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• Argenti, Nicolas. Is This How I Looked When I First Got Here: Pottery and Practice in the Cameroon Grassfields. London: British Museum, 1999.
• Asombang, Raymond N. "Museums and African Identity: The Museum in Cameroon - A Critique." Cultural Resource Management: An African Dimension edited by Bassey W. Andah. Special issue of West African Journal of Archaeology (Ibadan) 20 (1990): pp. 188-198.
• Cameroon Art: Selections from the Collection of Robert Arnett. Kennesaw Mountain, GA: Art Gallery, Kennesaw State College, 1989.
• Clarke, Christa. "A Personal Journey: Central African Art from the Lawrence Gussman Collection." African Arts 34, no. 1 (Spring 2001): pp. 16-35, 93.
• Comeau, Paul-Emile. "Exhibition Review - Studio Cameroon: The Everyday Photography of Jacques Touselle." Global Rhythm 16, no. 2 (2007): p. 48.
• DeLancey, Mark Dike. "Collecting, Collections, and Cultural Heritage in the Cameroon Grassfields." African Arts 49, no. 2 (2016): pp. 1-4.
• Forni, Silvia. "Museums, Heritage, and Politics in the Cameroonian Grasslands." Museum Worlds: Advances in Research 3 (2015): pp. 51-68
• Fubah, Mathias Alubafi. "Do We Need Museums in the Western Grassfields?" African Research & Documentation 121 (2013): pp. 35-54.
• Fubah, Mathias Alubafi. "Views about modern museums in the palaces of the western Grassfields, Cameroon." International Journal of African Renaissance Studies 11, no. 1 (2016): 84-102.
• Gebauer, Paul and Clara. A Guide to Cameroon Art from the Collection of Paul and Clara Gebauer. Portland, OR: Portland Art Museum, 1968.
• Heumen Tchana, Hugues. Musées nationaux d'Afrique: Rôles et enjeux: Le Musée national de Yaoundé. Paris: L'Harmattan, 2014.
• Homberger, Lorenz, Christraud M. Geary, and Hans-Joachim Koloss. Cameroon: Art and Kings. Zürich: Museum Rietberg, 2008. [Reviewed by Christine Stelzig in African Arts 42, no. 1 (2009): pp. 104-106.]
• Joleaud, Léonce. "La Mission Labouret au Cameroun." Journal de la Société des Africanistes 5, no. 2 (1935): p. 260.
• Kringelbach, Hélène Neveu. "Exhibition Review - Studio Cameroon: The Everyday Photography of Jacques Touselle." African Arts 42, no. 3 (2009): pp. 85-86.
• Leiris, Michel. "L'activité du département d'Afrique du Musée d'ethnographie en 1934." Journal de la Société des Africanistes 4, no. 2 (1934): pp. 325-326.
• Lebeuf, Jean-Paul. "Les collections Sao du Musée Lebaudy (Cabrerets, Lot)." Journal de la Société des Africanistes 13 (1943): pp. 183-186.
• Mbunwe-Samba, P., M. L. Niba, and N. I. Akenji. “Archaeology in the schools and museums of Cameroon,” in The presented past: heritage, museums and education edited by B. L. Molyneaux and Peter G. Stone. One world archaeology 25. London: Routledge, 2011.
• Musée Du Nord-Cameroun: Étude Préliminaire. Yaoundé: Ministère de la coopération, 1978.
• Mveng, Engelbert. "Protection et conservation du patrimoine culturel: à quand le Musée National du Cameroun?" in L'archéologie au Cameroun: actes du premier colloque international de Yaoundé, 6-9 janvier 1986 edited by Joseph-Marie Essomba, pp. 287-293. Série Archéologie africaines. Paris: Karthala, 1992.
• Nelson, Steven. "Collection and Context in a Cameroonian Village." Museum International 235, vol. 59, no. 3 (2007): pp. 22-30.
• Northern, Tamara. Royal Art of Cameroon: The Art of the Bamenda-Tikar. Hanover, NH: Hopkins Center Art Galleries, Dartmouth College, 1973.
• Nyst, Nathalie. "Le trésor de chefferie de Bafut: un musée?" Civilisations: Revue internationale d'anthropologie et de sciences humaines 52, no. 2 (2005): pp. 57-74.
• Plass, Margaret. The King's Day. Chicago: Chicago Natural History Museum, 1956.
• Rowlands, Michael. "Africa on Display: Curating Postcolonial Pasts in the Cameroon Grassfields," in Postcolonial Archaeologies in Africa edited by Peter R. Schmidt, pp. 149-162. Albuquerque, NM: University of New Mexico Press, 2009.
• Rowlands, Michael. "Of Substances, Palaces, and Museums: The Visible and the Invisible in the Constitution of Cameroon." Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 17, Special Issue The aesthetics of nations: anthropological and historical approachesedited by Nayanika Mookherjee and Christopher Pinney (2011): pp. S23-S38.
• Wittmer, Marcilene K. Cameroon: An exhibition of African art from the collection of William and Robert Arnett. Charlotte, NC: Mint Museum, 1977.