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Nation of Outlaws, State of Violence : Nationalism, Grassfields Tradition, and State Building in Cameroon.
Title:
Nation of Outlaws, State of Violence : Nationalism, Grassfields Tradition, and State Building in Cameroon.
Author:
Terretta, Meredith.
ISBN:
9780821444726
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Edition:
1st ed.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (275 pages)
Series:
New African Histories
Contents:
Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Introduction Layering Nationalism from Local to Global -- PART ONE GRASSFIELDS POLITICAL TRADITION AND BAMILEKE IDENTITY -- Chapter 1 God, Land, Justice, and Political Sovereignty in Grassfields Governance -- Chapter 2 "Bamileke Strangers" Make the Mungo River Valley Their Home -- PART TWO BAMILEKE NATIONALISTS CLAIM INDEPENDENCE (LEPUE) FOR THE NATION (GUNG) -- Chapter 3 Troublesome, Rebellious, Outlawed -- International Politics and UPC Nationalism in the Bamileke and Mungo Regions -- Chapter 4 Nationalists or Traitors? -- Bamileke Chiefs and Electoral Politics in the Year of Loi-Cadre -- PART THREE UPC NATIONALISTS GO GLOBAL -- Chapter 5 The Maquis at Home, Exile Abroad -- Grassfields Warfare Meets Revolutionary Pan-Africanism -- Chapter 6 "Here, God Does Not Exist" -- Emergency Law and the Violence of State Building -- Conclusion "After the War, We Stop Counting the Dead" -- Reconciliation and Public Confession -- Notes -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- Index.
Abstract:
Nation of Outlaws, State of Violence is the first extensive history of Cameroonian nationalism to consider the global and local influences that shaped the movement within the French and British Cameroons and beyond.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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