Swedish Ventures in Cameroon, 1883-1923 : : Trade and Travel, People and Politics / / ed. by Shirley Ardener.
The 1880s were a critical time in Cameroon. A German warship arrived in the Douala estuary and proclaimed Cameroon a protectorate. At that time, two Swedes, Knutson and Waldau, were living on the upper slopes of the Cameroon Mountain. Very little is known about their activities. One, Knutson, wrote...
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Place / Publishing House: | New York ;, Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2002] ©2002 |
Year of Publication: | 2002 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Cameroon Studies ;
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (304 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- TABLE OF CONTENTS
- LIST OF MAPS AND FIGURES
- PREFACE How I came to edit the memoir
- PART I Introduction
- CHAPTER 1 Biographical Notes on Knutson and Waldau
- CHAPTER 2 The Manuscript
- PART II Knutson’s Memoir: The Cameroon Mountains and the Biafran Swamps
- 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