Lea Mbasi, King Abo, King of Bankon

He was born at the beginning of the 19th century in Bonaléa Mandouka in Moungo.

Lea Mbassi is the son of Mbassi Longo, grandson of Longo Nseke and great-grandson of Nseke Peh (warrior of the Bonkeng clan or the Bonewalé clan).

He had the title of King Abo “King Abo, King Priso” from 1875.

Its traditional title is Nukesi which means in Nkon language the King at the heart and center of the circle of other Kings.

He married Nyake Mbella with whom he had three children: Ngombe Lea Mbassi, Priso Lea Mbassi and Essoukan Lea Mbassi.

Lea Mbasi was the last King (senior chief) of the Bankons before the separation of the community into two distinct cantons; Abo-North and Abo-Sud, in retaliation for the Revolt against the Germans of 1891.

According to Dr Bucher, Germany's first representative in Cameroon in 1884, King Abo was not a man who could be influenced. At that time in Abo country, most of the trade was supplied by palm oil.

Thus in 1891 to defend the commercial interests of the Bankons, King Abo set up an ambush against the Germans whose main stake was the prestige of Germany and the maintenance of obedience to the German colonial administration. established in Cameroon.