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- Argenti, Nicolas. "Follow the Wood: Carving and Political Cosmology in Oku, Cameroon," in African Art and Agency in the Workshop edited by Sidney Littlefield Kasfir and Till Förster, pp. 65-90. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2013.
- Argenti, Nicolas. The Intestines of the State: Youth, Violence, and Belated Histories in the Cameroon Grassfields. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007. [Reviewed online by Scott MacEachern on H-Net, available at http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=22978; by Ian Fowler in Reviews in Anthropology 40 (2011): pp. 292-311 and in Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 15, no. 2 (2009): pp. 429-430; by Edna G. Bay in African Arts 42, no. 4 (2009): pp. 94-95; by Krijn Peters in Journal of Modern African Studies 47, no. 4 (2009): pp. 630-631; by Tatah Mentan in African Affairs 108, no. 432 (2009): pp. 498-499; by Mattia Fumanti in Anthropological Notebooks 14, no. 3 (2008): pp. 93-95; by Daniel Jordan Smith in African Studies Review 52, no. 1 (2009): pp. 174-176.]
- Argenti, Nicolas. The Material Culture of Power in Oku: North West Province, Cameroon. University of London, 1996.
- Argenti, Nicolas. ‘People of the Chisel: Apprenticeship, youth, and elites in Oku (Cameroon).” American Ethnologist 29, no. 3 (Aug. 2002): pp. 497-533.
- Argenti, Nicolas. "Things of the Ground: Children’s Medicine, Motherhood and Memory in the Cameroon Grassfields." Africa 81, no. 2 (2011): pp. 269-294.
- Bah, Njakoi J. Some Oku Rituals: Western Grassfields, Cameroon. Jikijem, Cameroon: N.J. Bah, 2000.
- Coulet, Terry and Marcelin Tonye Mahop. "Cameroon: Oku White Honey,” in Extending the Protection of Geographical Indications: Case Studies of Agricultural Products in Africa edited by Michael Blakeney. New York, NY: Earthscan, 2012.
- Fowler, Ian. “The Oku iron industry in its regional setting: a descriptive account. “ Baessler-Archiv 43 (1995): pp. 89-126.
- Koloss, Hans-Joachim. Cameroon: thoughts and memories: ethnological research in Oku and Kembong, 1975-2005. Berlin: Dietrich Reimer Verlag, 2012. [Reviewed by Jean-Pierre Warnier in American Anthropologist 116, no. 4 (2014): pp. 875-876; by Gitti Salami in African Arts 47, no. 1 (2014): pp. 93-94.
- Koloss, Hans-Joachim. "Kefuh Myin: A Therapeutic Medicine in Oku." JASO: Journal of the Anthopological Society of Oxford Special Issue 'Mama for Story': Studies in the Ethnography of Cameroon in Honour of Sally Chilver 26, no. 1 (1995): pp. 69-79.
- Koloss, Hans-Joachim. "Kwifon and Fon in Oku: On Kingship in the Cameroon Grasslands," in Kings of Africa: Art and Authority in Central Africa edited by Erna Beumers and Hans-Joachim Koloss, pp. 33-42. Maastricht: Foundation Kings of Africa, 1992.
- Koloss, Hans-Joachim. World-view and Society in Oku (Cameroon). Berlin: D. Reimer, 2000.
- Nforbi, Emmanuel and Peter Ngum. Oku: a Grass Field Bantu Ring Language: Grammar. Dschang, Cameroon: Dschang University Press, 2009.
- Oslisly, Richard, Geoffroy de Saulieu, and Pascal Nlend Nlend. "Archaeological data and oral traditions from the Oku and Kovifem sites in northwest Cameroon." Azania: Archaeological Research In Africa 50, no. 1 (2015): pp. 76-91.
- 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.