03140nam 22006011 450 991080775030332120230803201602.00-8214-4472-7(CKB)3710000000055372(EBL)1743586(OCoLC)869775324(SSID)ssj0001053561(PQKBManifestationID)11555876(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001053561(PQKBWorkID)11114915(PQKB)11346634(MiAaPQ)EBC1743586(Au-PeEL)EBL1743586(CaPaEBR)ebr10795302(EXLCZ)99371000000005537220130731h20142014 uy 0engurcnu||||||||txtccrNation of outlaws, state of violence nationalism, Grassfields tradition, and state building in Cameroon /Meredith TerrettaAthens, Ohio :Ohio University Press,[2014]©20141 online resource (384 p.)New African historiesDescription based upon print version of record.0-8214-2069-0 Includes bibliographical references and index.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.Nation of Outlaws, State of Violence is the first extensive history of Cameroonian nationalism to consider the global and local influences that shaped the movement within the French and British Cameroons and beyond. Drawing on the archives of the United Nations, France, Great Britain, Ghana, and Cameroon, as well as oral sources, Nation of Outlaws, State of Violence chronicles the spread of the Union des populations du Cameroun (UPC) nationalist movement from the late 1940's into the first postcolonial decade. It shows how, in the French and British Cameroon territories administered as UN TrustNew African histories series.Bamileke (African people)History20th centuryNationalismCameroonHistory20th centuryCameroonHistoryAutonomy and independence movementsCameroonHistory1960-1982CameroonHistoryTo 1960Bamileke (African people)HistoryNationalismHistory967.1103Terretta Meredith1663017MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910807750303321Nation of outlaws, state of violence4020033UNINA