An edition of In Search of Salt (2006)
In Search of Salt
Changes in Beti (Cameroon) Society, 1880-1960 (Cameroon Studies)
By Frederick Quinn
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Publish Date
August 15, 2006
Publisher
Berghahn Books
Language
eng
Pages
173
Description:
"Relatively recent Bantu-speaking migrants to central Cameroon, the Beti have had an eventful history. Based on extensive interviews and traditional Beti (Fang) poetry, in addition to German and French archival sources, the author of this readable study recreates the social structure of the Beti and their self-perceptions in pre-colonial times, their disruptive encounters with first German (1880-1918) and then French (1918-1960) colonialism, until Cameroon's independence."--Jacket.