Southern West Cameroon revisited . Volume 2 North-South West nexus 1858-1972 / / Anthony Ndi

• Autore: Ndi Anthony
• Pubblicazione: North West Region, Cameroon : , : Langaa RPCIG, , 2014; ©2014
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (278 p.)
• Disciplina: 967.11
• Soggetto geografico: Limbe (Cameroon) History
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Independence and reunification : an analysis of basic issues -- Grassland, forest and coast -- North and south west : factors in reunification -- Southern Cameroons : political maturity -- President Ahidjo : alpha and omega -- Postscript -- Historiography -- Epilogue -- Appendices (I-VI) -- Bibliography -- Index.
• Sommario/riassunto: This book argues that Southern Cameroons up to the late 1960's had extensively developed an evolved mature, political culture. It was amazingly led by a range of: simple, visionary, austere, honest, peace-loving and realistic leaders, almost without exception; vintage products of their epoch. Distinguished by good governance; throughout it organized frequent free, fair and transparent elections, peaceful handover of power and enjoyed free primary and adult education. It was further crowned with an ideal, efficient civil service, literally, corruption free. In fact, the period, 1955-1968 in the history of Southern Cameroons qualifies as a "Golden Age" for that nostalgic state, whose citizens were repeatedly referred to as "nice, peace loving, loyal, good and hospitable people" by administrators, missionaries, visitors and those who got to know them closely. The most remarkable observation however, was that finally made by Malcolm Milne, the greatest critic, who noted that during his last couple of years in the Southern Cameroons administration, he dealt with: "People of high intelligence who knew exactly what they wanted." Of the civil servants, he maintains that they had greatly enriched his time in the colonial service; "There was something very special about that corps; their service was their watch word." This superlative description by Malcolm Milne was being made of a combination of the people of the present North and South West Regions, whom he saw as a socio-cultural, economic and political unit. It is therefore obvious that from 1955 - 1968, Southern West Cameroon came close towards becoming an ideal state.
• Titolo autorizzato: Southern West Cameroon revisited
• ISBN: 9956-791-10-5
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910464102903321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II