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Negotiating an Anglophone identity : a study of the politics of recognition and representation in Cameroon / by Piet Konings, Francis B. Nyamnjoh.
Van Pelt Library P119.32.C17 K66 2003
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Konings, Piet.
- Series:
- Afrika-Studiecentrum series 1570-9310 ; v. 1.
- Afrika-Studiecentrum series, 1570-9310 ; v. 1
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English language--Political aspects--Cameroon.
- English language.
- Language and languages.
- English language--Political aspects.
- Cameroon--Languages--Political aspects.
- Cameroon.
- Cameroon--Politics and government--1960-.
- Politics and government.
- Physical Description:
- x, 230 pages : 1 map ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2003.
- Summary:
- This study of Cameroon captures, with fascinating detail and insight, the growing disaffection with the sterile rhetoric of nation-building that has characterised much of postcolonial African politics.It focuseson the resistance ofAnglophone Cameroonians to nationhood, which is being pursued to the detriment of minority identities.
- Contents:
- 1. Political Liberalisation and the Mobilisation of an Anglophone Identity in Cameroon 1
- The post-colonial nation-state project in Cameroon 2
- The construction of an Anglophone identity and competing identities 9
- Anglophones and the reconfiguration of state power 17
- Organisation of the book and research methodology 20
- 2. Southern Cameroons on the Road to Reunification and Federation 22
- The emergence of nationalism and reunification ideas in the Southern Cameroons 23
- The 1961 United Nations plebiscite 31
- The 1961 Foumban constitutional conference 41
- 3. The Development of an Anglophone Consciousness during the Federal and One-Party Unitary State, 1961-1990 51
- Anglophones and the dismantling of the federated state of West Cameroon, 1961-1972 52
- Anglophones and the one-party unitary state, 1972-1990 66
- 4. Anglophone Struggles for a Return to the Federal State or for Secession During Political Liberalisation, 1990-2002 76
- The growth of Anglophone organisations 77
- Anglophone struggles for constitutional reform 82
- The Anglophone diplomatic offensive 94
- The Anglophone leadership's 'sensitisation campaign' 101
- 5. Strategies of the Biya Government to Deconstruct the Anglophone Identity 108
- Trivialisation and demonisation of the Anglophone problem 109
- Divide and rule 111
- The establishment of direct and indirect control over the mass media 121
- Repression 133
- 6. Anglophone and Francophone Responses to the Views of the Anglophone Movements 139
- Anglophone views 140
- Francophone views 153
- 7. The Anglophone Struggle for the Preservation of Its Educational and Economic Legacy 162
- The Anglophone struggle for the preservation of its educational legacy 163
- The Anglophone struggle for the preservation of its economic legacy 173
- 8. The Anglophone Problem: Impasse and Suggestions for a Solution 193
- Impasse in relations between Anglophone movements and the regime 193
- Suggestions for a solution to the Anglophone problem 202.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [209]-221) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9004132953
- OCLC:
- 52216196
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