Nation of outlaws, state of violence : : nationalism, Grassfields tradition, and state building in Cameroon / / Meredith Terretta.
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| Superior document: | New African histories |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Athens, Ohio : : Ohio University Press,, [2014] 2014 |
| Year of Publication: | 2014 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | New African histories series.
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (384 pages) :; maps. |
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Table of Contents:
- 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.