In addition to one of the two species of Trichopolydesmidae hitherto recorded from Cameroon, Porat, 1894, which is revised based on type material and shown to represent the genus Schubart, 1955, , 12 new species from the same genus are described from that country: , , , , , , , , , , and A key to all 13 species (of ) known to occur in Cameroon is presented, and their distributions are mapped. All ten recognizable (but excluding two dubious) Afrotropical genera or subgenera of Trichopolydesmidae are rediagnosed and reclassified, based both on their type species and a presumed scenario of gonopodal evolution. As a result, the number of accepted genera is reduced to five: Attems, 1909 (= Brolemann, 1920), Brolemann, 1920 (= Attems, 1939, , = Chamberlin, 1951, , = Schubart, 1955, }, Schubart, 1955, Brolemann, 1926 (= Verhoeff, 1941, ), and .
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