Adamawa Past and Present: An Historical Approach to the Development of a Northern Cameroons Province(African Ethnographic Studies of the 20th Century)

Series: African Ethnographic Studies of the 20th Century

Originally published in 1958 this book presents a straight-forward and vivid picture of Adamawa Province in Nigeria. It discusses the varying fortunes of the territory, the life of its people, the efforts of its explorers and the achievements of the early administrators. It discusses the geography of the area as well as the political and economic conditions in the first half of the twentieth centu