African Journal of
History and Culture

  • Abbreviation: Afr. J. Hist. Cult.
  • Language: English
  • ISSN: 2141-6672
  • DOI: 10.5897/AJHC
  • Start Year: 2009
  • Published Articles: 196

Article in Press

THE HISTORIOGRAPHY OF PRE-COLONIAL BAKUNDULAND, CAMEROON: A CRITIQUE OF THE WRITINGS OF JOSEPH EBUNE, TIMOTHY MUSIMA, AND JENKINS DIOMO

Jenkins Diomo Betombo

  •  Received: 30 June 2019
  •  Accepted: 09 December 2022
The research sampled the historiography of Pre-Colonial Bakunduland in Southwestern Cameroon with critical references to Bakundu ethnic Historian mainly Joseph Ebune, Timothy Musima and Jenkins Diomo. The different explanatory frameworks of the historic writer and writings unveiled the broad spectrum of the existence of powerful states and kingdoms in Cameroon before Western Intrusion. The digestion of the prevailing facts and evidence in time and space pin points the massive growth and development in to revealed truth on the weightlessness of Eurocentric Perspectives about Africa. Diagnosing Afrocentric and Eurocentric views spontaneously directs the explanatory frameworks of the Bakundu writers and writings concerning the Pre-Colonial Bakunduland in Cameroon. Primary, secondary and tertiary materials were consumed to add more meaning to the existing justifications of the Bakundu writers and their factual writings. The brandished output was the elaboration on the essence that there was an ethnic existence of Bakundu aborigines. This has exploded that prime argument on the existence and availability of African history despite the western eruptive version of Africa haven no history.

Keywords: Bakundus, Bakunduland, Writer, Writings, Facts, Evidence, Space, Justification, Refute, Existence, Critical, Explanation, Pre-Colonial, Epoch