| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
1. |
Record Nr. |
UNINA9910781268003321 |
|
|
Autore |
Nkwi Walter Gam |
|
|
Titolo |
Sons and daughters of the soil [[electronic resource] ] : land and boundary conflicts in North West Cameroon, 1955-2005 / / Walter Gam Nkwi |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Pubbl/distr/stampa |
|
|
Bamenda [Cameroon], : Langaa RPCIG, 2011 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
ISBN |
|
1-283-06358-1 |
9786613063588 |
9956-579-07-6 |
9956-579-06-8 |
9956-579-05-X |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Descrizione fisica |
|
1 online resource (248 p.) |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Disciplina |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Soggetti |
|
Land tenure - Cameroon |
Cameroon Boundaries |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Lingua di pubblicazione |
|
|
|
|
|
|
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; Dedication; Acknowledgements; Preface; Chapter One - Introduction; A) Dancing the Plot and Riding the Past into the Present; B) Understanding inter-community boundary conflicts within Homer-Dixon Framework; Chapter Two - The Geographical and Ethnographic Survey of Bamenda Grassfields; Introduction; A) Staking the Study Area; B) Peoples of the Region; C) Traditional and Socio-Political Organisations; D) Decentralised Societies; E) The contending issues of boundary conflicts in theBamenda Grassfields; Conclusion |
Chapter Three - A History of Bambili/Babanki-Tungoh and the Genesis of the Boundary Conflict Introduction; A) Origin and the Migratory Histories of Bambili and Babanki-Tungoh; B) Geographical Locations and Daily Activities; C) From Fraternal Friends (up to 1950's) to Fraternal Enemies?; D) Contending issues: causes of the boundary conflict between Bambili and Babanki-Tungoh; E)The Manifestation of the Boundary Conflict c. 1950 -1955:The epoch of Law Suits; F) Decision on Land Dispute Between Babanki-tungoh And Bambili Agreed |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Upon By The Bafut; G) The War Period; H) The 1995 War |
I) The Wesmacott's myth: a commentary Conclusion; Chapter Four - The "Cold" Years, 1995-2005; Introduction; A) The Complaints Period; B) The Koungo Edima Commission; Conclusion; Chapter Five - Consequences of the Bambili and Babanki-Tungoh Boundary Conflict and Some Suggested Solutions; Introduction; A) Social Consequences; B) Economic Consequences; C) Political Consequences; D) Efforts at Resolving the Boundary Conflict; E) Why the attempted solutions failed; F) Suggested Solutions; Conclusion; Chapter Six - General Conclusion; Appendices; Notes on Sources; Back cover |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Sommario/riassunto |
|
This book makes a rare and original contribution on the history of little documented internal land conflicts and boundary misunderstandings in Cameroon, where attention has tended to focus too narrowly on international boundary conflicts such as that between Cameroon and Nigeria. The study is of the Bamenda Grassfields, the region most plagued by land and boundary conflicts in the country. Despite claims of common descent and cultural similarities by most communities in the region, relations have been tested and dominated by recurrent land and boundary conflicts since the middle of the 20th Ce |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
2. |
Record Nr. |
UNINA9910784155003321 |
|
|
Autore |
Bongmba Elias Kifon <1953-> |
|
|
Titolo |
The dialectics of transformation in Africa [[electronic resource] /] / Elias Kifon Bongmba |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Pubbl/distr/stampa |
|
|
New York, : Palgrave Macmillan, 2006 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
ISBN |
|
1-281-36597-1 |
9786611365974 |
1-4039-8458-1 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Edizione |
[1st ed. 2006.] |
|
|
|
|
|
Descrizione fisica |
|
1 online resource (X, 310 p.) |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Disciplina |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Soggetti |
|
Political corruption - Africa |
Postcolonialism - Africa |
Africa Social conditions 1960- |
Africa Politics and government 1960- |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Lingua di pubblicazione |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
|
|
|
|
|
Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
|
|
|
|
|
Note generali |
|
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Nota di bibliografia |
|
Includes bibliographical references ([213]-300) and index. |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Sommario/riassunto |
|
A discussion of political and religious crisis in Africa, this book covers such topics as democratic transition, good governance, civil society and the African renaissance. Elias K. Bongmba proposes humanistic interventions centred on the recovery of interpersonal relations and seeks to understand the ongoing struggles in Africa. |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |