LEADER 03248nam 2200517 450 001 9910798932403321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a9956-764-61-2 035 $a(CKB)3710000000953370 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4741119 035 $a(OCoLC)964596850 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse56692 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL4741119 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11297631 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL969828 035 $a(OCoLC)963695620 035 $a(PPN)198057814 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000953370 100 $a20161128h20162016 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $2rdacontent 182 $2rdamedia 183 $2rdacarrier 200 10$aPolitical philosophies and nation-building in Cameroon $egrounds for remaking the postcolony /$fAseh Andrew 210 1$aBamenda, Cameroon :$cLangaa,$d2016. 210 4$dİ2016 215 $a1 online resource (204 pages) 311 $a9956-763-44-6 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references. 327 $aPreface -- Corrigendum -- Definition of concepts -- Fault start at birthing a national facing a historical challenge -- Um Nyobe's political philosophy within the UPC national liberation struggle -- Ahmadou Ahidjo's political ideas for nation-building -- Paul Biya's new deal political philosophy for nation-building -- The lethargy of a post-colonial political experiment -- The pitfalls that thwarted the configuration of a nation in Cameroon. 330 $aThis is a comprehensive text on the function of thought in the history and political sociology of Cameroon. The book brings out how the "hidden hand of history" fashions a political thought which, in turn, creates its own history. Instead of Cameroonians making history, history makes Cameroonians. The book shows how political ideas are fashioned in a post-colonial context in which Europeans impose a superordinate arrangement on a people together with its philosophers. "Thinking the nation" in Cameroon on behalf of Europeans, especially after the leaders of the national liberation struggle were all eliminated, European philosophers put in place a "repressive machine" under which Cameroonians were subjected between 1958 and 1990. Repression gave way to a refined form of enslavement - a modernised version of slavery. Cameroonians joined the bandwagon and have been producing and reproducing Western industrial economies while day-dreaming of what they will never become. The whole idea of nation-building in post-colonial Africa is put in question. This book offers students of political studies, sociology, anthropology and history compelling evidence to grapple with questions as to whether Cameroon is a state or a nation and questions of sovereignty and citizenship. 606 $aNationalism$zCameroon 606 $aNational liberation movements$zCameroon 607 $aCameroon$xPolitics and government 615 0$aNationalism 615 0$aNational liberation movements 676 $a320.9671104 700 $aAndrew$b Aseh$01516614 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910798932403321 996 $aPolitical philosophies and nation-building in Cameroon$93753195 997 $aUNINA