The Living Culture Of Bali Nyonga
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Author | : Jude Fokwang |
Publisher | : African Books Collective |
Total Pages | : 197 |
Release | : 2011-02-08 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9956579319 |
Contemporary Bali Nyonga is a rapidly growing town of over 80,000 in habitants, sixteen kilometres southwest of Bamenda, the capital of the North West region, Cameroon. If Cameroon has been aptly referred to in many circles as Africa in miniature, then Bali Nyonga, since its founding in the mid 19th century is emblematic of this so-called multicultural region. This book is about change in Bali Nyonga, but it is also about change in a typical postcolonial African setting grappling with a challenging new world reality. It aims to provide cutting-edge analyses of cultural change in Bali as well as inspire a new kind of scholarship in the Cameroon Grasslands championed by indigenous intellectuals. The contributors to this volume come from diverse academic backgrounds and as will be evident in the various chapters, their disciplinary perspectives have largely shaped their approaches to the topics under study. Hence, this book draws on anthropological, theological, literary and media studies perspective.
Author | : K. Titanji |
Publisher | : African Books Collective |
Total Pages | : 230 |
Release | : 2016-11-30 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 1942876351 |
This newly edited volume, Bali Nyonga Today covers about thirty years of (1985-2015) developments in Bali Nyonga, Cameroon. Already well-established as a city-state prior to German colonization in the 19th century, Bali Nyonga continues to adapt to national and global changes since its incorporation into the modern state of Cameroon. With fresh contributions from 12 leading scholars, this volume covers a wide variety of themes and issues including; geographical and historical updates on Chamba migration and settlement in its present homeland in Northwestern Cameroon, an in-depth description of Bali Nyonga cultural associations within the country and the Bali diaspora in the United States, the coexistence of traditional and modern religious worldviews, traditional medicinal practices and life-cycle rituals of significance. Of noteworthy are two chapters devoted to Mungaka, the language of the Balis and its revival in the context of new language policies and developments in African linguistic. Spiced with numerous photos, many of which have never been published, the book is a welcome addition to studies in contemporary African history, culture and society.
Author | : Vincent Titanji |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 176 |
Release | : 1988 |
Genre | : Bali (African people) |
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Author | : Richard Fardon |
Publisher | : Berghahn Books |
Total Pages | : 176 |
Release | : 2006-12-01 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 178238877X |
Lela in Bali tells the story of an annual festival of eighteenth-century kingdoms in Northern Cameroon that was swept up in the migrations of marauding slave-raiders during the nineteenth century and carried south towards the coast. Lela was transformed first into a mounted durbar, like those of the Muslim states, before evolving in tandem with the German colonial project into a festival of arms. Reinterpreted by missionaries and post-colonial Cameroonians, Lela has become one of the most important of Cameroonian festivals and a crucial marker of identity within the state. Richard Fardon’s recuperation of two hundred years of history is an essential contribution not only to Cameroonian studies but also to the broader understanding of the evolution of African cultures.
Author | : John Koyela Fokwang |
Publisher | : African Books Collective |
Total Pages | : 136 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : Bali (African people) |
ISBN | : 9956616478 |
A Dictionary of Popular Bali Names is an exceptional minefield of Chamba names, meticulously assembled and expatiated for the curious user. As a pioneer in the field of dictionary-writing in the Cameroon grassfields, Fokwangís third edition counts for more than a regular dictionary. It skilfully combines a short history of the Chamba people in Cameroon as well as ethnographic issues on the naming ritual. John Fokwangís work stands in a class of its own and will serve as reference material for people of Chamba descent and those who favour the use of African names in general. This edition is an exceptionally worthy contribution to the ethnography of the Cameroon grassfields and of course, the growing literature and interest on African names and languages.
Author | : Johannes Stöckle |
Publisher | : Rudiger Koppe |
Total Pages | : 264 |
Release | : 1994 |
Genre | : Social Science |
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Author | : Richard Fardon |
Publisher | : Berghahn Books |
Total Pages | : 184 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9781845452155 |
"Lela in Bali tells the story of an annual festival of eighteenth-century kingdoms in Northern Cameroon that was swept up in the migrations of marauding slave-raiders during the nineteenth century and carried south towards the coast. Lela was transformed first into a mounted durbar, like those of the Muslim states, before evolving in tandem with the German colonial project into a festival of arms. Reinterpreted by missionaries and post-colonial Cameroonians, Lela has become one of the most important of Cameroonian festivals and a crucial marker of identity within the state, Richard Fardon's reconstruction of two hundred years of history is an essential contribution not only to Cameroonian studies but also to the broader understanding of the evolution of African cultures."--BOOK JACKET.
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Total Pages | : 458 |
Release | : 1986 |
Genre | : Archaeology |
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Author | : Toyin Falola |
Publisher | : University Rochester Press |
Total Pages | : 350 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1580463312 |
Explores the instrumentalization of various aspects of popular culture in Africa.
Author | : Molefi Kete Asante |
Publisher | : SAGE |
Total Pages | : 473 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1412936365 |
Collects almost five hundred entries that cover the African response to spirituality, taboos, ethics, sacred space, and objects.