Download or read book Imperialistic Politics in Cameroun Resistance and the Inception of the Restoration of the Statehood of Southern Cameroons written by Carlson Anyangwe and published by African Books Collective. This book was released on 2008 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cameroun Republic, a former French-administered UN Trust Territory granted independence on 1 January 1960. This book focuses on the unresolved Southern Cameroons colonial predicament, giving insightful accounts of how Cameroun Republic hijacked the Southe
Download or read book Africa s Political Wastelands The Bastardization of Cameroon written by Emmanuel Fru Doh and published by African Books Collective. This book was released on 2008 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Africa's Political Wastelands explores and confirms the fact that because of irresponsible, corrupt, selfish, and unpatriotic kleptocrats parading as leaders, the ultimate breakdown of order has become the norm in African nations, especially those south of the Sahara. The result is the virtual annihilation of once thriving and proud nations along with the citizenry who are transformed into wretches, vagrants, and in the extreme, refugees. Doh uses Cameroon as an exemplary microcosm to make this point while still holding imperialist ambitions largely responsible for the status quo in Africa. Ultimately, in the hope of jumpstarting the process, he makes pertinent suggestions on turning the tide on the continent.
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.
Download or read book Imperialistic Politics in Cameroon written by Carlson Anyangwe and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Post colonial Cameroon written by Joseph Takougang and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 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.
Download or read book The Anglophone Cameroon Predicament written by Mufor Atanga and published by African Books Collective. This book was released on 2011 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study explores the predicament of Anglophone Cameroon - from the experiment in federation from 1961 to the political liberalisation struggles of the 1990s - to challenge claims of a successful post-independence Cameroonian integration process. Focusing on the perceptions and actions of people in the Anglophone region, Atanga argues that what has come to be called the 'Anglophone Problem' constitutes one of the severest threats to the post-colonial nation-state project in Cameroon. As a linguistic and cultural minority, Anglophone Cameroonians realised that the Francophone-led state and government were keener in assimilation than in implementing the federal and bilingual nation agreed upon at reunification in 1960. Calls for national integration became simply a subterfuge for the assimilation of Anglophones by Francophones who dominated the state and government. The book details the various measures undertaken to exploit the Anglophone regionís economy and marginalise its people. Principally the economic structures meant to facilitate self-reliant development were undermined and destroyed. Institutionalised discrimination took the form of the exclusion of Anglophones from positions of real authority, and depriving the region of any meaningful development. With the advent of multi-party politics, most Anglophone Cameroonians increasingly have made vocal demands for a return to a federation, in order to adequately guarantee their rights and recognition for them as a political and cultural minority. Actively encouraged by France, the Francophone-led regime in Cameroon has refused to yield to such demands, despite the grave danger of violent conflict and possible secession.
Download or read book The Acquisition of Africa 1870 1914 written by Mieke van der Linden and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2016-10-05 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over recent decades, the responsibility for the past actions of the European colonial powers in relation to their former colonies has been subject to a lively debate. In this book, the question of the responsibility under international law of former colonial States is addressed. Such a legal responsibility would presuppose the violation of the international law that was applicable at the time of colonization. In the ‘Scramble for Africa’ during the Age of New Imperialism (1870-1914), European States and non-State actors mainly used cession and protectorate treaties to acquire territorial sovereignty (imperium) and property rights over land (dominium). The question is raised whether Europeans did or did not on a systematic scale breach these treaties in the context of the acquisition of territory and the expansion of empire, mainly through extending sovereignty rights and, subsequently, intervening in the internal affairs of African political entities.
Download or read book Extracting Profit written by Lee Wengraf and published by Haymarket Books. This book was released on 2018-02-19 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Extracting profit explains why Africa, in the first decade and a half of the twenty-first century, has undergone an economic boom. This period of “Africa rising” did not lead to the creation of jobs but has instead fueled the growth of the extraction of natural resources and an increasingly-wealthy African ruling class.
Download or read book The Cameroon Federation written by Willard R. Johnson and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2015-03-08 with total page 439 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The federation of the previously British and French Cameroons has, since 1961, tried to integrate a highly fragmented, bilingual society in which nearly every social cleavage found in Africa was present, including the complication of disparate colonial legacies. Professor Johnson describes the impact of these different colonial legacies on the traditional cultural patterns of Cameroon, attempting to explain the rise of the movement for political reunion among them. He considers the character of the federal union and the Cameroonian leaders' conception of federalism in the light of other experiences with federalism (e.g. the early United States). His conclusions involve the potential importance and limitations of federalism for the new Africa, the role and impact of political rebellion and violence, and the important conceptual distinctions that should be made between processes of political integration and nation-building. Originally published in 1970. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Download or read book Power in Africa written by Patrick Chabal and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Looks at contemporary black African politics and reviews the merits and failings of existing interpretations of Africa's post-colonial society
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
Download or read book Swedish Ventures in Cameroon 1883 1923 written by Shirley Ardener and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2002-08-01 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 1880s were a critical time in Cameroon. A German warship arrived in the Douala estuary and proclaimed Cameroon a protectorate. At that time, two Swedes, Knutson and Waldau, were living on the upper slopes of the Cameroon Mountain. Very little is known about their activities. One, Knutson, wrote a long memoir of his time in Cameroon (1883-1895) which is published here for the first time. It gives fascinating insights into everyday life in Cameroon and into the multifaceted relationships among the various Europeans, and between them and the Africans, at the end of the 19th century; we learn about the Swedes' quarrels first with the Germans and later with the British, over land purchases, thus revealing the origins of long on-going disputes over Bakweri lands. We are given vivid descriptions of Bakweri notables and their, and the Europeans', cultural practices, a rare eye-witness account of the sasswood witchcraft ordeal, and learn about Knutson's friendships with slaves. Together with appended contemporary correspondence, legal opinions, and early (translated) texts, this memoir must be considered as a unique and invaluable primary source for the pre-colonial history of Cameroon.
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.
Download or read book Empires of the Mind written by Robert Gildea and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-02-28 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Prize-winning historian Robert Gildea dissects the legacy of empire for the former colonial powers and their subjects.
Download or read book A Theory of Imperialism written by Utsa Patnaik and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2016-11-01 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In A Theory of Imperialism, economists Utsa Patnaik and Prabhat Patnaik present a new theory of the origins and mechanics of capitalism that sounds an alarm about its ongoing viability. Their theory centers on trade between the core economies of the global North and the tropical and subtropical countries of the global South and considers how the Northern demand for commodities (such as agricultural products and oil) from the South has perpetuated and solidified an imperialist relationship. The Patnaiks explore the dynamics of this process and discuss innovations that could allow the economies of the South to achieve greater prosperity without damaging the economies of the North. The result is an original theory of imperialism that brings to light the crippling limitations of neoliberal capitalism. A Theory of Imperialism also includes a response by David Harvey, who interprets the agrarian system differently and sees other factors affecting trade between the North and the South. Their debate is one of the most provocative exchanges yet over the future of the global economy as resources grow thin, populations explode, and universal prosperity becomes ever more elusive.
Download or read book Decolonizing Democracy from Western Cognitive Imperialism written by Tatah Mentan and published by African Books Collective. This book was released on 2015-08-06 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There seems to be a sort of prevalent attitude in the Western world that its brand of democracy is something of a catch all solution for all the world's political problems. Hence, Western imperialism has always been sold under the pretext of spreading freedom and democracy. Democracy is beautiful. But it is no proof against imperialism. Whether democracy is causal is another whole consideration. It may be a case of the 'least bad of evil alternatives.' It may be a case of a state of social and political development over and above the way people organize themselves. It may be the fate of rational life on a planet with insufficient energy reserves to support locomotion without predation. But what gives anyone the right to go into a sovereign country and change its foundation through War? The whole democracy and freedom line is a lie to give Western imperialism a friendly face. Imperialism and its lie of spreading democracy is an unmitigated evil, whether for material gain, or the pride fostered by active participation in the machinery of state. Therefore, a people seeking to control their destiny must decolonize imposed Western democracy.
Download or read book Historical Dictionary of the Republic of Cameroon written by Mark Dike DeLancey and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2010-05-03 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cameroon is a country endowed with a variety of climates and agricultural environments, numerous minerals, substantial forests, and a dynamic population. It 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. Although Cameroon has made economic progress since independence, it has not been able to change the dependent nature of its economy. The economic situation combined with the dismal record of its political history, indicate that prospects for political stability, justice, and prosperity are dimmer than they have been for most of the country's independent existence. The fourth edition of the Historical Dictionary of the Republic of Cameroon has been updated to reflect advances in the study of Cameroon's history as well as to provide coverage of the years since the last edition. It relates the turbulent history of Cameroon through a chronology, an introductory essay, a bibliography, and over 600 cross-referenced dictionary entries on significant persons, events, places, organizations, and other aspects of Cameroon history from the earliest times to the present.
