With ancient chiefdoms tucked between terraced fields and volcanic mountains, Mount Cameroon?Africa's highest peak, the impressive Waza National Park with its herds of elephants, and the coast's sleep
This volume on political tensions in Cameroon explores the history of the unification of the English and French speaking former colonies into a single French dominated nation in 1984 and the current s
This book deals with the important subject of governance and development. Even more significantly, the book has the merits of critically evaluating the concept of good governance in an African context
The Kwanja is a small ethnic group of 10,000 people living in Adamawa, Cameroon. The present monograph describes their bilineal kinship system, political structures, oral history, moral economy, ritua
Derived from the renowned multi-volume International Encyclopaedia of Laws, this very useful analysis of constitutional law in Cameroon provides essential information on the countryand#8217;s source
This volume on African geographical and political conflict resolution provides a detailed history of the border dispute between Cameroon and Nigeria from 1981 through 2002. Topics discussed include th
The ancient kingdoms of the Cameroon Grassfields are famous for their splendid artworks--ornamented thrones, wooden figures, enormous drums, finely carved jewelry made from ivory and brass, and fabulo
The Bakweri people of Mount Cameroon, an active volcano on the coast of West Africa a few degrees north of the equator, have had a varied and at times exciting history which has brought them into cont
The Cameroon Condition brings together three seminal essays by George Ngwane, one of the most renowned, committed and daring Anglophone Cameroon writers. 'The Mungo Bridge, ' is a stinging indictment
This interesting work on spatial planning explores the emerging necessity for rural planning, as opposed to a focus on urban planning, in developing nations. Using Cameroon as a case study, the volume
This study presents a history, based on original archival and primary source material, of the Baptist mission educational situation of Cameroon province from 1922 to 1945. The provisions of the League
The fourth edition of the Historical Dictionary of the Republic of Cameroon relates the turbulent history of Cameroon through a chronology, an introductory essay, a bibliography, and over 600 cross-re
The Bakweri people of Mount Cameroon, an active volcano on the coast of West Africa a few degrees north of the equator, have had a varied and at times exciting history which has brought them into cont
The federation of the previously British and French Cameroons has, since 1961, tried to integrate a highly fragmented, bilingual society in which nearly every social cleavage found in Africa was prese
The federation of the previously British and French Cameroons has, since 1961, tried to integrate a highly fragmented, bilingual society in which nearly every social cleavage found in Africa was prese
This is a story of a university student, Pierre Boucher, which takes place in a large and unnamed French city. Since his childhood, he had been subjected - together with his mother - to persistent and
Cameroon contains tropical Africa’s most species-diverse hotspots for plants. This addition to the Red Data Book of the International Union for the Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources documen
This fifth edition of Historical Dictionary of the Republic of Cameroon contains a chronology, an introduction, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 300 cross-referenced entr
This book explores contemporary Anglophone Cameroon poetry’s engagement with the environment through an eco-textual analysis of a cross section of poems from different poets. In this regard, the work
Based on previously unused primary sources including extensive interviews in Cameroon, personal journals, diaries, responses to questionnaires, and a variety of secondary sources, this study is a crit
This book examines the University of Dayton Cameroon Immersion program, with comparative evidence from the Peace Corps. It analyzes different aspects of experiential learning, contextualizes them with
Ambanasom (English, U. of Bamenda, Cameroon) has collected 25 essays on English literature in the West African country, studies of specific works, and book reviews, most published since the turn of th
Nyamnjoh (social anthropology, U. of Cape Town, South Africa) explores the role of the mass media in the democratic process in Cameroon between 1990 and 1994. He investigates the extent to which the m
"Comprehensive and convincing, The End of French Rule in Cameroon is a big boost to Cameroon's history. Historians in general and Africanists in particular will find it a valuable resource."---Elias B
Journalism and Mass Communication in Africa provides the first in-depth analysis of the evolution of mass communication and the impact of new media technologies in Cameroon. Written and edited by Afri
Women's writing in Cameroon has so far been dominated by Francophone writers. The short stories in this collection represent the yearnings and vision of an Anglophone woman, who writes both as a Cam
In Conquest and Construction Mark Dike DeLancey investigates the palace architecture of northern Cameroon, a region whose largely sedentary, agricultural, non-Muslim population was conquered in the ea
Lela in Bali tells the story of an annual festival of eighteenth-century kingdoms in Northern Cameroon that was swept up in the migrations of marauding slave-raiders during the nineteenth century and
