Petitioning for our rights, fighting for our nation [[electronic resource] ] : the history of the Democratic Union of Cameroonian Women, 1949-1960 / / Meredith Terretta

• Autore: Terretta Meredith
• Pubblicazione: Oxford, : Langaa RPCIG, 2013
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (170 p.)
• Soggetto topico: Cameroon - Politics and government; Women - Political activity
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 145-157).
• Nota di contenuto: Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Cameroonian Women and the Writing of Popular Nationalism -- Ruben Um Nyobe and the Multi-Layered Origins of the UPC and UDEFEC -- UDEFEC's Political Awakening -- The Official Ban of the Nationalist Movement, and Reorganization in the Maquis -- City to Village: The Rejection of the Colonial Curse -- Conclusion : Towards a Nation of Outsiders -- Bibliography.
• Sommario/riassunto: Thousands of Cameroonian women played an essential role in the radically anti-colonial nationalist movement led by the Union of the Populations of Cameroon (UPC): they were the women of the Democratic Union of Cameroonian Women (UDEFEC). Drawing on women nationalistsí petitions to the United Nations, one of the largest collections of political documents written by African women during the decolonization era, as well as archival research and oral interviews, this work shows how UDEFEC transcended ethnic, class, education and social divides, and popularized nationalism in both urban and rural
• Titolo autorizzato: Petitioning for our rights, fighting for our nation
• ISBN: 9956-728-18-7; 9956-728-55-1
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910462749803321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II