Mark Dike DeLancey is associate professor in the Department of History of Art and Architecture and director of the Islamic World Studies Program at DePaul University. He is the author of Conquest and Construction: Palace Architecture in Northern Cameroon (Brill, 2016).Mark W. DeLancey is a retired professor of political science and African studies at the University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC and Sookmyung Women’s University, Seoul, Korea. He has published numerous works on Cameroon and recently on the relationship between health and development.Rebecca Neh Mbuh is a full professor in the Department of Business Administration at Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, Seoul, South Korea. She is the co-author of Women in the New Millennium: A Global Revolution (Hamilton Books, 2006).

• Editor’s Forward – Jon WoronoffPrefaceAcronyms and AbbreviationsMapsChronologyIntroductionDictionaryBibliographyAbout the Authors

The Historical Dictionary of the Republic of Cameroon, updated to nearly the present moment for the 5th edition, follows the format of the well-established series, including a list of acronyms and abbreviations, maps, a chronology, a contextual introduction, more than 500 pages of dictionary entries, and an exhaustive bibliography. The chronology is indicative of the work’s emphasis, largely focused on the political history of the 20th and 21st centuries. . . clearly beneficial to a budding researcher of the region. Summing Up: Recommended. Lower-division undergraduates through faculty.

Mark Dike DeLancey is associate professor in the Department of History of Art and Architecture and director of the Islamic World Studies Program at DePaul University. He is the author of Conquest and Construction: Palace Architecture in Northern Cameroon (Brill, 2016).Mark W. DeLancey is a retired professor of political science and African studies at the University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC and Sookmyung Women’s University, Seoul, Korea. He has published numerous works on Cameroon and recently on the relationship between health and development.Rebecca Neh Mbuh is a full professor in the Department of Business Administration at Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, Seoul, South Korea. She is the co-author of Women in the New Millennium: A Global Revolution (Hamilton Books, 2006).

• Editor’s Forward – Jon WoronoffPrefaceAcronyms and AbbreviationsMapsChronologyIntroductionDictionaryBibliographyAbout the Authors

The Historical Dictionary of the Republic of Cameroon, updated to nearly the present moment for the 5th edition, follows the format of the well-established series, including a list of acronyms and abbreviations, maps, a chronology, a contextual introduction, more than 500 pages of dictionary entries, and an exhaustive bibliography. The chronology is indicative of the work’s emphasis, largely focused on the political history of the 20th and 21st centuries. . . clearly beneficial to a budding researcher of the region. Summing Up: Recommended. Lower-division undergraduates through faculty.

Mark Dike DeLancey is associate professor in the Department of History of Art and Architecture and director of the Islamic World Studies Program at DePaul University. He is the author of Conquest and Construction: Palace Architecture in Northern Cameroon (Brill, 2016).Mark W. DeLancey is a retired professor of political science and African studies at the University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC and Sookmyung Women’s University, Seoul, Korea. He has published numerous works on Cameroon and recently on the relationship between health and development.Rebecca Neh Mbuh is a full professor in the Department of Business Administration at Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, Seoul, South Korea. She is the co-author of Women in the New Millennium: A Global Revolution (Hamilton Books, 2006).

• Editor’s Forward – Jon WoronoffPrefaceAcronyms and AbbreviationsMapsChronologyIntroductionDictionaryBibliographyAbout the Authors

The Historical Dictionary of the Republic of Cameroon, updated to nearly the present moment for the 5th edition, follows the format of the well-established series, including a list of acronyms and abbreviations, maps, a chronology, a contextual introduction, more than 500 pages of dictionary entries, and an exhaustive bibliography. The chronology is indicative of the work’s emphasis, largely focused on the political history of the 20th and 21st centuries. . . clearly beneficial to a budding researcher of the region. Summing Up: Recommended. Lower-division undergraduates through faculty.