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Middlemen of the Cameroons Rivers

Middlemen of the Cameroons Rivers

Derrick, Jonathan
Austen, Ralph A.

Hardcover

Series: African Studies, Book 96

African HistoryMedieval & Renaissance History

ISBN10: 0521562287
ISBN13: 9780521562287
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: Jan 21 1999
Pages: 268
Weight: 1.19
Height: 0.83 Width: 6.04 Depth: 9.16
Language: English
This book is about the Duala middlemen, who functioned as intermediaries between Europeans and their own hinterland for over three hundred years. Originally traders in ivory, slaves and palm products, they then became colonial-era cocoa planters, and finally took a leading role in anti-colonial politics. One of their lasting advantages was European education, which they used to develop ideas about their ethnicity and its historical basis. The authors criticize these local beliefs about the past but indicate what they reveal about power and identity in this region and elsewhere in Africa.

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