The people of the Municipality of Kombo-Abedimo

The district is the seat of the Kombo-Abedimo Chiefdom, a 2nd degree traditional chiefdom, home to the Balue people, and recognized by the Ministry of Territorial Administration and Decentralization.

There were 1713 inhabitants in 1953, 2,610 in 1968-1969 and 4,239 in 1972, mainly of the Balue ethnic group, hence its name. At the 2005 census, the district had a population of 13,364, of which 4,714 resided at the seat at Kombo-Abedimo village-town.

In 1900, Georg Spellenberg, of the Basel Mission, moved to Dikome to study the possibility of developing missionary action in the Korup National Park. The inhabitants of Kombo-Abedimo are mainly Christians, of various denominations, though mostly Presbyterians.

Michael Elangwe Namaya, a former minister, was born in Kombo-Abedimo in 1940.