Cover -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Dedication -- About This Book -- Contents -- List of Tables -- List of Figures -- Selected Abbreviations -- Acknowledgements -- Foreword -- Preface -- Chapter One - General Introduction -- The Problematique -- Significance of the Study -- Scope -- Literature Review -- Theoretical Framework -- Cultural Pluralism and Nation-Building -- The Federal System -- Political Pluralism, Integration and the Federal System -- Federalism and Nation-Building -- Basic Propositions -- Methodology -- Organisation of the Work -- Notes and References -- Chapter Two - Colonialism and the Development of Modern Political Institutions in the Cameroons -- Introduction -- Historical Setting: The Colonisation of the Cameroons -- The Consequences of the First World War to the Colonial Development of the Cameroons -- The Nature f British Colonialism and Its Influence in the Development of Political and Administrative Institutions in the Cameroons -- The Nature of French Colonialism, and the Development of French Political and Administrative Institutions in the Cameroons -- Differences between the French and British Approach to Colonialism and Its Implications for Political Developments in the Cameroons -- Constitutional Developments in the Southern Cameroons Before 1960 -- The Politics of Reunification -- The Ibo factor In Pre-Unification Southern Cameroons Politics -- Party Politics and the Reunification Issue in the Southern Cameroons, 1967-1961 -- The Foumban Conference and Its Implications for the Constitutional Development of the Southern Cameroons -- Notes and References -- Chapter Three - The Impact of Reunification on West Cameroon -- The French Connection: Cameroon, the Neo-Colonial State Par Excellence -- The Constitutional Implications of the Foumban Conference for the State of West Cameroon.

The Erosion of Anglophone Autonomy: Party Politics and the Consolidation of Federal Authority in West Cameroon, 1961-1970 -- The Formation of a Single National Party and the Demise of the State of West Cameroon -- The Abolition of the Federation, 1972 -- The Socio-Cultural Impact of Reunification on the State of West Cameroon -- The Economic Impact of Reunification on the State of West Cameroon -- Communications and Road Infrastructural Development and the Decline of the West Cameroon Economy -- Notes and References -- Chapter Four - The Failure of National Integration: An Analysis of the Biya Regime, 1982-1993 -- The Nature of the State in Cameroon Under Biya -- President Biya and the Intensification of the Alienation of the Anglophones -- The Biya Regime: Raised Hopes and Broken Promises -- Ethnicity and Regionalism in the Politics of the Biya Regime -- The Ministry of Defence -- Presidency of the Republic -- The Mass-Media and Bi-Culturalism in Cameroon -- The Development of Television in Cameroon -- Is the Television Audience Embarrassed by the English Language? -- Television Programmes in the English Language -- Distribution of Transmission Time between French and English Language Programmes on Television -- English Language Programmes on the Radio -- Multipartism, the Emergence of West Cameron "Liberation" Movements, and the Implications of the October 11, 1992 Presidential Elections for the Stability of the State -- Notes and References -- Chapter Five - Summary and Conclusion -- Summary -- Findings -- Recommendation -- Conclusion -- Appendices -- Appendix I - Constitutional Position of the Southern Cameroons in the Event of It Electing to Become Part of the Republic of Cameroon -- Appendix II - Open Letter to All English-Speaking parents of Cameroon from the English-Speaking Students of the North-West and South-West Provinces.

Appendix III - The Buea Declaration of the All Anglophone Conference -- Bibliography -- Back cover.