Negotiating an Anglophone identity : a study of the politics of recognition and representation in Cameroon / by Piet Konings and Francis B. Nyamnjoh.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Konings, Piet.

Contributor:

Nyamnjoh, Francis B., 1961-

Series:

Afrika-Studiecentrum series ; v. 1.

Afrika-Studiecentrum series, 1570-9310 ; v. 1

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English language--Political aspects--Cameroon.

English language.

Cameroon--Languages--Political aspects.

Cameroon.

Cameroon--Politics and government--1960-.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (240 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2003.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

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

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [209]-221) and index.

ISBN:

1-280-46507-7

9786610465071

1-4237-1416-4

90-474-0264-2

OCLC:

191039381

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789047402640 DOI