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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.

Table of Contents:
Section 1: Politics Chapter 1: The State, Politics, and the Struggle for Democracy in Cameroon Moses K. Tesi Chapter 2: The Roots of Stability and Instability in Cameroon Augustine E. Ayuk Chapter 3: The Right to Self-determination in the African Charter: A Critique of the African Commission’s Jurisprudence in Kevin Gumne et al v Cameroun Carlson Anyangwe Chapter 4: Resistance and the Nationalist Pathos: Southern Cameroon’s Exiles Write Back Fonkem Achankeng I Section 2: Economy Chapter 5: The Demise of the Coffee Industry in the North West Region of Cameroon Emmanuel E. Kengo Chapter 6: What Has Changed? A Historical Appraisal of Legal and Institutional Frameworks for Environmental Management in Cameroon Lotsmart Fonjong Section 3: Society and Culture Chapter 7: Changes in Female Roles in Cameroon: Towards the end of “Social Juniors?” Honore Mimche, Achille Pinghane Yonta, and Nobert Lengha Tohnain Chapter 8: Representations of the Figure of Femininity among the Bamileke, Bassa, and Duala Cultures of Cameroon Jeannette Wogaing, Rose Mireille Nnanga and Rose Angeline Abissi Chapter 9: Dynamics of Religious Modernity in Cameroonian Cities Honore Mimche and Christian Bios Nelem Chapter 10: The “Cameroonization” of Education: A Decolonial Analysis of Content and Language Issues, 1960–2015 Roland N. Ndille Section 4: International Relations Chapter 11: Cameroon’s Foreign Policy and Inter-African Relations in the Post-Ahidjo Era Peter A. Ngwafu Chapter 12: Cameroon and China: The Paradox of Beijing’s “Win-Win-Gain” Pronouncements Julius A. Amin Chapter 13: Foreign Volunteer Organizations in Cameroon: The Case of the United States Peace Corps Julius A. Amin Section 5: Migration Chapter 14: Cameroonians on the Move: Searching for Promised Lands Joseph Takougang Chapter 15: The Concept of Homeland: The Choice of Burial Place for Cameroonian Immigrants in America Zacharia N. Nchinda Chapter 16: Return Youth Migrants in Cameroon: Understanding the Other Side of Bushfalling, 1990–2015 Walter Gam Nkwi Conclusion: The Endless Protest Julius A. Amin and Joseph Takougang

About the Author :
Joseph Takougang is professor of African history at the University of Cincinnati. Julius A. Amin is professor of African history and alumni chair in humanities at the University of Dayton.

Review :
This impressive collection of essays by Cameroonian scholars both abroad and at home presents a wide variety of insights into contemporary Cameroon with sections on politics, economy, society and culture, international relations, migration, and important concluding comments on the current political crisis. This volume is an extraordinary treat for scholars of Cameroon and African historiography. Fusing a wide range of themes including previously overlooked issues such as return migration, representations of femininity and motherhood, religious modernity, environmental degradation and nature protection, this volume makes a particularly expedient case for robust interdisciplinary conversations on current Cameroonian society. Though much has been written about Cameroon’s latter-day Machiavellian political culture, epitomized by Paul Biya’s enduring three decades of unrepentant misrule, this monograph breaks new ground by moving the spotlight away from the autocrat himself and focusing instead on the resilience of everyday life in the postcolony. By synthesizing sharp analysis of politics, the economy, society and culture and international relations, this volume deepens our knowledge of today’s Cameroon and its emergent diasporic spaces. This multidisciplinary effort, predictably has brought together seasoned and junior scholars, both Anglophone and Francophone, home-based and diasporic, women and men dedicated to the enterprise of knowledge production that lightens the murky and sometimes sleepy alleys of a postcolony yet to rise to its herculean potentials. Amin and Takougang have put together an impressive roster of experts on Cameroon whose collective work is a first-rate, comprehensive, and critical assessment of Cameroon’s timid attempt to forge a nation out of diverse and competing linguistic, ethnic, and political institutions. The contributors provide varied perspectives that capture a perpetually restless country, but one teeming with enviable human and natural resources which its leadership has failed to summon. Indeed, the editors underscore the brief optimism that welcomed President Paul Biya following the resignation of his predecessor. The work concludes that the brutal repression of peaceful demonstrators and the rise of secessionists movement are direct consequences of the Biya decades and could be the defining event in the history of the country.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781978757134
  • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
  • Publisher Imprint: Lexington Books
  • Language: English
  • Sub Title: Politics, Economy, and Society
  • ISBN-10: 1978757131
  • Publisher Date: 13 Jun 2018
  • Binding: Digital (delivered electronically)
  • No of Pages: 1


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