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 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.
Download or read book Proposed Constitution for Cameroon written by Social Democratic Front (Cameroon) and published by . This book was released on 1994* with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Social Democratic Front and the Thorny Road to Social Justice written by Social Democratic Front (Cameroon) and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book First National Convention of the Social Democratic Front written by Social Democratic Front (Cameroon). National Convention and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Social Democratic Front and the Thorny Road to Social Justice written by and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Struggle for Political Pluralism and Democracy in Cameroon written by Albert Samba Ngwana and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Cameroon s Social Democratic Front written by and published by . This book was released on with total page 0 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.
Download or read book The Triumph of Social Democracy written by Ajaga Nji and published by FriesenPress. This book was released on 2018-11-22 with total page 139 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Triumph of Social Democracy addresses the issue of participatory democracy particularly in developing countries that have survived party-state political systems. The book demonstrates the positive role that individuals can and do play in public policy formulation if they are guided by the principles of inclusive government and governance, self discipline, self esteem, integrity and a strong will and commitment to the common good. The book further demonstrates that social change is possible even in democratically sterile regimes if the key actors responsible for change construct their mission on a good vision that promotes democracy, social justice, peace, equity and development. Readers interested in finding evidence of the relevance of personal values and public policy formulation and practice will find in this book an excellent example and good empowering evidence of the interplay and harmony between individual convictions and service to the community or public service. The Triumph of Social Democracy addresses the question of social change and how the scientific attitude can be used to fruition in promoting dialogue, peace, harmony, personal and institutional stability and progress in society. The book is a valuable reader in sociological theory, applied sociology, participation and inclusive governance. The Triumph of Social Democracy is an invaluable practical guide for policy makers, a handbook and resource book for politicians, individuals and change agencies involved in institutional and human development, the promotion of peace, justice, democracy and sustainable development in developing countries. Scientists involved in the advancement of the principles and goals of equality, equity, relevance, access and good governance in the educational sector, particularly higher education will a veritable mine for the development of the mind and society at large.
Download or read book Genuine Democratic Elections in Cameroon written by Social Democratic Front (Cameroon) and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Social Democratic Front written by and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Features the Social Democratic Front, a political party of Cameroon that is headquartered in Bamenda. Contains press releases and highlights upcoming events. Provides membership details and offers access to a listserv. Notes that English and French language versions of the Web site are available.
Download or read book Constitution of the Social Democratic Front written by Social Democratic Front (Cameroon) and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Social Democratic Front sdf of Cameroon written by Janvier Tchouteu and published by . This book was released on 2017-03-19 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An account of the rise and the tribulations of the historic Social Democratic Front (SDF) of 1990-1997, and how the party's dominant ideology at the time, which was centered around Cameroonian civic-nationalism, led the SDF to capture the hearts of the majority of the Cameroonians people, to the point where the party's head from the minority English-speaking part of the country went on to win the 1992 Presidential Election, which the incumbent president Paul Biya usurped by proclaiming himself the winner.
Download or read book Snapshots An X ray of Cameroon s Democracy Governance and Unification written by Sam-Nuvala Fonkem and published by Langaa RPCIG. This book was released on 2014 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the 1960s and 1970s, Third World governments prescribed and imposed a certain kind of journalism variously called 'objective' journalism or 'development journalism'. They understood this as journalism restricted to reporting 'facts' as dished out by their propagandists and did not tolerate the questioning of government policy. By 'development journalism', they meant the mere reporting of government efforts to provide services, amenities and infrastructures and the singing of praises anytime a bridge was inaugurated, irrespective of whether it was well-built or whether the contract to build was awarded according to the norms of transparency and probity. This one-sided journalism was prevalent especially in state-owned media and media practitioners in the few private news publications that existed who did not toe the line were subjected to constant harassment and incarceration. However, with the coming of well-trained journalism graduates into the scene in the 1970s and the advent of global liberalization in the late 1980s and 1990s, daring journalists like Sam-Nuvala Fonkem thought it was time to take the bull by the horn and start taking a more critical look at government pronouncements, matching policy statements with real action in the field; in short, moving from 'objective' journalism to interpretative and investigative journalism. This collection of Sam-Nuvala Fonkem's writings is a sampling of the fruit of that new spirit to dare where angels hitherto feared to tread, to hold public officials to account and to expose the falsehood cached behind the political masquerade of the ruling class.
Download or read book The North West First Provincial Conference of the Social Democratic Front S D F Party written by and published by . This book was released on 1993* with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book No Trifling Matter written by Godfrey B. Tangwa and published by African Books Collective. This book was released on 2011 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No Trifling Matter is a collection of controversial, critical weekly commentary on the reluctance of a monolithic regime to yield to popular aspirations for democracy in Cameroon. In these essays written between 1990 and November 1992, Godfrey Tangwa, alias Rotcod Gobata, doesn't quibble. He comes across as a man of courage and resolve; one ready to swim upstream in a manner of a desperate midwife eager to prevent a still birth (in this case, of democracy). His column is as daring an embarrassment to Biya's "démocratie avancée" as the radio programme "Cameroon Report" (later "Cameroon Calling"), was to Presidents Ahidjo and Biya in the hey days of the "parti unique". Rotcod Gobata believes the time has come for Cameroon to graduate from a country over milked by mediocrity and callous indifference, to the paradise that it was meant to be for the poor and downtrodden. In this regard, he belongs with that rare breed of intellectuals who are genuine in their pursuit of collective betterment, and who in consequence, have opted to distance themselves from the stomach and all its trappings. This position is to be commended and encouraged, especially in a system where explanation is often mistaken for subversion, a system where the stomach is about the only political path-finder - the sole compass in use, a country where the champions of falsehood want all at their beck and call, and where a handful of thirsting palates daily jostle to share with Count Dracula the blood of the common and forgotten. Rotcod Gobata wants the new Cameroon to be rid of the ills and failures of the past five decades that have made it impossible for Cameroonians in their millions to live productive and creative lives.
Download or read book Scribbles from the Den written by Dibussi Tande and published by African Books Collective. This book was released on 2009-05-15 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 process, the perennial Anglophone problem, the crisis of higher education, the absence of the rule of law, the lack of leadership renewal, a stifled collective memory, and a continued inability to harness technology for purposes of national development, among others. Scribbles from the Den goes beyond the news headlines to dispassionately analyze and unravel the complexities of Cameroonian politics and society.
