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• Bosserdet, Jean. Au palais des sultans à Foumban. Paris: UNESCO, 1985.
• Crozet, J. Etude de la restauration et de la mise en valeur du Palais de Foumban. Paris: UNESCO, 1968.
• Dalby, David. "An Inspired Invention." UNESCO Courier (April 1995): pp. 22-23.
• Dubié, P. "Christianisme, Islam et Animisme chez les Bamoum." Bulletin de l'Institut Fondemental d'Afrique Noire (Dakar) 19 (1957): pp. 337-81.
• Dugast, Idelette, and M. D. W. Jeffreys. L'écriture des Bamum. Douala: IFAN, 1950.
• Eloundou, Eugène Désiré and Arouna Ngapna. Un souverain bamoun en exil: le roi Njoya Ibrahima à Yaoundé, (1931 - 1933). Paris: Harmattan, 2011.
• Feldman-Savelsberg, Pamela. "Variations in Royal Blue: Bamiléké Display Cloth from Ritual Respect to Ethnic Demonstration." Hali 142 (2005): pp. 86-93.
• Fine, Jonathan David MacLachlan. The Throne from the Grassfields: History, Gifts, and Authenticity in the Bamum Kingdom, 1880-1929. Ph.D. dissertation, Princeton University, 2020.
• Fitzpatrick, Matthew P. "The Limits of Royal Reciprocity," in The Kaiser and the Colonies: Monarchy in the Age of Empire, pp. 271-296. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2022.
• Fomine, Forka Leypey Mathew. "A Concise Historical Survey of the Bamum Dynasty and the Influence of Islam in Foumban, Cameroon, 1390 – Present." The African Anthropologist 16, no. 1-2 (2009): pp. 69-92.
• Fompéhou, Amadou and Karim N. Mopa. Ibrahim Mbombo Njoya: 20 ans de dynastie: la double décennie d’un roi énigmatique. Yaoundé: Editions Ifrikiya,, 2012.
• Forni, Silvia. "Visual Diplomacy: Art Circulation and Iconoclashes in the Kingdom of Bamum," in The Inbetweenness of Things: Materializing Mediatin and Movement between Worlds edited by Paul Basu, pp. 148-167. London: Bloomsbury, 2017.
• Gabus, Jean. Rapport de la Mission Jean Gabus, 21 mars au 11 avril 1964. Paris: UNESCO, 1964.
• "The Garden City of Foumban." UNESCO Courier (June 1993): p. 28.
• Geary, Christraud M. Bamum. Visions of Africa. Milan: 5 Continents Editions, 2011.
• Geary, Christraud M. "Bamum Thrones and Stools." African Arts 14, no. 4 (Aug. 1981): pp. 32-43, 87-88.
• Geary, Christraud M. "Bamum Two-Figure Thrones: Additional Evidence." African Arts 16, no. 4 (Aug. 1983): pp. 46-53, 86-87.
• Geary, Christraud M. "Casting the 'Red Iron': Bamum Bronzes," in The Art of Metal in Africa edited by Marie-Thérèse Brincard, pp. 71-78. New York: The African-American Institute, 1982.
• Geary, Christraud M. "The past in the present: photographic portraiture and the evocation of multiple histories in the Bamum Kingdom of Cameroon," in Portraiture and photography in Africa edited by John Peffer and Elisabeth Lynn Cameron. African expressive cultures. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2013.
• Geary, Christraud M. "Photographs as Material for African History: Some Methodological Considerations." History in Africa (Los Angeles) 13 (1986): pp. 89-116.
• Geary, Christraud M. "Political Dress: German-Style Military Attire and Colonial Politics in Bamum," in African Crossroads: Intersections between History and Anthropology in Cameroon edited by Ian Fowler and David Zeitlyn, pp. 165-192. Cameroon Studies 2. Providence, RI and Oxford: Berghahn, 1996.
• Geary, Christraud M. “Portraiture, authorship, and the inscription of history: photographic practice in the Bamum Kingdom, Cameroon (1902-1980),” in Getting Pictures Right: context and interpretation edited by Michael Albrecht. Topics in African studies 3. Köln: Köppe, 2004. [Book reviewed by Adam Joes in Journal of African History 47, no. 1 (2006): pp. 159-160; by David H. Anthony, III in Social Sciences and Missions 23, no. 2 (2010): pp. 307 – 308.]
• Geary, Christraud M. Things of the Palace: A Catalogue of the Bamum Palace Museum in Foumban (Cameroon). Studien zur Kulturkunde 60. Wiesbaden: Steiner, 1983.
• Ghomsi, Emmanuel, Aboubakar Njiasse Njoya, and Martin Njimotapon Njikam. Catalogue trilingue du Fonds documentaire du palais de "Mfon-Mom" à Foumban. Travaux et documents de l'institut des sciences humaines; Collection études bibliographiques et recherches en bibliothéconomie 7. Yaoundé: Ministère de l'enseignement supérieur de la recherche scientifique, 1984.
• Herrmann, Ferdinand and Ernst Wilhelm Müller. "Die Bamum, Geschichte eines kameruner Graslandvolkes zwischen Islamisierung und Christianisierung," in Entwicklung und Fortschritt: Soziologische und ethnologische Aspekte des soczialkulturellen Wandels edited by Horst Reimann and Ernst Wilhelm Müller, pp. 125-137. Tübingen: J.C.B. Mohr, 1969.
• Hirschberg, Walter. Die Künstlerstrasse: Auf Studienreise durch Kamerun. Vienna: Wollzeilen Verlag, 1962.
• Jarocki, Barbara. "Bamileke Beadwork: Royal Referents, March 5-April 13, 1985, L. Kahan Gallery, New York City (Exhibition Review)." African Arts (Los Angeles) 18, no. 4 (Aug. 1985): p. 86.
• Joseph, Marietta B. "Tikar Stones." African Arts 8, no. 2 (Winter 1975): pp. 22-27, 79-80.
• Labouret, Henri. "L'ancien palais royal de Foumban.' Togo-Cameroun (April-July 1935): pp. 121-126.
• Labouret, Henri. "En pays Bamoum: La ville de Foumban." Togo-Cameroun (April/July): 111-20.
• Loumpet-Galitzine, Alexandra. Njoya et le royaume bamoun: Les archives de la Société des Missions Evangéliques de Paris. Paris: Karthala, 2006.
• Matateyou, Emmanuel. L’écriture du roi Njoya: une contribution de l’Afrique à la culture de la modernité. Paris: L'Harmattan, 2015.
• Metraux, Alfred. "The King of the Bamouns and His Alphabet." UNESCO Courier 3, no. 10 (Nov. 1950): p. 4.
• Mouiche, Ibrahim. "Islam, mondialisation et crise identitaire dans le royaume bamoun, Cameroun." Africa: Journal of the International African Institute 75, no. 3 (2005): pp. 378-420.
• Nchare, Abdoulaye Laziz. The Grammar of Shupamem. Ph.D., New York University, 2012.
• Nelson, Steven. "Collection and Context in a Cameroonian Village." Museum International 235, vol. 59, no. 3 (2007): pp. 22-30.
• Nganang, Alain Patrice. Mont Plaisant: roman. Paris: Philippe Rey 2014.
• Njimoluh, Hamidou Komidor and Jacques Fame Ndongo. Le roi Njoya: créateur de civilisation et précurseur de la Renaissance africaine. Paris: Harmattan, 2014.
• Njimotapon Njikam, Martin. Repertoire du fonds documentaire du palais de "Nfon-Mom" à Foumban. Travaux et documents de l'Institut des sciences humaines; Collection études bibliographiques et recherches en bibliothéconomie 5. Yaoundé:De´le´gation ge´ne´rale a` la recherche scientifique et technique, 1983.
• Njoya, Oumarou. Pouvoir monarchique et changements politiques dans le Noun: Cameroun. Paris: Harmattan, 2013.
• Njoya, Sultan. Histoire et coutumes des Bamum. Translated by Pasteur Henri Martin. Populations 5. Douala: Mémoires de l'Institut Français d'Afrique Noire, 1952.
• Osayimwese, Itohan I. "Architecture and the Myth of Authenticity During the German Colonial Period." TDSR: Traditional Dwellings and Settlements Review 24, no. 2 (2013): pp. 11-22.
• Osayimwese, Itohan I. "Architecture with a Mission: Bamum Autoethnography during the Period of German Colonialism," in German Colonialism Revisited: African, Asian, and Oceanic Experiences edited by Nina Berman, Klaus Mühlhahn, and Patrice Nganang, pp. 31-49. Ann Arbor, MI: The University of Michigan Press, 2014.
• Pare, Isaac. "Un artiste camerounais peu connu: Ibrahim Njoya." Abbia 6 (Aug. 1964): pp. 172-185.
• Pickenpaugh, Thomas E. “Sub-Saharan Africa and Madagascar,” in Dominant predators and paramount leaders: symbols of rank, leadership, and power in traditional cultures. Baltimore, MD: PublishAmerica, LLLP, 2005.
• Preuss, Christine. Mbanké und Messi: die Töpferei der Bamum im Wandel: eine Studie im Grasland Kameruns. Kulturanthropologische Studien 26. Hamburg: LIT, 1997.
• Rein-Wuhrmann, Anna. Mein Bamumvolk im Grasland von Kamerun. Stuttgart: Evang. Missionsverlag, 1925.
• Robert, Marc. La restauration du palais des Sultans de Bamoum à Foumban Paris: UNESCO, 1980.
• Savary, Claude. "Situation et histoire des Bamum: Notes à propos de la collection des dessins bamum du Musée d'ethnographie de Genève." Bulletin annuel: Musée et Institut d'ethnographie de la Ville de Genève 20 (1977): pp. 117-138.
• Savary, Claude. "Situation et histoire des Bamum (II)." Bulletin annuel: Musée et Institut d'ethnographie de la Ville de Genève 21-22 (1978): pp. 121-161.
• Tardits, Claude. "L'écriture, la politique et le secret chez les Bamum." Africa, Istituto Italo-Africano 46, no. 2 (1991): pp. 224-40.
• Tardits, Claude. "The Kingdom of Bamum (Cameroon)," in Kings of Africa: Art and Authority in Central Africa edited by Erna Beumers and Hans-Joachim Koloss, pp. 43-55. Maastricht: Foundation Kings of Africa, 1992.
• Tardits, Claude. "Le palais royal de Foumban." Paideuma (Frankfurt) 31 (1985): pp. 65-83.
• Tardits, Claude. "Passage d'une religion traditionnelle africaine (culte des ancêtres) à l'Islam: le cas Bamoum," in sociétés africaines, monde arabe & culture islamique, pp. 135-52. Mémoires du Cermaa 1. Paris: Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales, 1981.
• Tardits, Claude. "Pursue to Attain: A Royal Religion," in African Crossroads: Intersections between History and Anthropology in Cameroon edited by Ian Fowler and David Zeitlyn, pp. 141-164. Cameroon Studies 2. Providence, RI and Oxford: Berghahn, 1996.
• Tardits, Claude. Le royaume bamoum. Ph.D., Université de Paris I, 1977. [Review available online in Journal des africanistes 48, no. 2 (1978): pp. 169-172.]
• Tardits, Claude. Le royaume bamoum. Publications de la Sorbonne, N.S. Recherches 37. Paris: A. Colin, 1980. [Review by Philippe Laburthe-Tolra available online in Journal de la Société des Africanistes 52, no. 1-2 (1982): pp. 207-211.]
• Tuchscherer, Konrad. “Recording, communicating and making visible: A history of writing and systems of graphic symbolism in Africa,” in Inscribing Meaning: Writing and Graphic Systems in African Art edited by Christine Mullen Kreamer, et al., pp. 37–53. Washington, DC: National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution, 2007.