Description
A Dictionary of Popular Bali Names is an extraordinary minefield of Chamba names meticulously assembled and expatiated for the modern user. This edition combines a short history of the Chamba people in Cameroon as well as detailed ethnographic description of the naming ritual among the Bali Chamba. John Fokwang’s work stands in a class of its own and will serve as a reference material for all people of Chamba descent in Nigeria and Cameroon as well as for individuals who fancy the use of African names. This edition is a worthy contribution to the ethnography of the Cameroon Grassfields and indeed, the growing literature and interest on African names and languages.
Praise for “A Dictionary of Popular Bali Names”
“There is no better way of serving a people than committing into print those aspects of their culture that have survived the ages for the next generation. By writing the dictionary of Bali popular names, Mr. Fokwang is preserving for the coming generation some aspects of the living cultures of the Bali people.”
— Dr Elias M. Nwana, Author, The Living Culture of Bali Nyonga (1981)
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