Culture, History, and Grass‐Roots Politics in a Northern Cameroons Kingdom
PREDICTIONS of the results of two plebiscites which took place in Northern Cameroons in 1959 and 1961 were almost wholly wrong, and postballoting analyses proved equally erroneous. They failed because relevant cultural data were not considered. Political events take place in a cultural and historical matrix, and if this fact is ignored, prediction or even general understanding of political developments is impossible. This paper attempts to relate such political episodes to their matrix in an important kingdom of the area. Though many of the details of analysis are peculiar to this particular kingdom, the dominant currents of history and culture in much of Northern Cameroons are similar enough that this example possibly affords broader understanding of contemporary political development in that area.
The Human Factor In Changing Africa
1. The World Setting2. The People and Their Past3. The Base Line of Change: Food-Gathering and Herding Peoples4. The Base Line of Change: Agricultural Peoples5. The Incomers6. The Land7. The Book8. The School9. The City10. Toward Self-Government11. Politics and Polarities12. Economic Change13. Rediscovery and Integration: Religion and the Arts14. Rediscovery and Integration: The Search for Values
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NOTES AND NEWS British territories in Africa, but include several from France, Italy, the United States, and Liberia. As the publication of Africa has to be suspended for the time being, this number has been expanded to include material which was already in the hands of the Editorial Committee. How long an interval must pass before the next number appears it is impossible to say, but, as the Chairman explains in the statement printed at the beginning of this number, the Institute and its Journal have not come to an end. We have only been forced by inexorable circumstances to suspend our activities, and we look forward to the day when our work for Africa can be resumed in a new post-war age.