Kingdom on Mount Cameroon : : Studies in the History of the Cameroon Coast 1500-1970 / / ed. by Edwin Ardener, Shirley Ardener.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2000-2013
• MitwirkendeR: Ardener, Edwin,; Ardener, Shirley,; Chilver, E. M.,; Valdau, G.,
• HerausgeberIn: Ardener, Edwin,; Ardener, Shirley,
• Place / Publishing House: New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [1996]; ©1996
• Year of Publication: 1996
• Language: English
• Series: Cameroon Studies ; 1
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (404 p.)

The Bakweri people of Mount Cameroon, an active volcano on the coast of West Africa a few degrees north of the equator, have had a varied and at times exciting history which has brought them into contact, not only with other West African peoples, but with merchants, missionaries, soldiers and administrators from Portugal, Holland, England, Jamaica, Sweden, Germany and more recently France.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- LIST OF MAPS AND FIGURES -- PREFACE: How I came to edit the memoir -- PART I. Introduction -- Map -- CHAPTER 1. Biographical Notes on Knutson and Waldau -- CHAPTER 2. The Manuscript -- PART II. Knutson’s Memoir. The Cameroon Mountains and the Biafran Swamps -- Map -- CHAPTER 1. From Sweden to Cameroon -- CHAPTER 2. Fauna and Flora -- CHAPTER 3. Misery and India-rubber -- CHAPTER 4. The German Invasion 1884–1885 -- CHAPTER 5. Travel in the Interior 1885 -- CHAPTER 6. The Ancient Races -- CHAPTER 7. Adventures on Cameroon Mountains and in Biaffran Swamps -- CHAPTER 8. Religion and Customs of the Bakweri and Bomboko -- CHAPTER 9. The Slave Trade -- CHAPTER 10. Black and White -- CHAPTER 11. The Missionaries, the Explorers and the Men I met at the Cameroons -- CHAPTER 12. The Future of the Cameroons -- PART III. Land and Plantations -- CHAPTER 1. Knutson and Waldau’s Contracts with the Notables on the Cameroon Mountain -- CHAPTER 2. Knutson’s Legal Battles -- CHAPTER 3. Waldau’s Last Years in Cameroon -- PART IV. Alternative Perspectives -- CHAPTER 1. About the Ba-kwileh [Bakweri] People -- CHAPTER 2. Epitome of Waldau’s Journey to the Country North of the Cameroon Mountain -- CHAPTER 3. Sir Richard Burton’s Visit to Mapanja, 1861–1862 (Extracts) -- CHAPTER 4. George Thomson’s Stay in Mapanja 1871–1879 -- CHAPTER 5. Stefan Sczolc-Rogozinski -- CHAPTER 6. Hugo Zöller, Journalist -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX