A Collection African Studies Bibliographies and Archival Materials

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• Buinda Mbori, John.  The Socio-Cultural and Political Institutions of the Yamba from Pre-Colonial Period to 1965: a Historical Perspective. Post-graduate Teachers’ Diploma (D.I.P.L.E.G.) Dissertation, History, Yaoundé, 1987.
• Funteh, Mark Bolak. Missionary Contribution to and/or Modification of Yamba Precolonial Society 1914-2000.  MA Thesis, History, Yaoundé 1, 2003.
• Gebauer, Paul. Art of Cameroon. New York: Metropolitan Museum; Portland: Portland Museum, 1979.
• Gebauer, Paul. Spider Divination in the Cameroons. Milwaukee: Milwaukee Public Museum, 1964.
• Gufler, Hermann. Affliction and Moral Order: Conversations in Yambaland. CSAC Monographs. Canterbury: CSAC, 2003.
• Gufler, Hermann. "'Crying the Death': Rituals of Death among the Yamba (Cameroon).” Anthropos 95, no. 2 (2000): pp. 349-361.
• Gufler, Hermann. "Cults and Seasonal Dances of the Yamba (Cameroon)." Anthropos 92, no. 4-6 (1997): pp. 501-22.
• Gufler, Hermann. "Yamba Marriage Systems: Spouses and Their Offspring between Protection and Affliction." Anthropos 90, no. 1-3 (1995): pp. 89-108.
• Gufler, Hermann. "Yamba Spider Divination." 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. 43-67.
• Gufler, Hermann. "Yamba Twin Ritual." Anthropos 91, no. 1-3 (1996): pp. 33-51.
• Gufler, Hermann. "Witchcraft Beliefs among the Yamba (Cameroon)." Anthropos 94, no. 1-3 (1999): pp. 181-98.
• Jikong, Stephen Yeriwa. Sacred Language among the Yamba People: a Case Study of the Power of Language. MA thesis, Sociolinguistic Studies, Yaoundé, 1979.
• Leu, Paul. In Kameruner Steppen und Hutten; Erlebnisse und Erinnerungen. Basel: Basel Kommissions-Verlag;  Missionsbuchshandlung GMBH, 1945.
• Scruggs, T. A Comparative Wordlist of the Yamba Dialects. Yaoundé: S.I.L., 1981.
• Scruggs, T. Segmental Phonology of Nouns in Yamba. Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Calgary, Alberta, 1980.
• Scruggs, T. Yamba-English Lexicon. Yaoundé: S.I.L., 1979.
• Wycliffe Bible Translators. N̳wàk nwì ma nè̳ lù̳k nè̳ fi. Cameroon: Wycliffe Bible Translators, 2011.
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• Archival Materials

• Carpenter, F.W. "African Patchwork." Rhodes House: MSS Afr s 1710, n.d.
• Percival, D.A. "The Mambilla Tribe." Nigerian National Archives, Kaduna, 1934.
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• *with appreciation to David Zeitlyn for his contribution to this bibliography.