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Title:Selling the Iron for Their Shackles: Wandala-Montagnard Interactions in Northern Cameroon
Author:MacEachern, ScottISNI
Year:1993
Periodical:The Journal of African History
Volume:34
Issue:1
Pages:247-270
Language:English
Geographic term:Cameroon
Subjects:ethnic relations
Mandara
Mandara polity
mercantile history
history
traditional polities
Peoples of Africa (Ethnic Groups)
History and Exploration
Anthropology and Archaeology
External link:https://www.jstor.org/stable/182428
Abstract:The Muslim Wandala State, now restricted to the Extrême-Nord province of Cameroon, controlled large areas of the plains south of Lake Chad between the seventeenth and twentieth centuries AD. The Wandala also engaged in an extremely complex, and often hostile, set of relations with the inhabitants of the Mandara Mountains, which bordered their State to the south and closely adjoined successive Wandala capitals. These Wandala-'montagnard' relationships had diverse economic, ritual, political and military aspects. Their complexity appears to be due in large part to the fact that the Wandala and many of the 'montagnard' groups share ethnic origins, and to the violent processes by which differentiation took place and the Wandala gained hegemony on the plains. These processes probably began with a Wandala use of trading advantages to gain access to the Kanuri market system and the subsequent use of products so obtained to expand their dominion. The article is based on archaeological research carried out in the Mandara Mountains between 1984 and 1989, as well as on archival research in the UK and France in 1987. Notes, ref., sum.
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