and Besali are huge sources of sand and stones for all construction works and the Anyoh-Ndeoh waterfall can be used to develop a rural electrification scheme.

The Wabane council area does not have any home based NGO apart from Environmental Rural Development Foundation (ERuDeF) that comes periodically for research.

[2] More than 98% of the local population depends on subsistence farming and some small scale of commercial agriculture by the sale of produce from cash crops.

This agriculture is supplemented by petit trading, fishing, hunting and transport services dominated by bike riders most particularly during the dry season though practiced by a minute proportion of the population.

The high intensity of palm oil production in the lower belt and gardening products in the upper belt results to a higher per capital income to local farmers of these two zones as compared to the middle zone where the local farmers have lower income earnings.

The situation of HIV/AIDS in the municipality is still without a lot of facts given that the population shy away from making known their status as the consider it to be a sabotage for someone to be heard infected by the killer disease.

This can partly be explained by the fact that polygamous marriages are rampant in the municipality and it is demographically accepted that more men than women die due to their strenuous activities and every one man dead leaves behind one or more wives in destitution.

The council has been managed since then by four mayors in three successive mandates - Mr. Manfred Nkonganyi Fontem, Tanyi Simon Kedju, Jong Manasseh Teba, who came in to complete the turn of predecessor and Nembo Ketu Israel.

The council headquarters is in Babong Bamumbu and manages an estimated population of 86,721 inhabitants occupying a total surface area of 180 km2.

[1][2] The Wabane council works closely or in collaboration with following services:[2] (a) Government technical services: social affairs, basic education, secondary education, women affair, agriculture, energy, transport, forestry, small and medium size enterprise, health, livestock; (b) Administration: Sub divional officer, divional officer and traditional authorities; (c) Civil society and parastatals: religious authorities, FEICOM, BADECA, ADEID, Southwest Development Agency (SOWEDA), RUMPI Project, Centre de Formation pour Administration Municipale (CEFAM), Programme National de Développement Participatif (PNDP); (d) Business partners: economic operators, professional bike rider's union.