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Do We Need Museums in the Cameroon Grassfields?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 April 2022

Mathias Alubafi Fubah
Mathias Alubafi Fubah*
Affiliation:
Forum Transregionale Studien, Berlin
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This article was provoked by the recent creation of two major state of the art modern museums in the western Grassfields of Cameroon. The two museums in question are the Mankon museum, located at the fon's palace, and the Babungo museum, also located at the Babungo fon's palace. The museums were part of an initiative by an Italian NGO - Centro Orientamento Educativo (COE) - to establish five museums in some regions of Cameroon. The objectives of the initiative were:

- The protection and enhancement of the cultural and artistic heritage in its original setting through the creation of five museums (with the publication of catalogues for the collections) in five different areas, stating with the Cameroon Grassfields, which is the western part of the country where artistic heritage is the richest and where the danger of the disappearance and loss of artistic objects is greatest.

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African Research and Documentation , Volume 121 , 2013 , pp. 35 - 54
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Copyright © International African Institute 2013

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This paper was written as part of the author's fellowship at Centre of African Studies, Cambridge University sponsored by the Leverhulme Trust and Sir Isaac Newton Trust.

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