Voicing African Voices

Author

E.M. Chilver

E.M. Chilver was one of the first historians and ethnographers of the Western Grassfields of Cameroon. Her work remains an invaluable guide to the region.

Central Africa History

Zintgraff’s Explorations in Bamenda, Adamawa and the Benue Lands 1889-1892

by E.M. Chilver

The following pages, initially prepared for limited circulation in 1961, contain brief extracts and summaries of those parts of Eugen Zintgraff’s book Nord-Kamerun (1895), of most…

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