Grassfields Stories from Cameroon

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Publisher : African Books Collective
ISBN 13 : 9956715077
Total Pages : 105 pages
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Book Synopsis Grassfields Stories from Cameroon by : W. Vakunta

Download or read book Grassfields Stories from Cameroon written by W. Vakunta and published by African Books Collective. This book was released on 2008-01-15 with total page 105 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Grassfields Stories from Cameroon is an anthology of short stories. It comprises animal trickster tales, bird survival tales, and human-interest stories. The compendium is a reflection of the mores, cultures, and value systems of the indigenous peoples of the Northwest Province of Cameroon. It is motivated by the author's keen interest in the preservation of Cameroonian oral traditions in written form. These stories deal with the day-to-day life of the sedentary and the globe-trotter. Each story is sufficient onto itself. The author has intentionally avoided chronology in the order of presentation of the stories. Whether you read the stories in the order in which they are presented or dart about as your fancy dictates, you will feel the abundance of richness and entertainment the book contains. The didactic value of this collection of short stories resides in its suitability to readers of all age groups. The uniqueness of the volume lies in its universal appeal. Peter Wuteh Vakunta was born and raised in the village of Bamunka-Ndop in Cameroon where he worked as senior translator at the Presidency of the Republic before immigrating to America. He is an alumnus of Sacred Heart College-Mankon. Vakunta obtained his Bachelor degrees in Cameroon and Nigeria; MA and MSE degrees in Cameroon and the U.S.A. At present, Vakunta and his family live in Madison, U.S.A. He teaches in the Department of French and Italian at the University of Wisconsin-Madison where he is also completing his PhD dissertation titled: Translation in Literature: Indigenization in the Francophone Text. Vakunta is poet, storyteller and essayist. His published works include Better English: Mind Your P's and Q's, Lion Man and Other Stories (short stories), Brainwaves (poems), Pandora's Box (poems). African Time and Pidgin Verses (poems), Square Pegs in Round Holes (essays) and It Takes Guts (essays). Vakunta's literary works have earned him several awards in the U.S.A, U.K and Africa.

Grassfields Stories from Cameroon

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Publisher : African Books Collective
ISBN 13 : 9956558117
Total Pages : 105 pages
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Book Synopsis Grassfields Stories from Cameroon by : Peter W. Vakunta

Download or read book Grassfields Stories from Cameroon written by Peter W. Vakunta and published by African Books Collective. This book was released on 2008 with total page 105 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Grassfields Stories from Cameroon is an anthology of short stories. It comprises animal trickster tales, bird survival tales, and human-interest stories. The compendium is a reflection of the mores, cultures, and value systems of the indigenous peoples of the Northwest Province of Cameroon. It is motivated by the author's keen interest in the preservation of Cameroonian oral traditions in written form. These stories deal with the day-to-day life of the sedentary and the globe-trotter. Each story is sufficient onto itself. The author has intentionally avoided chronology in the order of presentation of the stories. Whether you read the stories in the order in which they are presented or dart about as your fancy dictates, you will feel the abundance of richness and entertainment the book contains. The didactic value of this collection of short stories resides in its suitability to readers of all age groups. The uniqueness of the volume lies in its universal appeal. Peter Wuteh Vakunta was born and raised in the village of Bamunka-Ndop in Cameroon where he worked as senior translator at the Presidency of the Republic before immigrating to America. He is an alumnus of Sacred Heart College-Mankon. Vakunta obtained his Bachelor degrees in Cameroon and Nigeria; MA and MSE degrees in Cameroon and the U.S.A. At present, Vakunta and his family live in Madison, U.S.A. He teaches in the Department of French and Italian at the University of Wisconsin-Madison where he is also completing his PhD dissertation titled: Translation in Literature: Indigenization in the Francophone Text. Vakunta is poet, storyteller and essayist. His published works include Better English: Mind Your P's and Q's, Lion Man and Other Stories (short stories), Brainwaves (poems), Pandora's Box (poems). African Time and Pidgin Verses (poems), Square Pegs in Round Holes (essays) and It Takes Guts (essays). Vakunta's literary works have earned him several awards in the U.S.A, U.K and Africa.

Cameroon Grassfields Civilization

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Publisher : African Books Collective
ISBN 13 : 9956727903
Total Pages : 166 pages
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Book Synopsis Cameroon Grassfields Civilization by : Jean-Pierre Warnier

Download or read book Cameroon Grassfields Civilization written by Jean-Pierre Warnier and published by African Books Collective. This book was released on 2012 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book brings and blends together a dozen scholarly articles published by the author since the 1970s. It sketches two different yet related stories: first, that of one of the most ancient and prestigious African civilizations, the antiquity and sophistication of which are becoming more and more prominent as field research unfolds their many facets. Second, the story of the researcher himself, who has had to alter and shift his approach to that civilization as he got to meet Grassfielders, colleagues, friends and scholars who changed his views about the Grassfields kingdoms and their people. This book bears witness to those many encounters. Historical and anthropological research is not only a question of relevant theories and methodologies. It is also a human endeavour made of networks and friendships.

Elements for a History of the Western Grassfields

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Total Pages : 248 pages
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Book Synopsis Elements for a History of the Western Grassfields by : Paul Nchoji Nkwi

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Grasslands of Cameroun

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 444 pages
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Book Synopsis Grasslands of Cameroun by : Zacharie Saha

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The Intestines of the State

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Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226026132
Total Pages : 387 pages
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Book Synopsis The Intestines of the State by : Nicolas Argenti

Download or read book The Intestines of the State written by Nicolas Argenti and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2008-09-15 with total page 387 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Hadija's Story

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Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253023890
Total Pages : 227 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (53 download)

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Book Synopsis Hadija's Story by : Harmony O'Rourke

Download or read book Hadija's Story written by Harmony O'Rourke and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2017-02-13 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1952, a woman named Hadija was brought to trial in an Islamic courtroom in the Cameroon Grassfields on a charge of bigamy. Quickly, however, the court proceedings turned to the question of whether she had been the wife or the slave-concubine of her deceased husband. In tandem with other court cases of the day, Harmony O'Rourke illuminates a set of contestations in which marriage, slavery, morality, memory, inheritance, status, and identity were at stake for Muslim Hausa migrants, especially women. As she tells Hadija's story, O'Rourke disrupts dominant patriarchal and colonial narratives that have emphasized male activities and projects to assert cultural distinctiveness, and she brings forward a new set of women's issues involving concerns for personal prosperity, the continuation of generations, and Islamic religious expectations in communities separated by long distances.

Nso and Its Neighbours. Readings in the Social History of the Western Grassfields of Cameroon

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Publisher : African Books Collective
ISBN 13 : 9956717533
Total Pages : 524 pages
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Book Synopsis Nso and Its Neighbours. Readings in the Social History of the Western Grassfields of Cameroon by : Bongfen Chem-Langhëë

Download or read book Nso and Its Neighbours. Readings in the Social History of the Western Grassfields of Cameroon written by Bongfen Chem-Langhëë and published by African Books Collective. This book was released on 2011 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

The Art of the Bambui Kingdom (Western Grassfields, Cameroon)

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Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1443858803
Total Pages : 130 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (438 download)

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Book Synopsis The Art of the Bambui Kingdom (Western Grassfields, Cameroon) by : Mathias Fubah Alubafi

Download or read book The Art of the Bambui Kingdom (Western Grassfields, Cameroon) written by Mathias Fubah Alubafi and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2014-03-26 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written as part of the Bambui Museum and Ecotourism Project (BMEP), this stunningly illustrated book introduces readers to the history of the Bambui fondom in the western Grassfields of Cameroon, and presents an exhaustive interpretation of the artistic and cultural heritage of the fondom. Initially conceived as part of an initiative launched in 2001 by Centro Orientamento Educativo, an Italian NGO, aimed at creating museums in some palaces of the Cameroon Grassfields, the book serves as a pilot endeavour towards addressing problems associated with antiques and other cultural assets such as theft and the illegal traffic of objects, the exploitation of poor fondoms by African art dealers and researchers from the West, and the lack of education about the different ways and means the fondoms could employ to transform these resources to the benefit of all. For anyone aspiring to learn about the rich and diverse art of Bambui, in particular, and the western Grassfields as a whole, this book will prove useful, especially since it is written by someone who has lived, and is still living, the Bambui experience.

Plundered Kitchens, Empty Wombs

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Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 9780472109890
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (98 download)

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Book Synopsis Plundered Kitchens, Empty Wombs by : Pamela Feldman-Savelsberg

Download or read book Plundered Kitchens, Empty Wombs written by Pamela Feldman-Savelsberg and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Illuminates the dynamics of social and cultural disintegration through the social construction of female infertility

Traditional Bamenda

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Total Pages : 134 pages
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Book Synopsis Traditional Bamenda by : E. M. Chilver

Download or read book Traditional Bamenda written by E. M. Chilver and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Cameroon's Social Democratic Front: Its History and Prospects as an Opposition Political Party (1990-2011)

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Publisher : African Books Collective
ISBN 13 : 9956715859
Total Pages : 121 pages
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Book Synopsis Cameroon's Social Democratic Front: Its History and Prospects as an Opposition Political Party (1990-2011) by : Milton Krieger

Download or read book Cameroon's Social Democratic Front: Its History and Prospects as an Opposition Political Party (1990-2011) written by Milton Krieger and published by African Books Collective. This book was released on 2008-04-15 with total page 121 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: " Cameroon's Social Democratic Front (SDF) was among the watershed challenges c.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 grass roots structure, and prepares for a presidential ballot in 2011 that will likely determine its fate. The author conducted research four times in Cameroon, 1989-1999, focusing on the SDF since 1991, and maintains party contacts to the present. The book assesses its history and its prospects, covering the SDF in Africa-wide as well as Cameroonian terms. ""Krieger has given us the first, superbly researched, finely tuned analysis of the fortunes of a major contemporary African opposition party, Cameroon's Social Democratic Front (SDF)."" - Victor Le Vine, Washington University, St. Louis, USA. ""The book goes far beyond its title and puts in context a daylight re-emergence of political opposition in Cameroon. To say that this long overdue history of the SDF party is a prolegomena to understanding contemporary Cameroon social forces is not an overstatement."" - Ambroise Kom, University of Yaounde I, Cameroon. ""...a level-headed but provocative examination of the structure and workings of a major African country...the sobriety with which he evaluates institutions and leadership is commendable, yielding exceptional analysis that will stand the test of time."" - Toyin Falola, Fellow of the Nigerian Academy of Letters and Fellow of the Historical Society of Nigeria. Milton Krieger started teaching and research about sub-Saharan Africa in 1970. Nine trips there include four research visits providing two years time in Cameroon, 1989-99. The second, 1991, coincided with 'villes mortes' and turned his primary scholarship to the Social Democratic Front. Access to party documents, officials, and rank and file members included visitor status at the 1995 and 1999 national conventions. Party contacts continue to the present."

Men Own the Fields, Women Own the Crops

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Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
ISBN 13 : 9780299146740
Total Pages : 276 pages
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Book Synopsis Men Own the Fields, Women Own the Crops by : Miriam Goheen

Download or read book Men Own the Fields, Women Own the Crops written by Miriam Goheen and published by Univ of Wisconsin Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on a decade of fieldwork, this work tracks the negotiations between chiefs and subchiefs and women and men over ritual power, economic power, and administrative power. Though Nso' men obviously dominate their society at both the local level and nationally, women have had power of their own by virtue of their status as women. Men may own the land, for example, but women control the crops through their labor. Goheen explains clearly the place of gender in very complex historical processes, such as land tenure systems, title societies, chieftancy, marriage systems, changing ideas of symbolic capital, and internal and external politics.

Some Materials for the Study of the Wimbum of the Western Grassfields of Cameroon

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Total Pages : 134 pages
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Hadija's Story

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Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253023890
Total Pages : 272 pages
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Book Synopsis Hadija's Story by : Harmony O'Rourke

Download or read book Hadija's Story written by Harmony O'Rourke and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2017-02-13 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1952, a woman named Hadija was brought to trial in an Islamic courtroom in the Cameroon Grassfields on a charge of bigamy. Quickly, however, the court proceedings turned to the question of whether she had been the wife or the slave-concubine of her deceased husband. In tandem with other court cases of the day, Harmony O'Rourke illuminates a set of contestations in which marriage, slavery, morality, memory, inheritance, status, and identity were at stake for Muslim Hausa migrants, especially women. As she tells Hadija's story, O'Rourke disrupts dominant patriarchal and colonial narratives that have emphasized male activities and projects to assert cultural distinctiveness, and she brings forward a new set of women's issues involving concerns for personal prosperity, the continuation of generations, and Islamic religious expectations in communities separated by long distances.

Lela in Bali

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Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 9781845452155
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (521 download)

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Book Synopsis Lela in Bali by : Richard Fardon

Download or read book Lela in Bali written by Richard Fardon and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2006 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "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 carried south towards the coast. Lela was transformed first into a mounted durbar, like those of the Muslim states, before evolving in tandem with the German colonial project into a festival of arms. Reinterpreted by missionaries and post-colonial Cameroonians, Lela has become one of the most important of Cameroonian festivals and a crucial marker of identity within the state, Richard Fardon's reconstruction of two hundred years of history is an essential contribution not only to Cameroonian studies but also to the broader understanding of the evolution of African cultures."--BOOK JACKET.

Art and Patrimony in the Cameroon Grassfields

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Book Synopsis Art and Patrimony in the Cameroon Grassfields by : Mark Dike DeLancey

Download or read book Art and Patrimony in the Cameroon Grassfields written by Mark Dike DeLancey and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: