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Bamum Script: An African Writing System

Geography and Maps

Bamum Map

[Bamum]

 

Cameroon was under the colonial rule of Germany, France and Great Britain dating from 1884-1961. Two maps from the Library's digital collections, one historic map of Cameroon from a collection of African maps published in 1909, and one more current map from the U.S. C.I.A., are shown below.

Edward Hertslet, Sir, R. W Brant, and H. L Sherwood. The map of Africa by treaty. 1909. Library of Congress Geography & Map Division.

United States. Central Intelligence Agency. Cameroon. 1998. Library of Congress Geography and Map Division.


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