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Lela in Bali : History Through Ceremony in Cameroon

By Richard Fardon

Book information

Publisher
Incorporated, Berghahn Books
Year
2006
ISBN
9781782388777, 9781845452155
LCC
DT571.B33 F37 2006
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
8 MB (8001752 bytes)
Series
Cameroon Studies
Edition
1
Pages
176\176
Time added
2023-08-15 19:37:45

Description

Lela in Bali tells the story of an annual festival of eighteenth-century kingdoms in Northern Cameroon that was swept up in the migrations of marauding slave-raiders during the nineteenth century and carried south towards the coast. Lela was transformed first into a mounted durbar, like those of the Muslim states, before evolving in tandem with the German colonial project into a festival of arms. Reinterpreted by missionaries and post-colonial Cameroonians, Lela has become one of the most important of Cameroonian festivals and a crucial marker of identity within the state. Richard Fardon's recuperation of two hundred years of history is an essential contribution not only to Cameroonian studies but also to the broader understanding of the evolution of African cultures.

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