Cameroon -- CONTENTS -- BACKGROUND -- 1.1.0 Historical Overview -- 1.1.1 Contacts with Islam -- 1.1.2 Contacts with Europeans -- 1.1.3 Cameroon - since independence -- 1.2.0 Development of English in Cameroon -- 1.2.1 The teaching of English in Cameroon before 1884 -- 1.2.2 The teaching of English in the British sector of Cameroon -- 1.2.3 The teaching of English in Cameroon since 1961 -- 1.3.0 Varieties of English in Cameroon -- 1.3.1 Standard English -- 1.3.2 Standard English with Cameroonianisms -- 1.3.3 Standard English showing the influence of French -- 1.3.4 Pidgin English (CamP) -- 1.3.5 Broken English -- 1.3.6 Overlapping variants -- 1.4.0 Orthographic problems -- 1.5.0 Possible future developments -- TEXTS -- 1. Abbia congratulates President Ahidjo on the twentieth anniversary of his coming to power in Cameroon -- NOTES -- 2. Background to the annexation of Cameroon, 1875-1885 -- NOTES -- 3. Cameroon misses another chance -- 4. Cameroon watch marvelous chance slip off their hands -- NOTES -- AFRICAN NATIONS FOOTBALL CUP ELIMINATION SERIES -- CAMEROON WATCH MARVELOUSCHANCE SUP OFF THEIR HANDS -- NOTES -- 5. Yaoundé University: The incubus of some hidebound Cameroonians -- YAOUNDE UNIVERSITY :THE INCUBUS OF SOME HIDEBOUND CAMEROONIANS -- NOTES -- 6. Madam Wickend -- 7. Massa Tchakala -- NOTES -- NOTES -- 8. Briefs -- NOTES -- 9. Youths want tarred roads in Bamenda -- NOTES -- YOUTHS WANT TARRED ROADS IN BAMENDA -- 10. Organise refresher courses for journalists -- NOTES -- 11. Extracts from Pidgin English Catechisms, 1926 and 1957 editions -- NOTES -- 12. Extracts from two Pidgin translations of St Mark's Gospels -- NOTES -- 13. Extract from sov-Mbang, the Soothsayer -- NOTES -- 14. Extract from The White Man of God -- NOTES -- 15. Extract from These Seventy Years -- NOTES -- 16. Letter to Queen Victoria from King Akwa of Douai a, 1879.

NOTES -- 17. Treaty Document, 1884 -- NOTES -- 18. Teaching English in the junior primary school -- NOTES -- 19. Child delinquency in the junior section of the primary school in Mankon -- NOTES -- 20. Pidgin English as a barrier to the teaching of English -- NOTES -- 21. The problems of translation from the mother tongues to English -- NOTES -- 22. Personal letter in educated Cameroon English -- NOTES -- 23. Personal letter in English and Pidgin -- NOTES -- 24. Personal letter in Pidgin 1 -- NOTES -- 25. Personal letter in Pidgin 2 -- NOTES -- 26. Extract from Mimbo Hos -- NOTES -- 27. The fate of a jealous maid -- NOTES -- 28. Some techniques of verisimilitude in tale-telling -- NOTES -- 29. Collection of Pidgin proverbs -- NOTES -- 30. Du mi, a du yu ('Tit for Tat') -- NOTES -- 31. Hau a go pei nau? -- NOTES -- 32. Yu tink sei dis ting na basikul pem? (Do you think this thing is a bicycle pump?) -- NOTES -- 33. Banla andijumbi (Banla and the Spirit) -- NOTES -- 34. Trcki an Pig: a Fontem folktale -- NOTES -- 35. Worksongs in Cameroon -- NOTES -- 36. "To be or not to be" in CamP -- NOTES -- 37. Radio English: Sickle Cell Anaemia -- NOTES -- 38. Joe's story -- NOTES -- 39. Big Man fc Nkar ('The chief of Nkar') -- NOTES -- 40. Dai man i waka ('The corpse's journey') -- NOTES -- 41. Studying Pidgin -- NOTES -- SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY.