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| Title: | Negotiating an Anglophone identity: a study of the politics of recognition and representation in Cameroon |
| Author: | Konings, Piet |
| Year: | 2003 |
| Issue: | 1 |
| Pages: | 230 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Afrika-Studiecentrum series (ISSN 1570-9310) |
| City of publisher: | Leiden |
| Publisher: | Brill |
| ISBN: | 9004132953 |
| Geographic term: | Cameroon |
| Subjects: | separatism federalism |
| External link: | https://hdl.handle.net/1887/12878 |
| Abstract: | Political liberalization in Cameroon has been marked by the construction and mobilization of ethno-regional identities that pose a major challenge to the postcolonial nation-State project. This book focuses on Anglophone Cameroon, a region characterized by a widespread feeling that reunification with Francophone Cameroon in 1961 has led to a growing marginalization of the Anglophone minority. The book traces the historical trajectory of Anglophone Cameroon to reunification and outlines the strategies used by the Francophone-dominated State to undermine the identity of Anglophone Cameroon, the emergence of Anglophone organizations in the aftermath of political liberalization in the 1990s, the strategies employed by the Biya government to deconstruct the Anglophone identity, and Anglophone and Francophone responses to the Anglophone movements' views. It pays special attention to two of the major confrontations between the government and the Anglophones, namely the struggles for the preservation of the Anglophone educational and economic legacies. The book concludes with some suggestions on how the present stalemate between the regime and the Anglophone movement could be broken. [ASC Leiden abstract] |
