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Negotiating an Anglophone identity : a study of the politics of recognition and representation in Cameroon /
This study of the politics of the politics of belonging captures the widespread disaffection with the sterile rhetoric of nation-building that has characterized much of post-colonial African politics. Until the liberation struggles of the 1990s, dictatorship only paid lip service to democracy with i...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
| Publicado: |
Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
2003.
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| Colección: | Afrika-Studiecentrum series ;
v. 1. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | This study of the politics of the politics of belonging captures the widespread disaffection with the sterile rhetoric of nation-building that has characterized much of post-colonial 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. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (x, 230 pages) : 1 map |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-221) and index. |
| ISBN: | 1423714164 9781423714163 9789047402640 9047402642 1280465077 9781280465079 9786610465071 661046507X |
| ISSN: | 1570-9310 ; |