African Crossroads: Intersections between History and Anthropology in Cameroon

Geschiere, Peter; Fowler, Ian; Zeitlyn, David

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“…In particular, all self-identified Tikar who report speaking Tikar and live in the Adamawa region cluster among other Northern Bantoid speakers. In contrast, self-identified Tikar who do not report speaking Tikar and live in the Grassfields cluster with other Grassfields ethnic groups (35).…”

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Dense sampling of ethnic groups within African countries reveals fine-scale genetic structure and extensive historical admixture

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Previous studies have highlighted how African genomes have been shaped by a complex series of historical events. Despite this, genome-wide data have only been obtained from a small proportion of present-day ethnolinguistic groups. By analyzing new autosomal genetic variation data of 1333 individuals from over 150 ethnic groups from Cameroon, Republic of the Congo, Ghana, Nigeria, and Sudan, we demonstrate a previously underappreciated fine-scale level of genetic structure within these countries, for example, correlating with historical polities in western Cameroon. By comparing genetic variation patterns among populations, we infer that many northern Cameroonian and Sudanese groups share genetic links with multiple geographically disparate populations, likely resulting from long-distance migrations. In Ghana and Nigeria, we infer signatures of intermixing dated to over 2000 years ago, corresponding to reports of environmental transformations possibly related to climate change. We also infer recent intermixing signals in multiple African populations, including Congolese, that likely relate to the expansions of Bantu language–speaking peoples.

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“…2) The Grassfields of Cameroon, broadly located in the Northwest and West regions (Fig. 1, box A), has a long and complex history of multiple polities of different sizes (35). Does genetic structure correlate with these historical polities?…”

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Dense sampling of ethnic groups within African countries reveals fine-scale genetic structure and extensive historical admixture

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A Question of Fulbe Power: Social Change, the State and Ethnic Relations in Northern Cameroon

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European and Cameroonian scholarship on ethnicity and the making of identities in Cameroon: colonial and post-colonial trails

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Relations between colonial and post-colonial studies in and on Cameroon have been both continuous and discontinuous. As reflected in the domains of historiography and social anthropology, this has impacted on ethnic self-representations and popular labeling. This paper examines contrasting drives that have led to a replication of colonial redefinitions of ethnicity and how this informs current discussions on ethnicity in Cameroon. The argument is that certain research works have informed or substantially influenced the identity question when one aknowledges that the colonial period is a bench mark epoch in the establishment of certain categories of ethnic perception. Although substantially deconstructed at the scientific level, these categories have survived and continue to influence social categories of perception that become common sense intrusions (what Bourdieu called doxa) into social science. Key words: colonialism, ethnicity, identity, perceptions, scholarship

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African Crossroads: Intersections between History and Anthropology in Cameroon

Cited by 3 publications

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Dense sampling of ethnic groups within African countries reveals fine-scale genetic structure and extensive historical admixture

Dense sampling of ethnic groups within African countries reveals fine-scale genetic structure and extensive historical admixture

A Question of Fulbe Power: Social Change, the State and Ethnic Relations in Northern Cameroon

European and Cameroonian scholarship on ethnicity and the making of identities in Cameroon: colonial and post-colonial trails

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