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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 21 August 2012
The account of the Nsɔ given by Dr. P. Kaberry in her article in Africa, October 1950, ‘Land Tenure among the Nsaw of the British Cameroons’, is incorrect in a number of points, especially in so far as Nsɔ history is concerned. As a former Senior District officer, Bamenda Division, British Cameroons, I visited every hamlet in the Nsɔ area, took down the history of each and mapped the area. I marked the tribal boundaries of the tribes contiguous to Nsɔ and took down their tribal histories. I have an English translation of Njoya's history of the Bamum. The Nsɔ, with the Bamum and Wiya (wrongly called by Dr. Kaberry Nsungli), left their common focus Rifum together. This is confirmed by the three narratives.
page 71 note 1 See Jeffreys, M. D. W., ‘The Death of a Dialect’, African Studies, March 1945.Google Scholar
page 71 note 2 As I have a list with notes on all villages in the Ns֖ area derived from the three groups, it would interesting to have these seven names to check conquest assertion.
page 72 note 1 See Jeffreys, M. D. W., ‘Nsaangu's Head’, African Studies, March 1946.Google Scholar
page 73 note 1 The seven villages alluded to in my article were: Djottin-Vitum, Dom, Din, Mbinon, Lassin, Nkor, Nser. I visited Djottin-Vitum and was told by the Afɔn that their ancestors came from Mbwot in what i s now the War N.A. Area.
page 73 note 2 The usage has also a tradition behind it. It was employed in the 1923 Assessment Report on the ‘Nsungli Clans’; it recurs in the Intelligence Report of 1934 (Nsungli Area Bamenda Division); and it appears again in Annual Reports, e.g. that to the United Nations in 1948. I did not feel it necessary to explain the situation more fully in the context of my article, but I appreciate Dr. Jeffreys's point in drawing attention to what might prove a minor source of confusion to those not familiar with Bamenda.