The Cameroon Federation

Author : Willard R. Johnson
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 439 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2015-03-08
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781400869657

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The Cameroon Federation by Willard R. Johnson Pdf

The federation of the previously British and French Cameroons has, since 1961, tried to integrate a highly fragmented, bilingual society in which nearly every social cleavage found in Africa was present, including the complication of disparate colonial legacies. Professor Johnson describes the impact of these different colonial legacies on the traditional cultural patterns of Cameroon, attempting to explain the rise of the movement for political reunion among them. He considers the character of the federal union and the Cameroonian leaders' conception of federalism in the light of other experiences with federalism (e.g. the early United States). His conclusions involve the potential importance and limitations of federalism for the new Africa, the role and impact of political rebellion and violence, and the important conceptual distinctions that should be made between processes of political integration and nation-building. Originally published in 1970. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Author : Neville N. Rubin
Publisher : New York : Praeger
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : Social Science
ISBN : UOM:39015004895325

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Cameroun by Neville N. Rubin Pdf

Author : Cameroon
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 38 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1961
Category : Cameroon
ISBN : IND:30000130686342

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Constitution of the Federal Republic of Cameroon by Cameroon Pdf

Author : Mufor Atanga
Publisher : African Books Collective
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2011-08-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9789956726608

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The Anglophone Cameroon Predicament by Mufor Atanga Pdf

This study explores the predicament of Anglophone Cameroon from the experiment in federation from 1961 to the political liberalisation struggles of the 1990s to challenge claims of a successful post-independence Cameroonian integration process. Focusing on the perceptions and actions of people in the Anglophone region, Atanga argues that what has come to be called the Anglophone Problem constitutes one of the severest threats to the post-colonial nation-state project in Cameroon. As a linguistic and cultural minority, Anglophone Cameroonians realised that the Francophone-led state and government were keener in assimilation than in implementing the federal and bilingual nation agreed upon at reunification in 1960. Calls for national integration became simply a subterfuge for the assimilation of Anglophones by Francophones who dominated the state and government. The book details the various measures undertaken to exploit the Anglophone regions economy and marginalise its people. Principally the economic structures meant to facilitate self-reliant development were undermined and destroyed. Institutionalised discrimination took the form of the exclusion of Anglophones from positions of real authority, and depriving the region of any meaningful development. With the advent of multi-party politics, most Anglophone Cameroonians increasingly have made vocal demands for a return to a federation, in order to adequately guarantee their rights and recognition for them as a political and cultural minority. Actively encouraged by France, the Francophone-led regime in Cameroon has refused to yield to such demands, despite the grave danger of violent conflict and possible secession.

Author : Anthony Ndi
Publisher : Independently Published
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2016-11-05
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1790448832

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The Golden Age of Southern Cameroons by Anthony Ndi Pdf

This book argues that since the emergence of the Cameroon National Union (CNU) and the one-party state in 1966, Cameroonians have progressively degenerated into the syndrome of collective amnesia inspired by a culture of sycophancy, glorifying and deifying political leadership. These developments stand in stark contrast to what obtained in the nascent Southern Cameroons - the UN Trust territory administered by Britain until 1961 when its population voted overwhelmingly by 70.5% to gain their independence by establishing a federation with the then French-speaking Republic of Cameroon. From the late 1950s until the dismantling of the Cameroon Federation, Southern Cameroons and later West Cameroon had a vibrant parliament, a House of Chiefs (or Senate), an independent Judiciary, an ideal, corruption-free Public Service, a state government with ministers presided over by an Executive Prime Minister and, for a decade, West Cameroon provided the Vice Presidency for the Federal Republic of Cameroon. In what may be accurately described as Prof Anthony Ndi's seminal work, he contends and rightly so that solutions to the legion of problems that plague contemporary Cameroon may be easily found in the pages of The Golden Age of Southern Cameroons. Agents for this transformation do not have to be invented or imported from Mars; all we need is a patriotic spirit, political will, readiness to dialogue, transparency and commitment to democracy.

Author : George Ngwane
Publisher : African Books Collective
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 55,6 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 : John W. Forje
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Cameroon
ISBN : UOM:39015012311067

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The One and Indivisible Cameroon by John W. Forje Pdf

The study is an exposition in the process of political and economic integration in a fragmented developing society and of its efforts to create a sense of national cohesion among the people. It addresses itself to the problems, constraints and prospects involved in a society like the Cameroon with a chequered political past in trying to organise itself in meeting not only cultural cohesion, but economic and social equity within the society.

Author : Tambi Eyongetah Mbuagbaw,Robert Brain,Robert Brian
Publisher : London : Longman
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 54,8 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 : Jenna Bednar
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2008-12-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781139474443

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The Robust Federation by Jenna Bednar Pdf

The Robust Federation offers a comprehensive approach to the study of federalism. Jenna Bednar demonstrates how complementary institutions maintain and adjust the distribution of authority between national and state governments. These authority boundaries matter - for defense, economic growth, and adequate political representation - and must be defended from opportunistic transgression. From Montesquieu to Madison, the legacy of early institutional analysis focuses attention on the value of competition between institutions, such as the policy moderation produced through separated powers. Bednar offers a reciprocal theory: in an effective constitutional system, institutions complement one another; each makes the others more powerful. Diverse but complementary safeguards - including the courts, political parties, and the people - cover different transgressions, punish to different extents, and fail under different circumstances. The analysis moves beyond equilibrium conceptions and explains how the rules that allocate authority are not fixed but shift gradually. Bednar's rich theoretical characterization of complementary institutions provides the first holistic account of federal robustness.

Author : James Farney,Julie M. Simmons
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2021-11-08
Category : Canada
ISBN : 9781487509606

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Open Federalism Revisited by James Farney,Julie M. Simmons Pdf

Open Federalism Revisited provides a systematic, encompassing assessment of Canadian federalism in the Harper era, offering a fresh perspective in federalism scholarship.

Author : Robert Schertzer
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2016-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781487500283

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The Judicial Role in a Diverse Federation by Robert Schertzer Pdf

In The Judicial Role in a Diverse Federation, Robert Schertzer uses the example of the Supreme Court of Canada to examine how apex courts manage diversity and conflict in federal states. Schertzer argues that in a diverse federation where the nature of the federal system is contested the courts should facilitate negotiation between conflicting parties, rather than impose their own vision of the federal system. Drawing on a comprehensive review of the Supreme Court federalism jurisprudence between 1980 and 2010, he demonstrates that the court has increasingly adopted this approach of facilitating negotiation by acknowledging the legitimacy of different understandings of the Canadian federation. This book will be required reading both for those interested in Canada's Supreme Court and for those engaged in broader debates about the use of federalism in multinational states.

Author : Moses K. Tesi
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2017-08-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781498530644

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Balancing Sovereignty and Development in International Affairs by Moses K. Tesi Pdf

This book probes the nature, scope, depth, dynamics, and drivers of Cameroon’s foreign policy to comprehend its logic and uncover its consequences to the country's development and sovereignty. It also investigates and sheds light on Cameroon's longstanding relationship with France.

Author : Carlson Anyangwe
Publisher : African Books Collective
Page : 171 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2008-08-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9789956715565

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Imperialistic Politics in Cameroun: Resistance and the Inception of the Restoration of the Statehood of Southern Cameroons by Carlson Anyangwe Pdf

Cameroun Republic, a former French-administered UN Trust Territory granted independence on 1 January 1960. This book focuses on the unresolved Southern Cameroons colonial predicament, giving insightful accounts of how Cameroun Republic hijacked the Southe

Author : Joseph Takougang
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 497 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2019-05-20
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780429982149

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African State And Society In The 1990s by Joseph Takougang Pdf

African State and Society in the 1990s is the first comprehensive English language book to appear on Cameroon's political events since 1989. Designed for academic and policy studies readers, it covers developments from the 1960s to the present as background for an analysis of the continuing conflict since 1990 between the regime and political oppos

Author : Martin Ayong Ayim
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 602 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2008-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9781434365217

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Former British Southern Cameroons Journey Towards Complete Decolonization, Independence, and Sovereignty. by Martin Ayong Ayim Pdf

Common Finno-Ugric spoken between 4000 B.C. to approximately 3000 B.C. in the watershed area)continental Devide) between the Volgas Bend and the Ural Mountains ()presently Russias) Around 1200 words could be reconstructed for this ancient language form by comparative phonology of about 20 languages (such as Hungarian, Finnish, Estonian, Lapp/Sami, Khanty, Mansi, Mordvin, etc.) still spokon altogether by about 24 million non/Slavic native speakers in oil-rich Eastern Europe and Western Siberia. Reconstrcted grammar, syntax asnd semantics of Commoin Finno-Ugric are also discussed. The book is a so-called "worksheet-edition". Lists, charts aare printed in it as they came out from the computer. This will facilitate subsequent research (especially manipulation of the data in computers). The narrative is kept in a simple form "cablespeak' style). The grabscripotion is uncomplicated. Diacritic marks were only occasionally used (only c; and c" appear). Easy to read and understand even by the general; reader. Targeted specialist of Linguistics, Language Origins Research (LOR), Language Universals, Cultural Anthropology, Human Prehistory , Comparative Religion Study find here a massive amount of new information unknown or little heeded in previous international research.