Negotiating an Anglophone identity : : a study of the politics of recognition and representation in Cameroon / / by Piet Konings and Francis B. Nyamnjoh.
This is a significant and timely book on the politics of belonging. It captures, with fascinating detail and insight, the current widespread disaffection with the sterile rhetoric of nation-building that has characterised much of postcolonial African politics. Until the liberation struggles of the 1...
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| Superior document: | Afrika-Studiecentrum series, v. 1 |
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| Year of Publication: | 2003 |
| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Afrika-Studiecentrum series ;
v. 1. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (240 p.) |
| Notes: | Description based upon print version of record. |
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Table of Contents:
- Contents; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; 1. POLITICAL LIBERALISATION AND THE MOBILISATION OF AN ANGLOPHONE IDENTITY IN CAMEROON; 2. SOUTHERN CAMEROONS ON THE ROAD TO REUNIFICATION AND FEDERATION; 3. THE DEVELOPMENT OF AN ANGLOPHONE CONSCIOUSNESS DURING THE FEDERAL AND ONE-PARTY UNITARY STATE, 1961-1990; 4. ANGLOPHONE STRUGGLES FOR A RETURN TO THE FEDERAL STATE OR FOR SECESSION DURING POLITICAL LIBERALISATION, 1990-2002; 5. STRATEGIES OF THE BIYA GOVERNMENT TO DECONSTRUCT THE ANGLOPHONE IDENTITY; 6. ANGLOPHONE AND FRANCOPHONE RESPONSES TO THE VIEWS OF THE ANGLOPHONE MOVEMENTS
- 7. THE ANGLOPHONE STRUGGLE FOR THE PRESERVATION OF ITS EDUCATIONAL AND ECONOMIC LEGACY8. THE ANGLOPHONE PROBLEM: IMPASSE AND SUGGESTIONS FOR A SOLUTION; References; Index