284:, a 533-page overview of the entirety of Cameroonian history with illustrations and maps. This work was the first academic history of Cameroon to be published. Divided into eight sections, the first half of the book focuses on the precolonial period, while the rest of it covers the colonial history of Cameroon until the date of publishing. While most of the history presented is a secondary source, relying on published works, Mveng also includes a section on labor unions in Cameroon based primarily on then-unpublished writings.
369:, particularly that which sought to examine the political and material state of Africa through a theological lens. As a theological method, Mveng employed contextualization, maintaining that the African theological discourse comes from a historical-cultural situation unique to Africa, and inculturation, placing the Christian revelation in an African cultural context. The main theme of Mveng's work, as he had stated it, is centered on his concept of a "theology of life" which triumphs over the forces of death.
277:(Greek Sources on Black African History from Homer to Strabon). From 1965 to 1971, he was an assistant professor at the University of Yaounde, whereupon he became a full lecturer, and in 1974 became a full professor. Mveng was also Director of Cultural Affairs in the National Ministry of Education and Culture from 1966 to 1974. Following this role, from 1983 to 1987 he chaired the History department of the University of Yaounde.
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One of Mveng's key ideas was that of anthropological poverty, in which he connected the concept of physical/material poverty to that of cultural impoverishment and the state of being denied one's own history. He considered this deprivation of culture and identity from a group to be a consequence of
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Mveng was found to have been assassinated at his home in
Yaounde on April 23, 1995. The crime was never solved, but occurred near the same time as the murders of several other members of the clergy.
273:(Paganism and Christianity: Christianization of the Pagan Civilization of Roman Africa According to the Correspondence of Saint Augustin). Later, in 1972, Mveng submitted a thesis in history,
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