State of a union : the half century of Cameroon's bicultural experience / Emmanuel Yenshu Vubo.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Yenshu, Emmanuel.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Biculturalism--Cameroon.

Biculturalism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (191 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Bamenda, Cameroon : Langaa RPCIG, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The bicultural polity of Cameroon has become problematic over the years. In addition to the increasing marginalization experienced by its English speaking component in many domains (politics, administration, economy, culture), it is facing mounting inequality and disarray despite the nation-building aspirations at reunification in 1961. This book examines the very basis of the union crisis by tracing the causes to the asymmetrical nature of negotiations between the contracting partners ñ the founding fathers of the union ñ and the politics of guile and force that has characterized the regimes

Contents:

Cover; Title page; Copyright page; Dedication; Contents; Preface; Introduction; Chapter One - Utopia and Disenchantment in the Making of the Bicultural Polity; The Genesis: Between Utopia, Immature Politicking and Political Opportunism; Asymmetrical Negotiations, Inconclusive Arrangements and Forced Political Order; Dynamics of Chaotic Integration in a Forced Political Order; The Spatial Human Dimension: Population Movements and the Economy; Peculiar Circumstances of Imbalances; Political and Administrative Culture: A Peculiar Monster; International Dimension: The Cultural Status of the State

Conclusions Chapter Two - The Making of Ethnic Frontiers as Statecraft; An Outline of the Political Arithmetic of the Ahidjo Regime; Biya's Statecraft: Mirror Image and Heir; Universalist Imperatives vs. Particularistic Interests in State Formation; Chapter Three - Language and the Linguistic Question in the Bicultural Project; The Politics of Language: The Option and Experimentation with Bilingualism; The Language of Administrative and Formal Economic Practices; Language in the Formal Learning Situation the School and Universities; Primary and Post-primary Schools; University

Post 1990 Developments and Impact on School/University System Implications of the Developments on Education and Social Fabric: Imbalance and Imperial Feelings of Sufficiency; Language in Popular Social Interactions and Informal Economic Exchange: Creative Multilingualisms; Conclusions; Confluence of ethno-linguistic reality, transethnicity and linguistic cultural contact in modern context of Cameroon; Chapter Four - Between Assimilation and Roll Back In Harmonisation Projects; The Armed Forces; The Administration; The Justice System in Cameroon: A Mix of Structures

Primary and Secondary Education: Continuous Asymmetry in Understanding and the Reproduction of Difference and Identity Chapter Five - Towards An Anthropology of Conviviality and a Politics of Possibilities; Models of Conviviality; Plural Orders and the Structuring of Relations in the Bicultural Situation; Anthropology of Representations; Current Problems with the Reference to a Colonial Heritage; Towards a Politics of Possibilities; Revision of Article I: The name of the country; Revision of Article 1.2: The Form of the State; Revision of Article 57: Organs of Regional Council

Abrogation of Article 58: Government Delegates to Regions Abrogation and Modification of Article 61; Institutional Reforms; Management of Linguistic Difference; Geopolitical Arrangements of a Federal Structure; Maintaining and Consolidating the Strategic Gains of the Union; References; Appendix I - Reflections on Changing Times: Political Obstinacy, Legacies and the Anglophone Problem (Being a series of newspaper articles that appeared in The Post newspaper October and November 2000); Appendix II - Academic Honours for Dr Temngah Joseph Nyambo of the University Of Douala; Back cover

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9786613531360

9781280127489

1280127481

9789956727483

9956727482

9789956727001

9956727008

9789956727964

9956727962

OCLC:

781861425