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The densely populated Bamenda Highlands of Cameroon remains one of the regions with the greatest land degradation problems in the country. Factors responsible for this include climate change, the hilly nature or topographic layout of the land, and human interference through overgrazing, destructive agricultural practices and the impact of deforestation. This detailed study of resource management and its ecological challenges in the Bamenda Highlands, stresses an important link between falling food output and soil deterioration. While most areas in this predominantly agricultural region enjoy f

Conservation of natural resources --- Ecological disturbances --- Conservation of resources --- Natural resources --- Natural resources conservation --- Resources conservation, Natural --- Environmental protection --- Natural resources conservation areas --- Disturbance ecology --- Disturbances, Ecological --- Ecological perturbations --- Ecosystem disturbances --- Ecosystem perturbations --- Environmental disturbances --- Environmental perturbations --- Perturbations, Ecological --- Ecology --- Conservation --- North-West Province (Cameroon) --- Province du Nord-Ouest (Cameroon) --- Northwest Province (Cameroon) --- Environmental conditions.

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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.

Oku (African people) --- Slavery --- Marginality, Social --- Young men --- Men --- Young adults --- Boys --- Exclusion, Social --- Marginal peoples --- Social exclusion --- Social marginality --- Assimilation (Sociology) --- Culture conflict --- Social isolation --- Sociology --- People with social disabilities --- Abolition of slavery --- Antislavery --- Enslavement --- Mui tsai --- Ownership of slaves --- Servitude --- Slave keeping --- Slave system --- Slaveholding --- Thralldom --- Crimes against humanity --- Serfdom --- Slaveholders --- Slaves --- Bamuku (African people) --- Ethnology --- Ibibio (African people) --- History. --- Politics and government. --- Social life and customs. --- Attitudes. --- Psychology. --- North-West Province (Cameroon) --- Province du Nord-Ouest (Cameroon) --- Northwest Province (Cameroon) --- Social conditions. --- Enslaved persons --- cameroon grassfields, youth, africa, violence, marginalization, slavery, forced labor, colonialism, exploitation, revolt, revolution, rebellion, activism, oppression, ethnography, fieldwork, oku, performance, masked dance, masculinity, masquerade, nonfiction, marginality, german imperialism, empire, mortuary rites, ritual, ceremony, history, folklore, authority, memorial, embodiment.