03597nam 2200673 a 450 991113548620332120251116151943.01-280-46507-797866104650711-4237-1416-490-474-0264-210.1163/9789047402640(CKB)1000000000033086(EBL)253648(OCoLC)191039381(SSID)ssj0000209096(PQKBManifestationID)11196908(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000209096(PQKBWorkID)10244767(PQKB)10145555(MiAaPQ)EBC253648(Au-PeEL)EBL253648(CaPaEBR)ebr10089759(CaONFJC)MIL46507(OCoLC)60929094(nllekb)BRILL9789047402640(EXLCZ)99100000000003308620030423d2003 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrNegotiating an Anglophone identity a study of the politics of recognition and representation in Cameroon /by Piet Konings and Francis B. Nyamnjoh1st ed.Leiden ;Boston Brill20031 online resource (240 p.)Afrika-Studiecentrum series,1570-9310 ;v. 1Description based upon print version of record.90-04-13295-3 Includes bibliographical references (p. [209]-221) and index.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 MOVEMENTS7. THE ANGLOPHONE STRUGGLE FOR THE PRESERVATION OF ITS EDUCATIONAL AND ECONOMIC LEGACY8. THE ANGLOPHONE PROBLEM: IMPASSE AND SUGGESTIONS FOR A SOLUTION; References; IndexThis 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 1990s, dictatorship only paid lip service to democracy with impunity, often by silencing those perceived to threaten national unity. Since then, individuals and groups have reactivated claims to rights and entitlements and nowhere more so than in Cameroon. The book articulates the experiences and predicaments of the country's Anglophone community trapped in a marriage of inconvenience pregnant with tensions and conflicts.Afrika-Studiecentrum series ;v. 1.English languagePolitical aspectsCameroonCameroonLanguagesPolitical aspectsCameroonPolitics and government1960-English languagePolitical aspects306.44/96711Konings Piet301034Nyamnjoh Francis B.1961-858938MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9911135486203321Negotiating an Anglophone identity4858981UNINA