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Negotiating an Anglophone Identity : A Study of the Politics of Recognition and Representation in Cameroon / / Piet Konings, Francis B. Nyamnjoh



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Titolo: Negotiating an Anglophone Identity : A Study of the Politics of Recognition and Representation in Cameroon / / Piet Konings, Francis B. Nyamnjoh Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Leiden; ; Boston : , : BRILL, , 2003
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (240 p.)
Disciplina: 306.44/96711
Soggetto topico: English language - Political aspects - Cameroon
English language - Political aspects
Language and languages - Political aspects
Politics and government
Soggetto geografico: Cameroon Languages Political aspects
Cameroon Politics and government 1960-
Persona (resp. second.): NyamnjohFrancis B.
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: 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 MOVEMENTS
7. THE ANGLOPHONE STRUGGLE FOR THE PRESERVATION OF ITS EDUCATIONAL AND ECONOMIC LEGACY8. THE ANGLOPHONE PROBLEM: IMPASSE AND SUGGESTIONS FOR A SOLUTION; References; Index
Sommario/riassunto: This 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.
Altri titoli varianti: A Study of the Politics of Recognition and Representation in Cameroon
Titolo autorizzato: Negotiating an Anglophone Identity  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-280-46507-7
9786610465071
1-4237-1416-4
90-474-0264-2
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910783206003321
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Serie: Afrika-Studiecentrum Series ; ; 1.