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Book Synopsis Cameroons Contemporary Culture and Politics: Prospects and Problems by : Milton Krieger
Download or read book Cameroons Contemporary Culture and Politics: Prospects and Problems written by Milton Krieger and published by African Books Collective. This book was released on 2013-12-07 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book addresses Cameroons culture, education and language policies since independence, scholarship on and vigorous debate about them, their bearings on different visions of national development, and their place in the political struggle between autocracy and democracy since 1990. A synoptic view of half a centurys key experiences, issues and fault lines emerges.
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 473 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this unique volume, leading scholars examine how Cameroonians organize and experience their lives under Cameroonian leadership and local responses to that leadership. The volume offers essential case studies that allow us to examine the lives of ordinary people in post-colonial Africa through five lenses: politics, society and culture, economy, international relations, and migration. It places the nation’s contemporary challenges within a broader political, economic, and socio-cultural context, and uses that to make recommendations for future directions. The book also celebrates areas in which the country has done well and calls on its citizens to build on those achievements. This volume is forward-looking and as such raises important questions about issues of development, ethnicity, wealth, poverty, and class.
Book Synopsis CONCEPTS THAT SHAPE POLITICS AND GOVERNMENT IN CAMEROON by : Akwalefo Bernadette Djeudo
Download or read book CONCEPTS THAT SHAPE POLITICS AND GOVERNMENT IN CAMEROON written by Akwalefo Bernadette Djeudo and published by Author House. This book was released on 2013-10 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, the reader is introduced to the concepts of politics, government, political theory and political culture with reference to Cameroon. Defined as human activity concerned with controversies over public questions and the resolution of those controversies, politics is concerned with the affairs of government and because government action deeply affects us, we take a lively interest in what governments do. We form associations and organize campaigns to articulate our demands. We negotiate with others and try to shape the goals that governments pursue. When we disagree with the policies of the government, we protest and organize demonstration to persuade our governments to change the existing laws. We passionately debate the actions of our representatives. In this way we look for the rationale underlying the prevalent chaos and decay, and aspire to create a better world. To sum up, politics arises from the fact that we have different visions of what is just and desirable for us and our society. Politics exist because we possess reason and the ability to reflect on government actions and communicate our innermost thoughts and desires with each other. Political theory has its roots in these twin aspects of the human being. Defined as a network of concepts and generalizations about political life involving ideas, assumptions and statements about the nature, purpose and key features of government Political theory systematically thinks about the values that inform political life - values such as freedom, equality, justice, nationalism, secularism, development etc. It explains the meanings and significance of these and other related concepts by focusing on some major political thinkers, theologians, kings, economists, sociologists, popes etc of the past and present. It also examines the extent to which freedom or equality are actually present in the institutions that we participate in everyday such as schools, shops, buses or trains or government offices and it looks at whether existing definitions and institutions are adequate or must be modified to become more democratic. The objective of political theory is to train citizens to think rationally about political questions and assess correctly the political events of our time. In applying political theory, some countries are more successful than others due to the variations in political culture. A country's degree of success in operating a governmental system that is democratic in character depends, to a very large extent, upon the nature and content of the political culture of that country. For democracy to work, the country's political culture must be compatible with and support the very concepts of constitutionalism, the rule of law, and representative democracy--as well as be consistent with and sustain the country's established, agreed-upon Constitution, including the constitutionally prescribed procedures for managing and resolving controversy over public questions, making and carrying out authoritative decisions on public policy, protecting the rights and liberties of citizens, and peacefully transferring governing authority from one group of political leaders to another. In all discussions examples are drawn from Cameroon and elsewhere in the world.
Book Synopsis Cameroon's Social Democratic Front: Its History and Prospects as an Opposition Political Party (1990-2011) by : Milton Krieger
Download or read book Cameroon's Social Democratic Front: Its History and Prospects as an Opposition Political Party (1990-2011) written by Milton Krieger and published by African Books Collective. This book was released on 2008-04-15 with total page 121 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: " Cameroon's Social Democratic Front (SDF) was among the watershed challenges c.1990 by sub-Saharan Africa's democratization forces against autocratic regimes, but it crested in 1992 and has subsided since. Yet the party survives, participates in the National Assembly, maintains a grass roots structure, and prepares for a presidential ballot in 2011 that will likely determine its fate. The author conducted research four times in Cameroon, 1989-1999, focusing on the SDF since 1991, and maintains party contacts to the present. The book assesses its history and its prospects, covering the SDF in Africa-wide as well as Cameroonian terms. ""Krieger has given us the first, superbly researched, finely tuned analysis of the fortunes of a major contemporary African opposition party, Cameroon's Social Democratic Front (SDF)."" - Victor Le Vine, Washington University, St. Louis, USA. ""The book goes far beyond its title and puts in context a daylight re-emergence of political opposition in Cameroon. To say that this long overdue history of the SDF party is a prolegomena to understanding contemporary Cameroon social forces is not an overstatement."" - Ambroise Kom, University of Yaounde I, Cameroon. ""...a level-headed but provocative examination of the structure and workings of a major African country...the sobriety with which he evaluates institutions and leadership is commendable, yielding exceptional analysis that will stand the test of time."" - Toyin Falola, Fellow of the Nigerian Academy of Letters and Fellow of the Historical Society of Nigeria. Milton Krieger started teaching and research about sub-Saharan Africa in 1970. Nine trips there include four research visits providing two years time in Cameroon, 1989-99. The second, 1991, coincided with 'villes mortes' and turned his primary scholarship to the Social Democratic Front. Access to party documents, officials, and rank and file members included visitor status at the 1995 and 1999 national conventions. Party contacts continue to the present."
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 Cameroon in the 21st Century by : Isabelle Piot-Lepetit
Download or read book Cameroon in the 21st Century written by Isabelle Piot-Lepetit and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cameroon (officially regarded as the Republic of Cameroon) is a country with vast natural resources and a population of 22.8 million people. It is also culturally and geographically very diverse. Due to its geographical and cultural diversity, Cameroon is often referred to as Africa in miniature. This country is currently considered as a lower middle-income country by the World Bank through social indicators and levels of poverty, which are below those for comparing countries. However, the Government of Cameroon aims to achieve a state of higher middle-income by 2035. There exists a huge potential for economic growth and poverty reduction in Cameroon. Indeed, over the last decade, the country has been characterized by a positive economic growth, spurred by large public investments in infrastructure. However, to attain the higher middle-income status by 2035, growth needs to accelerate further. As the public sector alone cannot bring this about, much more private investments are necessary. Doing so also requires improvements in the business environment. However, despite more than a decade of economic growth, national poverty has remained almost unchanged. While Cameroon is urbanizing rapidly, poverty remains a rural phenomenon and is increasingly concentrated in northern Cameroon. The aim of the book is to provide an overview of the main issues, challenges, and prospects faced by Cameroon. The book is composed of conceptual and empirical studies of Cameroonian scholars gathered together in order to provide descriptions and explanations of the main issues as well as policy recommendations to support decisions-makers. These considerations are those of Cameroonians for Cameroon. The book is organized into two volumes. The first one, entitled Governance and Businesses, is devoted to issues relating to public governance, investment climate, insecurity, globalization, business development, and activities that are sources of employment in Cameroon. The second volume, entitled Environment and People, deals with issues concerning the management of cross cutting economic services, the conservation of forests, the sustainable development of agricultural activities, the role of women, the immobility of workers, problems of development and poverty alleviation, millennium development goals, the performance of microfinance institutions, multilingualism, and education in Cameroon.
Book Synopsis Cameroon in the 21st Century by : Isabelle Piot-Lepetit
Download or read book Cameroon in the 21st Century written by Isabelle Piot-Lepetit and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cameroon, or officially the Republic of Cameroon, is a country with vast natural resources and a population of 22.8 million people. It is also culturally and geographically very diverse. Due to its geographical and cultural diversity, Cameroon is often referred to as Africa in miniature. This country is currently considered a lower-middle income country by the World Bank with social indicators and levels of poverty which are below those for comparator countries. However, the Government of Cameroon aims to achieve the state of a higher middle-income country by 2035. There exists huge potential for economic growth and poverty reduction in Cameroon. The aim of the book is to provide an overview of the main issues, challenges, and prospects faced by Cameroon. The book is composed of conceptual and empirical studies of Cameroonian scholars gathered together in order to provide descriptions and explanations of main issues as well as policy recommendations to support decisions-makers. These considerations are those of Cameroonians for Cameroon. The book is organised into two volumes. The first one entitled Governance and Businesses is devoted to issues relating to public governance, investment climate, insecurity, globalisation, business development, and activities that are sources of employment in Cameroon. The second volume entitled Environment and People deals with issues concerning the management of cross cutting economic services, the conservation of forests, the sustainable development of agricultural activities, the role of women, the immobility of workers, problems of development and poverty alleviation, millennium development goals, the performance of microfinance institutions, multilingualism and education in Cameroon.
Book Synopsis Democracy and Africanness by : Hannah Muzee
Download or read book Democracy and Africanness written by Hannah Muzee and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-10-31 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the governance and democratization process in Africa, its history, trends, and prospects. Written by a diverse panel of experts, the book provides an intersectional and interdisciplinary analysis of Africa’s democratic environment. Chapters cover topics such as the evolution of democracy in Africa, electoral politics, gender, activism, human rights, and cultural diversity. Critically assessing the fit of democracy for African countries and offering strategies for the Africanization of democracy, this volume will be important for researchers and students interested in African politics, postcolonial theory, democracy, and governance.
Book Synopsis The One and Indivisible Cameroon by : John W. Forje
Download or read book The One and Indivisible Cameroon written by John W. Forje and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Cameroon written by Jean-Germain Gros and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Annotation "By its geography and diversity Cameroon has been called ""Africa's Crossroads."" Without a doubt, the vibrancy of Cameroon society and the richness of its culture attest to the merit of the moniker. Less remarkable has been Cameroon's attempt to democratize"
Book Synopsis Democratization in Africa: Challenges and Prospects by : Gordon Crawford
Download or read book Democratization in Africa: Challenges and Prospects written by Gordon Crawford and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-09-13 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is two decades since the ‘third wave’ of democratization began to roll across sub-Saharan Africa in the early 1990s. This book provides a very timely investigation into the progress and setbacks over that period, the challenges that remain and the prospects for future democratization in Africa. It commences with an overall assessment of the (lack of) progress made from 1990 to 2010, exploring positive developments with reasons for caution. Based on original research, subsequent contributions examine various themes through country case-studies, inclusive of: the routinisation of elections, accompanied by democratic rollback and the rise of hybrid regimes; the tenacity of presidential powers; the dilemmas of power-sharing; ethnic voting and rise of a violent politics of belonging; the role of ‘donors’ and the ambiguities of ‘democracy promotion’. Overall, the book concludes that steps forward remain greater than reversals and that typically, though not universally, sub-Saharan African countries are more democratic today than in the late 1980s. Nonetheless, the book also calls for more meaningful processes of democratization that aim not only at securing civil and political rights, but also socio-economic rights and the physical security of African citizens. This book was originally published as a special issue of Democratization
Book Synopsis Inside Contemporary Cameroun Politics by : Justice Mbuh
Download or read book Inside Contemporary Cameroun Politics written by Justice Mbuh and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 640 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Research on this work started in 1989 at the Kashim Ibrahim Library (KIL), Ahmadou Bello University (ABU) at Samaru, Zaria, Nigeria. The work is guided for the most past by the author's personal experiences. These include working in the fields of Cameroun's rural areas with MIDENO Bamenda, working as Supervisor with Raynolds Construction Company (RCC) Bamenda, as Teacher in secondary schools and colleges from CCC Mankon, PHS Batibo and PCHS Kumbo and numerous evening schools to participation in Campus/student politics in Ahmadou Bello University in Zaria, Nigeria, and student politics in Cameroun, which gave birth to the Teachers Association of Cameroon (TAC). In addition, his active role includes contributions towards the founding of the National Union for Democracy and Progress (NUDP) opposition political party (of Cameroun) in Kaduna, Nigeria, and the unsuccessful wooing of the Social Democratic Front (SDF) Chairman, Ni John Fru Ndi and NUDP Chairman and former Cameroun Prime Minister Bouba Bello Maigari that both should form an imperative alliance for the overthrow of Biya dictatorship. The intransigence of both leaders led the author to concentrate on liberating the Ambazonia (Southern Cameroons). The spectrum and challenges covered by this work are staggering; the analysis and their linkage to domestic and international conflict and law are amazing. For these reasons, and because of the participating role of the author in many incidents in this work, he notes in the introduction, "it is thus highly opinionated in terms of style, contemporary character and qualifications given to interpretation of contents." The work emphasizes that the process to liberate Cameroun was truncated on many instances. It urges that the process be renewed with greater determination, at least from the Ambazonia viewpoint. It therefore calls on to all Ambazonians (Southern Cameroonians) to wake-up from slumber and reclaim their sovereignty. The work is the product of a debatable statement made by Professor Heinz Eulau (1967) in The Behavioral Persuasion in Politics, that "the root is man"(p.3)-the root of all evil and good in a nation-state setting is the machination of government and the minds and the interests that run it. Examining Inside Contemporary Cameroun Politics (ICCP) will serve as a testimony to this statement, and in addition, reveal all the remote and immediate causes of domestic dispute that fuel international conflict-from the abuse of democracy through to ethnic stratifications and clashes, through inter-intra-regional/cross national disputes and interests in addition to the wider implications of actions of influential international actors, such as former colonial masters and current heads of states, so prone to embezzlement, tribalism, nepotism and utter disrespect of democratic institutions and the collective will of the masses. The suffering to which the masses of Ambazonia (The United Nations Trust Territory of the Southern Cameroons) have been exposed to in an imbalanced union with French Cameroun Republic are used as the epicenter of analyses in this work. In questioning whether unity was ever achieved according to the terms of the Plebiscite Treaty (1960/61) and whether political modernization, economic prosperity and democratization has resulted as a consequence of forging unity, this work gives reasons why the people of "Southern Cameroons" take central stage in this work, and why together with Cameroun or French Cameroun, both should and must be liberated from the undemocratic and dubious leadership under which their masses have been held now for over forty years. The work does not shy from attacking French neo-imperialism, holding it responsible for fanning the flames of bad government in Cameroun and through out Africa.
Book Synopsis Cameroon Politics and Governance by : Akpam Mboma
Download or read book Cameroon Politics and Governance written by Akpam Mboma and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-01-10 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cameroon Politics and Governance. During the last two decades, many countries in sub-Sahara Africa embraced centralization as a new management strategy to render local government, broadly understood, more democratic, accountable, and responsive to the pressing social and economic needs of their citizens. The urgency of these reforms could, in part, be explained in a global socioeconomic context defined by large scale and rapid urbanization with concomitant social, economic, and political problems. These problems find concrete outlet in housing shortages, widespread unemployment, increasing poverty, environmental and sanitation problems, and failing social services in urban milieus. The said problems have been amplified by inadequate and sometimes contradictory political and administrative responses to the worsening physical and social infrastructure that are woefully in short supply, and have therefore, failed to respond in any meaningful way to growing pressures of rapid urban population growth in Africa. A case of Cameroon
Book Synopsis Inherent and Contemporary Challenges to African Security by : Manu Lekunze
Download or read book Inherent and Contemporary Challenges to African Security written by Manu Lekunze and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2019-11-23 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents a unique, comprehensive yet accessible look at security in Africa. The author provides a comprehensive review of the key security issues in Africa and offers a contemporary investigation into what security in Africa will mean for the future of Security Studies. It focuses on contemporary yet inherent security challenges facing the continent. It engages with International Relation theories, security literature and primary data from Cameroon (related to other African case studies), to situate African Security Studies in International Relations and develop a concept of security for African Security Studies. It will be essential reading for students, analysts and policy makers specializing in International Relations, Sociology, African Studies and Development Studies.
Book Synopsis The Cameroonian Novel of English Expression. An Introduction by : A. Ambanasom
Download or read book The Cameroonian Novel of English Expression. An Introduction written by A. Ambanasom and published by African Books Collective. This book was released on 2009-08-15 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Initially considered something of a black sheep within the Anglophone Cameroon literary genres, the Anglophone novel has gradually grown to carve out a respectable niche for itself in the Anglophone Cameroon sub-system, imposing itself in a way that makes it impossible for critics to ignore it. Now a vibrant genre, it even threatens to overtake drama and poetry, both of which have enjoyed more critical attention. This book is a study of how Anglophone Cameroon has contributed in extending the possibilities of the novel as a literary form, and of some of the established conventions necessary for a fruitful evaluation of the growing body of the Cameroonian novel in English. In this eclectic and compelling book, Ambanasom sets out to achieve three primary objectives: to introduce the reader to the extensive body of Cameroonian novels in English, to re-examine the distorting and limiting criteria upon which the critical assessment of the Cameroonian novel in English has so far been based, and to bridge the widening chasm between literary theory and actual critical practice. To achieve these objectives, Ambanasom begins by elaborating an alternative and flexible theoretical framework which he christens the 'Socio-Artistic Approach' and which, according to him, is 'concerned with both a text's thematic, moral, cultural or ideological issues, on the one hand, and its central literary analysis, on the other.' He then proceeds to use this new critical framework to examine twenty-seven major Cameroonian novels in English. There are critical voices, already emerging within the Anglophone Cameroonian literary circles, calling for rigorous teaching and practice of theory in the interpretation of literary works, setting in motion a critical discourse. Such a call is salutary, and welcome. Those university lecturers whose responsibility it is to teach theoretical courses should take this call very seriously, moving from theory to hands-on practice. This book is Ambanasom's contribution to that critical debate.
Book Synopsis Constitutional Identity and Constitutionalism in Africa by :
Download or read book Constitutional Identity and Constitutionalism in Africa written by and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2024-01-23 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In its modern history, Africa has experienced different waves of constitutional ordering. The latest democratisation wave, which began in the 1990s, has set the stage over the past decade for what is now a hotly debated issue: do recent, new, or fundamentally revised constitutions truly reflect an African constitutional identity? Thoughtfully navigating a contested field, this volume brings to the fore a number of foundational questions about African constitutionalism. Constitutional Identity and Constitutionalism in Africa asks whether the concept of constitutional identity clarifies our understanding of constitutional change in Africa, including an exploration of the relationship between constitutional identity and a country's unique culture(s) and histories. Building on this, contributions examine the persistent role of colonial heritages in shaping constitutional identity in post-Independence African nations, and the question of path-dependency. Given the enduring influence of the colonial experience, the volume asks how, why, and to what end African constitutions must be 'decolonised' to form an authentic constitutional identity. This theoretical insight is supplemented and further deepened by detailed case studies of South Africa, Ethiopia, Cape Verde, Cameroon, and Egypt and their diverse experience of constitutional continuity and change. This volume in the Stellenbosch Handbooks in African Constitutional Law series, brings together contributions from established scholars and emerging voices on the study of constitutional processes. They provide an urgent critical analysis of existing paradigms, concepts and normative ideologies of modern African constitutionalism in the context of constitutional identity.
Book Synopsis Civil and Political Rights in Cameroon by : Avitus Agbor
Download or read book Civil and Political Rights in Cameroon written by Avitus Agbor and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2021-10-15 with total page 421 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book explores and appraises concepts related to human rights and situates them within the Cameroonian context.
