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Scribbles from the Den : Essays on Politics and Collective Memory in Cameroon /
This collection consists of 49 insightful essays by leading Cameroonian blogger Dibussi Tande, which originally appeared on his award-winning blog Scribbles from the Den. These essays tackle some of the most pressing and complex issues facing Cameroon today such as the stalled democratization proces...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford :
Langaa RPCIG,
2009.
Mankon, Bamenda : Langaa RPCIG, 2009. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Dedication; Preface; Foreword; Part One
- The Anglophone File; 1. Language as a Tool for Exclusion: Reflections on Cameroon's National Bilingualism Day; 2. Culture and Political Statehood: Another Perspective on Southern Cameroons Nationalism; 3. The Politics of Pidgin English in Cameroon; 4. Cameroon Literature in English
- Vibrant but Invisible; 5. A Baobab Fell in the Forest But Did They Notice? Bate Besong or the Symbol of the Cameroon Divide; 6. Cameroon Unification: Were Southern Cameroons Leaders Inexperienced and Illiterate?
- 7. Revisiting The Legacy of Dr. EML EndeleyPart Two
- Citenzenship in the Global Village; 8. Brain Drain: Why are Cameroonian Medical Doctors Leaving?; 9. Dual Citizenship (I): Time for a Long Overdue National Debate; 10. Dual Citizenship (II): A Win-Win Situation; 11. Citizenship in the Age of Globalization; Part Three
- Collective Memory; 12. Individual Memory and Collective Amnesia: Where are the Political Memoirs?; 13. The Cultural Alienation and Historical Amnesia of Public Spaces in Cameroon; 14. France's Dirty War in Cameroon: The Assassination of Félix-Roland Moumié
- 15. Once Upon a Time ... Osende Afana16. Repaid in his Own Coins: Ahmadou Ahidjo and the Politics of Ostracism; Part Four
- The University in Crisis; 17. When History Repeats Itself: The Government Spin Machine and the UB Crisis; 18. Deconstructing Regional Balance and Higher Education in Cameroon; 19. University of Buea: What is the Cost of Quality Education?; 20. Regional Balance, Educational Quotas and (Under)development in Northern Cameroon; 21. Stuck on the Fringes of the Knowledge Economy; Part Five
- Presidential Politics; 22. President Paul Biya: 25 Years and Counting.
- 23. How to Eliminate Presidential Term Limits (Notes from the Biya Playbook)24. Biyaism Without Biya? The Battle for Regime Change in Cameroon; 25. "La Politique de Pourrissement": Why Biya Remains Defiant; Part Six
- Political Pluralism; 26. Indigenous Minorities and Political Pluralism in Cameroon; 27. Cameroon: Why So Many Political Parties?; 28. State Funding of Political Parties: A Democratic Imperative or Hush Money for the Opposition?; 29. Social Democratic Front (SDF): A Dream Derailed?; Part Seven
- Profiles of Courage; 30. A Dream Deferred: Emmanuel Njela Nfor.
- 31. Isaac Menyoli: Living Up to the Olympic Creed32. Sita Bella: The Final Journey of a Renaissance Woman; 33. Joe la Conscience: Cameroon's Forgotten Prisoner of Conscience; 34. Jean-Marc Ela
- Remembering Africa's "Liberation Theologian"; Part Eight
- Law, Justice & Corruption; 35. Trail of Death: Maintaining Law and Order in Cameroon; 36. Can Cameroon's New Criminal Procedure Code Deliver "Justice with a Human Face"?; 37. The Untouchables (Politically Mediated Loans and Political Impunity in Cameroon); 38. 100 Ways to Pilfer a Public Corporation: Notes from the Trial ofGerard Ondo Ndong.