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Maps | History &
Politics | People &
Culture | Other Books & Novels
Country Guides & Maps
Cameroon 2nd (Bradt Travel Guide)
(amazon.com) - USA (amazon.co.uk) - Europe
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.
The Rough Guide to West Africa
(amazon.com) - USA (amazon.co.uk) - UK
by Jim Hudgens, Richard
Trillo
Covering all 16 West African nations, plus trans-Saharan routes and
Cameroon, this revised edition includes information on the latest political
developments, looks at every national park, and provides practical information
on music, eating and drinking, and accommodation. Includes a useful word and
phrase list for more than 30 languages. 135 maps and plans.
Country Review, Cameroon 1999/2000
(amazon.com) - USA
by Robert C. Kelly (Editor), Debra
Ewing (Editor), Stanton Doyle (Editor), Denise Youngblood (Editor)
up-to-date source for political and economic information
Cameroon in Pictures
(amazon.com) - USA (amazon.co.uk) - UK
by Jim Hathaway, Rudolf Steiner,
Department Of Geogr Lerner Publications (Editor), Publications Departmen
Lerner
An introduction to the geography, history, economy, government,
people, and culture of this central African country situated on the Atlantic
coast.
Central Africa Map
(Maps Worldwide)
Published by GeoCenter International
UK Ltd.
Folded Map, Scale 1:4 000 000
A high quality series of world
maps at a good scale and a competitive price. The maps show motorways,
principal highways, secondary roads, with road numbering where practicable, and
distances between selected points. There is tourist information and indications
of places of interest, with a legend in eight languages - German, English,
French, Dutch, Italian, Spanish, Danish, Swedish. Street plans of major cities
are also included.
Cameroon
(Maps Worldwide)
Published by by ITMB Publishing Ltd
specialise in areas that are interesting, exotic and off the beaten track.
The maps are light, practical and should be invaluable for the backpacker,
traveller or tourist. This map includes a place name index and town maps of
Yaounde and Douala.
Cameroon - Sheet
map (Maps Worldwide)
Full colour Institut Geographique
National (IGN) - Countries and Cities of the World
History & Politics
African State and Society in the 1990s : Cameroon's Political
Crossroads
(amazon.com) - USA (amazon.co.uk) - UK
by Joseph Takougang, Milton H.
Krieger
Communication Efficiency and Rural
Development in Africa : The Case of Cameroon
(amazon.com) - USA (amazon.co.uk) - UK
by Komben Emmanuel Ngwainmbi,
Emmanuel K. Ngwainmbi
Historical Dictionary of
the Republic of Cameroon
(amazon.com) - USA (amazon.co.uk) - UK
by Mark W. Delancey, H. Mbella
Mokeba
It looks at the many groups that make up the Republic of Cameroon
and focuses on individuals who have played a notable role. It also delves into
political, economic, social, cultural, and other aspects. (Annotation
copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.)
Introduction to the History of Cameroon; Nineteenth and
Twentieth Centuries (amazon.com)
- USA
by Martin Njeuma
People &
Culture
Dialogue and the Interpretation
of Illness : Conversations in a Cameroon Village
(amazon.com) - USA (amazon.co.uk) - UK
by Robert Pool
Men Own the Fields, Women Own the Crops : Gender
and Power in the Cameroon Grassfields
(amazon.com) - USA (amazon.co.uk) - UK
Affirming that gender will
continue to transform class formation and the state, the author considers the
internal power relations within the Nso' chiefdom of the western grassfields of
Cameroon and the ways in which its political networks articu by Miriam Goheen
Middlemen of the Cameroon Rivers: The
Duala and their Hinterland c.
(amazon.com) - USA (amazon.co.uk) - UK
by Ralph A. Austen, Jonathan M.
Derrick
about the Duala 'middlemen', who functioned as intermediaries
between Europeans and their own hinterland for over 300 years. Originally
traders in ivory, slaves and palm products, they then became colonial-era cocoa
planters, and finally took a leading role in anti-colonial politics.
The Politics of Cultural Difference in Northern Cameroon
(amazon.com) - USA (amazon.co.uk) - UK
by Philip Burnham
The Voyage of King Njoya's Gift : A Beaded
Sculpture from the Bamum Kingdom, Cameroon, in the National Museum of African
Art
(amazon.com) - USA
by Christraud M. Geary
Family and Farm in Southern Cameroon (African
Research Studies, No 15) (amazon.com) - USA
by Jane I. Guyer
Other Books & Novels
The Fortune-Tellers
(amazon.com) - USA (amazon.co.uk) - UK
by Lloyd Alexander, Trina Schart
Hyman (Illustrator)
This original folktale set in Cameroon is full of
adventure and sly humor. Lloyd Alexander's story of a young man visiting -- and
then becoming -- the village fortune-teller is brought to vibrant life with
some of Caldecott Medalist Trina Schart Hyman's most memorable artwork. Both
children and adults will relish The Fortune-tellers
Mango Elephants in the Sun : How Life in an African
Village Let Me Be in My Skin
(amazon.com) - USA (amazon.co.uk) - UK
by Susana Herrera
The Village of Round and Square Houses
(amazon.com) - USA (amazon.co.uk) - UK
by Ann Grifalconi
The story
of the village of Tos--where the women live in round houses and the men live in
square ones--is told from the point of view of a young girl who grew up there.
Grifalconi's bold art and rhythmic storytelling make this a wonderful book for
reading aloud. Full color.
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