Nation of outlaws, state of violence : nationalism, Grassfields tradition, and state building in Cameroon /

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Nation of Outlaws, State of Violence is the first extensive history of Cameroonian nationalism to consider the global and local influences that shaped the movement within the French and British Cameroons and beyond. Drawing on the archives of the United Nations, France, Great Britain, Ghana, and Cam...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Terretta, Meredith (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Athens, Ohio : Ohio University Press, [2014]
Series:New African histories series.
Subjects:
Union des populations du Cameroun > History.
Union des populations du Cameroun
To 1999
Bamileke (African people) > History > 20th century.
Nationalism > Cameroon > History > 20th century.
Bamiléké (Peuple d'Afrique) > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Nationalisme > Cameroun > Histoire > 20e siècle.
HISTORY > Africa > Central.
Autonomy and independence movements
Bamileke (African people)
Nationalism
Cameroon > History > Autonomy and independence movements.
Cameroon > History > 1960-1982.
Cameroon > History > To 1960.
Cameroun > Histoire > 1960-1982.
Cameroun > Histoire > Jusqu'à 1960.
Cameroon
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • God, land, justice, and political sovereignty in Grassfields governance
  • "Bamileke strangers" make the Mungo River Valley their home
  • Troublesome, rebellious, outlawed : international politics and UPC nationalism in the Bamileke and Mungo regions
  • Nationalists or traitors? : Bamileke chiefs and electoral politics in the year of loi-cadre
  • The maquis at home, exile abroad : Grassfields warfare meets revolutionary Pan-Africanism
  • "Here, God does not exist" : emergency law and the violence of state building
  • Conclusion : "after the war, we stop counting the dead" : reconciliation and public confession.

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