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Book Synopsis The Reunification Debate in British Southern Cameroons by : Nfi, Joseph Lon
Download or read book The Reunification Debate in British Southern Cameroons written by Nfi, Joseph Lon and published by Langaa RPCIG. This book was released on 2014-03-16 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a succinct account of the role immigrants from French Cameroon played in the Reunification politics in the Southern Cameroons. The study reveals that these "strangers" organised themselves in Pressure Groups in order to fight for equal opportunities with the indigenes and when such opportunities were not coming, they initiated the Reunification Idea, propagated it and converted many reluctant Southern Cameroonians. They militated in pro-reunification political parties such as the KNC, KNDP, UPC and OK and successfully shifted the reunification idea from the periphery to the centre of Southern Cameroons decolonisation politics. The immigrants convinced the UN through petitions and reunification which was the most unpopular option for independence became one of the two alternatives at the 1961 plebiscite. They and the reluctant KNDP campaigned and voted for it. The Reunification of Cameroon was therefore the handiwork of French Cameroon immigrants.
Book Synopsis The 1961 Cameroon Plebiscite. Choice or Betrayal by : John Percival
Download or read book The 1961 Cameroon Plebiscite. Choice or Betrayal written by John Percival and published by African Books Collective. This book was released on 2008 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The United Nations-organised plebiscite on 11 February 1961 was one of the most significant events in the history of the southern and northern parts of the British-administered trust territory in Cameroon. John Percival was sent by the then Colonial Office as part of the team to oversee the process. This book captures the story of the plebiscite in all its dimensions and intricacies and celebrates the author's admiration for things African through a series of reminiscences of what life was like in the 1960s, both for the Africans themselves and for John Percival as a very young man. The complex story is also a series of reflections about the effect of the modern world on Africa. It is a thorough, insightful, rich and enlightening first-hand source on a political landmark that has never been told before in this way. In a vivid style with a great sense of humour, Percival's witty, cogent, eyewitness and active-participant account deconstructs the rumours and misrepresentations about the February 1961 Plebiscite which was a prelude to reunification and to the present day politics of 'belonging' in Cameroon. "One of the major merits of this book is to provide us with a deeper insight into the role of those actors who have never been the subject of plebiscite studies, namely the Plebiscite Supervisory Officers." - Piet Konings, African Studies Centre, Leiden, The Netherlands John Percival-Anthropologist, Writer, Television Broadcaster of many innovative BBC series on the environment, history and anthropology. As a young graduate he was recruited and sent to serve in the Southern Cameroons as a Plesbiscite Supervisory Officer in 1961. He died in 2005 after a recent return visit to Cameroon with Nigel Wenban-Smith who writes an epilogue. This posthumous memoir has been edited by his wife, Lalage Neal.
Download or read book State of a Union written by Yenshu Vubo and published by African Books Collective. This book was released on 2012-02-29 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The bicultural polity of Cameroon has become problematic over the years. In addition to the increasing marginalization experienced by its English speaking component in many domains (politics, administration, economy, culture), it is facing mounting inequality and disarray despite the nation-building aspirations at reunification in 1961. This book examines the very basis of the union crisis by tracing the causes to the asymmetrical nature of negotiations between the contracting partners the founding fathers of the union and the politics of guile and force that has characterized the regimes in Yaound. From a federal model that takes the equality of the contracting parties as a given, the polity has developed into an ethno-regional patchwork designed by its architects to be essentially unequal in nature. Consequently, the segmented Anglophone community can exist only in contradiction within itself. They have been worked into the regimes statecraft of consciously maintaining or re-activating ethnic boundaries inherited from colonialism. An analysis of the cultural and linguistic dimension of the union shows contrasting drives between the assimilation/attempts to dominate by the French-speaking component and resistance by Anglophones. The analyses further show the projected harmonization and rollback by the State, the creative blends and the crystallization around continuing or reproduced colonial experiences, a fierce competition between elites with a drive to impose the culture of the demographically dominant and a refusal to accept the idea of a linguistic minority. The contentious experience, Yenshu Vubo argues, can still be remedied by reforms in a politics of possibilities.These reforms must be ready to re-examine the constitutional basis of the union by revisiting the often dismissed question of the form of the state defined as one and indivisible (a new federal architecture as requested by several political voices). Institutions should be restructured to attend to diversity issues and essential linguistic differences while consolidating any strategic gains of the union such as the creative blends and the acceptance of specifi cities of each community, statutory equality of citizenship and the essential clauses of the fi rst federation.
Book Synopsis Former British Southern Cameroons Journey Towards Complete Decolonization, Independence, and Sovereignty. by : Martin Ayong Ayim
Download or read book Former British Southern Cameroons Journey Towards Complete Decolonization, Independence, and Sovereignty. written by Martin Ayong Ayim and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2010 with total page 818 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Architects of Cameroon's Reunification by : Muhammadou Amadou Jabiru
Download or read book The Architects of Cameroon's Reunification written by Muhammadou Amadou Jabiru and published by Editions L'Harmattan. This book was released on 2020-04-17 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reunification is a historical fact that carries with it individual narratives and corporate establishment, intrigues inherent in every nation building experiment especially in Africa. This study examines the role played by some of the major actors of the Reunification of Cameroon. Were they just actors or architects? The reader will discover the reasons why we refer to them as "architects" of Cameroon's Reunification.
Book Synopsis Cameroon's Unity by : Janvier Chouteu-Chando
Download or read book Cameroon's Unity written by Janvier Chouteu-Chando and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2018-07-08 with total page 155 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An excerpt from a February 20, 1962 article in the Guardian Newspaper read "The unification of French-speaking Cameroun with the former British-administered Southern Cameroons is a 'unique experience' in Africa..."The reunification of the two territories marked a milestone in the cause espoused by Cameroonian civic-nationalists to reunite the lands of the 1884-1916 former German colony of Kamerun that was partitioned by Britain and France following the defeat of Germany in the First World War. It was one step forward in realizing the dream of "THE NEW CAMEROON", even though Cameroonian nationalists who weaved the Ideal were being hounded by the French pacification forces, and despite the fact that France had successfully installed a puppet regime in the French-speaking Cameroun under Ahmadou Ahidjo who set about implementing France's game plan, starting with the usurpation of the reunification program and giving it a bad name. Today the reunification project is getting soar, especially among Cameroonians from the former British Southern Cameroons. That is why Cameroonians are asking themselves the question: What is to be done to get rid of an anachronistic French-imposed system that is leaving the country stuck in underdevelopment, corruption, fraud, despondence, dictatorship and division even as the rest of the world is forging ahead?Janvier Tchouteu comes up with some succinct answers in this account that provide the guidelines to the ultimate Cameroonian Dream of the "NEW CAMEROUN" first espoused by Cameroon's civic-nationalists that that were successfully eliminated, sidelined or undermined during sixty years of neocolonialism by France, the puppet Ahidjo regime it put in place in 1960 and its successor the current Biya regime that took over in 1982. Today, Cameroon is at a crossroads. While it is now obvious that the French-imposed system is anachronistic and no longer sustainable and that the political establishment is prepared to drag the country into abyss than bow out of power, Cameroon also risks being torn apart by those who never cherished reunification---people who would like the territory of the former British Southern Cameroons become a separate country. Both groups stand as obstacles to the "New Cameroon" and are delaying the country's journey to take its place as the nucleus of the emerging African Union.
Book Synopsis Betrayal of Too Trusting a People. The UN, the UK and the Trust Territory of the Southern Cameroons by : Carlson Anyangwe
Download or read book Betrayal of Too Trusting a People. The UN, the UK and the Trust Territory of the Southern Cameroons written by Carlson Anyangwe and published by African Books Collective. This book was released on 2009 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is a growing body of literature on what was originally envisioned as a free political association of the French and British Cameroons and its dramatic effects on the 'British Cameroons' community. Anyangwe's new book is an attempt to write the history of the Southern Cameroons from a legal perspective. This authoritative work describes in great detail the story of La Republique du Cameroun's alleged annexation and colonization of the Southern Cameroons following the achievement of its independence, while highlighting the seeming complicity of the United Nations and the British Trusteeship Authority. In the process, Anyangwe unravels a number of myths created by the main actors to justify this injustice and, in the end, makes useful suggestions to reverse the situation and to restore statehood to the Southern Cameroons. The book is rich in archival research and informed by a global perspective. It convincingly shows the uniqueness of the Southern Cameroons case.
Book Synopsis Cameroon's Unity, Separatism, and the New Cameroon by : Janvier Chouteu-Chando
Download or read book Cameroon's Unity, Separatism, and the New Cameroon written by Janvier Chouteu-Chando and published by . This book was released on 2018-06-23 with total page 133 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An excerpt from a February 20, 1962 article in the Guardian Newspaper read "The unification of French-speaking Cameroun with the former British-administered Southern Cameroons is a 'unique experience' in Africa..."The reunification of the two territories marked a milestone in the cause espoused by Cameroonian civic-nationalists to reunite the lands of the 1884-1916 former German colony of Kamerun that was partitioned by Britain and France following the defeat of Germany in the First World War. It was one step forward in realizing the dream of "THE NEW CAMEROON", even though Cameroonian nationalists who weaved the Ideal were being hounded by the French pacification forces, and despite the fact that France had successfully installed a puppet regime in the French-speaking Cameroun under Ahmadou Ahidjo who set about implementing France's game plan, starting with the usurpation of the reunification program and giving it a bad name. Today the reunification project is getting soar, especially among Cameroonians from the former British Southern Cameroons. That is why Cameroonians are asking themselves the question: What is to be done to get rid of an anachronistic French-imposed system that is leaving the country stuck in underdevelopment, corruption, fraud, despondence, dictatorship and division even as the rest of the world is forging ahead?Janvier Tchouteu comes up with some succinct answers in this account that provide the guidelines to the ultimate Cameroonian Dream of the "NEW CAMEROUN" first espoused by Cameroon's civic-nationalists that that were successfully eliminated, sidelined or undermined during sixty years of neocolonialism by France, the puppet Ahidjo regime it put in place in 1960 and its successor the current Biya regime that took over in 1982. Today, Cameroon is at a crossroads. While it is now obvious that the French-imposed system is anachronistic and no longer sustainable and that the political establishment is prepared to drag the country into abyss than bow out of power, Cameroon also risks being torn apart by those who never cherished reunification---people who would like the territory of the former British Southern Cameroons become a separate country. Both groups stand as obstacles to the "New Cameroon" and are delaying the country's journey to take its place as the nucleus of the emerging African Union.
Book Synopsis Africa's Shackled Heart by : Janvier Chouteu-Chando
Download or read book Africa's Shackled Heart written by Janvier Chouteu-Chando and published by . This book was released on 2018-01-11 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the unpopular regime of Cameroonian head of State Paul Biya cracks down on a popular protest by the people of the English-speaking regions of the country, the world wonders why a country that is Africa's Number One Football (Soccer) Playing Nation, one that just won the continent's most prestigious and most coveted sports trophy (The African Cup of Nations), and one that the powers that be would like to sell as the oasis of peace in a turbulent continent, would undermine the part of the country that realized its reunification.The area that was S�dwesten Kamerun when the geopolitical entity that is Cameroon today was a German colony called Kamerun, the area that went on to become British Southern Cameroons from 1919-1961 following the partition of German Kamerun into British Cameroons and French Cameroon after Germany's defeat in the First World War, and the area that became West Cameroon in the 1961-1972 Cameroon Federation following the reunification of British Southern Cameroons with the former French Cameroun (The Republic of Cameroun), is in turmoil today as the people there stand up for their rights against a French-imposed establishment that was put in place after France defeated Cameroon's civic-nationalist who fought for the country's reunification and independence. The 35-year French-puppet Biya regime, like its predecessor the Ahidjo regime that lasted for 24 years, has been pursuing the agenda of their masters---the political mafia in France--- and has denigrated the hopes, dreams and dignity of the people of Cameroon whose forebears fought/died or voted for reunification and independence with the idea of founding a free, democratic, prosperous, united and progressive country.Is this protest about to develop into a nation-wide uprising that would challenge the system that Cameroonians never opted for and have never supported?Can the Cameroonian people unshackle themselves from the suffocation of the Biya regime, the anachronistic French-imposed system, the establishment and the center of France's political mafia that is keeping Francophone Africa in bondage, a system of control variously described as FrancAfrique?
Book Synopsis Negotiating an Anglophone Identity by : Piet Konings
Download or read book Negotiating an Anglophone Identity written by Piet Konings and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2003-07-01 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a significant and timely book on the politics of belonging. It captures, with fascinating detail and insight, the current widespread disaffection with the sterile rhetoric of nation-building that has characterised much of postcolonial 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 marriage of inconvenience pregnant with tensions and conflicts.
Book Synopsis Gender, Separatist Politics, and Embodied Nationalism in Cameroon by : Jacqueline-Bethel Tchouta Mougoué
Download or read book Gender, Separatist Politics, and Embodied Nationalism in Cameroon written by Jacqueline-Bethel Tchouta Mougoué and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fresh insights into gendered politics in Cameroon
Book Synopsis Historical Dictionary of the Republic of Cameroon by : Mark Dike DeLancey
Download or read book Historical Dictionary of the Republic of Cameroon written by Mark Dike DeLancey and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2019-06-15 with total page 831 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cameroon is a land of much promise, but a land of unfulfilled promises. It has the potential to be an economically developed and democratic society but the struggle to live up to its potential has not gone well. Since independence there have been only two presidents of Cameroon; the current one has been in office since 1982. Endowed with a variety of climates and agricultural environments, numerous minerals and substantial forests, and a dynamic population, this is a country that should be a leader of Africa. Instead, we find a country almost paralyzed by corruption and poor management, a country with a low life expectancy and serious health problems, and a country from which the most talented and highly educated members of the population are emigrating in large numbers. To all of this is recently added a serious terrorism problem, Boko Haram, in the north, a separatist movement in the Anglophone west, refugee influxes in the north and east, and bandits from the Central African Republic attacking eastern villages. This fifth edition of Historical Dictionary of the Republic of Cameroon contains a chronology, an introduction, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 300 cross-referenced entries on important personalities, politics, economy, foreign relations, religion, and culture. This book is an excellent resource for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about the Republic of Cameroon.
Book Synopsis Post-Colonial Cameroon by : Joseph Takougang
Download or read book Post-Colonial Cameroon written by Joseph Takougang and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2018-06-13 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book by a diverse group of Cameroonian scholars, both at home and in the diaspora, presents multidisciplinary insights on some of the critical issues including political, economic, and sociocultural developments in post-colonial Cameroon.
Book Synopsis Routledge Handbook of Francophone Africa by : Tony Chafer
Download or read book Routledge Handbook of Francophone Africa written by Tony Chafer and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-11-02 with total page 640 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Routledge Handbook of Francophone Africa brings together a multidisciplinary team of international experts to reflect on the history, politics, societies, and cultures of French-speaking parts of Africa. Consisting of approximately 35% of Africa’s territory, Francophone Africa is a shifting concept, with its roots in French and Belgian colonial rule. This handbook develops and problematizes the term, with thematic sections covering: Colonial and post-colonial ties between France and sub-Saharan Africa Belgium, Belgian colonialism and Africa The Maghreb African Francophones in France Francophone African literature and film ‘Francophone’ and ‘Anglophone’ Africa Beyond national boundaries and ‘colonial partners’ The chapters demonstrate the evolution of "Francophone Africa" into a multi-dimensional construct, with both a material and an imagined reality. Materially, it defines a regional territorial space that coexists with other conceptualisations of African space and borders. Conceptually, Francophone Africa constitutes a shared linguistic and cultural space within which collective memories are shared, not least through their connection to the French imperial imagination. Overall, the Handbook demonstrates that as global power structures and relations evolve, African agency is increasingly assertive in shaping French-African relations. Bringing this important debate together into a single volume, this Handbook will be an essential resource for students and scholars interested in Francophone Africa.
Book Synopsis The Secrets of an Aborted Decolonisation by : Carlson Anyangwe
Download or read book The Secrets of an Aborted Decolonisation written by Carlson Anyangwe and published by African Books Collective. This book was released on 2010 with total page 808 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Among the material are treaties concluded by Britain with Southern Cameroons coastal Kings and Chiefs; and the boundary treaties of the Southern Cameroons, treaties defining the frontiers with Nigeria to the west and the frontier with Cameroun Republic to the east. The book contains documents that attest to the Southern Cameroons as a fully self-governing country, ready for sovereign statehood. These include debates in the Southern Cameroons House of Assembly; and the various Constitutions of the Southern Cameroons. The book also reproduces British declassified documents on the Southern Cameroons covering the three critical years from 1959 to 1961, documents which speak to the inglorious stewardship of Great Britain in the Southern Cameroons. This book removes lingering doubts in some quarters that the people of the Southern Cameroons were cheated of independence. Its contents are further evidence of their inalienable right and sacred duty to assert their independence.
Book Synopsis Scribbles from the Den by : Dibussi Tande
Download or read book Scribbles from the Den written by Dibussi Tande and published by African Books Collective. This book was released on 2009 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "49 insightful essays ... which originally appeared on his award-winning blog 'Scribbles from the den'"--Page 4 of cover
Book Synopsis Petitioning for our Rights, Fighting for our Nation. The History of the Democratic Union of Cameroonian Women, 1949-1960 by : Meredith Terretta
Download or read book Petitioning for our Rights, Fighting for our Nation. The History of the Democratic Union of Cameroonian Women, 1949-1960 written by Meredith Terretta and published by African Books Collective. This book was released on 2013 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thousands of Cameroonian women played an essential role in the radically anti-colonial nationalist movement led by the Union of the Populations of Cameroon (UPC): they were the women of the Democratic Union of Cameroonian Women (UDEFEC). Drawing on women nationalists' petitions to the United Nations, one of the largest collections of political documents written by African women during the decolonization era, as well as archival research and oral interviews, this work shows how UDEFEC transcended ethnic, class, education and social divides, and popularized nationalism in both urban and rural areas through the Trust Territories of the Cameroons under French and British administration. Foregrounding issues such as economic autonomy and biological and agricultural fertility, UDEFEC politics wove anti-imperial democracy and notions of universal human rights into locally rooted political cultures and histories. UDEFEC's history sheds light on the essential components of women's successful political mobilization in Africa, and contributes to the discussion of women's involvement in nationalist movements in formerly colonized territories.
