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The Pot-King
BRILL 2007; US$ 105.00The king of Mankon (Cameroon) acts as a container of ancestral substances he distributes to his people. This book shows how the exercise of power in a contemporary African kingdom is based on the implementation of bodily and material technologies. more...
Symbolic Structures
Cambridge University Press 1983; US$ 27.00The book is a detailed study of the symbolic universe of the Dowayos of north Cameroon. more...
Royalty and Politics
Langaa RPCIG 2009; US$ 24.95Royalty and Politics is the fascinating autobiographical account of a life rich in controversy, leadership, service, achievement and innovation. Born 1925 into the prominent and influential royal family of Mankon in the Bamenda Grassfields of Cameroon, Solomon Anyeghamot¸ Ndefru least expected becoming king, only to find himself the chosen one... more...
Fulbe Voices
Westview Press 2002; US$ 35.00Attending to everyday conversations and embodied performances about Islam, marriage, medicine, and Fulbe identity, Fulbe Voices provides a richly textured exploration of the dynamics of cultural diversity in a village in Cameroon. more...
Nso and Its Neighbours
Langaa RPCIG 2011; US$ 49.95This is a rich and compelling volume of readings in social history on Nsoí 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,... more...
The Intestines of the State
University of Chicago Press 2008; US$ 30.00The 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... more...
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