God, land, justice, and political sovereignty in Grassfields governance -- "Bamileke strangers" make the Mungo River Valley their home -- Troublesome, rebellious, outlawed : international politics and UPC nationalism in the Bamileke and Mungo regions -- Nationalists or traitors? : Bamileke chiefs and electoral politics in the year of loi-cadre -- The maquis at home, exile abroad : Grassfields warfare meets revolutionary Pan-Africanism -- "Here, God does not exist" : emergency law and the violence of state building -- Conclusion : "after the war, we stop counting the dead" : reconciliation and public confession.