ABSTRACT
Early European contact . Indigenous traditions and later history Agencies of modern development
Fishing Agriculture Livestock Division of labour Trade Economic change Crafts
Local grouping and settlement pattern House types Kinship system Marriage and the family Associations Age-sets Political structure and legal system
Kpe : chieftaincy ; legal system ; succession and inheritance ; land tenure ; status ; slavery ; position of women ; warfare
Duala : chieftaincy ; legal system ; succession and inheritance ; slavery
Mboko, Wovea and Isuwu : chieftaincy
C O N T E N T S (contd.)
1. The Kpe and other tribes of the Cameroon Mountain . . . 22 2. Tribal map of Coastal Bantu of the Cameroons . . . a t e n d
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