Comprehensive political analysis, the first on Cameroon in English for 10 years. Aimed at academics and policy studies readers, covering developments from the 1960s to the present and recent conflicts over democratization. B/w illus, maps, notes, bib, index, 283pp, USA. WESTVIEW.

Argues that because of irresponsible, corrupt, selfish, and unpatriotic kleptocrats parading as leaders, the ultimate breakdown of order has become the norm in African nations, especially those south of the Sahara. The result is the virtual annihilation of once thriving and proud nations along with the citizenry who are transformed into wretches, vagrants, and in the extreme, refugees. 200pp, CAMEROON. LANGAA RPCIG.

Patrick Tataw Obenson, alias Ako-Aya, was an acerbic critic, social crusader and respected journalist, a widely admired pioneer of outspoken journalism in Cameroon. 256pp, CAMEROON. LANGAA RPCIG.

Explores the predicament of Anglophone Cameroon from the experiment in federation from 1961 to the political liberalisation struggles of the 1990s to challenge claims of a successful post-independence Cameroonian integration process. Focusing on the perceptions and actions of people in the Anglophone region, Atanga argues that what has come to be called the Anglophone Problem constitutes one of the severest threats to the post-colonial nation-state project in Cameroon. As a linguistic and cultural minority, Anglophone Cameroonians realised that the Francophone-led state and government were keener in assimilation than in implementing the federal and bilingual nation agreed upon at reunification in 1960. Calls for national integration became simply a subterfuge for the assimilation of Anglophones by Francophones who dominated the state and government. 266pp, CAMEROON. LANGAA RPCIG.

Details 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. 260pp, CAMEROON. LANGAA RPCIG.

Documents the battles fought by the Anglophone community in Cameroon to safeguard the General Certificate of Education (GCE), a symbol of a cherished colonial heritage from Britain, from attempts by agents of the Ministry of National Education to subvert it. These battles opposed a mobilised and determined Anglophone civil society against numerous machinations by successive Francophone-dominated governments to destroy an educational system in the name of national integration. 376pp, CAMEROON. LANGAA RPCIG.

The history, growth and constitutional evolution of Cameroon through the eyes and actions of a journalist, trade unionist and politician. It is a mixture of Mbile's memoirs, his biography and the wider Cameroonian political story, heavily weighted in favour of that part of the Republic formerly identified as Southern Cameroons, later West Cameroon, now South West and North West Regions. 310pp, CAMEROON. LANGAA RPCIG.

A discussion of Cameroon's post colonial attempt to democratise its political system and develop its relatively well endowed economy for the benefit for all Cameroonians. However, the persistence of autocratic rule in the face of popular demand for political change and government mismanagement of the economy raise serious concerns about the future of a Cameroon at peace with itself and neighbours. These essays look at the balance between Anglophone and Francophone regions, the politicisation of non political issues such as football and music and economic development in a multiethnic state. Index, bib, notes, 238pp, USA. UNIVERSITY PRESS OF AMERICA, 0761825916

Argues that Cameroon’s Social Democratic Front (SDF) was among the watershed challenges in 1990 by sub-Saharan Africa’s democratization forces against autocratic regimes, but it crested in 1992 and has subsided since. Yet the party survives, participates in the National Assembly, maintains a grassroots structure, and prepares for a presidential ballot in 2011 that will probably determine its fate. This book assesses its history and its prospects, covering the SDF in Africa-wide as well as Cameroonian terms. Index, notes, 111pp, CAMEROON. LANGAA RPCIG.

Provides empirical evidence on the extent to which inappropriate governing strategies are the main internal obstacle to development in Cameroon. The contributors discuss factors contributing to precarious and problematic governance from multidisciplinary perspectives, and demonstrate the extent to which such inadequacies impede positive social change. 232pp, CAMEROON. LANGAA RPCIG.

Max Esser was an adventurous young merchant banker, a Rhinelander, who became the first managing director of the largest German plantation company in the Cameroon. This book gives a vivid account of the antecedents and early stages as experienced and described by Esser. 2 maps, 26 illus, bib, index, xx, 204pp, USA. BERGHAHN BOOKS, 1571813101

Livelihood in the Mandara Mountain Region in North Cameroon. Study of a people who took to the security of the mountains to escape violent neighbours and who eke out a difficult living on terraced fields. B/w illus, maps, tables, notes, bib, French summary, 258pp, NETHERLANDS. AFRICAN STUDIES CENTRE LEIDEN.

Argues that recent developments have witnessed the emergence of civil society as a major development actor whose potentials and capacity, especially in Africa, are often taken for granted and treated as limitless. A critical assessment of some of these structures (NGOs, religious organisations, trade unions, home-based associations and the youth) and the legal and political context of the operation of civil society in Cameroon shows a popular effervescence that is visible in social development initiatives, but one that is often frustrated by the state's attempts at manipulation along partisan lines. 236pp, SENEGAL. CODESRIA.

Was modern Christian mission to Africa primarily a colonial project and a civilizing mission or was it a spiritual revival spreading to new areas? This book tells the tale of the Dii people in northern Cameroon and describes their encounter with Norwegian missionaries. Through archival studies and through fieldwork among the Dii, an intriguing scenario is presented. Whereas the missionaries describe their mission as one of spiritual liberation, and the Dii highlight the social liberation they received through literacy and political independence, the author shows how both spiritual and social changes were results of captivation, miscommunication and constant negotiations between the two parties. 244pp, NETHERLANDS. BRILL.

Discusses the social and political consequences of the economic and financial crisis that befell African economies since the 1980s, using as case study the plantation economy of the Anglophone region of Cameroon. The focus is thus on recent efforts to liberalize and privatize an agro-industrial enterprise where overseas capital and its domestic partners have converged, the consequent modes of production and labour, and the alternatives proposed and resistance generated. The study details how the unprecedented crisis caused great commotion in the region, and presented a serious challenge to existing theories on plantation production and capital accumulation. The crisis resulted in the introduction of a number of neoliberal economic reforms, including the withdrawal of state intervention and the restructuring, liquidation and privatisation of the major agro-industrial enterprises. These reforms in turn had severe consequences for several civil-society groups and their organisations that had a direct stake in the regional plantation economy, notably the regional elite, chiefs, plantation workers and contract farmers. 278pp, CAMEROON. LANGAA RPCIG.

Argues that the economy of Cameroon is characterized by enormous resources and huge potentials combined with very high levels of poverty. To achieve sustainable development, it argues, economic, social and ecological forces in the country need to be harnessed simultaneously and this requires balancing development over time achieving social equity, but at the same time, not jeopardizing long-term growth by depleting its abundant environmental re-sources. IN FRENCH. 426pp, CAMEROON. LANGAA RPCIG.

This book explores the scope for implementing decentralisation programmes that focus on citizens in rural areas. For the purpose of decentralisation, civic participation in local politics and user participation in development programmes must be seen as two sides of the coin. The book focuses on spatial planning a process concerned with spatial organisation in an integrative manner, and incorporates the design, establishment and implementation of a desired spatial structural organisation of land. This is especially relevant in a context where the formulation of guidelines for spatial development at the overall level of a state is inadequate. 314pp, CAMEROON. LANGAA RPCIG.

Attempt to set a blueprint for Cameroon's economy. In the 1980s facing economic crisis, and as dictated by the structural adjustment programme, Cameroon sharply cut public investment expenditures before later cutting government consumption which were followed by privatisation, liquidation of public companies and reduction in the size of the public sector. All these measures are believed to have had devastating effects on the economy. Given the performance of the economy so far the authors suggest that much more effort, with a strong commitment of the main stakeholders, is required to guarantee sustainable economic development in Cameroon, a country that possess enormous human and natural resources. 440pp, SENEGAL. CODESRIA.

Through her Letters written to Friends, to her opponents: priests, magistrates, politicians, including the king, Elizabeth Hooton leaves a captivating testimony of her fights for and of her activism in quest of the Truth, Freedom, Justice and equity for all as well as peace on earth and within the Quaker movement. IN FRENCH. 102pp, CAMEROON. LANGAA RPCIG.

Bringing together key historical and innovative ethnographic materials on the peoples of the South-West Province of Cameroon and the Nigerian borderlands, this volume presents critical and analytical approaches to the production of ethnic, political, religious, and gendered identities in the region. The contributors examine a range of issues relating to identity, including first encounters and conflict as well as global networking, transnational families, enculturation, gender, resistance, and death. In addition to a number of striking illustrations of ethnographic and material culture, this volume contains key maps from early German sources and other original cartographical materials. Index, bib, 254pp, UK. BERGHAHN BOOKS.

Although the handbook focuses on the seven environmental problems of the Bakossi Landscape, its depth and breadth of analysis and the deliberate attempt at not making it too site-specific in the discussion of the problems makes it equally useful for Environmental Clubs of schools in other areas, as well as other community educators interested in environmental issues or environmental education. 62pp, CAMEROON. LANGAA RPCIG.

An ethnography concentrating on the fiscal relationship between the state and its citizens. The author looks in particular at the civil disobedience movement that arose in Cameroon beginning in 1990 and examines this conflict as a `productive moment'. Roitman shows that while highly organised gang based banditry can challenge state authority, it rarely undermines state power. Index, refs, notes, xvi, 233pp, USA. PRINCETON U P, 0691118701

An account of a chapter of Cameroonian history which attempts to elucidate the links between France and Africa and their impact on each other. 231pp, NIGERIA. FOURTH DIMENSION.

Focuses on social issues and seeks to expose unequal relations within institutions. Identifies different gendered discourses within the speeches of Members of Parliament and government ministers. Consciously or unconsciously, these participants within parliamentary debates draw on topics that construct women and men in specific ways, sometimes sustaining gender stereotypes or challenging existing conditions. The way men and women are constructed using language also is indicative of gender and power relations within this particular community. 278pp, CAMEROON. LANGAA RPCIG.

Eyewitness account of the major events that have taken place in Cameroon since the return of multiparty politics in the 1990s. The accession of Paul Biya to power under the one-party regime in 1982 and the attempt to overthrow him in a coup d'état in 1984 are told in flashback, so are the excesses of power without responsibility that have come to be associated with over 25 years of Biya as President. Most of the story is centred on the struggle by the opposition, led by the Social Democratic Front (SDF), to overthrow the incumbent. In his determination to crush opposition, President Biya and his collaborators have sometimes used intrigue, but mostly force and callous indifference to basic human rights and to democracy. Bloodshed has often been the result of the regime's titanic struggles against freedoms. President Paul Biya is not in a hurry to go and so instead of democratizing Cameroon, he has chosen to ‘Cameroonize’ democracy, turning electoral fraud into an art. 200pp, CAMEROON. LANGAA RPCIG.

Argues that the British-administered UN Trust Territory of the Southern Cameroons was not granted independence like other colonial territories but was allowed to fall prey to the territorial expansionism of the contiguous state of Cameroun Republic, a former French-administered UN Trust Territory granted independence on 1 January 1960. This book focuses on the unresolved Southern Cameroons’ colonial predicament, giving an account of how the Cameroun Republic hijacked the Southern Cameroons continues to hold its citizens under colonial bondage. 163pp, CAMEROON. LANGAA RPCIG.

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 labour 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 Argenti explores. Beginning his study with a political analysis of youth in the Grassfields from the eighteenth century to the present, he 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 spectre 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. Index, bib, notes, b/w illus, 362pp, USA. CHICAGO U P.

Essays on contemporary Cameroonian society, especially concerning the conduct of public affairs. 222pp, CAMEROON. LANGAA RPCIG.

A study of the Bakweri people of Mount Cameroon, an active volcano a few degrees north of the Equator. The Bakweri have had an eventful 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. This book brings together the writings of a distinguished social anthropologist on the subject.380pp, UK. BERGHAHN BOOKS, 1571810447

A selection of essays analysing the Biya regime and opposition politics in Cameroon. The contributors also provide critical insights into peace, social justice and democratic transition. Index, refs, xxiii, 563pp, USA. AFRICA WORLD PRESS, 1592211798

Autobiographical narrative of Thomas Lurting (1632-1713), describing his striving for the Quaker ideal of Universal Peace. Translated and edited with introductory notes by William Ndi, this edition is in both English and French. B/w illus, 96pp, CAMEROON. LANGAA RPCIG.

Argues that in the on-going democratic debate, the Cameroonian media have not played the role of objective mediators. A one-party logic, of which government, opposition and the public are guilty, has prevented Cameroonian multipartyism from addressing the major issue: that of how best to bring about real participatory democracy. So far, democracy has served mainly as a face powder, an empty concept or slogan devoid of concrete meaning used to justify reactionary propaganda by the ruling party and its acolytes on the one hand, and revolutionary propaganda by the opposition and some pressure groups on the other. This polarisation in the Cameroonian political arena corresponds to a similar polarisation in the Cameroonian media. 208pp, CAMEROON. LANGAA RPCIG.

The first publication in English of the full text of Dr. Levi's 1905 defense speech that resulted in the remarkable acquittal for fraud of a German colonial subject, 'Crown Prince' Mpundu Akwa. This document calls into question Germany's colonial enterprise and offers insights into questions of race and power at the turn of the century. Notes, bib, vii, 137pp, GERMANY. LIT VERLAG.

The story of the political life of Ndeh Ntumazah who was born in Mankon in 1926, spent the best part of his life suffering and sacrificing for the freedom of Cameroon, and died in London on January 21, 2010, at the age of 83. As president of the Union of the Populations of Cameroon (UPC), Ntumazah was a political activist for nearly 60 years. He joined the UPC around 1950 and remained a militant of the party until his demise. When the UPC was banned in French Cameroon in 1955, he was advised by his comrades to create another party in the Southern Cameroons, which would be the UPC in disguise. The party was called One Kamerun Move-ment - OK , with Ndeh Ntumazah as its President. Following its banning, the UPC started a war of liberation in French Cameoon, so Ntumazah from the safety of Southern Cameroons, liaised with his comrades in French Cameroon to carry out their underground operations. Ndeh Ntumazah left Cameroon to seek political asylum abroad in 1962. He stayed in Ghana, Guinea, Algeria and finally in Britain. 442pp, CAMEROON. LANGAA RPCIG.

A study of the politics of belonging discussing the sterility of modern nation building rhetoric in postcolonial Africa. The authors look in particular at the Anglophone community of Cameroon and their claims to rights and entitlements. 230pp, NETHERLANDS. EJ. BRILL

Argues that the United Nations-organised plebiscite on 11 February 1961 was one of the most significant events in the history of the southern and northern parts of the British-administered trust territory in Cameroon. John Percival was sent by the then Colonial Office as part of the team to oversee the process. This book captures the story of the plebiscite in all its dimensions and intricacies and contains a series of reflections about the effect of the modern world on Africa. B/w photos, 136pp, CAMEROON. LANGAA RPCIG.

A collection of controversial, critical weekly commentaries on the reluctance of a monolithic regime to yield to popular aspirations for democracy in Cameroon. Written between 1990 and 1992, Godfrey Tangwa, alias Rotcod Gobata, published a newspaper column as embarrassing to Biya's 'démocratie avancée' project as the radio programme Cameroon Report (later Cameroon Calling), was to Presidents Ahidjo and Biya in the heydays of the 'parti unique'. Rotcod Gobata believes the time has come for Cameroon to graduate from a country shamed by political mediocrity, to the fair society that it was meant to be for the poor and downtrodden. 244pp, CAMEROON. LANGAA RPCIG.

19 essays by some of the leading historians, archaeologists 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 pre-colonial times to date, including trade, alliances, diplomacy, the iron industry, colonial impact, continuities, discontinuities and compromise, general persistence, ideology and conflict. 522pp, CAMEROON. LANGAA RPCIG.

A volume of thorough empirical research which aims to understand why European and Western planning models used so ubiquitously in post-colonial Africa despite an alarming rate of failure. The focus is on sub Saharan countries and Cameroon in particular, the only country to have been colonised by three different European powers. 324pp, UK. ASHGATE.

What is particularly striking in Africa, however, is that neoliberal experiments there have displayed such remarkable diversity. This may be due not only to substantial differences in historical, economic and political trajectories on the African continent but also, and maybe more importantly, in the degree of resistance internal actors have demonstrated to the neoliberal reforms imposed on them. This book focuses on Cameroon which has had a complex economic and political history and is currently witness-ing resistance to the neoliberal experiment by the authoritarian and neo-patrimonial state elite and various civil-society groups. 346pp, CAMEROON. LANGAA RPCIG.

Human rights activist, Mukong was incarcerated for six years in some of Cameroon's worst detention centres under the despotic regime of late President Amadou Ahidjo. This is his account of the discipline and punishment that the Cameroonian state has systematically dished out to dissidents who have dared to stand their ground. 158pp, CAMEROON. LANGAA RPCIG.

28 essays that addresses the issue of national unity and national integration within the context of different political perceptions and visions. It examines the merits and demerits of the policy of regional balance of the Ahmadou Ahidjo years (1960-1982). Focus is also on the underlying flaws of this doctrine and philosophy. The debate also addresses some critical questions of the national integration policy and practices of Paul Biya, President since November 1982. The policy has failed to achieve its stated goals and has ended up in the ethnicisation and polarisation of national life. The future of the Cameroon nation-state, with its rich ethnic and cultural diversity, seems to be in jeopardy as internal forces question the management of civil society by leaders who have lost the sense of justice and equity. Why are there several voices singing the song of destitution and disappointment with the state? Have regionalism and the rhetoric of national integration and balance emerged as untenable polities within a nation-state in search of an identity and responsible leadership? 596pp, CAMEROON. LANGAA RPCIG.

Essays centred on the theme of democracy and meritocracy which the author believes to be the pre-conditions for genuine development in Africa. The immediate focus of these essays is Cameroon, a country remarkable for experimenting with French/English bilingualism and for having a political dictatorship which claims, wrongly or rightly, to have transformed itself into a democracy; but they are equally relevant to other countries in Africa and beyond. 262pp, CAMEROON. LANGAA RPCIG.

Collection of 49 essays by a leading Cameroonian blogger Dibussi Tande, tackling some of the most pressing and complex issues facing Cameroon today: the stalled democratization process, the perennial Anglophone/Francophone divide, the crisis of higher education, the absence of the rule of law, the lack of leadership renewal, a stifled collective memory, and a continued inability to harness technology for purposes of national development, among others. 232pp, CAMEROON. LANGAA RPCIG.

Among the material are treaties concluded by Britain with Southern Cameroons coastal Kings and Chiefs; and the boundary treaties of the Southern Cameroons, treaties defining the frontiers with Nigeria to the west and the frontier with Cameroun Republic to the east. The book contains documents that attest to the Southern Cameroons as a fully self-governing country, ready for sovereign statehood. These include debates in the Southern Cameroons House of Assembly; and the various Constitutions of the Southern Cameroons. The book also reproduces British declassified documents on the Southern Cameroons covering the three critical years from 1959 to 1961, documents which speak to the inglorious stewardship of Great Britain in the Southern Cameroons. B/w illus, 806pp, CAMEROON. LANGAA RPCIG.

Contemporary Bali Nyonga is a rapidly growing town of over 80,000 inhabitants, 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 scholars. 196pp, CAMEROON. LANGAA RPCIG.

Bernard Nsokika Fonlon, 1924-1986, rose from humble origins to become one of Cameroon's most famous sons. He was a scholar, a poet, a politician, a philosopher, a man of action and a man of courage. This book describes briefly the life and times of a man whose story incorporates the history of a young nation. 190pp, CAMEROON. LANGAA RPCIG.

Study of the Bamenda Grassfields, the region most plagued by land and boundary conflicts in the country. Despite claims of common descent and cultural similarities by most communities in the region, relations have been tested and dominated by recurrent land and boundary conflicts since the middle of the 20th Century. Nkwi takes us through these contradictions, as he draws empirically and in general on his rich historical and ethnographic knowledge of the tensions and conflicts over land and boundaries in the region to situate and understand the conflicts between Bambili and Babanki-Tungoh - the epicenter of land and boundary - from c.1950s - 2009. 246pp, CAMEROON. LANGAA RPCIG.

Study of a community of African immigrants - or strangers - designated to quarters in New Bell, Douala. New Bell was created in 1914 as part of an extensive urbanisation and relocation plan intended to reserve the Douala city centre for Europeans. New Bell housed thousands of migrants converging on Douala. Though never completely evading colonial economic and political controls, this vastly diverse and sometimes strife-ridden community forged alliances, solidarities, and lived as neighbours in cultural and political spaces transcending colonial political boundaries. Maps, b/w illus, 168pp, CAMEROON. LANGAA RPCIG.

Paperback edition now available: during the 1880s two Swedes were living on the upper slopes of the Cameroon mountain. Very little is known about their activities, but one of them, Knutson, wrote a long memoir of his time in Cameroon (1883-1895) which is published here for the first time. The volume also includes contempo-rary correspondence, legal opinions, and early translated texts. BNS. ca.350pp. 5 maps, illus, bib, index. USA. BERGHAHN BOOKS.

Explores the forces that have shaped the judicial history of Cameroon since the United Nations Trusteeship period, written by a former Director of Public Prosecutions and judge. In a post-independence context characterized by dual and often conflicting legal systems inspired by French and English colonialism, Justice NyoWakai witnessed how the conflict of judicial concepts, procedures and usages led to the Francophone judicial system trying to impose itself on the Anglophone one, to the detriment of the independence of the Judiciary. 204pp, CAMEROON. LANGAA RPCIG.

Poses the question can a meaningful globalisation occur without due consideration of African spiritual values? This work aims at showing the scientific, sociological and cultural bases of values among the Bamileke of Cameroon. IN FRENCH. 150pp, CAMEROON. LANGAA RPCIG.

The history of the subalterns, also known as the history of the voiceless, took currency in the early 1980s in South East Asia and has been dominated by scholars from that region. Despite its popularity, the history of the voiceless has not gained much attention in Cameroon historiography. In other parts of Africa and beyond this type of history has already taken root and animated scholarly production and debate. Cameroon history has been replete with studies that focus mostly on political history and the actions and intentions of top politicians of the day, with scant regard for the historical importance of the everyday life of ordinary Cameroonians as makers and breakers. This book takes a bold step in the direction of subaltern studies in Cameroon, and makes a clarion call for the institutionalization of voicing the voiceless. 200pp, CAMEROON. LANGAA RPCIG.

Corruption is endemic in Cameroon. Twice, Transparency International have accorded the country the infamous first place in corruption. This collection of short stories is one concerned citizen's contribution to the collective resolve to wage war on this immense social evil. 128pp, CAMEROON . LANGAA RPCIG.

The fate of minorities, the quality and ultimate purpose of elections, the place of truth in human relations - these are some of the core concerns of this meditation, written against the background of recent political events in Cameroon. 120pp, CAMEROON. LANGAA RPCIG.

Explores the themes and content of Youth Day Messages: how these messages tied in with, or veered away from, key events and issues of the time; how they served as a platform for West Cameroon governments, and the Ahidjo and Biya regimes to articulate their political vision, justify their policies, sell their respective ideologies to the youth; and what lessons could be drawn from them on competing, conflicting and complementary perspectives on youth agency in Cameroon and Africa. 210pp, CAMEROON. LANGAA RPCIG.

Extracts and summaries of those parts of Eugen Zintgraff's original book 'Nord-Kamerun' (1895), of most interest concerning the colonial Bamenda and Wum Division. It was a book written to justify his own actions and to support that small but influential section of public opinion in Germany which favoured rapid imperial expansion. His account reveals 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. 92pp, CAMEROON. LANGAA RPCIG.