Negotiating an Anglophone Identity

A Study of the Politics of Recognition and Representation in Cameroon

Datos Bibliográficos

ID23397243
AutoresPiet Konings (0000-0003-4617-3153), Francis B Nyamnjoh (0000-0002-4702-8874)
Año2003
Fecha de publicación2003-06-27
Open AccessNo
TipoBOOK
RevistaNegotiating an Anglophone Identity (SOURCE_BOOK)
EditorialBrill (PUBLISHER • NL)
DOI10.1163/9789047402640
OpenAlexW4245512565
Open LibraryOL35938609M
ISBN9789047402640
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas55

This is a significant and timely book on the politics of belonging. It captures, with fascinating detail and insight, the current widespread disaffection with the sterile rhetoric of nation-building that has characterised much of postcolonial African politics. Until the liberation struggles of the 1990s, dictatorship only paid lip service to democracy with impunity, often by silencing those perceived to threaten national unity. Since then, individuals and groups have reactivated claims to rights and entitlements and nowhere more so than in Cameroon. The book articulates the experiences and predicaments of the country's Anglophone community trapped in a marriage of inconvenience pregnant with tensions and conflicts.

Aesthetics · Art · Democracy · Dictatorship · Human rights · Identity (music) · Impunity · Media studies · Negotiation · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Rhetoric · Sociology · Gender Studies · Global Peace and Security Dynamics · Historical and Contemporary Political Dynamics · Law · 1960 · Cameroon · English language · Languages · Political aspects · Political aspects of English language · politics and government