Richard Fardon, Head of the Doctoral School, and Professor of West African Anthropology, SOAS University of London

“Jean-Pierre Warnier has spent a career building our knowledge of Cameroon, most particularly of the Grassfields and the kingdom of Mankon. He has also built networks of researchers, across countries and continents, who will assure his legacy, still in the making, will be a beginning and not an end. So much building requires demolition, so this collection can be read not only for its substantive content but also for the long labour of demolishing constrictive disciplinary borders and turning them into expansive intellectual frontiers. The excitement remains palpable, and readers new to Warnier's work will want to start here for a timeline of discoveries, inventions and collaborations. Essential reading.”