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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