Contents of a book which attempts to explain the Qur'an
Scope & Content:
Leaves: 1; Pages: 2; Measurements: 15.2cm x 9.3cm; Dates Unknown; Script: Akauku mfemfe; Condition: Fair; Comments: The Bamoun Script and Archive Project team will re-evaluate this document in the future to confirm that it is fromNji Mama’s collection.
Arabic script talisman dealing with Islamic mysticism, with notes in Akauku Mfemfe.
Scope & Content:
Leaves: 1; Pages: 2; Measurements: 10.2cm x 8.4cm; Dates Unknown; Script: Arabic script in Hausa ink with Akauku mfemfe in pencil; Condition: Good; Comments: The numeral “8” at the top of the page in blue ink was added, unfortunately, on theeve of transfer by someone from the donor’s family.
Notes on the names of various Princes in the Bamum palace
Scope & Content:
Leaves: 1; Pages: 2; Measurements: 21.1cm x 17.1cm; Dates Unknown; Script: Akauku mfemfe in pencil and orange pencil; Condition: Good; Comments: This document was part of something like a “newspaper” that Nji Mama wrote duringthe period of Sultan Seidou’s reign among the Bamum.
Leaves: 1; Pages: 2; Measurements: 14cm x 9.2cm; Dates stamped on reverse is the date 1939 with the words “Cameroons Under British Mandate”; Script: Akauku Mfemfe in pencil; Condition: Fair; Comments: written on something resembling brown packaging material
Envelope addressed to Nji Mama in Foumban from Douala [28 Feb 1933]
Scope & Content:
Leaves: 1; Pages: 2; Measurements: 14.3cm x 11.3cm; Dates 28 February 1933; Script: Akauku Mfemfe and Arabic script in pencil; Condition: Good; Comments: Includes three stamps
Record of Tontine with names of members with unidentified writing in Arabic
Scope & Content:
Leaves: 1; Pages: 2; Measurements: 20cm x 16cm; Dates Unknown; Script: Akauku Mfemfe and Arabic script; Condition: Poor; page torn; Comments: A “tontine” or “njangui” is a community savings organization