Women's agricultural production and political action in the Cameroon Grassfields

1 July 1989

journal article
Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Africa

Vol. 59 (3) , 338-355
https://doi.org/10.2307/1160231

Abstract

Opening Paragraph: On that day if you had seen me, you would not have known me; dirty cap with feathers and a long stick, since doesn't fear send a walking stick forward? I put dirty clothes on and I looked like ‘massa’ [my husband]. I even wore plant leaves around my neck so as to make all men [people] put their minds to this [problem].…Today fombuen doesn't march because there isn't trouble but if cows come again they will join! Women know the sound of the whistle and they will leave their cooking pots on the fire. [A Kedjom Ketinguh woman who participated in the 1958 fombuen march to Bamenda]

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