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Meet The Nigerian Tribe That Still Go About Naked

                                        The Koma People are hill-dwelling people  who live in the Alantika Mountains , spanning the border between the southeast of Yola, the capital of Adamawa State in Nigeria, and Northern Cameroon. They were discovered in 1986 by a corps member in the then- Gongola State of Northern Nigeria, Nigerian newspaper The Spectator reported in July 2010.                                          They were officially recognized as Nigerians in 1961 and now have 17 villages on the Nigerian side. Years later, the people of Koma have managed to exist outside of modern civilization . Hidden away in these hills, they move around freely naked or near-naked in leaves and loincloths. They cook with fire made with flint. Majority of the Koma hill-dwellers ...