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Lela in Bali: History Through Ceremony in Cameroon (Cameroon Studies)

Author: Richard Fardon
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Keywords: cameroon, studies, ceremony, history, bali, lela
Number of Pages: 162
Published: 2006-12-20
List price: $65.00
ISBN-10: 1845452151
ISBN-13: 9781845452155

"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 FardonR

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Cameroon 2nd (Bradt Travel Guide)

Author: Ben West
Publisher: Bradt Travel Guide
Keywords: guide, travel, bradt, cameroon
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2008-09-02
List price: $27.99
ISBN-10: 1841622486
ISBN-13: 9781841622484

This guide explores the geographical diversities of Lake Chad in the north, Mount Cameroon in the west, and the dense rainforests of the south. Details of getting around the country by bush-taxi, rail, car or on foot, together with accommodations from camping to mud-hut ’royal palaces’, are balanced by a wealth of background information on history, geography, culture, and the environment. Cameroon offers excellent possibilities for hiking and encounters with big mammals, including large herds of elephant. Planning and preparation details for overland crossing into Cameroon from adj

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Grassfields Stories from Cameroon

Author: Peter W. Vakunta
Publisher: Langaa RPCIG
Keywords: cameroon, stories, grassfields
Number of Pages: 104
Published: 2008-01-01
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 9956558117
ISBN-13: 9789956558117

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

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Cameroon and Gabon Travel Map

Author: ITMB Publishing
Publisher: ITMB Publishing
Keywords: map, travel, gabon, cameroon
Published: 2009-01-01
List price: $12.95
ISBN-10: 1553411579
ISBN-13: 9781553411574

Folded, indexed, road and tourist map of Cameroon showing major and minor roads, cities, and towns at a scale of 1:1,480,000 (1" to 24 miles). Places of interest, parks, campsites, airports, rail and ferry routes are highlighted. Brief geography and history descriptions are given of the country and also Lake Nyos, Yaounde, Bafoussam, Kumba, Korup National Park, Bamenda, Mt. Cameroon, Douala, Foumban, Kribi’s beaches, Limbe, Maroua and Waza National Park are also described. Colored tinting shows elevation in meters. Includes inset maps of Yaounde and Douala. Legend in English.

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Bleeding Red. Cameroon in Black and White

Author: Bill F. Ndi
Publisher: Langaa RPCIG
Keywords: black, cameroon, red, bleeding
Number of Pages: 68
Published: 2010-10-12
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 9956578266
ISBN-13: 9789956578269

Bill NDI’s Bleeding Red: Cameroon in Black and White is another masterpiece from a poet with a deeply political vision. This collection of poems with Cameroon as the particular focal point is a paragon of socio-political and cultural alertness in verse that will get every reader on their toes. Bill NDI’s world is fraught with topsy-turvydom. It is a world darkened by experience and a keen sense of the wrongs plaguing his beloved country. He points out, without preaching, where it all went wrong, how it can, or what it will take to, be redeemed. The acerbity of Bill NDIís criticism