Zintgraff S Explorations In Bamenda Adamawa And The Benue Lands 1889 1892
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Zintgraff S Explorations In Bamenda Adamawa And The Benue Lands 1889 1892
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Author : E. M. Chilver
language : en
Publisher: African Books Collective
Release Date : 2010
Zintgraff S Explorations In Bamenda Adamawa And The Benue Lands 1889 1892 written by E. M. Chilver and has been published by African Books Collective this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with History categories.
The following pages, initially prepared for limited circulation in 1961, contain brief extracts and summaries of those parts of Eugen ZintgraffÍs book Nord-Kamerun (1895), of most interest concerning the colonial Bamenda and Wum Division. ZintgraffÍs book, the first by a European about the Grassfields, has not been translated and is hard to get second-hand. In using these notes the following points should be borne in mind: ZintgraffÍs knowdie;ledge of Bali (Mungaka) and Hausa was very slight, and his discussions of character, motives and political institutions are consequently superficial and open to criticisms. He had no means of checking what he was told, or thought he was told. He had no previous knowledge of any similar culture and no training in ethnographical method. He was, however, a good observer, and his descriptions of tools, dress, weapons and the like, can be regarded as fairly reliable. Finally, it must be remembered that Zintgraff wrote the book to justify his own actions and to support that small but influential section of public opinion in Germany which favoured rapid imperial expansion. A full account of the actions and motives of ZintgraffÍs opponents in the Kamerun Governdie;ment and in the Colonial Bureau of the German Foreign Office has not been written: we only have one side of the story. But there are some suggestive points made in RudinÍs Germans in the Cameroons and others referred to in these notes. What is perhaps most striking about ZintgraffÍs account is the fact that the people of the Western Grassfields were not so isolated from one another or their neighbours as might be thought. A network of trade-friendships covered the country and big men exchanged gifts over long distances. These links must be set beside the insedie;curity due to raids and slave-catching, and are well worth investigation.
Zintgraffs Explorations In Bamenda Adamawa And The Benue Lands 18891892
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Author : E.M. Chilver
language : en
Publisher: African Books Collective
Release Date : 2010-08-30
Zintgraffs Explorations In Bamenda Adamawa And The Benue Lands 18891892 written by E.M. Chilver and has been published by African Books Collective this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-08-30 with History categories.
The following pages, initially prepared for limited circulation in 1961, contain brief extracts and summaries of those parts of Eugen Zintgraffs book NORD-KAMERUN (1895), of most interest concerning the colonial Bamenda and Wum Division. Zintgraffs book, the first by a European about the Grassfields, has not been translated and is hard to get second-hand. In using these notes the following points should be borne in mind: Zintgraffs knowledge of Bali (Mungaka) and Hausa was very slight, and his discussions of character, motives and political institutions are consequently superficial and open to criticisms. He had no means of checking what he was told, or thought he was told. He had no previous knowledge of any similar culture and no training in ethnographical method. He was, however, a good observer, and his descriptions of tools, dress, weapons and the like, can be regarded as fairly reliable. Finally, it must be remembered that Zintgraff wrote the book to justify his own actions and to support that small but influential section of public opinion in Germany which favoured rapid imperial expansion. A full account of the actions and motives of Zintgraffs opponents in the Kamerun Government and in the Colonial Bureau of the German Foreign Office has not been written: we only have one side of the story. But there are some suggestive points made in Rudins GERMANS IN THE CAMEROONS and others referred to in these notes. What is perhaps most striking about Zintgraffs account is the fact that the people of the Western Grassfields were not so isolated from one another or their neighbours as might be thought. A network of trade-friendships covered the country and big men exchanged gifts over long distances. These links must be set beside the insecurity due to raids and slave-catching, and are well worth investigation.
Kingdom On Mount Cameroon
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Author : Edwin Ardener
language : en
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Release Date : 1996
Kingdom On Mount Cameroon written by Edwin Ardener and has been published by Berghahn Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996 with History categories.
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 contact, not only with other West African peoples, but with merchants, missionaries, soldiers and administrators from Portugal, Holland, England, Jamaica, Sweden, Germany and more recently France. Edwin Ardener, the distinguished social anthropologist who spoke their language, wrote a number of studies on the culture and history of the Bakweri kingdom. Some unpublished writings, and some published but now out of print materials are here brought together for the first time. The book covers the early contacts with the Portuguese and Dutch from the seventeenth century, the arrival of the missionaries in the nineteenth century, the dramatic defeat of the first German punitive expedition, the subsequent establishment by the Germans of the plantation system, and the British Trusteeship period until independence in 1961 as part of the Federal Republic of Cameroon.
Betrayal Of Too Trusting A People The Un The Uk And The Trust Territory Of The Southern Cameroons
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Author : Carlson Anyangwe
language : en
Publisher: African Books Collective
Release Date : 2009
Betrayal Of Too Trusting A People The Un The Uk And The Trust Territory Of The Southern Cameroons written by Carlson Anyangwe and has been published by African Books Collective this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with History categories.
There is a growing body of literature on what was originally envisioned as a free political association of the French and British Cameroons and its dramatic effects on the 'British Cameroons' community. Anyangwe's new book is an attempt to write the history of the Southern Cameroons from a legal perspective. This authoritative work describes in great detail the story of La Republique du Cameroun's alleged annexation and colonization of the Southern Cameroons following the achievement of its independence, while highlighting the seeming complicity of the United Nations and the British Trusteeship Authority. In the process, Anyangwe unravels a number of myths created by the main actors to justify this injustice and, in the end, makes useful suggestions to reverse the situation and to restore statehood to the Southern Cameroons. The book is rich in archival research and informed by a global perspective. It convincingly shows the uniqueness of the Southern Cameroons case.
Nso And Its Neighbours Readings In The Social History Of The Western Grassfields Of Cameroon
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Author : Bongfen Chem-Langhëë
language : en
Publisher: African Books Collective
Release Date : 2011
Nso And Its Neighbours Readings In The Social History Of The Western Grassfields Of Cameroon written by Bongfen Chem-Langhëë and has been published by African Books Collective this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011 with History categories.
This is a rich and compelling volume of readings in social history on Nso' and its neighbours in the Western Grassfields of Cameroon. It consists of 19 essays by some of the leading historians, archeologists and ethnographers of the region, with seminal contributions by Jean-Pierre Warnier, Paul Nchoji Nkwi, Bongfen Chem-Langhee, Phyllis Kaberry, E.M Chilver, Miriam Goheen, Ian Flower, Dan Lantum and V.G. Fanso. The book covers a broad range of themes from precolonial times to date, including trade, alliances, diplomacy, the iron industry, colonial impact, continuities, discontinuities and compromise, general persistence, ideology and conflict. Warnier draws on linguistic and archaeological data to argue that this region has been settled for several millennia, very probably continuously, and that its landscapes are very ancient and have resulted from many human and natural forces other than the simple clearance of the forest cover of the region at an uncertain date as some authors have postulated. Using data on inter-group diplomacy and alliances, Nkwi puts into question some problematic theses on persistence hostilities and enhances knowledge of the precolonial history of the region. Fowler and Chem-Langhee show how local conditions and needs fostered the spirit and practice of cooperative ventures in the precolonial period, which provided the driving force and the ideological and structural underpinnings for the successful and smooth introduction of modern modes of cooperation in the area during the colonial and postcolonial periods. The rest of the studies have a unifying theme or thesis, namely, that despite the entry and assault of external, influences, particularly those associated with colonialism, Christianity and Islam, the traditional institutions, customs and value systems of the Nso' and their neighbours have resisted major change and their total corrosion is not yet in sight. The volume illustrates the proposition that historical research is a continuous process of rediscovery which provides new questions, and also that the evidence of other disciplines - linguistics, archaeology and palaeobotany for example - may give rise to many new lines of inquiry and help to correct the documentary record and explain oral tradition. Herein lies the most important element of this experimental collection. Its editors hope that it will provoke other similar collections.
Changing Regimes And Educational Development In Cameroon
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Author : Gwanfogbe, Mathew B.
language : en
Publisher: Spears Media Press
Release Date : 2018-05-22
Changing Regimes And Educational Development In Cameroon written by Gwanfogbe, Mathew B. and has been published by Spears Media Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-05-22 with History categories.
This book provides an in-depth study of the nature and pattern of educational development in Cameroon from 1844 to the post-independence period. Drawing upon a wide range of sources including hitherto unused archival material and formal interviews with people involved in Cameroon’s pre-colonial, colonial and postcolonial educational traditions, the result is an elegantly written history enlivened by illustrative texts and archival pictures.
Land Grabbing And Conflict In The North West Region Of Cameroon
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Author : René Ngek Monteh
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Release Date : 2024-01-03
Land Grabbing And Conflict In The North West Region Of Cameroon written by René Ngek Monteh and has been published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-01-03 with Political Science categories.
In Cameroon, conflicts emerging from land ownership and boundary discrepancies have reached record heights with the North West Region serving as the theatre of land and boundary conflicts. These conflicts are not just rampant, but have taken shifting positions, making the much-cherished desire for peaceful cohabitation a far-fetched possibility. As this book shows, the ordinances of the 1970s which stopped traditional communities from making claims of ownership of land, the unwillingness of the traditional elite to understand and accept the arbitrary colonial imposed boundaries, and the dubious role played by those in authority in an attempt to solve or identify the root causes of these conflicts constituted the bed rock for the emergence of multi-dimensional problems. This book argues that conflicts in the North West Region have been promoted by the colonial factor, the authorities’ insistence on focusing on the consequences rather than on the deep causes, land laws, administrative orders and formally made arrangements. It argues very strongly that conflicts in the North West Region have become so protracted that solving them has been an uphill task.
Society And Change In Bali Nyonga
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Author : Jude Thaddeus Dingbobga Fokwang
language : en
Publisher: African Books Collective
Release Date : 2011
Society And Change In Bali Nyonga written by Jude Thaddeus Dingbobga Fokwang and has been published by African Books Collective this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011 with Social Science categories.
Contemporary Bali Nyonga is a rapidly growing town of over 80,000 in habitants, sixteen kilometres southwest of Bamenda, the capital of the North West region, Cameroon. If Cameroon has been aptly referred to in many circles as Africa in miniature, then Bali Nyonga, since its founding in the mid 19th century is emblematic of this so-called 'multicultural' region. This book is about change in Bali Nyonga, but it is also about change in a typical postcolonial African setting grappling with a challenging new world reality. It aims to provide cutting-edge analyses of cultural change in Bali as well as inspire a new kind of scholarship in the Cameroon Grasslands - championed by indigenous intellectuals. The contributors to this volume come from diverse academic backgrounds and as will be evident in the various chapters, their disciplinary perspectives have largely shaped their approaches to the topics under study. Hence, this book draws on anthropological, theological, literary and media studies perspective.
The Intestines Of The State
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Author : Nicolas Argenti
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2008-09-15
The Intestines Of The State written by Nicolas Argenti and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-09-15 with Social Science categories.
The young people of the Cameroon Grassfields have been subject to a long history of violence and political marginalization. For centuries the main victims of the slave trade, they became prime targets for forced labor campaigns under a series of colonial rulers. Today’s youth remain at the bottom of the fiercely hierarchical and polarized societies of the Grassfields, and it is their response to centuries of exploitation that Nicolas Argenti takes up in this absorbing and original book. Beginning his study with a political analysis of youth in the Grassfields from the eighteenth century to the present, Argenti pays special attention to the repeated violent revolts staged by young victims of political oppression. He then combines this history with extensive ethnographic fieldwork in the Oku chiefdom, discovering that the specter of past violence lives on in the masked dance performances that have earned intense devotion from today’s youth. Argenti contends that by evoking the imagery of past cataclysmic events, these masquerades allow young Oku men and women to address the inequities they face in their relations with elders and state authorities today.
Koloniale Verbindungen Transkulturelle Erinnerungstopografien
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Author : Albert Gouaffo
language : de
Publisher: transcript Verlag
Release Date : 2019-02-28
Koloniale Verbindungen Transkulturelle Erinnerungstopografien written by Albert Gouaffo and has been published by transcript Verlag this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-02-28 with Social Science categories.
Der »methodologische Nationalismus« der Geschichtswissenschaft scheint heute weitgehend überwunden zu sein. Es zeigte sich jedoch, dass im aktuellen Paradigma »Globalgeschichte« mit seinen großen Erzählungen zugleich neue Ausschlüsse produziert werden. Dieser Band zeigt eine alternative Möglichkeit der Überwindung des nationalstaatlichen Deutungsrahmens auf: Indem auf der Ebene der Region nach (kolonialen) Verbindungen zwischen zwei Orten gefragt wird - in Geschichte und Gegenwart. Am Beispiel des deutschen Rheinlands und des Graslands in Kamerun wird der Mehrwert dieses Ansatzes deutlich, der andere Interaktionsräume und Interessen sichtbar macht sowie regionale Besonderheiten in der Erinnerungskultur aufzeigt - und zugleich die klassische Erzählung der kolonialen Verbindung zwischen Deutschland und Kamerun unterläuft.