Resources on Cameroon

See bibliographies listing resources relating to Cameroon by NAASC member Mark Delancey here.

Learn more about the Yaounde Archives here and here.

Learn more about the Buea Archives here, here, and here.

Learn more about the Bamum Archive here.

Recent Member Publications

Amin, Julius. Sixty Years of Service in Africa: The U.S. Peace Corps in Cameroon. Routledge Press, 2023.

Ndengue, Rose, Atsem Atsem, et Maveun Maveun. « #JusticePourMirabelle: The Resurgence of a Transnational Cameroonian Feminist Movement ». Politics & Gender (2023): 1‑5.

Ndengue, Rose. « Genre et citoyenneté en Afrique : décloisonner et décoloniser la science politique à la lumière des mobilisations des Camerounaises ». Politique et Sociétés 42, no 1 (2023): 67‑88.

Tatazo, Damian Akara. “Christian Teachings and Women’s Militant Comportment in the Tole
Tea Estate in Cameroon.” Saudi Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences issue 11 (May 18, 2023): 145-153.

Simon Kévin Baskouda Shelley. “Catholic Missionary Work and ‘Political’ Support: The Tokombéré Youth Centre Since 1974.” Africa Spectrum57, no. 3 (2022): 282-300. 

Simon Kévin Baskouda Shelley.  « Rupture coloniale, pouvoir des mots et vocabulaire politique des subalternes à Tokombéré (Nord Cameroun),» Canadian Journal of African Studies / Revue canadienne des études africaines, 56:3, (2022): 617-636.

Feldman-Savelsberg, Pamela. “Avoiding Hardship, Deflecting Conflict: From Fostering to Reluctant Relatives among World-Connected Bamiléké Families (Cameroon).” Journal des Africanistes 92, no. 1 (2022): 48-76.

Feldman-Savelsberg, Pamela. “Strange Expectations: Cameroonian Migrants and their German Healthcare Providers Debate Obstetric Choices.” Global Public Health 17, no.12 (2022):4030-4042.

Kemedjio, Cilas. “The Anglophone question: between a “regime-made disaster” and the ethnic politics of a fragmented nation,Journal of the African Literature Association (2020),14:2,198-215.

O’Rourke, Harmony. “Women in Cameroon.” In Oxford Research Encyclopedia of African History. 19 Nov. 2020.

Ndengue, Rose. « La citoyenneté au Cameroun au tournant des années 1940-1950 : une fiction au cœur d’imaginaires en tension », Outre-Mers, vol. 404-405, no. 2 (2019):63-82.

Amin, Julius. “President Paul Biya and Cameroon’s Anglophone Crisis: A Catalogue of Miscalculations,” Africa Today, Vol 68, no. 1 (Fall 2021): 95 – 122.

Tcheuyap, Alexie. “Governing in fear: Power, media, and disqualification in Cameroon”, Politique africaine, vol. 161-162, no. 1-2 (2021): 245-264.

Njung, George. “Refugee exchanges between Cameroon and Equatorial Guinea and their Socio-economic relevance, from the First World War to immediate post-independence.’ Canadian Journal of African Studies 55:3 (Fall 2021): 453-474.

Runcie, Sarah. “Decolonizing “La Brousse”: Rural Medicine and Colonial Auth.ority in Cameroon.” French Politics, Culture & Society 38, no. 2 (2020): 126-147.

Runcie, Sarah. “From Malaria Eradication to Basic Health Services: Decolonization and Public Health Futures in 1960s Cameroon.” International Journal of African Historical Studies 53, no. 1 (2020): 27–45.

Letsa, Natalie Wenzell. “Expressive Voting in Autocracies: A Theory of Non-Economic Participation with Evidence from Cameroon.” Perspectives on Politics, 18, no. 2 (2020): 439-453.

Budji, Ivoline Kefen. “Utilizing Sounds of Mourning as Protest and Activism: The 2019 Northwestern Women’s Lamentation March Within the Anglophone Crisis in Cameroon.” Resonance: The Journal of Sound and Culture 1, no. 4 (2020): 443-461.

Feldman-Savelsberg, Pamela. “Class Performances: Children’s Parties and the Reproduction of Social Class among Diasporic Cameroonians.” Africa Today 66, no. 3-4 (2020): 21-43, special issue “Migration and Social Class in Africa,” edited by Cati Coe and Julia Pauli.

DeLancey, Mark Dike, Rebecca Neh Mbuh, and Mark W. DeLancey. Historical Dictionary of the Republic of Cameroon. 5th ed. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 2019.

Njung, George.”The British Cameroons Mandate Regime: The roots of the twenty-first-century political crisis in Cameroon.” American Historical Review 124:5 (December 2019):1715-1722.

Diye, Jeremie. “Les femmes des monts Mandara dans l’economie informelle à Yaoundé.” African Economic History 47, no. 1 (2019): 116-135. 

DeLancey, Mark Dike. “The Cameroon Grassfield States in the Broader History of Nigeria and Cameroon.” In The Oxford Research Encyclopedia of African History. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2019.

Adams, Melinda. “Women’s Suffrage in Cameroon: Early Mobilization, Limited Impact.” In Global
Handbook of Women’s Political Rights,
eds. Susan Franceschet, Mona Lena Krook, and Netina Tan.
New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.

Mougoué, Jacqueline-Bethel.Gender, Separatist Politics and Embodied Nationalism in Cameroon. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, 2019.

O’Rourke, Harmony. Hadija’s Story: Diaspora, Gender, and Belonging in the Cameroon Grassfields. Bloomington: Indiana University Press: 2017.

Letsa, Natalie Wenzell. “‘The People’s Choice’: Popular (Il)Legitimacy in Autocratic Cameroon.” Journal of Modern African Studies 55, no. 4 (2017): 647-679.

Fokwang, Jude. The New Mungaka Alphabet for Beginners. Denver: Spears Media Press, 2017.

Feldman-Savelsberg, Pamela. Mothers on the Move: Reproducing Belonging between Africa and Europe. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2016.

Fokwang, Jude. “Politics at the Margins: Alternate Sites of Political Involvement among Young
People in Cameroon.” Canadian Journal of African Studies / Revue Canadienne
des études Africaines
, vol. 50, no. 2 (2016):. 211-228.

DeLancey, Mark Dike.Conquest and Construction: Palace Architecture in Northern Cameroon. Leiden: Brill, 2016.

Orosz, Kenneth. “Njoya’s Alphabet:  The Sultan of Bamum and French Colonial Reactions to the A ka u ku Script,” Cahiers d’études africaines LV (1), no.  217 (2015): 45-66.

Song, Womai, Talla T. Richard, and Nkwi G. Walters. “Negligent Attitudes Towards Cameroonian Works of Art: The Need for an Appropriate Attention.” The Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences, Vol. 113 (July 2014): 237 – 246.

Takougang, Joseph. Cameroonian Immigrants in the United States: Between the Homeland and the Diaspora. Lexington Books, 2014.