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Record Nr.

UNINA9910458303703321

Titolo

The Cameroon GCE crisis [[electronic resource] ] : a test of anglophone solidarity / / editors, Francis B. Nyamnjoh & Richard Fonteh Akum

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Mankon, Bamenda, : Langaa Research & Pub. CIG, c2008

ISBN

1-283-19852-5

9956-716-93-6

9786613198525

9956-716-10-3

9956-615-73-0

Edizione

[[2nd ed.]]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (377 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

NyamnjohFrancis B. <1961->

AkumRichard Fonteh

Disciplina

370.96711

Soggetti

General certificate of education examination (Great Britain)

Educational tests and measurements - Cameroon - History

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Preface to the Second Edition; Preface to the First Edition; Chapter One - Anglophone Students of the University of Yaoundé Petition against Introduction of a New Cameroon GCE Scheme for Anglophone Schools Nation-Wide; Chapter Two - The Birth and Struggles of TAC; Chapter Three - The Church Played a Major Role; Chapter Four - CAPTAC at the Forefront of the Struggle to Redeem the GCE; Chapter Five - The Board Is Here But...; Chapter Six - The Day Our Baby Board Came: Accounts of a Victory; Chapter Seven - Effective Marking of the GCE: No Easy Task

Chapter Eight - Lessons from the GCE AffairChapter Nine - The Problem; Chapter Ten - What can we learn from our former British education officers?; Back Cover

Sommario/riassunto

This book richly documents the battles fought by the Anglophone community in Cameroon to safeguard the General Certificate of Education (GCE), a symbol of their cherished colonial heritage from Britain, from attempts by agents of the Ministry of National Education



to subvert it. These battles opposed a mobilised and determined Anglophone civil society against numerous machinations by successive Francophone-dominated governments to destroy their much prided educational system in the name of 'national integration'. When Southern Cameroonians re-united with La R?publique du Cameroun in 1961, they