LEADER 06430nam 2200697 a 450 001 9910822579603321 005 20240313161437.0 010 $a1-283-28058-2 010 $a9786613280589 010 $a9956-726-48-6 010 $a9956-726-60-5 010 $a9956-726-36-2 035 $a(CKB)2550000000053786 035 $a(EBL)1135036 035 $a(OCoLC)816865027 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000644787 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12273853 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000644787 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10680284 035 $a(PQKB)10333158 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1135036 035 $a(OCoLC)867785458 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse22050 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1135036 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10500299 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL328058 035 $a(PPN)187344515 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000053786 100 $a20111014d2011 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe Anglophone Cameroon predicament /$fMufor Atanga 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aBamenda, Cameroon $cLangaa Research & Pub., CIG$d2011 215 $a1 online resource (248 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a9956-717-11-8 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references. 327 $aCover; Title page; Copyright page; Dedication; About This Book; Contents; List of Tables; List of Figures; Selected Abbreviations; Acknowledgements; Foreword; Preface; Chapter One - General Introduction; The Problematique; Significance of the Study; Scope; Literature Review; Theoretical Framework; Cultural Pluralism and Nation-Building; The Federal System; Political Pluralism, Integration and the Federal System; Federalism and Nation-Building; Basic Propositions; Methodology; Organisation of the Work; Notes and References 327 $aChapter Two - Colonialism and the Development of Modern Political Institutions in the Cameroons Introduction; Historical Setting: The Colonisation of the Cameroons; The Consequences of the First World War to the Colonial Development of the Cameroons; The Nature of British Colonialism and Its Influence in the Development of Political and Administrative Institutions in the Cameroons; The Nature of French Colonialism, and the Development of French Political and Administrative Institutions in the Cameroons 327 $aDifferences between the French and British Approach to Colonialism and Its Implications for Political Developments in the CameroonsConstitutional Developments in the Southern Cameroons Before 1960; The Politics of Reunification; The Ibo factor In Pre-Unification Southern Cameroons Politics; Party Politics and the Reunification Issue in the Southern Cameroons, 1967-1961; The Foumban Conference and Its Implications for the Constitutional Development of the Southern Cameroons; Notes and References; Chapter Three - The Impact of Reunification on West Cameroon 327 $aThe French Connection: Cameroon, the Neo-Colonial State Par Excellence The Constitutional Implications of the Foumban Conference for the State of West Cameroon; The Erosion of Anglophone Autonomy: Party Politics and the Consolidation of Federal Authority in West Cameroon, 1961-1970; The Formation of a Single National Party and the Demise of the State of West Cameroon; The Abolition of the Federation, 1972; The Socio-Cultural Impact of Reunification on the State of West Cameroon; The Economic Impact of Reunification on the State of West Cameroon 327 $aCommunications and Road Infrastructural Development and the Decline of the West Cameroon Economy Notes and References; Chapter Four - The Failure of National Integration: An Analysis of the Biya Regime, 1982-1993; The Nature of the State in Cameroon Under Biya; President Biya and the Intensification of the Alienation of the Anglophones; The Biya Regime: Raised Hopes and Broken Promises; Ethnicity and Regionalism in the Politics of the Biya Regime; The Ministry of Defence; Presidency of the Republic; The Mass-Media and Bi-Culturalism in Cameroon; The Development of Television in Cameroon 327 $aIs the Television Audience Embarrassed by the English Language? 330 $a"This study explores the predicament of Anglophone Cameroon - from the experiment in federation from 1961 to the political liberalisation struggles of the 1990's - to challenge claims of a successful post-independence Cameroonian integration process. Focusing on the perceptions and actions of people in the Anglophone region, Atanga argues that what has come to be called the 'Anglophone Problem' constitutes one of the severest threats to the post-colonial nation-state project in Cameroon. As a linguistic and cultural minority, Anglophone Cameroonians realised that the Francophone-led state and government were keener in assimilation than in implementing the federal and bilingual nation agreed upon at reunification in 1960. Calls for national integration became simply a subterfuge for the assimilation of Anglophones by Francophones who dominated the state and government. The book details the various measures undertaken to exploit the Anglophone region's economy and marginalise its people. Principally the economic structures meant to facilitate self-reliant development were undermined and destroyed. Institutionalised discrimination took the form of the exclusion of Anglophones from positions of real authority, and depriving the region of any meaningful development. With the advent of multi-party politics, most Anglophone Cameroonians increasingly have made vocal demands for a return to a federation, in order to adequately guarantee their rights and recognition for them as a political and cultural minority. Actively encouraged by France, the Francophone-led regime in Cameroon has refused to yield to such demands, despite the grave danger of violent conflict and possible secession."--P. [4] of cover. 606 $aEnglish language$zCameroon 606 $aEnglish language$xSocial aspects$zCameroon 607 $aCameroon$xLanguages 615 0$aEnglish language 615 0$aEnglish language$xSocial aspects 700 $aAtanga$b Mufor$01636865 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910822579603321 996 $aThe Anglophone Cameroon predicament$93978346 997 $aUNINA