The Cameroon Condition

Author : George Ngwane
Publisher : African Books Collective
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2012-06-27
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789956727100

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The Cameroon Condition by George Ngwane Pdf

The Cameroon Condition brings together three seminal essays by George Ngwane, one of the most renowned, committed and daring Anglophone Cameroon writers. The Mungo Bridge, is a stinging indictment of the tenuous relations between La Republique du Cameroun and the Southern Cameroons a marriage gone sour right from the honeymoon. It raises hard questions on the failed union, and is uncompromisingly courageous in the solutions it proposes. This popular essay was first published at a time when it was risky to be open and critical, especially on what has come to be known as The Anglophone Problem. The Anglophone File discusses the narrow and barren politics of belonging that have exacerbated divisions and controversies among Anglophone elites, turning them into political fodder for the Francophone dominated state. The essay suggests ways out of the divisions and intrigue that have kept Anglophones permanently at daggers drawn against each other, and facilitated their exploitation, humiliation and marginalization. The third essay, Fragments of Unity, concerns the South West Region, whose leaders Ngwane criticizes of political opportunism and of a chronic lack of vision and fortitude with regard to the socio-economic development of the region. It calls for a leadership free of the docility, mediocrity and praisesingerliness. These are powerful essays that have attracted praise and criticism alike. They are essays to leave few indifferent. Their continued relevance to current debates makes of them a most read.

Author : George Ngwane
Publisher : African Books Collective
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : History
ISBN : 9789956727285

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The Cameroon Condition by George Ngwane Pdf

The Cameroon Condition brings together three seminal essays by George Ngwane, one of the most renowned, committed and daring Anglophone Cameroon writers. 'The Mungo Bridge, ' is a stinging indictment of the tenuous relations between La Republique du Cameroun and the Southern Cameroons - a marriage gone sour right from the honeymoon. It raises hard questions on the failed union, and is uncompromisingly courageous in the solutions it proposes. This popular essay was first published at a time when it was risky to be open and critical, especially on what has come to be known as The Anglophone Problem. 'The Anglophone File' discusses the narrow and barren politics of belonging that have exacerbated divisions and controversies among Anglophone elites, turning them into political fodder for the Francophone dominated state. The essay suggests ways out of the divisions and intrigue that have kept Anglophones permanently at daggers drawn against each other, and facilitated their exploitation, humiliation and marginalization. The third essay, 'Fragments of Unity, ' concerns the South West Region, whose leaders Ngwane criticizes of political opportunism and of a chronic lack of vision and fortitude with regard to the socio-economic development of the region. It calls for a leadership free of the docility, mediocrity and praise-singerliness. These are powerful essays that have attracted praise and criticism alike. They are essays to leave few indifferent. Their continued relevance to current debates makes of them a most rea

Author : Tambi Eyongetah Mbuagbaw,Robert Brain,Robert Brian
Publisher : London : Longman
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : History
ISBN : UVA:X000151571

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A History of the Cameroon by Tambi Eyongetah Mbuagbaw,Robert Brain,Robert Brian Pdf

Author : Emmanuel Konde
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2015-01-16
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781503528468

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Cameroon by Emmanuel Konde Pdf

Cameroun was “conceived” in 1947 at the Unicafra Congress in Douala, attended by all the aspiring political actors, from which sprung Racam (Rassemblement Camerounais) that declared itself the Cameroun government in embryo. Shocked by that effrontery, the French colonial state immediately banned Racam. From the ruins of Racam emerged Union des Populations du Cameroun (UPC) in 1948 that stood opposed to French policies in Cameroun. It opposed France in Cameroon for ten years until the French assassinated its leader—Ruben Um Nyobe—in September 1958. In January 1959 France decolonized and granted Cameroun independence at a time when the people were still reeling from the trauma of Um Nyobe’s death. Cameroon: Traumas of the Body Politic examines the traumatic events that have shaped the contours and influenced the trajectory of Cameroon’s political history from the 1940s to the 1990s: the momentous power shifts of 1958 and 1959 in the two Cameroons; rupture of coastal and hinterland cooperation in Southern Cameroons; the political revolution called “anlu” that changed the course of politics in Southern Cameroons; the disappointment of reunification and the genesis of the Anglophone Problem; Ahidjo’s quarter-century reign of terror; the succession schism, attempted coup d’état, political liberalization, and the “New Deal Society” experiment; the quest for multipartyism and “Operation Ghost Town”, etc. These events are explored anew through critical analysis, synthesis, and re-interpretation with uncommon explanatory power.

Author : Glory Manambowoh Lueong
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Page : 73 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2010-08
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783640674657

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Land as a Pre-Condition to Access the National Maize Support Program in Cameroon by Glory Manambowoh Lueong Pdf

Master's Thesis from the year 2009 in the subject Sociology - Culture, Technology, Peoples / Nations, grade: 85.0%, Erasmus University Rotterdam, course: Rural Livelihoods and Global Change, language: English, abstract: This paper explores the question of how the land tenure system in the North West Region of Cameroon affects rural farmers‟ access to the National Support Program to the Maize Sub-Sector (NSPMS) in Cameroon. It does this by confronting NSPMS‟s assumptions about farmers‟ access to land with, the land tenure question existing in the Region. The paper uses an analytical framework which links land tenure institutions, processes of groupformation and social exclusion to challenge these assumptions. The paper argues that, following the nature of the African land question, traditional chiefs do not mainly administer land for the benefit of their subjects in an era of increased land commoditization. Traditional land administration in this era is highly knitted into economic and social relations of power and status which thus suggest high risks of discrimination and exclusion. As such, the paper seeks to add to the knowledge of how mechanisms of social exclusion could be rooted in land tenure institutions but go unnoticed and, continue to further nurture other forms of disadvantage, inequality, exclusion and great vulnerability to acute poverty. The findings of this research suggest disparities between; expectations of NSPMS in their grant making assumptions and, field realities experienced by small scale maize farmers. Instead, there was group polarization. FG‟s which had land were all made of people of similar social status in terms of their privileged position to access land while, landless groups were mostly made of socio-culturally discriminated categories of farmers. In this regard, there was no mixed group (both landless farmers and landlords) which had received grants.Ensuing from this divide therefore, this paper concludes by questioning the adoptio

Author : Mark W. DeLancey
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 175 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2019-03-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9780429728440

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Cameroon by Mark W. DeLancey Pdf

This book examines whether Cameroon is self-sufficient in food, debt free, and politically stable, with objectivity and insight. It also examines the success or failure met by Cameroon in solving the problems of nation building, state building, and economic growth.

Author : John Mukum Mbaku
Publisher : Greenwood
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2005-06-30
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015061455146

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Culture and Customs of Cameroon by John Mukum Mbaku Pdf

Cameroon, in Central Africa, has been called "Africa in miniature." This volume is the first to encapsulate Cameroon's rich indigenous and modern customs and traditions in depth.

Author : V. Lukong
Publisher : African Books Collective
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2011-08-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789956726240

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The Cameroon-Nigeria Border Dispute. Management and Resolution, 1981-2011 by V. Lukong Pdf

At independence, Cameroon and Nigeria adhered to the OAU principle of UTI POSSEDETIS JURIS by inheriting the colonial administrative borders whose delineation in some parts was either imperfect or not demarcated or both. The two countries tried to correct these anomalies. But such efforts were later thwarted by incessant geostrategic reckoning, dilatory, and diversionary tactics in the seventies and eighties that persisted and resurfaced in the nineties with a more determined posture. On two occasions, the border conflict almost boiled over to a full-scale war. First, in May 1981 when there was the exchange of fire between Cameroonian and Nigerian coast guards and second, in February 1994 when Nigeria marched her troops into Cameroons Bakassi Peninsula. Elsewhere in Africa, border incidents like these have often degenerated into war. But Cameroon and Nigeria together with the international community managed these protracted incidents from escalating into war. This book examines the part played by the disputing parties, Cameroon and Nigeria; the mediation, conciliatory and adjudicatory role of third parties; and the regional and international organisations, in the process of the resolution of the border dispute from 1981-2011. The study situates the nature and dynamics of the dispute historically, and comprehensively explores in detail its causes, settlement and resolution.

Author : Andrew, Aseh
Publisher : Langaa RPCIG
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2016-10-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9789956763443

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Political Philosophies and Nation-Building in Cameroon by Andrew, Aseh Pdf

This is a comprehensive text on the function of thought in the history and political sociology of Cameroon. The book brings out how the “hidden hand of history” fashions a political thought which, in turn, creates its own history. Instead of Cameroonians making history, history makes Cameroonians. The book shows how political ideas are fashioned in a post-colonial context in which Europeans impose a superordinate arrangement on a people together with its philosophers. “Thinking the nation” in Cameroon on behalf of Europeans, especially after the leaders of the national liberation struggle were all eliminated, European philosophers put in place a “repressive machine” under which Cameroonians were subjected between 1958 and 1990. Repression gave way to a refined form of enslavement – a modernised version of slavery. Cameroonians joined the bandwagon and have been producing and reproducing Western industrial economies while day-dreaming of what they will never become. The whole idea of nation-building in post-colonial Africa is put in question. This book offers students of political studies, sociology, anthropology and history compelling evidence to grapple with questions as to whether Cameroon is a state or a nation and questions of sovereignty and citizenship.

Author : Krieger, Milton
Publisher : Langaa RPCIG
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2014-10-07
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789956791415

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Victor Le Vineís Shorter Cameroon Writings, 1961-2007 by Krieger, Milton Pdf

From his first research there in 1959 until shortly before his death in 2010, Victor Le Vine was a major Cameroon scholar. What he wrote during Cameroon's first half-century of independence carries implications for the years ahead. This volume introduces and presents eight of his short writings, 1961-2007, five never previously published. They demonstrate his mastery of the intricacies and the sweep of the country's governance history, and both his own and Cameroon's importance for African Studies at large.

Author : Ndumbe Eyoh,Albert Azeyeh
Publisher : African Books Collective
Page : 569 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2013-07-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789956791484

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Critical Perspectives on Cameroon Writing by Ndumbe Eyoh,Albert Azeyeh Pdf

This landmark volume brings together a very rich harvest of forty critical essays on Cameroon literature by Cameroon literary scholars. The book is the result of the Second Conference on Cameroon Literature which took place at the University of Buea in 1994. The Buea conference was motivated by a determination to look at Cameroon literature straight into its face and criticize it using literary criteria of the strictest kind. Gone were the times when the criticism was complacent because it was believed that a nascent literature could easily be stifled by application of rather strict cannons of literary criticism. Both writers and critics had a lot to say. Subjects dealt with ranged from general topics on literature, survival and national identity, through specialized articles on prose, poetry, drama, translation, language, folklore, childrens literature, Journalism and politics. It is the hope of the volume editors that the publication of these papers will instigate the kind of actions that were recommended and that the prolific nature of Cameroon literature will equally give rise to a prolific and robust criticism.

Author : Martin Atangana
Publisher : University Press of America
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2010-09-28
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780761852780

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The End of French Rule in Cameroon by Martin Atangana Pdf

"This is a clearly written and engaging work that will provide students and scholars with a wealth of information and will greatly contribute to Cameroon's historiography, "--Therese Olomo, University of Yaounde'

Author : IBP, Inc.
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2018-02-20
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781433069581

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Cameroon Company Laws and Regulations Handbook Volume 1 Strategic Information and Basic Law by IBP, Inc. Pdf

2011 Updated Reprint. Updated Annually. Cameroon Company Laws and Regulations Handbook

Author : Anonim
Publisher : IBP USA
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2013-08
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781438767246

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Cameroon Investment and Business Guide by Anonim Pdf

Cameroon Investment and Business Guide - Strategic and Practical Information

Author : Jonathan Pedneault,Bede Sheppard
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 59 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Cameroon
ISBN : 1623136350

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"These Killings Can be Stopped" by Jonathan Pedneault,Bede Sheppard Pdf

"Based on research in the region, satellite imagery analysis and video analysis, this report found that both government forces and armed separatists have abused civilians in the western part of the country, displacing over 180,000 people since December 2017. Anglophone separatists have extorted, kidnapped and killed civilians, and prevented children from going to school. In response to protests and violence by armed separatists, government forces have killed civilians, used excessive force against demonstrators, tortured and mistreated suspected separatists and detainees, and burned hundreds of homes in several villages."--Publisher website, viewed August 14, 2018.