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The earth mother
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ISBN: 1282710958 9786612710957 9956578606 9956616761 9956616699 9789956578603 9956616486 9789956616480 9789956616480 9956616486 Year: 2010 Publisher: Cameroon Langaa RPCIG

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The fight against evil remains at the core of this play, pitting Kamsi and her supporters against a few daring councillors. Skilfully scripted by a renowned actor and playwright, this drama exposes the alliances and explosive tensions in Nyong village overwhelmed by unseen but supposedly harmful forces. Spiced with witty proverbs and humour, The Earth Mother will not fail to thrill its readers.

Cameroon's tycoon : Max Esser's expedition and its consequences
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ISBN: 1571819886 1571813101 1782388761 Year: 2001 Volume: 3 Publisher: New York, [New York] ; Oxford, [England] : Berghahn Books,

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Max Esser was an adventurous young merchant banker, a Rhinelander, who became the first managing director of the largest German plantation company in Cameroon. This volume gives a vivid account of the antecedents and early stages as experienced and described by Esser. In 1896 he ventured, with the explorer Zintgraff, into the hinterland to seek the agreement of Zintgraff's old ally, the ruler of Bali, for the provision of laborers for his projected enterprise. The consequences, many optimistically unforeseen, are illustrated with the help of contemporary materials. Esser's account is preceded by a look at his and his family's connections, added to by an account of newspaper campaigns against him, and completed by an examination of his Cameroon collection, which he gave to the Linden Museum in Stuttgart.

Lela in Bali : history through ceremony in Cameroon
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ISBN: 9781845452155 1845452151 178238877X Year: 2006 Volume: 7 Publisher: New York, [New York] ; Oxford, [England] : Berghahn Books,

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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 recuperation 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.

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