Dissertations on Cameroon

Reeves Wade Hampton Ph.D. Church-Related Programs in Agricultural Education in Cameroon and Uganda, Africa, Ohio State University, 1972. The study describes projects that have been initiated by Christian Churches and missions in Cameroon and Uganda to teach agricultural methods, stimulate development and generate employment in the agricultural sector.

See also, Kamajou François , and Nzekio Ernest P. , listed under Economics.

Burnham III Philip Chester Ph.D. Residential Organization and Social Change among the Gbaya of Meiganga, Cameroon. University of California, Los Angeles, 1972. The study examined the continuities and changes in the residential patterns of the Gbaya culture and concludes that despite the extensive culture contact and social change experienced by the Gbaya over the last hundred years, the structural principles organizing the Gbaya residence remained unchanged.

Dillon Richard Griffith Ph.D. Ideology, Process, and Change in Pre-Colonial Meta Political Organization, (United Republic of Cameroon). University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, 1973. Deals with the pre-Colonial political organization of the stateless society of Meta, Bamenda.

Koenig Dolores Barbara Ph.D. Sex, Work and Social Class in Cameroon. Northwestern University, Indiana, 1977. Investigates to what extent women's Educational and occupational choices are constrained by their sex and to what extent by their economic status.

Laburthe-Tolra P. Minlaaba . Histoire et société traditionelle chez les Béti du sud Cameroun. Université de Paris V, 1975. Attempts to answer the question why the Béti were converted to Catholicism with a rapidity unequalled “in modern times and why they have not experienced the phenomena of religious syncretism which seem to characterize African Christianity.”

Trub A. A Study of the Traditional Outlook of the Native Community in the Cameroons Province of Nigeria and its Impact upon the Thought and Practice of the Christian Church in that Province. Edinburgh, Scotland, 1960.

Warnier Jean-Pierre Ph.D. Pre-colonial Mankon: The Development of a Cameroon Chiefdom in its Regional Setting, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, 1975. An historical reconstruction of the pre-colonial social and political organization of Mankon.

Fourcade Roger . Contribution à l'étude du parasitisme intestinal chez 3000 enfants de la région de Yaoundé, Rennes, France, (Doct. d'Etat-Pharm.) 1957.

Vaiva Claude-Michel . Contribution à la connaissance des teignes du Cameroun, Lille, France, (Doct. de l'Université-Pharm.) 1957–58.

Abalu George O. Ph.D. Optimal Investment Decisions in Perennial Crop Production in Cameroon: A Dynamic Programming Approach. Iowa State University, 1973. Aimed at making a contribution to the understanding of: A) the nature of optimal investments in perennial crops, b) the economic organization of perennial crop production, and c) the effects of allowing for possible divergences between observed and actual measures of costs and benefits on investment strategies for perennial crop production in Cameroon.

Ghogomu Robert Tapisi Ndwi Ph.D. Foreign Exchange Availability and Economic Development in Cameroon: Retrospect and Prospects. Northern Illinois University, 1976. Theoretically and empirically investigates the relationship between import capacity and economic development in Cameroon between 1960 and 1972 and evaluates the prospects through 1985.

Jacquemond Serge . Les investissements publics métropolitans et le développement économique du Nord-Cameroun pendant le régime de Tutelle (1947–1959). Paris (Doct. d'Etat-Sc. econ.), 1959.

Kamajou François Ph.D. Government Financing of the Development of Small Farm Agriculture in the Center-South Province of Cameroon. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1978.

Ndongko Wilfred A. Ph.D. The Theory and Practice of Planning for Economic Development in a Federal State: The Case of Cameroon. Canada, Carleton University, 1973. To develop a framework for examining the process of planning for economic development under federalism and to utilize the framework to examine the Cameroonian experience from 1960 to 1971.

Nzekio Ernest Pouemi Ph.D. Stability, Export, Taxation, and Economic Development: The Role of Cocoa Marketing Boards and Cocoa Stabilization Funds in Nigeria, Ghana, Ivory Coast and Cameroon. The University of Wisconsin, Madison, 1973. Investigates the effects of commodity price stabilization on relevant economic variables. Also examines the problems of effect of price stabilization on the level and stability of producer incomes as well as the effect on producer welfare; the relevancy of cocoa price stability to cocoa producers; the consequences of cocoa export taxation policies; the actual performance of cocoa marketing boards and cocoa stabilization funds; and the other means of raising government revenues besides export taxation.

Pain Françoise . Evolution économique et sociale du Cameroun depuis 1947. Paris, (Doct. d'Etat-Sc. econ.) 1959.

Vollrath Thomas Lachlan Ph.D. Credit Needs and Extension Possibilities Among Traditional Rice Farmers in the Northwest Province of Cameroon. University of Tennessee, 1977. Determines the credit absorption capacity in the setting of smallholder rice producers.

Boma Alaric Nikut Ph.D. Problems and Proposed Solutions of Agricultural Education at the Elementary School Level in West Cameroon. Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y., 1971. Identifies and analyzes the status and major problems of existing programs of agricultural Education at the school level in the northwest and southwest provinces and formulates solutions to the problems as a basis for effective development of agricultural Education programs in elementary schools.

Booth Bernard Francis . A Comparative Study of Mission and Government Involvement in Educational Development in West Cameroon, 1922–1969. University of California, Los Angeles, 1973. Illustrates that the Catholic Mission (Mill Hill Fathers) exercised a greater leadership role in Educational development in the northwest and southwest provinces between 1922 and 1969 than the government of the period in question.

Farine Avigdor Ph.D. The Development of Education in Three Francophone countries: Ivory Coast, Dahomey, and East Cameroon, A Comparative Study. University of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 1967.

Gwei Solomon Nfor Ph.D. Education in Cameroon: Western Pre-Colonial and Colonial Antecedents and the Development of Higher Education. Michigan, 1976. A study of Education in Cameroon prior to European colonization and during colonization under Germany, Britain and (to a Limited extent) France.

Haupt Walter Norman Ph.D. The Secondary School and Cross-Tribal Integration in West Cameroon. Michigan State University, 1969. Determines under what conditions the secondary school in the former West Cameroon was an agent of cross-tribal integration.

Lawrence George Benjamin Ph.D. An Evaluation of the Primary School Curriculum of West Cameroon in Relation to its Social, Economic, and Political Import. University of Oregon, 1966.

Mengot Ako Defang Ph.D. Financing Primary Education from Local Education Rates in West Cameroon, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass., 1971.

Ndichia Ivo Ed.D., An Analysis of the Development of Secondary Education in Cameroon, 1884–1972, as Related to Two Theoretical Models of Administrative Practice in Education. The Catholic University of America, Washington, D.C., 1975. Analyzes documents which had influenced the development of secondary Education in Cameroon by utilizing as a frame of reference, “theories of participatory-decision-making and management by objectives as suggested by Edwin M. Bridges and George S. Odiorne.”

Ngoh Godfred Ndika Ph.D. Sports Interests of High School and College Students at Yaounde, Cameroon. University of Maryland, 1974. Investigates and researches the differences between planned and desired school sports programs in the city of Yaounde.

Ntumngia Fuh Zaccheus Ph.D. Error Analysis: An Applied Linguistic Study of the Interlanguage of Francophone Cameroonian Secondary School Students, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, Ill., 1978.

Nwana Elias M. Ed.D., An Investigation into an Objective Way of Examining Student-Teachers in Practical Teaching in West Cameroon Teacher Training Institutions. University of California, Los Angeles, 1969.

Stanley William Ralph Ed.D., Educational Programs for West Cameroon, Africa: Suggestions for Development. University of Northern Colorado, 1971. Aimed to study the curricular offerings at the Cameroon College of Arts, Science and Technology, Bambili and “to make recommendations related to the curricula and physical facilities needed to train the agricultural and secondary school personnel in science and math, and train hospital personnel in para-medical fields.”

Stonebraker Miles Jay Ed.D., An Analysis of the Teacher Role Expectations of Students and Teachers in Selected Secondary Schools in the West Cameroon. University of California, Los Angeles, 1970. Focused on the cross-cultural matrix, a transplanted British-patterned Educational system superimposed on a heterogeneous African culture.

Taylor John Gordon Ph.D. A Study of Membership in High School Extracurricular Activities as Related to College Persistence. Indiana, 1970/71.

Vernon-Jackson Hugh Owen Hardinge Ed.D., Schools and School Systems in Cameroon; 1844–1961, Columbia University, New York, 1968.

Whitney Yenwith Kelly Ed.D., A Follow-up Study of Graduates of the Cameroun Christian College: Education and Social Mobility in Cameroun. Columbia University Teachers College, New York, 1977. An attempt to present a systematic analysis of the social mobility patterns of the graduates of the Cameroun Christian College.

Gwan Emmanuel Achu Ph.D. Types, Processes and Policy Implications of the Various Migrations in Western Cameroon. University of California, Berkeley, 1975. The interplay of Cameroon's physical character-its relief, climate, soils and vegetation, its strategic location in the African continent—with a range of human, historical, political and socio-economic factors.

Elango Lovett Zephariah Ph.D. Britain and Bimbia in the Nineteenth Century, 1833–1878: A Study in Anglo-Bimbian trade and Diplomatic Relations, Boston, 1975.

Gardinier David Elemer Ph.D. French Policy in the Cameroons, 1945–1959. Yale University, New Haven, Conn., 1960.

Mbassp Joseph . Oeuvre culturelle allemande au Cameroun, 1884–1914. (Thèse 3eme cycle). Paris III, 1973.

Ngande Simon . Le Kamerun et la France dans la première guerre, 1914–1922. (Thèse 3ème cycle). Paris VII, 1976.

Njeuma Martin Ph.D. The Rise and Fall of Fulani Rule in Adamawa 1809–1901. University of London, England, 1969.

Nkili Robert . Maraoua, la ville et sa région des origines à 1919. (These 3ème cycle). Paris IV, 1977.

Osteraas Gary Lynn Ph.D. Missionary Politics in Cameroon, 1844–1914. Columbia University, New York, 1972. Studies the relationship between missionaries and colonial elites in Cameroon, 1844–1914. The reactions of missionary groups to the changes (German annexation, 1884, transition from a commercial economy to one in which large plantations were promoted) and the influence of missions on African resistance to expanding colonial power form the central theme of Dr. Osteraas' study.

Rudin Harry R. Ph.D. Germans in the Cameroons, 1884–1914: A Case Study in Modern Imperialism. Yale University, New Haven, Conn., 1931.

Billard Pierre , La circulation dans le sud Cameroun. Grenoble, France (Doct. de l'Université-Lettres) 1961.

Horner George Roland . La littérature orale: Son emploi comme technique pour l'etude de la structure sociale et psychologique des tribus indigènes. Paris (Doct. de l'Université-Lettres) 1950.

Lebeuf Jean-Paul . Le Gisement sao-kotoko de Makari. Paris (Doct. d'Etat-Lettres) 1959.

Lebeuf Jean-Paul . L'Habitation des Fali. Paris (Doct. d'Etat-Lettres) 1959.

Chia Emmanuel Nges Ph.D. Kom Tenses and Aspects in Kom. Georgetown University, Washington, D.C., 1976.

Gilman Charles Ph.D. The Comparative Structure in French, English, and Cameroonian Pidgin English: An Exercise in Linguistic Comparison. Northwestern University, 1972. Comparative structures in Cameroonian Pidgin are compared with those in French and English in order to determine whether the degree of similarity of Pidgin to English is closer than that of English to French.

Hyman Larry Michael Ph.D. A Phonological Study of Fe Fe-Bamileke. University of California, Los Angeles, 1972.

Mosongo Andrew Kemba Ph.D. The Impact of Cameroon Languages of the English Language Performance of Cameroon Children at the Secondary School Level, Georgetown University, Washington, D.C., 1977. Aimed to investigate and determine errors in English that were due to “the interference of student mother tongue.”

Rossing Melvin Olaf Ph.D. MaFa-Mada: A Comparative Study of Chadic Languages in North Cameroun. University of Wisconsin, Madison, 1978.

Schneider Gilbert Donald Ph.D. West-African Pidgin-English: A Descriptive Linguistic Analysis—with Texts and Glossary from the Cameroon Area. The Hartford Seminary Foundation, 1967.

Stallcup Kenneth Lyell Ph.D. A Comparative Perspective on the Phonology and Noun Classification of Three Cameroon Grassfields Bantu Languages: Moghamo, Ngie, and Oshie. Stanford University, California, 1978. Studies these three languages as a representative of Western Grassfields Bantu Languages.

Antoine Philippe . Les Sociétés africaines de prévoyance au Cameroun. Paris (Doct. d'Etat-Droit) 1954.

Basse Jacques . Les Détets [sic-M. Dinstel, List of French Doct. Diss… p. 106] relatifs au mariage dans le sud-Cameroun. Paris (Doct. d'État-Droit) 1957.

Bertaut Maurice . Le Droit contumier des Boulous, monographic d'une tribu du sud-Cameroun. Paris (Doct. d'État-Droit) 1935.

Costedoat René. Le Mandat français et la réorganisation des territoires du Cameroun. Dijon (Doct. d'État-Droit) 1930.

Edoo Pierre . L'Expérience coopérative au Cameroun. Paris (Doct. d'État-Droit) 1961.

Franceschi Roger . Le Mandat français au Cameroun. Paris (Doct. d'État-Droit) 1929.

Kanga Victor J. Cl . Le Droit Coutumier Baniléké au contact des droits européens. Paris (Doct. d'État-Droit) 1957.

Kwayeb Enock Katte . Les Institutions de droit public du pays Bamiléké. Paris (Doct. d'État-Droit) 1958.

Lawless L. Le Principe de l'égalité économique au Cameroun. Paris (Doct. d'Etat-Droit) 1936.

Mademba Samba . Les Institutions municipales en Afrique occidentale française au Togo et au Cameroun. Paris (Doct. d'État-Droit) 1957.

Marabail Commandant . Etude sur les territoires du Cameroun occupés par les troupes françaises. Paris (Doct. d'État-Droit) 1919.

Masson Georges . La Mise en valeur des territoires du Cameroun placés sous le mandat français. Paris (Doct. d'État-Droit) 1928.

Ngini Marcel . La Valeur politique et sociale de la tutelle française au Cameroun. Université d'Aix-en-Provence, 1956.

Nicol Yves . La Tribu des Bakoko. Paris (Doct. d'État-Droit) 1929.

Thouin Marcel . Etude sur la délimitation de frontière du Congo-Cameroun. Paris (Doct. d'État-Droit) 1910–11.

N'do Belinga Paul . Considérations sur les splénomégalies dites paludéenes au Cameroun. Paris (Doct. d'Etat-Med.) 1959.

Bernardin Léopold-Emile . L'Ambulance de n'Djole pendant les opérations de la colonne du sud-Cameroun. Bordeaux (Doct. d'Etat-Med.) 1918–19.

Dauzats André-Marie-Francois . Les Grands ruminats domestiques du Cameroun. Toulouse (Doct. d'Etat-Med. vet.) 1927–28.

DeSwarte Denis . Les Campagnes d'éradication du paludisme au Cameroun. Lille (Doct. d'Etat-Med.) 1958–59.

Fouapon Christophe . Le Croisement Brahma-Peuhl au Cameroun. Toulouse (Doct. d'Etat-Med. vet.) 1960.

Happi Claude . Recherches hématologiques chez les Bamiléké (Cameroun). Paris (Doct. d'Etat-Med.) 1959.

Kana Paul , Problèmes sanitaires de la région de Dschang (Cameroun). Toulouse (Doct. d'Etat-Med.) 1961.

Masseyeff-Feral Nicole . A propos d'une enquête alimentaire et sociale effectuée au Cameroun (1940–41). Paris (Doct. d'Etat-Med.) 1953.

Monkam Jean-Marie . Introduction à l'etude de l'eau potable au Cameroun. Bordeaux (Doct. d'Etat-Med.) 1961.

Tchokokam Ngounou Elie . La Médicine préventive et sociale au Cameroun. Paris (Doct. d'Etat-Med.) 1961.

Tchuenbou Martin . La Mortalité infantile au Cameroun. Paris (Doct. d'Etat-Med.) 1961.

Gana Sama David D. Miss . The Biblical and Psychological Basis for Developing the Christian Church in Cameroon as a Redeeming and Therapeutic Community. Fuller Theological Seminary, 1978.

Horner Norman Aste Ph.D. Protestant and Roman Catholic Missions Among the Bantu of Cameroun: A Comparative Study. The Hartford Seminary Foundation, 1956.

Kwast Lloyd Emerson . The Origins and Nineteenth Century Development of Protestant Christianity in West Cameroon, 1841–1886. Fuller Theological Seminary, 1972.

Van Slageren J. . Les Origines de l'église évangelique du Cameroun: Missions européenes et christianisme autochtone. Rijksuniversiteit te Leiden, Netherlands, 1972. Discusses Christianity beginning with the pre-colonial period, 1841 to 1886; includes its expansion during the German period; Christianity in the grassfields, 1902–1915; the fortunes of missionary work during the French mandate, 1917 to 1958.

Umezinwa Wilberforce Adimonyema . La Réligion dans la litérature camerounaise d'après les Romans de Mongo Béti, Benjamin Matip et Ferdinand Oyono. Université Laval, Canada, 1972.

Deschamps Marius . Recherches morphologiques et biologiques sur les Diopsidae du Nord du Cameroun. Paris (Doct. de l'Université Sc.) 1956.

Geze Bernard . Géographic physique et géologie du Cameroun occidental. Toulouse (Doct. de l'Université-Sc.) 1943.

Hedberg James Dow Ph.D. A Geological Analysis of the Cameroon Trend. Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, 1969. A geological study of the area of Cameroon that extends from the island of Annobon in the Gulf of Guinea to the Bambouto in Central West Cameroon.

Koch Pierre . Contribution à l'étude géologique du socle de l'Afrique centrale. Le précambrien de la frontière occidentale du Cameroun central. Nancy (Doct. d'Etat-Ing. doct.) 1955.

Korableff Georges . Contribution à l'étude de la géologie et de la géologie appliquée de l'Oubangui-Chari oriental et du Cameroun sous mandat français. Paris (Doct. de l'Universite-Sc.) 1940.

Lasserre Marc . Etude géologique de la partie orientate de l'Adamaoua. Clermont-Ferrand (Doct. de l'Universite-Sc.) 1958.

Peirier J. Contribution à l'étude des plantescoeagineuses du Cameroun. Marseille (Doct. en Sc. Nat.) 1930.

Benjamin Jacques . Le Sort des Camerounais occidentaux 1961–1969. (These de 3ème cycle), Paris, 1970.

Delancey Mark Wakeman Ph.D. Changes in Social Attitudes and Political Knowledge Among Migrants to Plantations in West Cameroon. Indiana University, 1973. Studies the migrant laborers in the northwest and southwest provinces of Cameroon in order to gain knowledge about the processes of social interaction that occurred when Africans converged to sell their labor. Deals with migration from 1885 to 1969.

Johnson Willard Raymond Ph.D. A Case Study in Political Union of Several Africans. Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass., 1965.

Joseph Richard A. Radical Nationalism in Cameroun. The Case of the Union des Populations du Cameroun (U.P.C.). Oxford University, England, 1973.

Kofele-Kale Ndiva Ph.D. The Political Culture of Anglophone Cameroon: A Study of the Impact of Environment on Ethnic Group Values and Member Political Orientations. Northwestern University, 1974. A study of the mass political culture of English-speaking Cameroon. Attempts to investigate the relationship between environmental locations, ethnic group values and political orientations and to make the beginnings of a case for the rejection of “tribalism (identification within an ethnic group) as the single most important factor inhibiting the growth of positive feelings toward African political systems in general and Cameroon's in particular.” Concludes that people are able to retain attachments to their various ethnic groups and still maintain a fairly high level of national political identification.

LeVine Victor Thodore Ph.D. The Cameroun: From Mandate to Independence. University of California, Los Angeles, 1962.

Nwabuzor Elonenjo Joachim O. Ph.D. Ethnic Value: Congruence and Propensity for Integration: A Case Study of the Republic of Cameroun. Northwestern University, 1974.

Stark Frank Milton Ph.D. Federalism as a Symbol of Political Integration in the Elite Political Culture of Cameroon. Northwestern University, 1972. To explore concept of federalism as a shared value among political elites in Cameroon.

Azarya Victor Ph.D. Traditional Aristocracies Facing Change: A Comparative Study of Fulbe Adjustment to Social Change in Guinea, Nigeria, and Cameroon. University of Chicago, Chicago, Ill., 1973.

Belloncle Guy . Développement intégré et pédagogie de l'innovation en afrique noire; à partir de 3 expériences de développement intégré au Cameroun. (Thèse de 3ème cycle). Paris, 1974.

Dikoume Cosme . Étude concrète d'une sociétié traditionnelle les Elog-Mpoo. (Thèse de 3ème cycle). Lille, I, 1977.

Mboui Moseph Mbog Liaa . Le Pays de la grotte ou le savoir social du peuple Basa. Université de Bordeaux, 1967.

Quinn Eugene Frederick Ph.D. Changes in Beti Society, 1887–1960. University of California, Los Angeles, 1970/71.

See also, Trub A. under Anthropology.

Louette M. De avifauna van Kamoen en haar zoögeografische interpretatie (partim non-Passeriformes), Universiteit Antwerpen, Universitaire Instelling Anwerpen, 1977.