BAFUT UNDER COLONIAL ADMINISTRATION
1900-1949
Mathias L.
Niba
Introduction
The study of colonial
administration in North-West Cameroon, sometimes referred to as
the 'Western Grassfields', was pioneered by Elizabeth Chilver
in two seminal essays published in 1963 and 1967. These studies
deal mainly with the formulation and application of the
different administrative policies of the German and British
colonial authorities. This essay attempts to further our
understanding by examining how broad administrative policies
worked out in practice in a case study of the Bafut of the
former Bamenda Division. It will also focus attention on how
local social and political institutions fared under colonial
rule.
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