In Search of Salt

In Search of SaltRelatively recent Bantu speaking migrants to central Cameroon, the Beti have had an eventful history. Based on extensive interviews and traditional Beti (Fang) poetry, in addition to German and French archival sources, the author of this readable study recreates the social structure of the Beti and their self perceptions in pre colonial times, their disruptive encounters with first German (1880 1918) and then French (1918 1960) colonialism, until

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